TAKEN BY THE ALPHA.

"Mother." Fifteen years old Laga called.

Her twin sister Laya was busy with a book on her hand while she needed her mother's attention.

Over the past two weeks, Mum Kamela who is their mother as normally called by others has been lost in her phone. She goes out by ten a.m and returns by two p.m as she normally does, goes to the kitchen to prepare her meal then eats. After eating, she washes her plate then leaves the kitchen staying glued to her phone neglecting her children. It was eight a.m on Saturday and Laga sort to speak to her mother who paid little or no attention to her.

Mum Kamela had always been sad after her husband, Rial left her because of birthing female children instead of male children fifteen years ago whereas this change since the beginning of the present year. She has found a new lover, someone who always made her happy and today they will officially be married. Even the moon goddess had no say in her life anymore. Why did the moon goddess make her lonely for fifteen years? Now that she has found a new reason to love in her new lover, Aparousa, nothing would stop her from marrying him.

"Mother!" Laga shouted making her mother drop her phone and look at her. "What do you want?" She angrily asked.

Laga looked at her mother amazed.

"I miss your cuddle." Laga said.

"Really!" Kamela exclaimed laughing.

"This is going to stop and has already stopped." She said.

"Mother!" Laga called.

"Look at your twin, she is reading. Why can't you just go to join her?" Kamela said angrily and picked up her phone leaving Laga dumbfounded.

"Alright mother, I need to go out. If for an hour." Laga said but her mother didn't answer.

Laga walked to sit beside Laya.

"If only we had a father." Laya who had been listening to the conversation said.

"Do not say that. Mother is enough for us. Remember what she told us about our father not wanting female children." Laga said and Laya nodded.

"She is too protective. She doesn't allow us go out whenever she isn't home. She comes to pick us everyday from school not allowing us make friends. We can only go out when she is home after asking for her permission in which she gives us some time." Laya said.

"That's because she loves us." Laga said and Laya smiled.

"Let's play in our room." Laya said.

They both got up and ran into their room.

All through this, Kamela kept holding her phone.

The girls played in their room for long till they heard their mother call their names. They both looked at themselves.

"It's 9:30 a.m, why did she call us?" Laya asked.

"I am also confused as she only calls us whenever she wants to go out." Laga said.

"That's two weeks ago." Laya said.

"Let's go." Laga said and they both went out.

"Mother, you called us." Laya said when they got to the living room.

Kamela looked at Laga then to Laya.

"Do have your sit." She said and they both sat on a couch while their mother on another.

"I will like to remind you that you aren't little anymore. I have a life to live while you have yours." Kamela said. "None of you need a cuddle anymore from me neither do you need my approval for anything."

"You still do not have any right to go out whenever I am not at home. You do not have a father as he is dead to me already." She continued. "In some years time you will find your mates and this mean a man to yourself. You will no longer leave with me."

"Mother, what is wrong?" Laya said.

Kamela gave her daughter a stern look making her look away.

"I am going to be the happiest woman in the world today." She said smiling.

"Let us in." Laga said.

"You do not have to know yet." Kamela said and sighed.

"You are no more young, you need to know how to do everything in the house." She said and the girls looked at her shocked.

"Mother, what has come over you?" Laga asked. "Since the past two weeks you have not cared about us."

"Since the beginning of this year, you been finding fault in all we've done. It changed last two weeks but you chose not to care about us." Laya said.

"You children should keep shut." Kamela shouted.

"I do not want to be angry with any of you." She said then looked at Laga. "Most especially Laga. I am the happiest woman on earth today. Do not change it."

"Yes mother." They said and their mother nodded.

"Get back into your room." Kamela said and they left.

Laga looked at Laya whose face had turned red.

"Let's make today the happiest day for our mother." Laga said holding Laya close to herself.

* In another part of the town, Aparousa, a young man sat with his friends laughing.

"What about her children?" A man asked.

"I am going to love them as my own." He replied.

"What if they don't believe that you are nice?" His brother asked.

"Leave that to me." Aparousa said. "We are wolves and we live normally."

"Have you ever tried finding out if the moon goddess wants her for you?" His best friend asked.

"No, why should I after waiting long?" He asked. "How old am I?"

"36 years old." His brother answered. "She is 34 years old." Aparousa said.

"Come off it Nija, just pray the moon goddess loves the marriage." His brother said to his best friend.

"Alright, I wish you and your Luna a happy life." Nija, his best friend said.

"I will love all of you to be present in my marriage." Aparousa said.

"I will like to see her wolf." One of his friend said.

"Tim, you know that the husband should first see her wolf." His brother said.

"Oh yes." Tim said.

They all began to say things at random.

