Mine: His Caged Princess

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Dear Readers,

Since English is not my first language, there will be tons of grammatical mistakes. Please continue reading this book only if you don't have any issues with that. Rest I can guarantee you that you won't get bored with the storyline.

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"I was waiting for you," Tiara said, welcoming Theodore into her penthouse. "This is also owned by me." She added proudly. "I have planned a date for us. Come, I have a surprise for you." Saying this, Tiara held her wrist to show him the way, but Theodore pulled his hand away, looking at her coldly.

"What happened, Babe?" Tiara asked, caressing his cheek on which he pushed her away again. Theodore's Lycan whimpered, thinking about what his other half was going to do, but this time, it was nothing he could do because what was going to happen next was something that Tiara had brought on herself on her own.

"I can't stay with you, Tiara. I'm done with your selfishness." Theodore said. "I never wanted you in the first place, but I didn't want to reject you just like that. That's why I tried... I really tried to make this work between us."

"Babe.. wh..what are you saying? Y..you have marked me." Tiara said, unable to believe that this was really happening to her. She always knew that it was Inigo, his wolf, who was the bridge between them, not Theodore. And the way Theodore was staring at her coldly. It was a clear indication that he was serious with his words.

"Are..are you saying this because of the woman whom you love?" She asked.

"Really? Do you think that this is the reason because of why I'm going to reject you?" Theodore sneered, and immediately Tiara realized that he might have found out the truth about what she did with Liara.

"I'm sorry. I got insecure, thinking that she would snatch you from me. Because of the way you were trying to win her heart. It crept fear into my hurt. I will apologize to her for that, but please... please forgive me."

"Why the hell will she snatch me from you? I'm not a kid. You both are mates, and she knows this very well. So, stop blaming her."

"You don't understand. By showing her innocent face, she already became the favorite of dad and Colton. And everyone in the house loves her the most." Tiara said in pure hatred and anger.

"I can't believe you, Tiara. You're the one who made her childhood a nightmare, and when your family members loved her a little more to bring her out of the depression, then you're jealous of her?" Theodore snapped.

"Now you are also taking her side. Hell, how much do you even know? She is a wolf in the coat of..."

"Stop blaming others for the mess you created, Tiara," Theodore said, cutting her in between. "And dare you to speak a word against, My Lia."

'My Lia' These two words rang in Tiara's ear. She recalled listening to 'Lia' word from his mouth the night they made love for the first time. It meant she wasn't assuming that part?

"I know her more than I know you. I have known her since her college days. I met her before I met you. And she is the one who I love to the extent that I was ready to reject you the moment my eyes landed on you."

'They knew each other from her college days? Since when? Why did Lee never tell me about it? Was she wanted to keep Theodore all by herself? And even after doing this, she had the guts to call me SELFISH. How could she? He was my mate as well.'

Tiara admitted that she was selfish and acted like a bitch, but after finding out this truth, she couldn't compare her sister any less with her.

"I can't stay with a selfish woman like you, Tiara, especially the one who doesn't treat my Lia right."

"And you think that YOUR LIA is not selfish by hiding about you from me?" Tiara asked, showing her disgust toward Liara.

"Only if you would have known your sister, then you wouldn't have been asking this question to me," Theodore said, shaking his head in disappointment. "I still couldn't believe that you wanted my love out of my life. Hell, if anyone who would leave is YOU, Tiara."

"Please... please don't do this, Theodore!! I love you just like you love Liara." Tiara requested before adding, "I did all this because I loved you and wanted you all by myself. The moment my eyes landed on you, I fell in love at first sight, please, please, please, Theodore." She begged, holding his hand. "Please don't reject me. I love you. I love you so much. Your love made me so selfish. We both are your mates, right? You just can't kick me out of your life just like that."

Theodore quickly jerked her hand away, not to change his decision because of the mate bond.

"But I don't love you, and after what you have done today, I can never love you," Theodore shouted at her.

