Alexa's POV

The taxi stops by the side of the road, just by 7 Scent Avenue. I pull out my luggage from the boot of the car, raising my eyes up to see the beautiful house. I was told by the manager of the agency I work for that this belonged to just one family.

Coming from the Beline Pack to the Avelon Pack is quite an uneasy task with the heavy traffic on the road and not-so-good roads at some spots. On my own, I would love to stay and work in my Pack but I had no choice when I was selected for the role of being a nanny to the baby of seven baby daddies. I suppose they had a mate and perhaps something happened to her.

Even if nothing would scream luxury, the pay alone being eight thousand dollars a week is enough to tell me that it's a wealthy family, so being chosen for this job is a privilege. I needed at least two hundred thousand dollars for my brain tumor surgery. I'd only have two years left and a possible chance of survival should I undertake this surgery. This made me jump right into accepting the moment my boss assigned me to his role. I didn't care where I was being taken to, all I needed was money. As I approach the address given to me, my attention drifts towards the identity of these baby daddies. I haven't been curious like this before.

I was asked by my manager to dress officially, so I put on a Royal blue fitting gown reaching up to my knees and a pair of black heel shoes. My hair is straightened, falling to the back, just above my ass. I applied a little make-up on my face to make me glow, I didn't want to look seductive being that I'm going for work and there's still a chance of getting rejected by the clients even after being selected by the agency I work for. This made me so cautious, I'm working to fight for my life. I can't be careless.

Aside from my luggage, I have my black handbag with me, typical of a young twenty-three year old nanny like me.

"You need to look confident, put up a slight smile when you meet them and show yourself capable, lest you would be returned even after successfully passing to have met the eligibility criteria." I remember these words my manager said to me before I began my journey.

“Glitz Care is a top care agency which supplies the best nannies to families all over the world, so you must represent our brand well.” These words never leave my head. I memorize them as I take a walk to the said address.

I was told to reach by 8 AM, so I left my pack by 6 AM. Peering over my watch, it's 7:40 AM. I'm a few minutes early.

I brace up, taking a deep breath as I walk in through the entrance door of this huge estate just located by the side of the road. My mind begins to recreate Ava's advice of how I should behave.

I walk towards the reception to introduce myself as the new nanny, perhaps there's a permit to get. I take this to consideration, it could be one of those things observed.

I met with a young lady, supposed to be in her early thirties. She's dressed in white shirt and a fitting black skirt. I can't see her shoes since she's behind the desk but I guess she would put on a black heel.

"Good morning, Alexa."

I widen my eyes slightly as she mentions my name. She smiles, observing my expression. "I know you're quite surprised how I know your name but since you were accepted, your resume has been with us even with the Alphas you would be working with--"

My eyes flared open, it hit her too at this moment. The identity of the family is being kept a secret until you meet them.

My brows arch and I pull my face closer with my gaze fixed on her. "But which Alphas?" My lips hang open as I continue to stare at her.

Did I just hear Alphas?

Seven Alphas?

All I had in mind was an ordinary family not some fucking Alphas. I know it seems as though I'm already rejecting the job but everyone knows how Alphas can be possessive, arrogant and cold, especially to Omegas like me. She shakes her head as a slight grin escapes from her lips while she taps on her system.

"I'm not expected to tell you. You're here, so you'll know. That was just a slip of the tongue."

I quickly pull out my phone, tapping on Google. Then I type in Alphas of the Avelon Pack. I didn't really care much to research about this pack, in fact nothing about it concerned me except for the fact that my celebrity crush belonged here.

Dustin Bennett is a famous leader of the pop boys band, 7Rocks, as pertaining to the fact of being seven in number. I'd always had a crush on him right from high school and some day wished to marry him, I researched and found out he has six identical brothers of which he was the second.

Whatever controversy about him, as some people claim he's transgender doesn't apply to me. In the werewolf world, there are no scientific means to change one's gender. It must have been a cause of rebirth or evolution as the moon goddess might have wished for him. No one really knew much about his history and his brothers outside of the Avelon Pack. I would say this is one pack that is the most secretive in the world.

For a second, it seems thoughts had taken my mind away but like a film fading off my eyes, my sight drops back on the screen of my phone. Seven gorgeous men line up on my screen. My jaw drops the moment I realize they all share the same face as my pop idol.

I slowly lift my eyes to the receptionist in front of me, then back to the screen. Then suddenly, my wolf turned into a deep, overpowering aura which completely filled the whole space. It was like being in the middle of nowhere the moment the atmosphere changed. A sweet, charming scent filled into my nostrils, Alphas often have this strong, alluring scent but this wasn't just alluring, it took my mind back to five years ago. Then my baby was taken away from me and that's the last time I ever heard of her.

I drop my face on my palms, shaking my head. I'm tormented by this scent but I quickly realize I'm here for a job, I didn't have to let emotions from the past set control over me. I have time to grieve about this later on in private.

