The Dark Thrall Mating Olivia

Chapter Sixty-Eight

He wasn't her ex. An ex would have shown more care for the person that they were with. Or at least, I always had for my previous partners. He wasn't her ex; he was just a boy that had used our mate and then from his responsibilities.

Yes, I knew that he didn't know that she was pregnant and that his ex-girlfriend, the one that he was so keen to protect from being hurt by him meeting his mate, had tried to block him from knowing about Olivia and the situation that she was in. Even going as far as telling her to terminate the pregnancy in so many words or lack thereof.

I just couldn't imagine being able to stay away from your mate after you'd had a taste of how it was supposed to be. Of how good everything could feel when you were with them. I had felt it when I had met Jay and I knew that he had felt the same way. When he had found his other mate, someone who I had hoped would be our third. She had not been able to accept me. I had been afraid that he would turn me away. But he hadn't, I had given him an out because I knew that she could give him what I couldn't.

She just hadn't wanted me to be part of that and I had been so afraid that he would take the out. That he would leave me, but he had not and for that, I would be forever thankful to my mate.

Yet Nick had done that to our mate. He had fucked her and then rejected her and I didn't know how to get past it.

Olivia tensed in my arms, pulling away from me as she looked over her shoulder at me. Her brown eyes were rimmed with tears and red from crying and I knew that I had messed up. Jay said my name again and I swallowed hard, trying to get my feelings under control. I knew that she had to be feeling what I was feeling through the bond and I didn't want to affect her and our first meeting with our daughter.

"Killian." Olivia said my name and I felt a stab of pain at the tone of her voice. I had hurt her without meaning to.

"Olivia, I'm sorry. It's just..." I paused, trying to think of how best to put what I was feeling into words without hurting Olivia or telling her about Jay's past before he was ready to share that with her. "I'm upset with what he did to you and Everly. His coming around doesn't change anything about how I feel about you."

"I know you are and I am, too. It's just, that he didn't know. He rejected me, yes and I'll have to work through that. And I guess you will too. But, I want him in Everly's life. I didn't know my father and I don't want that for her. I want her to know where she comes from." Olivia said, looking up at me and the hurt feeling grew through the bond that we shared. Radiating deep in my chest like it was coming from me and not just my little mate.

It wasn't for what Nick had done to her now, but for what she had grown up without. Things couldn't have been easy for her in a wolf pack without a father to be there for her. She would have been treated as less than and it made me wonder what happened with her mother. Was she rejected, like her daughter? Or had she made the choice to raise Olivia as a single parent on her own?

I wanted to ask but at the same time, I didn't want to bring up any feelings that Olivia wasn't ready to deal with right now. Tonight was supposed to be a happy night, not one where she felt like we wouldn't want her.

"Olivia, we will be here no matter what you choose to do," Jay said, wrapping Everly up in his arms as he smiled down softly at our mate. "When we told you that you were ours, it meant forever. It didn't mean we would leave if things got hard. You are stuck with us."

"He's right," I said, wrapping my arms around her waist and pulling her body against mine. "I'II admit that I'm probably going to struggle with accepting him into our daughter's life, but I promise to try to accept him when he steps up for her."

Olivia turned in my arms, burying her face in my chest. Her arms wrapped around my waist and she held me close like she was clinging to a lifeline. "Thank you, I just hope he does what Micheal said he was going to do. I want him to love Everly. She deserves to have more people love her."

"Well, she's already got Jay wrapped around her finger," I whispered into Olivia's ear, making her giggle.

"She does seem pretty taken with him."

"Can't say I blame her," I smirked, looking over at Jay as he cooed down at Everly. It made me

feel warm to see him like this. Children were always something that the both of us wanted. "He makes a good daddy."

"We should get our little lady fed. Dinner smells mouth-watering and it's getting late." Jay smirked up at me and Olivia nodded, dropping her arms from around my waist.

I didn't let her go. I wasn't ready, all day I had been thinking about her and now she was in my

arms. She looked up at me and I brought my hand up to the side of her face, stroking my fingers over the top of her cheek. The heat of her reddened skin warmed my fingertips.noveldrama

"Killian." She said, her lips parting and I leaned in, pressing my lips to hers. Revealing in the softness as her breath hitched and she melted against me.

"Killian, dinner." Jay chuckled, turning away from the two of us.

"I've been thinking about kissing you all day, little wolf," I said, biting my lower lip as I looked

down at my mate. "Now, why don't we follow Jay before he decides to get all growly me for not listening. Though having daddy spank me could be fun?"

She gasped my name and I smiled, letting go of her and holding out my hand, letting her lead the way to the kitchen.