Earlier when she came to know that Theodore and Liara were going to spend some time together, and her father had planned a date for them. She reached the Salon where Liara was and made sure that she would look like the ugliest girl in the world.

But she did all this because she wanted Theodore for herself. She didn't want to share her mate with her twin sister.

'I can never love you.' Hearing this, Tiara shuddered, feeling chills down her spine. She kept staring at Theodore, who was watching him with no emotion. 'Did I commit that big crime because of which he can never love me?'

Fine, she agreed that her behavior with her own sister wasn't good or something that anyone would appreciate, but she didn't kill her because of which Theodore was treating her in that way.

"And it will be better if you will accept my rejection, Tiara," Theodore told her his final decision.

"I, Theodore Wayne, the last Alpha heir of Silver Moon Pack, reject Tiara Haysbert as my mate." Theodore mustered all his courage and rejected her, not wasting the whole night with her.

'This is it.' Tiara looked at him with teary eyes. She wanted to beg him not to reject her. Give her a chance to redeem herself. For the first time in her life, she felt utterly defeated. Her wolf, Dora, kept telling her not to accept his rejection and ask for forgiveness, but no words came out of her mouth even though she opened her mouth twice.

It wasn't that she had attitude issues, but she didn't think that her value was so low that she had to beg in front of someone to love her. She had read somewhere, 'the love which you get as a result of begging will never be successful. Don't beg for love; you deserve more than that. Never beg for someone to love you; love is not more important than your self-respect.'

She looked at Theodore, who looked desperate. It was clear that he didn't want her but her sister. He knew if she would accept his rejection, then she would feel unbearable pain, and even after that, he wanted to reject her. She smiled sadly and decided to give him what he wanted.

'Please! Please, don't do this.' Dora begged in her mind.

'Loving someone doesn't always mean you fight for them. Sometimes loving someone just means letting them go, Dora. If they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.'

"I, Tiara Haysbert, accept the rejection of Theodore Wayne." She accepted the rejection and felt an enormous pain in her heart that made her hard to breathe. She fell immediately to the floor and screamed in agony. She watched him leave without giving even a single glance as if this place, she was suffocating him.

She didn't know what was more painful. Her own pain that she was feeling at that moment or the fact that her mate didn't care about her.

Tiara couldn't control the pain that she was feeling at that moment. Dora couldn't stop howling in pain. The fact that he had already marked her had increased the pain of rejection by ten times more than normal rejection. She felt something warm between her thigh. A lot of tears rolled out of her eyes, and she clutched her stomach in pain.

She realized that it wasn't just her mate that she lost today but also the pup, her pup, their pup. She was going to surprise him with this news a moment before.

"Aaaaaaaa!!!!!" She screamed in agony and kept screaming until she was finally tired from it.

'I'm done with your selfishness. I can't stay with a selfish woman like you, Tiara, especially the one who doesn't treat my Lia right.' Theodore's words rang in her mind.

She agreed that she was selfish. But he couldn't see that she was selfish for him because she loved him. Wouldn't he do the same if he had to share Liara with someone else? Hell, he would have killed that other person because he was a saint, either.

All this was about one thing. His Lia. His Love.

By thinking all things, more tears rolled out of her eyes. 'I don't love you and can never love you.'

She observed that Theodore had not an ounce of feeling for her when he said those hurtful words to her. Well, why would he?

Even she knew that he didn't love her or even like her. She was just an extra mate in his life that the Moon Goddess sent in his life, which he kicked out of his life.

She wasn't raised to be someone who felt unloved or unwanted. That was why she didn't tell him about the pup who was inside her because she didn't want to hold him in her life in the name of the pup, OR who would have known he might have rejected her even after knowing that? It wasn't that Theodore was ever present while making love to her. It was always Inigo, his Lycan.

Tiara started laughing and crying at the same time, at her state, her misery.