"Oh! You're here? Turn around, let me see you!" A strong, commanding voice looms in the air. My muscles are stiff.

Slowly I turn around, keeping my face mid-air, I can't hold it high to avoid looking directly into the face of one of my new bosses which I suppose.

“Look up!”

My eyes formed an image of an agile, muscular man standing on the stairs. I let some air into my mouth in a rush. “Don't get me repeating myself.” I hear him speak, this time the sound is so cold and distant. I can't help but be open as against the ethics of not looking face to face at an Alpha. My lips fumble and I feel my legs begin to tremble.

“Avelon Pack has seven Alphas. This must be my crush speaking.” I tell myself, my wolf leaps in excitement. She always reacts each time I have fond thoughts about Dustin. Since my baby was taken away from me by force prior to the order of the Alpha of my pack, I never had any liking for a man, I just saw all of them as being the same. An Alpha was a no-go area in terms of matters of the heart for me.

Well Dustin was the only exception, the reason I'm feeling tingles in my stomach right now.

My eyes meet with its greatest shock upon raising my eyes to see a young, hot and charming man with a sleeveless fan-support Jersey of Rockstar, the VIP version of his.

“Wooh!” My lips pull slowly apart as I raise my hand to cover my lips. My eyes blinked several times in reflex.

“This must be him!”

Butterflies dance in my stomach as I stare at him, my luggage handle slowly falling from my hand. He's sure to be in his mid-twenties but with a mature face, his charming blue eyes looking at me like the ocean waves coming to capture me. The hairs on his head are short and curly, some falling over the side of his face. My eyes run from his face to his body, his abs strain against the fitting blue Jersey he wears, his arms strong and curvy like the work of an artist fully exposed since he's wearing a sleeveless.

My eyes rush over to his lower part, he stands like the ever-agile hero ready to rescue his princess. He has a pair of black trousers and black palms on his feet. My eyes returned to his face upon this sightseeing.

I immediately courtesy after realizing myself and that this should probably be one of the Alphas. I let out a slight smile as I was told.

“Are you from the village?” He asks somewhat sternly.

“Huh?” His eyes cascades down on me with a terrible look. First of all I'm confused with his question. “What do you me-”

“Oooh!”

"Good morning, Alpha--" I stammer, remembering that greeting is supposed to be the first before curtseying. I clear my throat in an effort to ease my mistake.

"Good morning, Alpha." I greet again as he didn't reply to my first. His eyes are still stern with his lips twitched.

I watch as he steps from the stairs down to where I stand, his strong, manly scent overpowering me. His charming blue eyes come up stronger and more dominant. I fight hard to maintain a gaze with him, this being one of the confidence etiquette. My mind ripples with worry as I watch him staring at me with curiosity laced with a frown.

I begin to wonder what I did wrong. My eyes blink in reflex as I continue to stare at him. As the stare got too long, I began to hope for the worst. But Dennis isn't like this on the TV, he's so cool and friendly, always chatting and joking with fans. I'm now kinda forcing myself to believe that some celebrities aren't who they are on TV.

"Well, I can't blame myself if he doesn't like me and sends me back but with this feeling rippling in my chest. Why's my wolf getting all excited upon the harsh treatment." This is a question I have to ask myself because since he came into this hall, even though I didn't see him walking in, my wolf and heart seems to go awol. It's going crazy without my permission.

"Not everyone likes you, and it's perfect that way." I say to myself.

"Who told you I'm an Alpha?" My heart drops, I turn my head slowly towards the receptionist, her gaze falls.

"It was a slip of the tongue sir," she mutters.

"I've said time without number, do not get to reveal our identities but since I don't like her, she would be going." This he says as the receptionist is about to pass my new ID to me. My brows arch up, my legs vibrate as I hear this. The receptionist's hand remained in mid-air with the ID she wanted passing to me.

He gently shoves her hand away from me.

"The ID can only be given if you are accepted by us!" He says straight into my face and walks off with one hand in his trouser pocket.

I stand here, quite confused, trailing my eyes to whichever direction he's going. I don't know what to do right now, my heart at this moment wants to fail me. So far this would have been the only job to raise such an amount of money for my surgery. I wouldn't just leave, my life is in danger.

"What about the rest? How can he alone, the person I loved so much in the world and was dying to meet, be so rude?" I ask.

“And let me tell you,” I hear his voice from a distance which I swiftly turn around to. “Fuck whatever it is I'm really right inside of me for you, I can never have a mate like you. I'm sure my brothers wouldn't want you.”

“What!” My lips hang loose, not returning back again. Did he just mean he feels this way too? I puff out a deep breath, bending, feeling really exhausted and confused.

“What am I gonna do now?” I lift my face to the receptionist who's staring at me with pity.

