Raven was normal once, a well-known warrior in ancient times till he was infected with something that gave him long life, as the years passed, he served nobles and fought in wars, doing anything that would occupy his time seeing as he had many years ahead of him.
With both parents dead, it was left up to him to care and provide for the rest of his family, his younger brother and a sister who worked for a noblewoman. Several years passed since the start of his sister's work service and Raven's brother married his fated partner and; his brother being simple beta it was easy for him, had children.
While Raven, the only Alpha in their family was left, knew he'd find his mate, waited. While his sister found her true mate in an Alpha engaged to her mistress. Centuries passed and Raven found himself captured and forced to serve in a group of people that believed freedom of anything was a waste.
Modifying him to become the ultimate soldier and giving him his Adamantium/Vibrainum arm and his codename, Nova Imperator. They had him train others and had him do the missions they thought would lose them the most men and he succeeded in each and every one of them.
When HYDRA was defeated, he was able to escape, taking every bit of information about himself with him, he burned and or destroyed it not wanting anyone to know anything that he didn't want them to know. So basics and physicality traits were enough for him. To pass more time he became a Mercenary taking jobs and being basically a hired gun if the job and pay were good enough,
It wasn't long after his escape that he came across a scent that he knew was from his true mate that he needed to find this person. The scent had come to him in a strong wind on the streets of New York, he had just finished a job, was on his way back to Sister Margaret's a former Catholic boarding house turned mercenary bar when he saw the person turn a corner he knew at that moment his life would change more than it ever did.
My mum always used to tell me what it's like to see your mate for the first time. She used to say that at that moment, everything around you stopped, that nothing else mattered.
And nothing else would matter. If it wasn't for the little girl clinging to my leg right now. That little girl that trusts me with her life, that beautiful little girl that made me hold on and not give up on life. That little girl, whose father is standing in front of me right now. He's my mate.
The edges of his lips curve and he looks up and down as if checking me out.
"Long time no see." Are the words that first come out of his mouth that break the silence.
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Lexie is an Alpha's daughter. She faces a hard few days and thinks a night at the club will help her get through this. A few drinks won't hurt, right? At least that's what she thinks. Yet that night will change everything sooner than she would ever imagine.
When the next day, her pack gets attacked, everything is chaos. Her mother and father are killed and her world shatters. She's forced to run away and leave everyone that she still has left behind. She thinks she has no one... that's until she finds out about another heartbeat in her body.
Raising a baby on your own is hard enough. After a few years she finally meets her mate though and it turns out she knows him after all. How will she confess that her mate is actually her daughter's father? What will happen now?
We don't live in a fairy tale where every story has a happy ending though. Real world isn't that easy...if you can call a world full of mystical creatures very real.