Neither Liara nor Theodore told her the truth about knowing each other for years. They made her the villain in the story. Her reaction and her behavior toward Liara would have been different if she would have known the truth.

'I will never forgive you, Theodore!! How easily you judged me by keeping me in the dark!! I'm not perfect, and I don't claim to be, but before you start pointing fingers, you should have it check whether your hands are clean or not.'

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#TBC

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That night Tiara kept crying, and Theodore's cruel words kept ringing in her ear. At first, she was mad at her sister, then Theodore, but as time passed, she blamed herself.

If he didn't want her, then why did he even come close to her? Fine! She agreed that she seduced him and threw herself at him like a slut, but he could have controlled himself.

'But didn't I miss noticing the red flag too?' She questioned herself. From day one, she knew that it was his Lycan who was in love with her but not Theodore. Hell, there was no sign of happiness when he had found her as his mate.

'I should never have forced him into anything that he didn't want.' She thought and ridiculed herself for stooping low. Now that there was no mate bond between them. She could see and think about the situation properly, and even her wolf wasn't disturbing her.

'God! When did I turn so pathetic and desperate?' She wondered, and a lone tear escaped from her eyes again. Her eyes were burning because of continuous crying.

Guilt washed over her. How she used mate bond to wrap Theodore around her fingers, and what happened at the end? He left her feeling suffocated and called her selfish. She was so eager to claim him that she ignored all the things that she could sense through his behavior. Only if she would haven't forced herself on him, only if she would give him to adjust, only if, and many more only if played in her mind, but it was too late to think about these things.

'Stop blaming others for the mess you created, Tiara.' Theodore's words rang in her ears.

'Theodore was right. I shouldn't be blaming him or Lee.'

'True!! If anyone here is to blame, then it's you, Tiara. Because of you, I lost my mate, and I will never ever talk with you from now onwards.' Dora growled at her in anger. She was in pain, to be exact but had masked her pain with anger.

'I'm sorry to disappoint you, Dora.' She said, and all of a sudden, she felt her best friend disappear from her mind, leaving Tiara to deal with the pain alone.

First, she lost her mate, then her pup, and now her wolf, who was also her best friend.

Tiara closed her eyes, and more tears rolled out of her eyes. She lost a lot of important things in her life tonight. All she hoped was that one day... everything fall into the right place, and she would have everything that she lost tonight.

'Theodore fell for Lia by observing her kind behavior and when he would realize that I'm not bad either. He might come back, and that day, Dora will return too.' She hoped. But one thing was for sure that she wouldn't beg to love her. NEVER.

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The next day, Tiara told her family members that it was she who rejected Theodore because she didn't want her family members to pour their anger on Theodore for bringing so much pain to her. At the same time, she knew her sister, Liara, very well; she would have never accepted Theodore after knowing that their mate was the one who gave so much to her twin's sister.

And Tiara had observed how Theodore was madly in love with Liara, so she decided to go ahead with a lie instead of telling the truth and ruining Theodore's happiness. No, she wasn't acting to be a saint or a kind-hearted girl.

She was still the same selfish girl. And this time, she was selfish for her love. After all, unconditional love was when someone hurt you, but you cared about that person so much that you chose not to hurt them in return.

The part that she lied about the rejection, Tiara couldn't share her pain and grief with anyone in front of any of her family members. And at the same time, she just couldn't go around her human friend and cry over her heartache, and the part that Dora had stopped talking to her had made her life more miserable and depressing than she could have ever thought.

As the day passed, things started going downhills as she started losing her focus on herself and her work. The work that she had loved doing since she was in diapers.

Tiara Haysbert was a famous Hollywood Actress who started appearing in front of the camera when she was in diapers for the advertisement of baby products. It wasn't that her parents wanted her to start working since then, but the smile, the happiness that Tiara used to have while coming in front of the camera could be seen in her photoshoot that her parents used to get done at some intervals of time to cherish those memories.