DUSTIN

Her image continues to reflect in my mind as I walk off. I never wanted a woman who would come in and make my heart race, Louise doesn't need such a nanny. My brothers and I don't need a woman we will be tempted to have an affair with. One of the greatest mistakes I made was by not specifying the age range. Perhaps an older woman from forty years would've been better.

My brothers and I made a promise to our late mate that we would never give our heart to another woman after her death. This is what the pack members know but the secret is we don't want to endanger any woman that would decide to step in to be our next mate. She's sure to be killed by our first mate who is a Phoenix Vampire, prior to her dangerous nature we laid her down but her spirit still hovers in the estate. Once she detects we have someone else, she would definitely come for the person.

We specified that it would take a very long time before we bring another woman into our hearts but still we won't love her as we loved her. This was to calm her spirit before ending her life. We told our pack members and even our daughter that Lucy got diagnosed with cancer last year and died within that same year. She had Ovarian cancer which made it difficult for her to conceive but it was her endless dream to raise a baby with us. We went extreme to the point of adopting a baby from a foreign pack, a baby from a mother who wasn't capable of raising her child to make everyone believe. In this aspect, we could justify our action. She's a vampire and a cold breed one whose eggs were frozen, she couldn't bear a child.

As for the real mother of our baby girl, according to information from the hospital she gave birth at, she got impregnated after a one-night stand at a five-star club where she went to find a partner. The father of the child must be some wealthy bastard who knew how best to fuck a lady without protection, making her risk a pregnancy and eventually pulling her to suffer all alone.

Austin, Justin, Aaron, Baron, Cameron, Sharon and I loved Lucy so much, she was our only mate and at times I sit to think and conclude that it's a curse from the moon goddess. How can we be fated to a hundred year old vampire who was the woman our dad dated in his lifetime without knowing who she truly was until years later after marrying her.

We brought a curse directly on ourselves by taking in our dad's woman, even though she wasn't the one he later married but so far as they once dated, the curse of the moon goddess descended on us. I've never seen the moon goddess as unfair before, but I'm forced to say so here. With this curse, any other mate we would later have wouldn't stay to give us a pup, she will die.

If Lucy, originally Alexia, was a werewolf like us, I would say she died from the curse. Well, no one really knows what the issue is, or whether it's just fate. We choose to keep it a secret from everyone.

I shake my head to clear off this thought, each time I think of this, my wolf gets so weakened, he'd loved Lucy so much and now she's no more. Seeing Alexa, the new nanny trying to take my heart from my beloved wife and mate, I find myself slowly beginning to hate her.

I initially wanted to pick some document from the drawing room but seeing Alexa, I need to return as quickly as I can to talk to my brothers. This is just a mysterious fate, why will she bear a similar name with our first mate, as well as exert a deep sense of bond with me.

Something must be wrong somewhere!

I rush to the living room where we sat, waiting for Alexa's arrival before I left. I know Austin really well, after waiting for a while and not seeing Alexa, she would want to come down. When he comes down and sets eyes on Alexa, there's no way he won't want her. He loves women and then he will be able to convince the rest into accepting her.

I just guess I'm the one who loved Lucy more.

"Heyyy guys," I call out as usual. "Alexa is here but I just caught gossiping about us with Maurin, trying to get some information about us which is strictly prohibited." I lied. This should be like a second reason to reject her, I just decide to hide my main reason. I can't let her risk her life just to serve us. She might not understand me here but sure, I know what I'm saying. It's this first before we talk of her wanting to derive information about us from Maurin, our life and our fate ought to be a secret, if I let her in, she might go on to know more than what she deserves to know, even before the right time to know it. I also have to consider this.

"I've sent her away, I don't want a nanny with such personality. She might end up putting us in trouble." We need someone who's able to stick to the rules strictly.

Austin, Justin and I are celebrity actor, athlete and pop idol respectively. Coming to Aaron, Baron, Cameron and Sharon, they are public figures as well who ought to avoid scandals as much as possible.

Aaron is a celebrity author with millions of fans worldwide, Baron, a senator at the National Assembly, Cameron, a top model and our last born, Sharon who is a rocky cop. He looked most hot especially in his black and black uniform, always getting girls to throw themselves voluntarily at him during duty and off duty for an unwarranted arrest.

With this, we needed privacy, probably why we decided to keep our personal information from foreign packs.

Louise, our five year old daughter comes out of the inner room running towards us. I watch who she's going to meet among the seven of us. My heart was beating heavily, I feel like I'm in a competition with my brothers to gain Louise’ attention all the time.

"Daddy, who's that? My new nanny?" I gasp, pulling out a loud noise upon seeing her running up to me. It's evident, I'm her favorite dad.

"Yes baby, but she's not the right person for you." I didn't know she was eavesdropping on us. Nanny talks so far have been what had driven her interest so deep. After her mom's death, we'd always hired contract nannies from local agencies to take care of her. It seemed she didn't like them enough, so this time around we decided to bring a professional nanny with years of experience.

