The Alpha And His Abused Mate (#Wattys2016)

Chapter 29: Adopted?

After ordering pizza, Morgan and I walked together back out to the patio where the boys were seated. River and Alex were both being ogled by many girls.
"So if a young woman is holding a child she gets stared at, but if a young man is holding a child they get praised, talk about sexist." I mumbled.
"They do know that we pushed those very children out of our vaginas, right?" Morgan sarcastically said, with a grim look on her face.
  A few minutes after we had sat down, our pizza arrived. It was kinda funny because there were only four -not counting Ezra and Theo- of us and we had ordered three large pizzas. I didn't eat that much, because I couldn't hold it down very well. I was still getting used to eating normally and not every couple of days.
However for everyone else at the table, they ate about their body weight in pizza and mozzarella sticks.( *cough cough Panicatthafalloutboy that's all you btw*) The ride home wasn't very eventful, just country music playing and a sleeping baby in the backseat. When we got back to the house I took Ezra to his nursery, and then flopped onto the large bed in my own room.
"You know this is the first night we've had to ourselves in a pretty long time." River said as he laid down next to me.
"May I remind you that our child is across the hall?"
"I know but he's all the way over there and asleep..."
"Yes but he'll most likely wake up in a couple hours."
"That's plenty of time for me." River wiggled his eyebrows. I knew what he was thinking; he wanted to have sex.
I smacked him over the head and went to the closet to grab a pair of pajamas.
"River no. I'm super tired and all I really want to do is sleep."
"Fine, but only because I love you." He came over and kissed my forehead.
"I love you too." I turned off the small light on the table next to my side of the bed. Then I pulled the covers up and went to sleep.
At some point in the night Ezra had started crying, which made Bella come into our bedroom, saying she couldn't sleep.
"You take care of Bella and I'll get Ezra." River said sleepily as he went in the direction of Ezra's nursery.
I picked up Bella and took her to her room. I tucked her back into bed and slowly made my way back to my dimly lit bedroom, but before I could make it out the door Bella called my name.
"Lee Lee?" Bella's small timid voice spoke up.
"Yes baby girl?" I sat on the edge of her bed and awaited her confession.
"I miss my momma and papa." Those six words tugged on my heart hard. I knew how it was to lose a parent, but I had eleven years with my mom. Bella on the other hand had lost both parents in one day and was not old enough to remember them.
"Do you remember them at all?" I already knew the answer but it couldn't hurt to ask.
"No. But everybody says that they were really cool. Colby and Parker like to talk about momma, but Alex talks about papa."
"Does River ever talk about your parents?" I questioned. She shook her small head and let out a long yawn.
"Night night LeeLee." Bella turned onto her side and faced away from me. Knowing that the conversation was over I stood up and closed Bella's bedroom door. However the fact that River never talked to Bella about his parents had my mind swirling with scenarios.

When I passed the nursery, I saw that River was asleep in the rocking chair with a sleeping baby on his shoulder. I picked up Ezra, careful not to wake him and placed him in his crib.
Then I walked back over to my snoring mate and flicked him on the head. He jumped awake, and with wide eyes scanned the room for danger before he finally settled on me.
"Oww," River complained. "That hurt.." I scoffed.
"C'mon ya big baby."
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The next morning I had awoken to a note taped to my forehead saying that Alex and Morgan had taken Ezra and Theo to the park.
So being the good mate I am - note the sarcasm- I made River breakfast. Now breakfast by me is just toaster waffles and a banana, but it's the effort that counts right?
Half an hour later River finally made his way out of bed and down the stairs.
"Is that waffles I smell?" He asked arrogantly.
"Yes. You do know that I can use a toaster right? I'm not you. " I remarked. Last time River tried to use a toaster he almost set the house on fire.
"Hey that's not fair! The knife just fell into the slot thingy!" A smile tugged on my lips.
"Oh like the time when you and Alex wanted to see if a piece of gum would melt if you put it in the microwave? But you just forgot that the wrapper was aluminum foil?" River snapped.
"Yes! Just like that!" I laughed and soon after he joined in to.
We ate in silence, but I couldn't forget what Bella and I talked about last night.
"Hey River?"
"Mm?"
"How come you don't talk about your parents with Bella?" His chewing slowed and it looked like the color from his face drained a little bit.
"What are you talking about?"
"Bella told me you don't ever talk about them with her. You know everyone else does it you."
"It's nothing." He tried to block his emotions from me, but I knew something was up.
"River stop lying."
"Just drop it!" He shouted.
"Okay." I grabbed my plate and went to the sink to wash it. Once I was done I climbed the stairs going back to my room.
"Where are you going?" River called out.
"You didn't wanna talk about it remember?" I shouted back over my shoulder. I heard groaning and then feet pounding up the wooden staircase.
"Fine." He grabbed my hand and dragged me into our bedroom. Then began digging through a drawer in his desk.
"River what in the name of Jesus are you looking for?"
"This." He pulled out a tin box with a lock on it. Then he walked to the doorway and slid his fingers over doorframe, as if looking for something. River's fingers latched onto a key and he unlocked the dusty box.
River uncovered an envelope, it's content unknown. However it didn't stay unknown for very long.
He slid out worn pictures of a couple. River showed one to me.
"This is Emmalie and Ezra."
"Your parents." River nodded his head and then proceeded to pull out another picture from the box.
"This is William and Jillian Carmichael."
"Well duh. They're  the Alpha King and Queen." I said. There was a long pause before River spoke up.
"They're also my biological parents."
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Hey y'all! I know I haven't updated and that this chapter kinda sucks but I've been at band camp all week and I'm super tired. But only one more week of that and then I'll try to update more often. 
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