Embrace Your Fate

Family Ties

Peters POV’

“Hi, I’m your aunt Cora”, Cora introduces. She had arrived earlier to meet Garret. She spent time with Derek first before they both came back over here. She hadn’t said a word to me and I don’t blame her. I killed her sister, if I were her I would hate me.

“I’m Garret. But you can call me Alex”, he explains. “Why Alex”, she asked quizzically. “My middle name is Alexander and I don’t like the name Garret. My dad called me Alex, so I want it to stay that way”, he explains smiling. She nods smiling. “Alex it is then.So, Alex. Do you remember anyone or anything from the past”, Cora asked.

“I remember Talia a bit. A girl that looked like you”, he explained. “Laura, you remember Laura”, Cora asked. “Yeah, that was her name. She had pretty brown hair, and really bright blue eyes like Derek’s. She would take me to the park to train with Talia. I also remember someone by the name of Tyler”, he says.

Derek groans. “You remember my ex boyfriend.”, he shakes his head. Alex laughs. “I guess, he was nice. What ever happened to him”, he asked. “After the fire I blocked everyone out.”, he explains. Garret nods.

“Anyways , where’s that Luca person you were telling me about”, Cora asks Derek. “Upstairs”, he replies. I let out a loud roar. I heard Luca groan and then come toppling down the stairs. “Yes Peter”, he asks annoyed.

“Derek’s sister wanted to meet you. Cora, Luca. Luca, Cora”, I introduce.

Cora waves at him. He looks at Derek hesitantly. He nods. He walks towards them and stands In front of Derek nervously. Derek wraps his arms around his middle. “You look like Derek”, was the first thing he said, blushing furiously afterward.

“Unfortunately”, she laughs. “How old are you”, she asks. “17. How old are you”, he asks. “23 love. How old do I look”,she asks. “19”,he replies. “I suppose that’s good”, she tells Luca.

“Derek”, I called, motioning him over. He scrambled over to me quickly and looks at me expectantly. “I need you to call the pack and tell them to come over”, I ask carding my fingers through his jet black hair. “Can you do that for me”, I ask. He nods grabbing his phone and walking out of the room. “Good pup”, I whisper to myself.

“What was that”, Cora asked. “Um, nothing”, I replied. “Are you and Derek into all of that…incest stuff”, she asked slightly disgusted. “No! Why would you even think that, God”, I yelled. “Well you were all carding your fingers through his hair and whispering what else was I  suppose to—Ooooh”,she nods understanding. “You, his Alpha, why”, she asked. “He said that he didn’t want to be one and he wasn’t born to be one so I obeyed his wishes. He wanted me to be his alpha for a week, if it goes good I will be his Alpha for as long as he wants me too”, I explain, although I really didn’t have to.

“Um,that’s kind of weird”,she replies. “How so”, I ask. “Because sometimes Alphas do ‘stuff’ with their beta and ‘things’ you know and you guys are family”, she replied.

“Really Cora. Do you seriously think that I fuc-

“They should be here soon. Danny and Ethan cannot come though because of a date or whatever”, Derek cuts me off as he walks in. He walks towards me and frowns. “What’s wrong”, he asks nuzzling his face into my neck. I roll my eyes at Cora and wrap my arm around his waist.

“Cora thinks that we are like other Alphas and Betas who fuck”, I tell him. “That’s disgusting”, he gags. I nod. “Exactly”,I replied.

“So if you don’t do it with Derek, do you do it with Luca”, she asked. I sighed and face palmed.” My sex life has been non existent for five years”, I tell her. “That has gotta suck Dad”, Alex said laughing. I groaned and put my face in my hands. “Anymore questions or suggestions Cora”, I ask. She smiles. “Nope”.”Good”.

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After hours of catching up with Alex and Cora, we had said our goodbyes to Cora and she left. I was surprised that she wasn’t acting cruel towards me. I thought she hated my guts, guess I was wrong.

Luca had gone to bed an hour earlier. He was exhausted from the bite and chatting with Cora. God knows that girl can talk for hours. I don’t think he was complaining though. They got along really well. They shared secrets from their past and Cora got a kick out of his tramp stamp. As promised it didn’t go away because we did a procedure to keep it there.

Isaac and Scott had left back to the pack house minutes earlier and Derek had fallen asleep with Luca.

Now it was just me and Garret.

“How did you like Cora”, I ask. “She was nice and funny. She reminded me a lot of a mixture between Derek and Laura. By the way, Laura was a survivor of the fire right? What happened to her”, he asked. I sighed. I knew that I was going to have to tell him sooner or later. I just didn’t want to because I didn’t want him to think bad of me, he just found out that I am his Dad.

“Ok, after the fire, Derek had identified me and they took me into the hospital. I was burnt down half of my body and I was in no right mind. My body was screaming at me to find any source of energy, but I didn’t even have the energy to get up and I thought I was done for. So, I sat there for months in that cold hospital room thinking of ways that I could possibly save myself. After a while, I heard a roar, one that I could only identify as Derek. By then I had enough energy to stand up and leave, so I did. My initial plan was to find Derek and ask him for help. When I went to find him I found Laura instead. Since she was an Alpha, my body was screaming at me to kill her and become Alpha so I would be healed. So, I did and I was healed. I was so angry that I killed her and at Kate for burning down the house, and the fact that I lost my son and wife that I went on a killing spree and made myself a horrible person because I believed that I didn’t deserve to be a good person. All of that stopped when I bit Luca. My right mind came back and he changed me. And now that you’re hear, things will be a lot better”, I explained.

“Wow”, he says shocked. “I understand if you hate me”, I replied quietly. He shakes his head. “I could never hate you Dad. I’m glad that you’re a better person”, he smiles. “Thank you”, I replied. “You’re Welcome”, he replies laying his head on my chest and yawning.

My heart may have skipped a beat, or 10.