"Whyy?" She asks as she climbs on top of my laps. Justin who's sitting on the same couch with Austin reaches out to grab her hand. I pout my lips, folding my arms across my chest, turning to the back and back towards her, trying to figure out what best answer I should give her.

"She talks too much!" I let my tongue slip with this, out of the hatred I've incur for her without even thinking much. I blink my eyes in curiosity as I wait for Louise' reaction to this. I feel I made a mistake, I should've said something better.

"I like her!" I flare my eyes. Then I narrow it, wondering if she knows what she wants. "I want someone who will talk and play with me. Other nannies I had were too strict."

Before I get to respond to her, she's up from my laps and is running out of the room.

"Heyy, Louise. Wait!" I begin to chase after her but she's running at a fast speed. I believe she's a born athlete and might possibly take over from Justin. Besides we didn't even know what next she was up to.

"Hey wait! Daddy doesn't want you to go meet her now!" I shout after her, being the dad she loves most, I thought she's going to listen but she doesn't.

I stamp my feet in anger, still directed towards Alexa. Louise isn't stubborn this way, I get curious as to why she defied our calls to go see Alexa. What's so special about this lady that since she walked in, my wolf got excited. Now Louise is so eager to see her like there's some invisible force following her.

"We need to get that woman out of here as soon as possible. I perceive she has a bad influence, even on Louise who hasn't seen her before." I stress out to my brothers who follow me out of the living room to catch up with our daughter.

When we climb down the stairs, Louise is already heading through the entrance door. My heart seizes knowing next to our mansion is the road. I can't afford to lose her after losing her mother and our mate last year.

My eyes scanned over to Maurin's place behind the desk, her head was over the desk. Anger ripples in my chest.

"Why are you sleeping by this time when you're supposed to be awake?" I lash at her with my loud voice and a loud hit on the desk which forces her awake and really panting. I gesture to my brothers to go after Louise, I want to deal with this woman here who has let Alexa's influence catch her.

"Oh God, sir! I'm so sorry, Alpha." She stammers. She gets confused not knowing what to do.

"You're fired! Pack your things and go." I say, pointing to the door. "Our daughter just ran past here through the door to the road. What if something happens to her on the road and you're here sleeping, meanwhile you could have stopped her from going through if you were awake!" I say in between gnashing teeth, balling my fingers.

My anger still links to Alexa, I feel she's the cause of all this mishap. Maurin has never slept off at work before, talk less of this early morning, something must be wrong. I can't help but to let her go. If she wishes, when she has learnt her lesson, she can return to another job.

With this, I rush outside. My heart stops beating as I see Alexa holding Louise so high in the air and then clutching her so tight to her chest. My eyes trail over to my brothers, who stare at the scene with so much shock. My eyes slowly open to the truth, something I'd not noticed before now.

“Why do they look so similar?” Sharon, our last born who is claimed to be smartest asks.

“Could it be what I'm thinking?” Austin, our eldest, pokes his eyes out, freezing to the spot he stands. Tension ripples in my chest as I take a deeper look between Alexa and Louise.

“Goddess! This cannot be possible!”

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Alexa’s POV

“Heyy, nanny. Hello!”

I heard a little girl's voice pull up behind me. I'd left the estate already but still praying deep inside of me for something to happen which will take my back. I couldn't afford to miss two great opportunities, working with my celebrity crush and raising funds for my surgery as well. Without having a health challenge, I'd still love to do this job.

I had to imagine how hard it must have been for seven dads to raise a child. No matter how many they were, the child still needed maternal care. Probably, this sensitive nature was aroused particularly after I'd lost my baby in adoption. I felt my breath going away for me as she was being taken off me but yet I couldn't take care of her either, I was helpless myself, without parents or support from anyone.

I was eighteen then, just graduated from college and was looking for some rich, handsome guy to mingle with, someone who would foot my bills. This probably led me into gathering the little money I had to attend a luxury dinner party at an exquisite bar with the hope of landing with a wealthy guy. This was the greatest mistake I made, I only landed with an unplanned pregnancy.

Right after losing my baby, the only soul I had on earth to comfort me, I realized I'd made a great mistake, worse than engaging in a one-night stand. I was determined to find her as far as she lives on this earth, no matter what it took me.

Well, nobody knows but this was my secret reason for enrolling in a Nanny Care Agency, a prestigious one. Thank God I passed my tests and became one of the best nannies over the years. In each family I went to look after the kid, I dreamt of seeing my baby. There's no way I wouldn't know her if I saw her.

So when I heard this little voice call me, I stopped, turning around slowly. “Maybe God wants to use her to call me back,” I say inside of me. My eyes lowers slowly to look at her.

I stumble backward, nearly falling if not that I take a good stance. My eyes blink up and down as I gaze at her. “Am I dreaming?” What? She looks so much like me, could this be a coincidence of what I just had in mind or she's–

My daughter?

