Chapter 37

Stacey's POV

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I didn't know how to react to the news that the doctor had just broken.

I was already in shock when I had hardly opened my eyes and Alicia started shouting 'MATE' in my mind.

Mate? I didn't want any want, mate. I was not ready for any mate. Couldn't I stay single for a while without being mated to anyone? First, Adams, then Derek, and now this guy!! I was having an inner battle about everything when Alicia said.

'It's Derek. He is our second chance mate. I know this scent. It's definitely him.', She howled happily, but I wasn't happy about it.

We had Derek as our second chance, mate, only when…

Did he reject his mate for me? How could he hurt his mate? That thought was making me sick again.

'Just stop overthinking. I'm sure we will get to know about everything after talking to him about it.', Alicia said, and that's when the doctor said something, which again shocked me to the core!

I was pregnant!

I was pregnant!

I didn't know how the hell was possible, but before enjoying this happiness, I was to double, triple confirm this news.

"LEAVE," Derek growled again, pointing to the way out of my room to the doctor. He was damn furious from the moment the doctor had to announce that I might be pregnant with Adams's pup. Well, he couldn't be fully wrong about that part.

I could be pregnant with Adams's pup as well.

I recalled the conversation between Doctor Nile and me.

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'Thank you, Alpha. And congratulation for your pup.', he congratulated me. I looked at Scarlett and smiled, thinking about how fast news spread.

'Thank you, Dr. Nile. And I hope I don't have to remind you about the soft copy of the report.'

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When he was congratulating me at that moment, was it because I was pregnant? I quickly looked for my phone, but I couldn't find it anywhere.

"Mom, my phone," I asked my mom and found a similar expression on her face which was on me a moment before. I knew everything would take a moment to adjust to the sudden announcement.

"Yeah! It's with me.", She said, gave my phone to me where I checked my emails again and finally show a few new emails on the top. Ignoring the others, I opened the one with the subject line 'Test Report.'

I opened the attachment and started reading it. My mother being equally curious about my action, peeped to check what I was doing. It was not that she was cheating on her examination, so I kept my phone in such a way that even she could see what I was reading. I read the test report from bottom to top, and I almost stopped breathing when I read the word 'PREGNANT' in the bold red letter, not to forget, also in capital letter.

Mom gaped reading it.

"What's it?" Dad and Derek both asked the same thing, and at the same time, Derek's parents entered my room too. Mom snatched the phone from my hand and gave it to dad, and now, both Dad and Derek started looking at my phone in the same way that Mom and I were doing a moment before.

"What's on the phone?" Derek's mom asked, on which Derek gave my phone to her

"It is locked.", His mom pointed out, but instead of anyone would have asked me to unlock the phone or have asked a password from me, Derek entered the password of my phone, and it got unlocked.

Seeing this, Derek's mom gave me a sly smile, and I started looking everywhere but her. Now even his parents read the report.

"I knew it.", His mom screamed with joy. "Did I tell you about the same when she fell sick at our home?", She said, looking at Derek.

"You fell sick, and you didn't tell me?", My mom glared at me. "And why did you never talk about it to me?", She asked, demanding the answer.

"Darling.", My father placed his hand on my mother's shoulder. "By looking at her expression, do you really think that she had any idea about the pup or her being pregnant? She wouldn't have taken the risk of shifting last night and then traveling on her own in the early stage of pregnancy when the chances of miscarriage are too high."

I knew dad was saying those things to mom to calm her down, but it wasn't helping. What if I had killed my pup because of my recklessness. That alone thought was scaring the hell out of me.

"Yeah! I'm so sorry, sweetie. That fact didn't cross my mind." Mom quickly apologized. "What is happening with you is no less than a miracle! So, I will make sure to stay by your side all the time and guide you with each and every step in this pregnancy. You don't need that jerk to raise your pup!"

"That jerk?" Derek's mom asked in confusion. "Whom you are expecting her pup's father to be?", She questioned.

"Who else could be other than that, Adams.", The moment these words escaped from mom's mouth, a low growl escaped from Derek's throat. He definitely did not like the fact that my name was added with Adams.

"I think Stacey is pregnant with Derek's pup."

