Chapter 26

ALPHA LOGAN'S POV

On getting back to my chambers, I was informed that my daughter has been waiting for me and I quickly rushed in to meet her and hugged her afterwards not until I set my eyes on the ‘surprise’ she brought standing few feets away from us and looking at me with so much longing. I staggered back in surprise trying to think of where I had met her before. Is she a relative? I realized that she looks familiar but where? I couldn't tell.

Claire disengaged from the hug and after muttering something to the young girl who was already shedding few drops of tears she moved closer and I noticed that she was pregnant and just as I was about to open my mouth Claire beat me to it by starting the introduction.

“Erm-dad, remember the letter I wrote to you and its contents?” She asked, beaming with smiles.

“Y-yes”, I replied nervously.

“Well.. here she is..meet Erica, your second long lost daughter.. and the solution to our problems” she said smiling at me.

I staggered back in shock and doubt. “This is a prank, isn't it?, y-you’re just doing this to make me happy right?” I asked,my voice as shaky as ever.

I looked at the girl again and then it dawned on me that she is truly my daughter, my spitting image. No wonder I had thought she looked familiar without realizing that I was actually seeing myself in her. Her wavy curly brown hair, her half-moon brows and thick, long eyelashes, her brown skin and lastly, her blue eyes…everything were just like mine. Reality dawned on me as I quickly drew her closer and hugged her while assessing her body.

She is my daughter, this I have confirmed but how? What happened? And how did they met? I asked myself these questions as I hug her. I really and badly wanted to ask her what happened right there and then but I was too ahocked to form a coherent sentence. It was as if the words got stuck in my throat.

I looked at Claire, my eyes demanding a lot of questions from her. “Don't worry dad, let's go in to discuss” and when she said that, I realized that we were outside and that we've drew the attention of some of the guards as they look at us with curiosity. I signaled to them to leave the entrance of the chamber and take a few minutes break. “Okay Alpha”

“Thank you Alpha” they all said and left, one after the other.

I led them to my sitting room and we all settled down while I looked at Erica in admiration.

“A-hem” she coughed nervously. “Dad.. I know you've been wondering where and how I met Erica, how I knew she was my sister and so on..”

“Well.. it's a long story but I will make it as short as possible for you.. I met her unconscious in a bush and helped her, I took care of her for three days before she regained consciousness and then..we told each other our story and then became friends”

“I was talking about you and mom on a particular day and then she talked about hers too and that was how we both discovered that we were siblings”. She explained as quickly as possible while Erica nodded in agreement with tearfilled eyes.

Remembering how my had suffered while pregnant with her, and how devastated she was when we were informed that my new born daughter is dead. I couldn't help but feel deep hatred for whomsoever caused this.

“You are pregnant…” I said, looking at her protruded stomach. “Are you married?” I asked again, curiously.

“Y-y-yes , I got married some months ago” she said, while looking at Claire as if calling her for help.

“Where have you been?, who raised you-?” I asked impatiently, not realizing that my voice is scaring her and Claire came to the rescue. “Dad, we'll talk about that later please, you are scaring her” she said.

“I'm sorry dear, I'm j-just curious, that's all” I said, looking apologetic.

“No problem father, I understand”, she said and I could feel a heavy weight lifted off my shoulders after hearing her call me Father for the first time and I became emotional. “D-dad, hope there's no problem?” She asked, looking concerned.

“You called me Father” I said, not bothering to hide it from them. I moved closer to her and hugged her while seriously weeping.

I had thought you would go on a rampage when you finally meet her Father so I brought a whip, Claire said and I laughed after realizing that she was trying to tease me. Her silly joke somehow lifted the atmosphere. We are together as a family and I was overfilled with joy, I feel fulfilled and complete although I was seriously curious about what happened and who raised Erica so I asked her again after swallowing a mouthful of food.

“Who raised you, Erica?” I asked. “Uhm dad, we'll talk about this later please” she said, with an apologetic smile and my curiosity melted like ice.

“Okay then” I said and smiled cheekily.

“Dad” Claire called. “Yes dear” I answered.

“ I.. we had an encounter with a cursed wolf on our way here but I don't think…”

“What??!!!” I screamed. What happened afterwards?, did it do anything to you? I asked with fear.

“I don't know what it is Dad, I really don't know.” “It just growled and jumped down from a tree and we were scared, we thought it was going to eat us up or something but it never did, it just sprawled on the ground, not moving” “ so I decided to take a peek at it to see if I could get a glimpse but I-I-I-ended up you touching it and when I touched it, I felt.. something going out of my body father, I really don't know how to describe the feeling”

“You did what?????”