My eyes nearly falls out of their sockets seeing this cute little girl with the same face as me. When my daughter was taken away from me, her adopters represented by their legal delegates didn't let me have any information of where they will be taking her to or who she will be with. I was only told she's wanted in a foreign elite family who can't make a kid. Foreign because they didn't want an after connection between my daughter and I, the parent, later on in the future so they took her somewhere so far away.

“Why do I look so much like you?” The little girl mutters, looking up at me with pretty, dull eyes. My lips are wide open as I stare at her without being able to provide her with an answer. She just said exactly what I was about to ask.

It's at this point, I see seven hot men, all identical, same height and faces, muscular, hot and sexy stepping out of the estate. I pull the little girl into my arms, holding her so tight.

Gosh!

Here is another mighty distraction. My eyes settle on them without being able to lift off them. I feel ripples in my stomach, my eyes start to go blur like some white film is settling over it. My legs tremble and I feel some sweat in my palms.

“Who are these?” I mutter, asking the little girl.

“They are my daddies. Seven Alphas raised me up after the death of my mom. That's why I'm asking "why do I look so much like you?” She repeats her question but still I wonder what to tell her, even I, myself, am confused. What then can I say? So for the second time, I'm pretending as though I didn't hear her ask this.

“What's your name?” I choose to bring up another question to take off the pressure from thinking about this.

“Louise.”

“Louise? Woww!” I smile.

“What a lovely name.” I try to cheer her up, acting happy but only I know what I'm feeling inside. As the confusion in me heightens, the seven Alphas are coming closer. It hits me deep to realize that they all have the same scent. My wolf, which has always been calm, immediately leaps up, growling so loud that I can feel my lungs vibrating, my heartbeat triples. My head and mind at this moment seems to be clouded with a white film as they walk closer. Slowly I feel sparks rolling over me, tingles climbing up with the riot of the hormones inside of me.

“What's really going on?”

“Mates! Mates!! Mates!!!”

I hear my wolf leap and screaming, I stamp my feet on the ground, refusing to accept this. All my life, especially after I was abandoned after my one-night stand, which is often so, I yearned for a fated mate who would love me and care for me, well I also knew it's so hard seeing one as a single mother. Even after I gave my daughter up for adoption, I thought I'll find one shielding this part of my life from the public and pretending to be a single young woman, yet I found no one.

I need one man, not seven Alphas. How can all these cute, charming, sexy young men be mates with such a lowly girl as I? I'm sure the moon goddess made a pretty big mistake by doing this.

“Come on, these are Alphas and one of them is an idol. Why will they even look at me twice?” I question my wolf. Or is it my wolf that's making this mistake.

“But they are looking at you?” My wolf retorts. I swallow the lump in my throat.

“What do you mean?”

As I look straight for the first time into the Alphas’ eyes, I realize they are doing the same to me right now. Gosh!

“Good morning, Alphas.” I force a smile, bowing in respect. The environment isn't conducive especially with this set of bosses I'm seeing, commanding and possessive but I really need this job, I wish to work for my celebrity idol, even if it's for free. This little girl here is a new mystery I've been saddled to uncover.

How can I leave now?

I now have a thousand and one reasons to stay and accept this job. Louise, first of all, my health and then Dustin, my celebrity crush whom I only wished to meet but never really thought of meeting.

“Who are you?” One of them emerges, coming closer than others. His eyes did scan me all round, I feel with his look he has already investigated about me and carried out all the necessary checks. He pulls his nose up, sniffing the air.

“Why am I feeling so tense?” He smirks, his tone being filled with a bit of mockery. In addition, he's stern and seems wicked. I gulp down saliva. I wanted to respond to him but I can't. My lips fumble but I don't say a word.

If looks could kill, I would probably die at this moment.

“Hey young woman,” he continues. “Don't joke with me lest I arrest you. I'm a police officer and you have no right to lie before an officer of the law.” I shiver as he walks even closer. My eyes are shaking in their sockets. I can't grab Louise as firmly as before.

“If you don't tell us the truth, I'll propose a new law at the Senate against you-” I turn to check out the one who's saying this. He doesn't show any difference from them. I want to know their names. I just want to memorize their names, I wish I could. I can't just address them all as Alpha since the particular one I'm referring to wouldn't get it, except I look too deep. I'm not ready to stare at them this way but yet, the next moment my eyes land with theirs, the gaze becomes even more overpowering.

“Baron, leave her to me. This isn't the senate.” The officer snaps.

It's at this point my crush walks forward with a rock-hard face. “I'll handle her.” He says to his brothers. My mind starts to form dirty thoughts being that one guy I'd always crushed on.

“Why is my wolf feeling so excited seeing you when I hate low class women like you?” He asks in a deep, cold voice filled with sarcasm. As I keep mute, not replying, he growls, making me quiver.