And also, Logan Haysbert, Tiara's grandfather, was fond of taking photos, so he used to invest all his time clicking her pictures while Tiara used to give innocent and cute poses.

"What the hell is wrong with you, Tee?" Michelle, Tiara's manager, exclaimed, watching her state. "You have lost around 15 pounds in just seven days, and there is a dark circle formed under your eyes. Are you even taking care of yourself?" She questioned, looking at Tiara's miserable state.

Tiara, "..."

Michelle sighed and sat beside her, placing her hand on her shoulder. "Tee!! You can talk to me, sweetheart. I have never seen you in this state, and trust me; I'm scared that if you don't fix yourself soon, then you might start taking drugs or end up killing yourself." She added.

Michelle Robinson was Tiara's Manager for the last four years and never, never had any complaints from her. To her, Tiara was a kind-hearted, funny, and loving girl. Even though Tiara was a star, never did she treated people working under her with disrespect.

"Drugs!! It will ease my pain." She mumbled, on which Michelle's eyes widened. Now, she regretted even calling its name in front of her. It wasn't anything new for people like to involve in this type of stuff. In fact, there were a lot of stars who committed suicide at a very young age. "Do you know where I can find it?"

"Repeat those words again, and the next thing I will do is call your parents to inform about your parents about your behavior," Michelle warned her and grabbed her phone to update her about her situation with her boss at the agency in which she was working.

"I don't know what to do, sir. She is behaving strangely lately." Michelle informed.

'Hmm. Take her out. If she stays locked between four walls, then she will go crazy.' There came his reply.

"But.. but this is risky. What if any paparazzi saw her in this state? They will create this news as the hype and might end up writing stupid things about Tee. And We can't risk that."

'I'm sending you the address of one place where you both won't feel this issue. And you better know how to change her look.' With that, the call got disconnected. After a few seconds, she received a message from a club that she had never heard of before in LA, but then she didn't question her boss about it.

Michelle never asked her boss, but she always felt that he bore some feelings for Tiara by observing how he was always concerned and kept an eye on her silently. The way, he didn't want any man to come near Tiara. The way he dealt with the direction of the movie was in case Tiara faced any issues while working with her co-stars and colleague. What surprised her more was that he never came across her, revealing his identity in front of her. He just stayed behind and looked after her like a guardian angel.

At first, she thought maybe he was doing all this because Tiara was a beautiful and successful actress, but now, she started feeling that he was in love with Tee.

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"Come on, let's go," Michelle said. It took approx an hour to convince Tiara to step outside her room. She wanted Michelle to bring drugs home as if Michelle was some kind of agent who worked in this field. Hell, she was a mother of two kids and had a loving husband; she couldn't think about having these things in her whole life because she had heard that 'Drugs take you to hell, disguised as heaven.'

"I'm not saying that I will become a drug addict, but I just want to try for once." Tiara shared her plan. "Just one time, Michi."

"Fine! One time if you will tell me what the fuck is wrong with you?" With that question, Tiara shut her mouth. "Drugs cancel then." She added. Michelle's plan was to make her drink a lot of Alcohol and make her tell the truth. It was clear that Tiara was in pain, and she wanted to help her by talking about her issue instead of letting her do stupid things.

When Michelle and Tiara reached the club that her boss had recommended to her, Michelle was shocked to see that, except for one Bartender, the whole club was empty. It was small and wasn't a famous club, so Michelle could understand why her boss suggested this place, but she wasn't expecting only one Bartender in the entire place.

Grabbing Tiara's hand, she reached near the bar counter, "Excuse me!! We need the strongest drink that you have in stock." She ordered, and her jaw dropped when she saw the face of the Bartender.

"Sure, Ma'am."

"Sir?" Michelle exclaimed in shock, unable to believe that the CEO of her agency was working as a bartender there. Hearing this, Tiara looked at the face of the Bartender, who was too busy with her whole. He was looking at Michelle, but he looked familiar, but at the moment, she couldn't recall where did she see him? After all, she used to meet a lot of people in her day-to-day life.

