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Chapter 136

“Aunty Amanda, I will be having a girls sleepover tonight,” Amara says into the iPad standing on the dining table as she has her dinner.

After helping Leila and Kelvin escape, Amanda knew she would be the next target and she moved to Kelvin’s uncle pack the following day with the help of Curtis.

Luckily for her, a doctor with her versatile skill was just what the pack needed at the time and she quickly secured a job at the hospital.

Amanda was with Leila throughout the final days of labour, as gruesome as it was, she never left Leila’s side and she stayed for months after delivery before she returned back.

Amanda chuckles. “Is that so cupcake, how many of your friends are coming over?”

“None of them, I’m going over to Kate’s-”

“Amara!”

Leila calls, stepping into the living room.

“Kate’s mom is here. Do you have everything you need?”

“Yes mama,” Amara replies sharply, jumps down from the chair and runs into her room.

She returns with a huge backpack and waves Leila goodbye as she runs out of the house.

Leila looks at her in awe, a child her age and size should not be able to lift a bag that heavy, Amara’s strength is a mystery she is yet to solve.

“Someone’s looking glammed up,” Amanda says cheekily when Leila appears in front of the iPad.

“Get out,” Leila replies, clearing Amara’s dish.

“Spill….” Amanda drawls on the word, “I haven’t seen you wearing makeup since….I don’t even remember the last time I saw you wearing makeup.” Belonging to NôvelDrama.Org.

Leila looks around the living room and especially at the mat she set in the middle to replace

the centre table.

On it are the dishes she has made, rose petals covering every empty space on the mat, a glass of champagne and two glasses, three unlit candles on each candle holder at the four edges of the mat and she has her music player ready to set the mood.

It’s why she has sent Amara away for the night.

“I want to try with him,” she says in a coy tone, almost shy.

“Him,as in Kelvin?” Amanda squints her eyes, curling her lips into a curious smirk.

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Leila nods. “But my wolf is still yearning for you know who.”

“I thought you rejected the Alpha hole,” Amanda ineers.

“Without her at the time, I guess it really didn’t work.”

“Well, you can tell little miss phoenix wolf that we have moved on from her mate and she needs to get with the program,” Amanda says sharkily.

Leila sighs, a sullen gaze covering her eyes as she feels her wolf sadness bleed through her.

She understands why her wolf still yearns for Tatum, she sensed him that night before she was drugged into suppression and now, his wolf is all she craves.

It has been a constant struggle between them over the years and some days, days like today, it is particularly worse but her wolf wasn’t there.

She didn’t see her suffer, she didn’t see her hold on to every word that left Tatum’s lips like her life depended on it..

She didn’t see her fight for him, holding out hope for him time and time again.

No, her wolf wasn’t there when Tatum deceived her, made her believe beyond reasonable doubt that he would always love and protect her, only for him to turn around and give her the death sentence.

Her wolf wasn’t there when she jumped off that cliff and broke several bones to give Amara a chance to live.

To hell with the mate bond, a life with Kelvin is what she chooses, she doesn’t have the tiniest clue how it is going to work- if it is going to work but she is willing to try if Kelvin is.

She is no longer the weak woman anyone can walk over and make decisions for, she will choose herself this time, her happiness and that of her child.

She hears Kelvin’s car come into the garage and her heart races, a nervous feeling settling deep in her guts.

She wants this to work out between them and she feels Kelvin still has feelings for her. Throughout the years, he has never talked about or brought home another woman.

“He’s back, I’ll tell you how it goes,” she says to Amanda and drops the video call.

She quickly lights the candles and turns off the electric lights before she turns on the music player and sits on the mat, bending her legs backwards and resting on one hand, throwing open the high slit of her gown so her thighs shimmer in the light.

A warm, romantic ambience takes over as the candles illuminate the room, a sweet sensual melody sounding from the music player.

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“Welcome back handsome,” she says to Kelvin once he steps into the house with a sweet suggestive smile on her lips.

Kelvin stands at the door, his eyes bulging out when he sees Leila and his throat bobs without his help, thinking Leila is radiating utter beauty and a voracious seductive charm.

She looks beautiful everyday but right now, she looks something beyond ethereal.