“Stop talking to mama like that.” Louise protests.

“What?” I gasp, raising my eyes up, wishing the Alphas didn't just hear that but they did. My heart nearly stopped hearing this little girl say this to Dustin. I take a deep breath, falling my shoulders.

They all eye me suspiciously, not saying a word. The next moment they are whispering among themselves, except Dustin who's right here in front of me. My breath goes heavier as seconds pass. This moment of silence leaves me wondering what my next fate will be, will they reject me or accept me?

“Hmm,” Dustin sighs. “Why do you look so similar like Louise?”

“No, there's something fishy somewhere. I wouldn't take you.” He shakes his head, throwing off a consulting gaze with his brothers. There's a frightening air of silence. Suspense overshadows me as I stand here, being drifted between wanting to take the job for my health and refusing because of these cold, possessive seven Alphas whom my wolf says I'm mates with.

My hands snap off Louise, I stumble back as my legs shake.

“What's wrong?” She asks. I shake my head, waving my hand.

“Nothing!” I mutter.

“Why don't you want to take her? I like her dad.” Louise protests.

“We can't take someone who has a similar face to you to avoid fan criticism. We are celebrities, you know that right? We don't want some scandal talks.”

“You mean she's likely to be my mom?” Louise raises a voice of concern.

“If so, who cares! You must take her!” She lashes back at Dustin.

“No darling,” I squat, grabbing her shoulders. “You don't talk to dad that way, whether I'm accepted or rejected, just that I really needed this job to save my life.”

“What? What do you mean?” Louise comes closer, staring deep into my eyes with curiosity.

I sighed, reluctant to say this but there's this strong force that keeps pulling me to say it. I really like Louise so much that I feel I can't just hide anything from her.

“You like me, right mama?”

“Why do you keep calling me mama?” I ask.

“Because you look so much like me.”

I blush, brushing her face with my fingers. My eyes get teary at the moment. Before saying this, I lift my eyes towards Dustin and his six brothers, they all have their eyes pointed at me. I feel probably they didn't really hate me that much but something stops them from accepting me right away.

“Well, I have a brain tumor and I agreed to do this job to raise money for my surgery. I have only two years left.” I swallow hard, trying to stop the tears from coming out of my eyes.

“Huh?” I hear as they all chorus in unison, coming closer. Their brows lowers as they stare at me curiously.

“Maybe we don't need to let her die after all?”

“Cameron, you can't say that? How do we know if she's lying or not, she must be lying. Look! She looks so healthy and no top agency will hire a sick person and send her overseas for work. She must have undergone her medicals. She's probably lying to get her way in.”

I ball my fist, rising up in anger. “I thought you were so kind and loving as the media did show you but all that I realize, you're just the most cool, arrogant and sarcastic person I've ever met.” I lash at him, not caring about what he'd do to me.

Grabbing my luggage, I pat Louise on the head. “I love you so much and wish I could stay to know more about you but I can't cope with your dad. Well, we'll meet again someday, if not here, beyond the skies.”

My lips pull out into a sad smile, with my teary eyes, I turn around about to walk off but two hands grab me suddenly, on either side.

“Don't go!”

What? Did I just hear Dustin say this?

AUSTIN

We stand to wonder, wondering what's going on. Where did Louise and Alexa meet? These two seem to have a great connection, from the way Alexa is looking at her and the way Louise is defending her, she has never done this for her previous nannies.

“Could they really be mother and daughter?” This is the first question that comes to my mind. Alexa is from Beline Pack while we reside here in Avelon Pack. Louise was adopted from Alexa's pack.

I walk up to Dustin and place my mouth close to his ear. “Let her stay so we can take both of their DNAs to verify.”

“What will we do even if we discover she's the mother, remember we went so far away to adopt a baby so we would never come in contact with the mother years later.”

I sigh, shaking my head. “Tell me, you have feelings for her. We all do. Seems there's something special about her, she's our second chance mate.”

“Huh?” Dustin gasps, blinking his eyes several times. His jaw drops, then he shakes his head. “No, no, no.”

“Stop lying! You like her.” I say it out aloud, he becomes speechless, I dislike the way he keeps on denying what he truly feels. It's his lifestyle but here it proves even more annoying. He sees no need for Alexa to stay but still he's the one that grabbed her as she was about to go.

As I say this, my brothers who are standing behind us folds their lips, trying hard to compose and keep a serious face. “And y’all, you wanna deny this feeling too?”

“Which feelings?” Cameron asks with a mischievous look.

“Don't mind him. He likes women so much and thinks we all are like him.” Dustin defends. I just smirk, wondering how long they are going to play with fate.

I immediately withdraw from Dustin seeing he isn't saying anything but just gazing at me with both hands in his pocket. Alexa turns as I walk up to her. Our eyes meet and my wolf seems to jump up in excitement, growling. I look down on myself, then back to her and my brothers.