Back to Mum Kamela's house, It was 10a.m. She picked up her bag and shouted saying she was leaving to work. She walked out of the building while her daughters walked out to the living room.

"I feel something strange is going to happen today." Laya said.

"I also feel same way." Laga said.

"I can't wait for three more years." Laya said.

"So as to be able to make our first shift." Laga said and Laya nodded.

"We also would play in our wolf form." Laya said.

"That will be amazing." Laga said. "I heard that the first shift is painful"

"Yes, I also heard that but all that matters is letting our wolf out." Laya said.

"Then finding our mates." Laga said.

"Our prince charming." Laya said.

"Like Alphas." Laga said.

"Alphas don't get mates like us." Laya said.

"Yes they don't. They get beautiful Luna who give them handsome and beautiful children." Laga said. "Most of their Luna do not have poor background like us."

"Yes that is it. Just like Alpha Chantel and Luna Paulina who has handsome Mesa and handsome Xander." Laya said.

"We have only seen them in pictures." Laga said.

"I like how Mesa looks in his pictures." Laya said.

"I like how Xander looks in his pictures." Laga said.

"Only mother has seen them." Laya said.

"She is more than 17 years of age. Once we are 17, we can go to the palace." Laga said.

"I can't wait to see the palace." Laya said. "I also can't wait to see Mesa in the throne as he is the future Alpha."

"Yes that is true. He will be referred to as Alpha Mesa by then." Laga said.

"I even heard he is one year older than his brother." Laya said.

"How old is he?" Laga asked.

"He is seventeen years old while Xander is sixteen." Laya said.

"You've heard too much about them." Laga said.

"That's the advantage of being a book lover." Laya said and Laga smiled.

"I love sporting than books." Laga said.

"Anyway, we haven't failed in any our academic knowledge." Laya said and Laga nodded.

They both went into the kitchen and prepared what they would like to eat. After eating, they washed their plates and rinsed their cups. They rested a bit after washing. When it was two p.m, they looked at each other.

"Where is Mother?" They both asked at the same time and smiled.

"Where can she be?" Laya asked herself.

"Maybe she wants to bring our father back." Laga said making Laya smile.

"Don't be absurd. Our father is either dead or has another family." Laya said and Laga bursted into laughter.

They kept talking and some hours later looked at the clock.

"Six p.m." They both said.

They wondered why their mother wasn't back.

"I am back Children." They heard their mother say.

"Who could that be?" Laga asked herself.

"Mother, who is that?" Laya asked and Kamela smiled.

"Your new father." She said.

"New father." The girls said. "Yes daughter. I got married to him today." Kamela said. "I have been planning my marriage with him two weeks ago which is the reason I didn't have time for you both."

The girls got up and went to greet him.

"I have heard a lot of things about you. Your mother said a lot about you and I am glad to be your father." Aparousa said.

"Alright, thank you new father." The girls chorused and Aparousa smiled.

"Alright, I and your new father are hungry so I need you to get something delicious for us." Mum Kamela said and they nodded.

The girls made something simple and served their parents. Aparousa looked at them as they returned to sit. "Won't you have some?" He asked and they shook their head.

"We've eaten." They chorused and he nodded.

Done eating, he looked at his wife who was done eating.

"Into the room?" He asked and she nodded.

She got up to her feet while he lifted her up and carried her to the room with her giving him the direction to the room.

The girls clapped happily.

"Yes, we now have a father." Laga said happily.

"Did the moon goddess choose him?" Laya asked.

"I do not know but if it's not, I pray the moon goddess blesses their union." Laga said.

"So do I. Mother had lived the last fifteen years of her life lonely and doesn't deserve rejection." Laya said.

"That's right. I know the moon goddess will be good to us." Laga said.

They began talking at random to each other with their main discussion on their new father.

"He is tall and handsome like the Alpha's son." Laga said smiling.

"Remember, we've never seen the Alpha's son face to face but in pictures." Laya said.

"What if Xander becomes the Alpha after his father?" Laga asked.

"In your dreams." Laya said laughing.

"That's right. It will be nice to hear Alpha Xandar than Alpha Mesa." Laga said.

"Really, only the moon goddess and her daughter will let us know who among the Alpha's children will be the next Alpha of which I am sure she will pick the first son of Alpha Chantel." Laya said.

"Alpha Mesa." Laga said nodding.

"I wish to live in human world." Laya said.

"And why is that?" Laga asked.

"My knowledge won't go to waste." Laya answered.

"And who told you that your knowledge is a waste here?" Laga asked.

"No one, exactly no one." Laya answered.

"Let's talk about our new father." Laga said.

"We've only seen him. We know nothing about him." Laya said and Laga laughed.

"That's right. We can picture him in our mind." Laga said and they began to laugh.

"Let's picture how we want him to be in our mind." Laya said.