"Have we met before?" She couldn't help but ask, and that was when the Bartender looked at her. Tiara studied his face closely. She recognized that face, but he couldn't be here as a bartender, so she shook her head. "I'm sorry, you seem a little familiar, and your face reminded me of someone." She spoke, thinking about her best friend, Wylder Miller, whom she kicked out of her life so that he could focus on other things expected from her.

After all these years, he would be anything but not a bartender, right?

While Michelle zipped her mouth, her boss, Wylder Adan Miller, glared at her. She decided to watch everything silently.

"Thank you for bringing me here!! I like staying alone when I'm sad." Tiara confessed after drinking Alcohol back to back. While Michelle wondered how her boss came to know about this, Wylder prepared drinks for both of them. He passed Apple juice to Michelle and Alcohol to Tiara.

Michelle tried to make Liara speak, but to her disappointment, she didn't speak a word and fell unconscious after drinking a lot of Alcohol.

Michelle checked her phone when she received a message.

[Wylder: You can leave. Your family must be waiting for you.]

[Michelle: But, sir, I want to help her.]

[Wylder: I appreciate that, but I will take it from here.]

Michelle frowned but didn't argue with him. The way he was behaving, it looked like he knew a lot more about Tiara than she had thought.

[Michelle: Her father and brothers are protective of her.] She dropped the last message so that Wylder wouldn't dare to mess with Tiara just because she wasn't in the right state of her mind. Wylder raised his eyebrow in amusement and replied through message.

[Wylder: Sure! Send this screenshot to them.]

Once Wylder was sure that Michelle had left there, he spoke, "Alakazam."

With that, the club started turning into a home, and his clothes, like a bartender, turned into a comfortable t-shirt and boxers. His brown hair and brown eyes turned into silver hair and grey eyes. The illusion spell that he had used started coming to an end. He reached Tiara and picked her up in his arms like a bride, studying her face closely before greeting her in her unconscious state, "Hello, Ara!!"

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#TBC

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A/N: You can read this story as a stand-alone. No need to read other books to understand this story.

Thank you for reading :)

Wylder placed Tiara on the bed and observed her like a creep. He knew the reason why she was in so much pain. It was the pain of rejection that she was hiding from everyone, but he couldn't understand why she was in so much pain when she was the one who rejected him.

It was what he had learned from his mothers, who adopted him. And his mothers, Eden Miller and Arya Miller, were Sophia Haysbert, Tiara's mother's best friend for more than two decades.

Wylder ran his fingers through her dirty hair. He could bet that she didn't take took a shower in the past couple of days because werewolves had a sensitive noses, and they could smell these small things. The way her hair was stuck to his fingers, Tiara didn't even comb her hair.

He was about to remove his hand when Tiara grabbed his hand. "Theo!! Please don't."

Wylder's expression changed when he heard her calling someone else name by holding his hand. He didn't have to be a genius to know that Theo was her ex-mate.

'EX. ' He couldn't express his happiness at the thought that Tiara rejected her mate.

He was eight when he was adopted by Eden and Arya, and no one knew the back story of his life or even his real name before he was adopted because he never shared it with anyone. After all, it was a nightmare that he didn't want to think about.

And since then, he had loved Tiara. He doubted that he even knew the meaning of LOVE at that moment. Neither did he want to find his mate, nor did he want Tiara to find her but their destiny had another plan; they both found their fated mate, only to get a bitter experience of their life.

Wylder pulled his hand from her grip before speaking, "It's me, Ara. Wylder." He whispered, not sure if she was listening to him or not.

He let her sleep on the bed while he sat on the sofa, watching her sleeping figure and recalled that seventeen years back, even her family members were sleeping peacefully until he heard a loud noise.