"Who are you?" I mutter. "Why do you tend to have much effect over everything? How did you know Louise?" My mind worked out all these questions and it gets to be released at once.

Justin walks closer to us, staring at her with darkened eyes. Usually nothing interests him but seeing him look so intensely at Alexa, something is certainly going on in his heart.

"I have nothing to say about my life or who I am as I'm not getting to work with you guys," she says, staring at us boldly in the face while dropping Louise who's still clinging to her.

"How did you know her?" I ask Louise.

"My wolf feels so attached to her, I sense she's my birth mom.”

“Come on, you can't say what you aren't sure of. What makes you think that?” I scold her.

“Because I feel it.” She retorts with confidence, glaring directly into my eyes.

While talking with Louise, Alexa searches her luggage which she'd already opened. I wasn't so interested in what she was up to until she taps on me.

“Anywhere since you don't believe this. Take it!”

In her hand was a medical report, two as I look closer. My brothers rush closer, gathering around to take a closer look at it. I peer into it suspiciously, feeling she really wants to prove herself and work with us.

The first happens to be the result of Louise’ DNA and more details about her, exactly like the one we have ourselves. Our lips drift far apart as we turn to look at each other.

“Give me this! This can't be true.” Dustin snatches the first paper from my hands revealing the second which was a scan result, with the picture of the brain tumor captured.

Gosh!

I raise my index fingers to my lips, I raise my head to look at Alexa. In my eyes, she now appears like a pretty yet helpless maiden who needed help from us.

“I can't believe this!” Dustin mutters. Deep within me, I know this is out of shock rather than doubt. In fact none of us expected this, to meet with the real mother of our kid again.

"I can't believe we actually found her!" Justin rushes forward to hug her but she stops him.

"Wait!!"

I freeze on the spot. I've never found such a woman with great confidence who can look us straight in the eyes and refuse us. I can't really believe she stopped me before hugging her.

Dustin walks towards us, for a while he's been standing at a distance observing us. He holds a smirk on his face as his arms are still crossed over his chest.

“And you're showing this to us?”

What the hell! Why does Dustin keep being so stubborn, he can't even admit his feelings or keep his mouth shut. Right now, I feel like knocking that head off but he wouldn't take it seriously rather than me flirting.

“Don't you see me proving myself as begging you to give me this job. My integrity is my dignity and I wouldn't submit it to a mannerless Alpha like you. Worse than an enemy!”

"You sure know who you're talking to, right?" He targets Alexa who raises her eyes at him.

"Sure, I know and I don't care because I'm going!"

“I'm not ready to deal with your manners,” I hear her generalizing. “I only wanted to work here initially after I discovered that my celebrity crush is one of the seven. Little did I know you're worse than the devil's son!” She barks at him, rolling his eyes on him.

"Hmm," Dustin scoffs. "Am Omega like you showing us pride?"

“You, in particular!” She lashes back. “I mean you don't even have sympathy even af-” Her voice trails off and she starts to cough. I thought maybe it's something light but it persists, I drop the second file with Baron who's beside me, rushing over to the reception. Getting a bottle of water, no rush back, opening it and handing it over to her. She gulps it down, taking a heavy breath as she's done. Her eyes stare down at the water, then to me, she sighs.

“Thanks.” She hands the bottle with the remaining water back to me, what captures me more becomes her eyes as she steadies mine with a feel of profound gratitude. She nods her head gently, I just don't know what this means, probably she's touched by my kind gesture to her.

"Thanks once again for your kind gesture,” she bows, returning back to Dustin. “You’re the one showing too much pride here and I detest it. I'm done here, I don't have anything to do with where you are."

She gently pulls Alexa's hands off her body, arranging herself and gripping her handbag with her phone on the right and her luggage on the left, she proceeds to walk away.

"Mama!!!"

I hear Louise shout.

Alexa turns one last time, not looking at any of us but our daughter alone, waving to her with a smile.

"I might never see you again but take care of yourself baby, know that mama loves you!" Hearing her say this and with the way my wolf seems to go off me, I rush to her, swiftly turning in front of her and falling to my knees just before her. She looks confused with a gasp, turning to check on my brothers.

“I don't want you to leave. Stay with us!” I say, grabbing both of her hands.

“We don't want you to leave, at least you'll be a good nanny to Louise!” Cameron joins in.

“Yes, at least for your tumor surgery.” Baron says.

Dustin maintains his stance, speechless and looking at us all. He has his arms crossed over his chest.

My eyes darken in regret and deep desire. "I want you here with us, to take care of our daughter. See she really loves you--" I stammer, not knowing what further to say to her as her eyes are already firm with resolve to leave. I feel like a part of me which I'd always wanted for years now is going to depart once she leaves and there's no other chance of a true mate for us again. We had the first and now, the second which is her.