"What? They weren't sleeping together, were they?" mom asked without filtering her words and then looked at me and Derek, who was confused about the pup. I wasn't going to say that the pup was Derek's because I knew I had been sleeping with Adams even after he left me, and maybe this pup was the result of the last or second last sex which happened between us. And after all the pretending thing, I had been with Derek.

As dor now, I wasn't going to give a damn about the fact that who the hell was the father of my pup because I was sure after his or her birth, some of his or her features would surely reflect as his or her father.

And I was positive even Derek was thinking the same thing, i.e., the confusion about my pup's real father.

"Why don't we leave them for a while to discuss it instead of you two women assuming things on your own?" Dad suggested.

"I agree with you, Asher.", Derek's father said, and both took out their mate from the room, leaving us alone for a while. Before the pup matter, I need to talk with him about Scarlett. What did he do to her?

I saw him sitting beside me and holding my hand, and an electric current ran throughout my body at his touch.

Mate bond!

"Congratulations.", That was the first word he spoke after everything that was happening around him. Shouldn't he be telling me how the hell we became mates? But never mind, I would ask that question on my own.

"Umm..Thank you.", I muttered and tried to take my hand from his, but he tightened his grip. I lifted my eyes and glared at him. "Why, Derek? Why did you reject your mate?" I asked, feeling angry that he acted like a jerk to his mate, and I didn't expect this from him.

He touched my cheeks lightly with his fingers, leaving my hand, and a jolt of electricity shot through my body again at the contact. The sudden proximity of him set my body to tremble. He leaned closer to me. "I just want you to know one thing, Stacey. I love you, Stacey. I love you…I love you so so much that I can't think of marrying someone who is not you, no matter how much I had to fight with my mate bond. I just don't get jealous over the thought of you with someone else, but I fucking want to kill everyone who will come near you. And it will kill me from inside to see you with someone else or me. I'm so sorry that I took this much time to realize that I had already fallen in love with you without my knowledge, but I swear I will spend the rest of my life making you go through the pain which you bore in the last six days."

I couldn't stop the tears that were flowing down my cheeks like a river, and all this was no less than a dream for me.

Derek just said he loved me.

Derek just confessed his love for me.

But soon, reality sunk in my head; I was getting happy while someone lost her mate. "But your mate…she doesn't deserve this."

"No! She happily let me go.", he said, shaking his head. "I told her my feelings for you, and she let me go because she always knew my feelings for you, Stacey. I know that unintentionally I hurt her, but at the same time, I would have hurt her more by not telling her my true feelings for you. She said, 'I love you, and I want you to see you happy even if your happiness means I'm not a part of it.' She willingly let me go, Stacey! And I'm sure even if I had married her, I wouldn't be able to give her the place she deserves because I had already given it to you. I love you, baby. I love you to the power of infinity."

I chuckled and started crying more than I was before. "I love you too, Derek."

He didn't waste a single second more and pulled me into his arms before crashing his lips against mine. I took his face in my hands and kissed him back hard.

"Ahem, Ahem.", We quickly broke the kiss, hearing the coughing sound of Derek's mother.

"Someone, please get a glass of water for her.", Derek muttered, getting annoyed that this was the second time when we had to keep our hands away from one another because of her interruption.

"Derek. Everyone is waiting for you outside. The wedding ceremony will soon begin.", She said.

"Mom, I'm not getting married.", he said sternly.

"Are you sure about it?" Derek's dad asked.

"I'm pretty sure that I'm not marrying Scarlett."

"And who told you that you are getting married to Scarlett?", My mom asked, arching her brow, confusing both of us.

"You didn't see the wedding card, did you?" Dad asked. "By judging your expression, I can tell that you didn't."

"And you do really think, daddy, that I revealed my identity in front of all just for meeting Mommy?" Jr. Scarlett asked, showing her teeth.

What the hell was going on here?

"The wedding preparation is of you and Stacey, Derek. You are getting married to Stacey today, and this is my full plan for the very first day.", Sr. Scarlett, Derek's Ex-mate, said with a smile, widening our eyes.

Holy shit!

"It..it means the guest outside..." I could form the full sentence because this was something this shocked was beyond anything.

"They are waiting for you both.", Sr. Scarlett replied. I heard, and I did something which I was not expecting to do.

I started crying.

First, Derek was my second chance mate.

Second, I was pregnant.

And third, I was getting married to Derek.

Well, you couldn't blame me for that. I would blame my stupid hormones for that.

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#TBC