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FLASHBACK

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Wylder was just seven years old when he heard the loud noise out of his room. He quickly left his bed and opened the door to see what was happening outside, only to scream in horror when he saw a lot of pack members hitting his father, his stepfather, to be exact. His mother had told him that he was the result of one night stand before his mother found her mate.

The best part was that his stepfather wanted him even though Wylder wasn't his.

"Why are you hitting my dad?" Wylder reached near the pack members, trying to stop them from hitting his father. After all, he was the Alpha of the pack. Why would they do any of them treat their Alpha in that way?

"Stop it!!" He screamed but was thrown away by the pack members.

"Mom!! Mom!!" Wylder cried, looking for her mother, who could stop all this. After all, she was the Luna of the pack, but what he saw next broke his innocent heart. His mother was standing up here, watching all this with the Beta of the pack with a smile on her face.

But he still ran up toward her to ask her to stop all this, "Mom, Mom! Please stop that. They will kill, dad."

"Go and sleep, Wilfred (Wylder)." She said, ignoring her request.

"Mom, Dad will die." Wylder cried, watching his father bleeding.

"He has to, sweetheart. Because he raped and killed Beta female." Wylder couldn't understand the meaning of rape, but he understood that the Beta female was no more, and as for everyone, it was his father who killed her.

"No. That's not true. I don't believe you." Wylder screamed at her.

"I know that's not true, but still, everyone believed it." She smirked before threatening him, "Now leave before I end up killing you."

Wylder quickly ran away from there to help his father on his own.

"Dad!! Dadd!!" He managed to reach near him and hugged his bleeding body tightly.

"Ru..run away, Son!!"

In the next second, he was ripped apart from his father. "Watch this bastard die!!"

"He has committed a grave sin by assaulting Beta Female and then killing her to hide his crime."

"A person like him has no die to live."

"He is shame at the name of Moon Goddess's child."

"No!! No!! No!!" Wylder kept screaming, but in front of his eyes, not just everyone killed him but ripped each and every part of his father in front of his eyes. He kept screaming and crying, but his voice died in between the sound of everyone cheering and demanding his father's death.

"Dad... Daddy!!" He cried for one last time when the people holding him let him go, and he ran near his father's head. "Dad.." he whispered in a low tone, and his heart was racing in his chest. He felt something was happening to him, but he couldn't figure it out. The intense anger that he was feeling inside his chest because of everyone killing his father or for the part that no one heard his plea or over the part that his mother was involved in all this was something that he couldn't control.

He wanted to kill everyone.

He turned his head and looked at the place where his mother was with the Beta and glared at them. He wanted to rip their head. Each and every comment that they said against his father was acting as fuel in his anger.

"Why is your illegitimate pup glaring at me as if he will kill me?" The Beta asked with a chuckle. Wylder narrowed his eyes, wondering how could he heard something when they were standing up on the second floor, but he didn't care.

"If he will have been born with his father's ability, then by now, he would have done already, but he is useless, and I had to use him as bait to fool Alpha."

That was it. He ran up toward them to kill both of them. At the same time, his whole body was burning in anger, and he was feeling an enormous amount of pain, the pain of losing his father, the pain of betrayal, the pain as if someone was trying to break his bones and wanted to come out of his body.

"I will kill you both." He said while coming like a growl from his throat.

"What the... what is happening to him?" The Beta asked in shock, unable to understand how a boy of seven years old could growl like a wolf. He watched in shock when Wylder's bone started cracking, and his body started shifting. "Who is his father? With whom did you sleep and give birth to a freak like him?" He asked in horror, holding Wylder's mother's hand, who was equally shocked.

"Step away!!" He used his Alpha tone; after all, the Beta was the younger brother of his father. Wylder ignored his command as his mind was focused on the pain that he was feeling as he was shifting for the first time. But his so-called uncle, or say, Beta, didn't dare to come close to him.

"After killing you," Wylder spoke in a voice that he himself couldn't recognize.

"Control him by using your power." The Beta spoke again, on which Wylder's Mother used a spell on him only to see that it didn't work on him.