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Alexa's POV

My body shakes and all the veins in my body trembles as Austin kneels right in front of me. As an Omega, this isn't supposed to happen. In his eyes shines affection and compassion, unlike Dustin who still remains stiff and arrogant, probably i'll switch my favorite Alpha to Austin and keep Dustin as the last. I can't really tell more about the rest but if I get to work with them, with time I'm supposed to know all of their characters.

Dustin walks up in front of me, still folding his arms before me. He releases a smirk. I give him a deep, hard stare. I'm not going to be soft with him in any way.

"What about you giving us three days and if we can't satisfy you, then you leave?" Austin asks in a deep and rich, seductive voice, ignoring his brother. My eyes look deep into his soul, I smirk.

"Who's talking about sex with you?" I think in my mind. "Do you just want to kill me with that?" I say it out loud. I take my chance to look at them again, seven tall, very handsome, charming and agile young men full of muscles and energy. I imagine myself falling into a trap of them all wanting sex at the same time from me.

"I'm here to work and take care of my daughter, not to be your mate in any way.” I breathe out. "I already have a lot going on in my life. I can't cope with seven seductive Alphas so as not to add to the stress." I say with boldness.

Austin, the one whom I've come to realize as the most jovial among them, rises up, resting both of his hands on my shoulders, staring deep into my eyes. I feel he can see into the window of my soul. My wolf leaps up in excitement having him too close with his brothers and gazing at me.

"Do you feel it?" He brings his face closer to me, just a little bit and our lips would be touching. Already feeling the throbbing heat under my core. I drop my handbag and the handle of my luggage as his face keeps coming closer, my eyes closing slowly. I'm getting swallowed up under the energy of his influence, I feel that his brothers are joining too and adding up to what really seems like a mate bond.

My breathing increases, I'm panting. Just as his lips are about to touch mine, I break up, panting heavily. The intense pressure was getting too much and I don't want to be seen as succumbing too early. My mind goes directly to Louise.

"Did they just allow Louise to watch this sort of adult thing?" I question myself, when I set my eyes on her with Justin who was kneeling, now on his feet covering her eyes. I grin, nodding my head in satisfaction.

“We will ease your stress and treat you well!” Austin promises. Though I made up my mind to walk away, I find myself now drawing back to them, to this bond that's pulling us together.

So I decide to follow them to their mansion, passing through the reception, I see the young woman who was answering my questions packing her things. I stop, my brows narrows.

“Why are you leaving so early?" I ask. She raises her eyes pointing them at Dustin. We all turn, looking at him. He must have done something outrageous again. I ball my fist, twisting my lips.

Is this even the kind of person I fell for?

She doesn't say a word but rolls her luggage out of the reception ground. I stood for a while watching her. The other six Alphas stare at their brother with curiosity.

"What did you do?" They ask him.

"Let her go!" This, he responds, gesturing to us to move on.

When later I arrive at the reception floor thinking I have someone to talk to, I realize that person is gone and somehow she seems to have been angry with me. I try to reason out what she or I could have said which ended her in trouble.

“Hmm,” I sigh, not being able to say anything.

I got shown to my room by a different Alpha, one of them whom I haven't spoken to yet. I mutter a Thank you as I settle in, before he walks away. Then I shut my door, falling on the bed and sighing so loud.

“Such crazy, hot bastards!” I puff.

I know that Alphas are often cold, commanding and possessive but I didn't expect them to be this extreme. Must I cry and beg before they help me with this job? They certainly know I'm saying the truth about my tumor but they still let Dustin say trash.

I'm literally gonna spend the first three days mostly in my room without going out. I don't wanna meet them. Louise often comes into my room whenever she needs care and attention, at other times I'll go to our room. Austin turns out to be the one giving me orders on what is needed at a certain time.

As I have nothing to do, I lie in my room which almost feels like being in a semi-paradise, on the same floor with the seven dads and opposite Louise.

My heart can't stop thinking about them in fond and hate, both battling with each other, even as it seems I get into a trance trying to sleep for the little free hours I have to rest.

I rise from the bed, deciding to stroll around a bit, so I head to the living room. A piece of paper on the table captures my sight, I rush to have a look.

"It seems you have nothing really to do today!" It's a written note on the table of the living room, one of the Alphas must have written this.

“I'm not doing anything today, so what?” I lash back at whoever must have written this. “What do you expect me to do then, flirt with you?” I scoff, dropping the paper back. I look around, sniffing the air to see if anyone is home, I'm not actually sending anyone. I hold my chest realizing I'm the only one in the entire mansion. I want to wonder how the seven Alphas evade not feeling alone having to live here alone, how will they feel lonely when they are seven with a little daughter?

I suppose the workers here, like cleaning staff properly, have their own quarters faraway, because I don't see anyone around this side.

I turn the back of the paper, luckily a number is written. I pull out my phone quickly and dial the number. I wonder which of them is this. Well, I just need to call.