GAB'S P.O.V
"I know you have a lot of questions."
She lowers head the moment she saw her mates, she's over crying because its not a valuable use of her time. She has to be strong even if it means walking away, the sins of Zoe's father are not the sins of her own.
I never wanted to burden you that's why I planed to-"
"Leave?"
She nodded. She could hear the steady uneven breaths of her child and she smiled. She just hurts when she thinks about how Zoe came to be and how she has certain features her father has. Sometimes when she looks at Zoe the image of her father comes to mind and it becomes hard to face her.
"Gab, is running away your response to every problem?"
She grabbed the box of donuts on the table and began munching... The worst timing but the smell overpowered her will.
"She is my daughter biologically... My entire life I had to run, I had no one there to protect me against my father, stepbrother, the streets. My mother died mourning the man that left her, the streets became the closest thing I had to a pack but my father stole that too. I was always alone that running became my first option in every situation even after Zoe was born."
She held back her tears, if they were going to kick her out she didn't want go a sobbing mess her own daughter will pity.
"Is Tristan the father?"
She closed her eyes and nodded, what was worse than being lock up and tormented is surviving with a reminder.
"Yes. I couldn't bring myself to get rid of her due to my mother's beliefs so I named her after my mother. Therefore regardless of how I feel, Zoe is still my daughter. I don't want Marcus to finds out, with the blood Moons danger I have to be responsible enough to protect her."
"Why didn't you speak you me first or at least start off by Leo?"
"I didn't want you to judge me."
"We haven't judged you from the beginning, what makes you think we going to judge you now?"
It's true... her past is filled with abandonment, treats of prostitution, incestuous relations, kidnap and blackmail. Yet her mates did nothing but stand by her side even when she despised her side.
"I have a daughter with a man whom is my fathers son-"
She wanted to continue a story they could have just assumed.
"Momma!"
She heard Zoe's cry and she turned with great speed into her room where she saw her daughter sobbing.
"What happened to my big girl?"
She tried not to look into her eyes and just held her crying daughter in her arm.
"I-I t-thought y-you... left mee."
It donned on her. She is going to end up being a villain in Zoe if she continues being the reason her baby girl fear the worst.
"Shh. I promise I won't leave y-"
She assured but she jumped on the bed as if she trying to proclaim her point.
"No. Momma the bad guy took you from me."
Confused Leo sat on the bed next to them. Zoe is still a child, she's far to young to come into her gifts but her fear is real they all felt it. She looked at Jay and he sat on the other side, Zoe moved closer to her unsure how to feel.
"Momma his... Big."
She points at Jay and she got what she meant, her wolf did not leave her. Her parental instincts were on a new high until her little piglet mention Jay.
"No pointing, it is rude (she stopped pointing)...Good girl."
She squeezed her little girls cheeks but instead of her expected giggles her baby still looks stressed.
"Little one his an alpha little one, I am beta and we are your mommies mates."
Leo interjected and she felt the baby relax but she did not dare loosen her grip around her.
"Zoe- Zoe... Who's the bad guy?"
"I don't know. Momma hurt..."
She looked at her mates then bent down to look at her child. The moment she did she saw her eyes glow yellow then it went back to normal, she almost couldn't bare looking at her.
"Was it a dream? Momma is fine, she's also a big girl who can take care of herself."
She shook her head as if disagreeing with her statement. She moved from her to the arms of a surprised Jay.
"Alpha. You believe Zoe? I don't sleep, I see momma crying and the bad man want to hurt her. Here."
She pointed on the arm of the alphas mark sealed by fate. She pulled Jay's face closer to her own and both they eyes flashed one yellow the other blue.
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JAYDEN'S
He was surprised at how strong and how the child is bold to jump into his arms, regardless he found the little girl cute. Although he was more surprised by the act of the little girl pulling his face to focus of her.
The moment she held his cheeks the image became clear and vivid. A random omega was forced to go to a piping hot ferness and man put lava that soon turned into silver than tore it removing the mating mark... The screams and cries of the omega rang to a traumatizing wail of agony. The bad guy the child spoke of was in fact Marcus who showed his mate his latest attempt to hurt his mate.
The child pulled away and he hugged her. It has to be traumatic for a child to see such imagery. He released her anxiety... What that child struggled to explain, she made up to it with gift that would drive the strongest man to insanity.
"You big, you can protect momma. You alpha, you have to protect momma."
"I will do everything in my abilities to protect your momma."
The child hugged him again and faced Leo then her mother who was surely shocked.
"Momma can the alpha be my poppa so he can also protect me?"
Gabby was modified by the adorable question that made made him laugh out loud pulling the the child closer.
"Zoe-"
"Momma you have two mates? My friend only has one... Is he my poppa?"
Suddenly the room silenced and became so tensed. The moment they saw Gabriel's reaction to the innocent question he carried the child out the room.
"What wrong with momma?"
He pinched the child's cheek and the child smiled up at him. That smile built a bond and his wolf immediately welcomed her as part of his pack.
"Your momma is fine, she just hurts because she's scared."
"Are you my poppa?"
She asked him this time and he gave her a sad smile.
"If you want, you can call me poppa because I want to think of Zoe as my child too... How is that?"
"Yeyy... Poppa can I have chips, I am scared like momma so I eat chips."
He gave the child chips she walked back into the room with the silently sobbing Gab.
"Momma eat. This is going to make all the sadness go."
She put the chips on her mothers lap and hugged her then suddenly the emotions that were overbearing was followed by a sense of calm.
"How did you learn to do that?"
Zoe asked Leo to open the packet again which he did. She crawled back to get on the bed, stretching the open packet to her mother.
"No poppa does not sound right... My friend call her pa, 'Pao'. Yes, pao make more sense and since you are momma mate too... Are you also my Pao?"
They laughed at how adorable the child looks, Leo got closer and he could tell he already formed a bond.
"You also want me to be your pao?"
She little girl shook her head in the negative which made his mate frown his disappointment.
"His pao, pa. Right momma?"
Gab faced them... They nodded, they would always accept and love the child like she was their own.
"Okay."
The child hopped to hug Leo and he caught the tiny body. They made a family now more than ever. They need a bigger place with a big backyard and give Zoe a life with her mother in her life.
"Yay... I also have papa's now, momma that means I don't have to go back to Blue right?"
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GAB'S P.O.V
'How did she get to this point? Where the hell did Ora go? Hold up Ora! I hate this story. I hate that fact I put my friend and in danger. I don't want the story to be all about me anymore, I hate I am trapped by this insane man who hates me enough to want me beat me up to death. If these are my last words, please tell my mates, child and Ora I am sorry...'