"I can't. Deal with him." With that, she disappeared from there the moment Wylder shifted into a black werewolf with blue eyes and lunged at her to kill her. Wylder's wolf looked at his other prey and lunged at him to kill him in the same way that everyone did to his father. The moment he was done ripping his head, a lot of pack members came over there, watching the black werewolf in shock and fear. They walked toward him to attack him. That was when Wylder's wolf let out a warning growl, and his body started shifting again, but not into a human form, but into the bigger and more dangerous form of a werewolf.

The werewolf who was standing before them on his four paws was standing on two feet. He growled at them angrily before jumping from the second floor to run away from there instead of fighting with everyone.

When Wylder opened his eyes, he found himself in the middle of the forest, naked, and his body was covered with blood. He couldn't recall what exactly had happened after feeling extreme pain in his body. All he remembered was that he had lost control of his anger, and someone else had taken control of his body.

He couldn't recall what he did in anger, but the memories of everyone clearing his father brutally was clear in his mind.

He looked at his hand and body, which were covered with blood. He couldn't help but cry, thinking how everything had changed in his life all of a sudden. He was supposed to celebrate his eighth birthday with his family, and now, he was sitting here alone in the middle of the forest.

His father was killed, his mother disappeared like a ghost, and he... he shifted at the age of just eight years.

'With whom you slept and gave birth to a freak like him?'

More tears rolled out of his eyes thinking about those words.

'Are you there? My wolf?' He tried to talk with his wolf if he had one, which he was positive that he had.

He didn't get any response from the other side.

"This is our land, Kid." Wylder heard and quickly stood up on his feet in an alert position, watching three people. He didn't sense them coming. He couldn't understand how his wolf didn't pick their scent or hear the sound of their arrival.

Wylder was ready to run away from there when a man blocked his way and held him.

"Leave me!! Let me go!!" he screamed, ready to run away from there. He wanted his wolf to come forward again and save him, but it looked like he wasn't there at all.

"Ssshhh!! Calm down, kid." The man said in a soft tone and knelt down to reach his height. "I mean no harm, okay?" he added in a low tone, but Wylder looked at him with frightened eyes. "You don't look in the right state." He muttered, looking at Wylder's condition.

"Where are your parents? Are you lost in the middle of the forest?" He asked again, but Wylder didn't open his mouth to answer his question.

"Let me go!!" He demanded, struggling in that man's grip.

"Sorry, I won't. You will get yourself killed. Come with me until we find your parents or you decide to open your mouth."

"No!! No!!"

"Relax!! I won't hurt you. I have two granddaughters of your age." That man spoke and unlocked his phone to show Wylder the pictures of his granddaughters, and that was the first time he had seen Tiara for the first time with red hair and beautiful emerald-green eyes. "One of my granddaughters is not comfortable in front of a camera. So, I really don't have many of her pictures." Logan Haysbert spoke and finally found a picture of Liara as well, in which she was reading a book wearing her red glasses.

"Now, be a good boy and come with me!! You look tired and hungry." Logan spoke, and this time Wylder didn't fight with him because "So, what's your name, kid? So that if anyone comes looking for you, then I can let them know that you're here."

"Wil.." Wylder didn't want anyone to find him, so he lied, "Wilder."

"Wilder? Strange name. Do you know the meaning of your name?" Logan asked to help him feel comfortable.

"No."

"It means 'Wild Animal' or hunter."

"But isn't a werewolf a wild animal?" Wylder pointed out, making Logan realize that the kid was educated. So, there was a low chance that he would be a rogue.

"They are. But right now, you're in the human world." With this information, Wylder's eyes widened. "As I said before, I won't harm you, but your name... hmm!! You might need to change the letter of your name if anyone asks you about your name." Logan suggested this because he wasn't sure for how long the kid was going to stay with them, and if he was going to stay for a long period, then his name would get a lot of attraction.

