Rejected Mate's Redemption (Freda and James)

Mates 7

Chapter 7 CHAPTER SEVEN 5 YEARS LATER FREDA’S POV 388 Vouchers “Francisco! Get up it’s morning!” I yelled loudly, turning the dough in the bowl furiously. The little boy had learnt to wake up late due to reasons I didn’t know about, I suspected that he was secretly watching cartoons in his room after lights out but I didn’t know how to call him out A few minutes later, I heard the tippy tap of tiny cute shoes on the floor. My little boy ran down the stairs, panting. He was wearing his school uniform and already carrying his backpack. “Good morning mom” Francisco greeted cutely, winking his large green eyes at me. Eyes that looked exactly like my mother’s and mine. “Morning sweetie! How was your night” I responded, bending down to plaster a quick peck on his chubby cheeks. He blushed and glared at me before writhing out a Fine from his lips. 17057 289 Wouching I chuckled at his cuteness and shyness. Suddenly I saw my boy’s eyes brighten. “Are you making blueberry pancakes mummy?!” he asked in excitement. I nodded at him with a mysterious smile and he jumped around the kitchen happily, clapping his little hands together. Blueberry pancakes were his favorites,he never joked with them. In Fact he wished that I made them everyday. Just then I remembered why he loved blueberry pancakes. Kaiden too loved them, he was obsessed with blueberry pancakes to the extent that on his birthday

all he got was blueberry pancakes instead of a cake and he appreciated it So much. My son or rather our son had followed in his father’s footsteps much like it was an inherited stuff. After breakfast, I dropped Francisco off at his school before heading to work. Little Cisco had clung onto me, refusing to go anywhere but just like everyday, I had to make a lot of promises before he let me go and today the promise I had made was to let him have a full 2 hours video call with his grandpa and Aunty Lyra. I drove straight to work, humming lyrics from a song that was playing on the radio in the car, a song whose lyrics I didn’t even know clearly. 17.05 288 Mouchers “Good morning Mam Freda, how was your night?” My assistant Sasha said immediately she sighted me entering the office. “Morning Sasha, my night was awesome, how was yours?” I replied with a small smile,plopping on the swivel chair that was behind my work desk. “It was awesome, I slept like a baby cuddled up against Alvin, oh my God it was so hot…” And there she went talking about her romantic life and boyfriend to her single boss. It was already after school hours and I needed to go pick. Francisco up from school. He was probably waiting patiently for me in the children’s waiting bay while other children were being taken home by their parents. guilt gripped my conscience and felt bad leaving my son that way, to alleviate the guilt I had to go to an ice cream store and get him his favorite scoop of chocolate ice cream. “Mummy!” My boy screamed immediately he sighted me, the excitement on his face made me beam at him. I hugged Francisco and kissed his hair. “Hey baby, how was school today?” I asked him. Cisco nodded and inhaled “I smell something mummy, something cold and yummy” he said in a mysterious tone and I cracked, knowing fully well that he had seen the plate of ice cream and wanted to stylishly ask about it.

17051 283 iMouchero “Well guess who that cold and yummy stuff belongs to?” I asked Francisco looked at me with furrowed eyebrows “mummy?” He asked. I shook my head and whispered in his ears “Francisco Whitlock, the boy who mummy loves so much” His eyes brightened with joy and he plastered a kiss on my cheeks, his saliva rubbing all over my face. He jumped down from my arms and got into the car, taking the Ice cream and opening it quickly before devouring it. I stared at him with a small smile on my face before putting on the ignition of the car. After helping Francisco with his homework and giving him lunch, I video called my father with my phone hoping for him to pick it up but to my disappointment, it was Lyra that answered the call. But Cisco was happy the same, in fact he was much more happy to see Lyra’s face on the screen since he preferred her so much. “Aunty Lyra! How are you doing!” Cisco yelled out, waving at Lyra. Lyra waved back at him with a small smile on her face “Hey Cisco! I’m fine, what about you, how is school?” She asked him with a loving smile. The two of them began to chat like two best friends almost as if they had known each other for more than 20 years. I watched them talk to each other in an animated way, a small smile on my lips. My best friend had undergone drastic changes since I left the pack house. She had dyed her hair red and found her mate, though according to her she said that they were unfit for each other. I wanted to tell her that there were no mates who were made to be unfit for each other,then I remembered I and Kaiden. Not that we were unfit for each other, in fact we were created to be sources of pain to each other. “What about grandpa,I haven’t seen him yet, doesn’t ke know that I am the one calling?” Francisco

asked with a pout on his lips. It was now that he remembered the existence of his grandfather. I watched Lyra’s face through the phone keenly and I noticed that her face had changed at the mention of grandpa, was anything wrong? “Grandpa is fine, he is just taking a nap” she said in a soft tone. Francisco nodded his head at her words “When he wakes up tell him that little Cisco asked of him today” Francisco said to her. Lyra nodded, promising strongly to relay his words to my father. After the two of therh had finished talking, u took my phone from Cisco with the video call still running “Cisco, why don’t you stay here and watch paw patrol, I want to show aunty Lyra my room” I said, Francisco nodded his head and made an okay sign at me, a serious and promising look on his face. I walked into my room, still on the phone with Lyra. Immediately, I closed the door and looked at Lyra seriously. “Now Lyra tell me the truth, how is my father?” I asked with a serious look on my face. Lyra waved her hands and looked at me. “I said he is taking a nap,he just came back from the pack patrol and he wanted to have some rest” sfe said again. She was lying, my father was never one to take naps and when I had spoken with him last week, he had informed me that ever since Kaiden had taken over the pack, he had stopped going on patrols with the enforcers since it was no longer his duty. I stared intently at Lyra, noticing that she was looking everywhere but not my face andi solidified my assumptions immediately. Lyra was lying to me about my father,fear gripped me instantly and I called her fiercely “Lyra! I’m not Cisco who would believe everything you spot out from your mouth now can you tell me what happened to my father?” I asked in a serious voice. Lyra paused for some time before saying “Your father is seriously ill Freda, he relapsed and I don’t think he is going to recover from this one” she said and I felt my world still.

“His old illness relapsed? But how…he was fine just a week. ago…” I stuttered in panic. “It came so suddenly and brought him down,the pack doctors said they can’t do anything…he’s on his last sprint Freda you need to see him” Lyra said, at the end of her statement, her voice was cracking and tears rolled down her cheeks. My mind went back to when I was a kid, the time I thought that I would have lost my father. It was after a rogue attack and my father had been viciously wounded by a rogue, it was found out late and by then the venom had already circulated throughout his body. The doctors were able to manage him and he miraculously woke up and became fine so hearing that he had relapsed was a huge shock to me. I cleaned my tears quickly and rushed out of my room, heading towards Francisco whomwas watching cartoons in the sitting room. “What’s wrong mummy?” He asked with worried eyes. “We need to leave Cisco, let’s go see Grandpa, he misses us”