"Instead of using 'I' in your name, tell everyone that it's 'Y .'Wylder, okay?" The kid nodded his head and looked behind at his past from where he ran away. He wasn't sure whether it would return back to his future or not but at that moment, he didn't want to return there.

Logan sent one of his men to get a couple of clothes for Wylder instead of taking him home naked because he knew his devil grandson, Calvin, and granddaughter, Tiara, who loved teasing others while he gave cookies and sandwich that he had with him to him in case he was feeling hungry.

After a couple of hours, they reached Haysbert Mansion. Logan could bet that kid with him was tired and feeling sleepy, but he had kept his eyes wide awake and was sitting in an alert position.

"Tee!! Tee!! Stop running." He heard a loud sound when he was walking inside the Mansion with Logan and observing everything curiously. That was when he saw a young woman running behind a girl of his age with a plate on her plate.

"I don't want to eat broccoli. I want pizza."

"This is pizza."

"With broccoli toppings. Not happening, Mom. You can't trick me now." Tiara complained, and her eyes landed on Logan. "Grandpa!!!" She ran toward Logan, and she didn't miss seeing a boy with grey eyes and silver hair beside him whose eyes were on her. "Who is he?"

"Your new friend. And guess what? He is also a werewolf like you. Did you tell me that you want one because Lee doesn't play with you and Calvin (Tiara's five years older brother) isn't of your age?"

"Wow!!!!" Tiara squealed loudly because she wanted someone like her between the human friends. She looked at Wylder with excitement, "Hi, I'm Tiara." She said, forwarding her hand toward him for a handshake.

"Wylder. My name is Wylder." With that, he grabbed her hand instead of handshaking with her.

"You held my hand." Tiara pointed out.

"Didn't you forward your hand toward me to hold it?" Wylder asked innocently. While hearing his question, Tiara giggled softly.

All of a sudden, he heard the sound of her cries. It took a second to open his eyes and he took a moment to realize that he had fallen asleep on the sofa.

Wylder rushed toward Tiara and found her hiding her face with the pillow and holding it so tickly that even her knuckles had turned white.

"Ara!!" He softly caressed her blonde hair, which she had colored to hide her red hair. Tiara's whole body was shaking as she cried hard. "Stop crying, sweetheart!!" He whispered calmly, but deep down, he wanted to find the reason which caused her this pain and fix that problem, even if it was her ex-mate.

"Tiara!! Please stop it." He muttered, forcing her to turn around and look at him. "Stop crying," he added, wiping her tears and finding her opening her bloodshot red ears, which was the result of her cries. He couldn't help but wonder how long he was out. And since when was she crying?

"I'm sorry, Theo," She whispered, looking at him and raising her hand toward him.

"I'm not Theo, Ara. I'm Wylder." He muttered in irritation before hugging her just like she wanted, holding her in his arms and caressing her back. "I'm so sorry for not becoming the mate you wanted." She mumbled, resting her head on his chest.

'Hold on! What did she mean by that? Is she regretting rejecting him?' He wondered. 'She better not.' he added, but at the same time, if she wanted her ex, then there was nothing he could do about it.

"Please don't hate me. I'm selfish, but I'm selfish for you." She slurred.

"Now, sleep, Ara!!" Wylder said and caressing her back. He kept holding her in his arms for a couple of minutes until she started snoring slowly. He decided to escape from her hold once she was asleep, but in the end, she again held his hand.

"Don't go." She whispered, looking at him. Her eyes were full of hurt when she spoke that.

"I won't."

Tiara sighed in relief before closing her eyes and sleeping peacefully this time. Hours passed, and this time, she didn't cry or sleep talked. At the same time, Wylder didn't sleep like the previous time, but he observed her face and played with her hair, even caressing it gently from time to time.

A part of him wanted her to cry as much as she wanted to, only to make sure when she was finished, she would never cry for the same reason again.

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#TBC

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A/N: Thank you for reading :)