Tasting All My Mates by Alexis Dee

373-We Meet For The First Time

Author's POV:

Years Ago:

"Where are we going, daddy?" Enya asked her father as he took a car to go visit a graveyard.

"We are going to pray for someone," Alaric said, his eyes on the road with big tears in them.

"Why didn't mommy come with us?" she asked her father, holding her teddy bear tightly to her

chest.

"Mom-my doesn't believe in praying for others. I mean, she was busy." Alaric had to shake his

head and change his behavior before he said anything that would hurt Enya when he heard

about how evil her mother had turned out to be.

They entered the royal graveyard and went straight to Mrs. Shepard’s grave. However, they had

to stand back and wait for the visitors to leave so that they could step ahead.

Enya was standing next to her father, watching a young boy her age in a large jacket stare at

the grave.

"Who is he, daddy?" she asked in a whisper. Alaric had to bend down in order to hear her.

"That is Alpha Thiago. He is the son of the lady in that grave," Alaric explained, and Enya made

a pout.

"Why is she lying in that hole? Do they not have a bed at home?

We can give her a bed?" Enya innocently asked his father, who was bewildered to see his daughter lacking so much

knowledge. It surprised him that Hazel didn't even want to tell her daughter anything that would hurt her. But then

she would go around hurting other kids.

"This is where people stay after they die," Alaric stated. He was trying to be honest with his daughter. Since Hazel

was creating a different kind of an imaginary world in Enya's world, he had decided to step up and teach her a few

things that she might need for her future.

"Die?" Enya frowned.

"You see that boy? His mother died, and that means he can never see her again," Alaric explained, watching his

daughter's face to understand if she was growing up as cold as her mother or if she was still a human.

"That's so sad. Is that why he looks so upset?" The quick tears in Enya’s eyes comforted Alaric. He realized his

daughter was not yet ready to be like Hazel.

He then realized the only reason Thiago's mother wasn't in the grave was that he had burned down the entire

morgue. The feeling of guilt and disgust took over him once again.

Thiago stared at the grave for a few minutes before his father told him to step aside. Thiago walked away alone

toward the road.

"Why don't you stay here while your dad talks to that alpha over

there?" Alaric asked Enya, who nodded to her father. Something flipped inside him when he saw Shepard. He felt it

was his responsibility to right his and his wife's wrongdoings.

While he marched over to the alpha, Enya strolled after Thiago.

"It is very tasty," Janet offered Thiago a candy, who shook his head as he didn't feel charmed by anything this world

has to offer anymore.

"I will leave it here for you," Janet sighed, leaving the candy on the bonnet of the car and walking away to find her

father. They have come here to pray for Mrs. Shepard.

"This candy looks good," Enya commented from behind Thiago. He turned around and stared at her without any

emotion on his lips.

"It doesn't concern me," Thiago said in a mild tone.

"You don't want to eat it?" she asked, and when Thiago shook his head, Enya requested, "Can I eat it then?"

Thiago stared at her once more and then at the candy. Lifting the candy in his hand and pulling it out, he offered

her the candy.

"You can have it," he said, and Enya jumped up and down happily to grab the candy. He watched her unwrap the

candy and shove it into her mouth instantly.

"You never had candy before?" Thiago inquired after noticing how star-struck she appeared

while eating candy.

"No! mommy says it is a bad thing," she pouted sadly.

"You have a mom?" Thiago's eyes shone with happiness when hearing about the word mother.’

"Everybody has a mother," Enya answered, still sucking the candy and hugging her teddy.

"I don’t anymore," Thiago said, lowering his face as tears fought to form in his eyes.

"Oh! I know what happened," she remembered what her father told her, "You can call my mom

your mommy." She didn’t know what else to say, so she made him an offer, but he steadily

shook his head.

"No! It is okay. I miss my own mom," he hugged himself at the memory of his mother, "she used

to give me candies. Only when I did something good. She always said that people who do good

get good things in return. And then she stopped giving me candy one day," he said, recalling the

good ol'days.

"Why? Why did she stop?" Enya asked, taking a lot of interest in what that grey-eyed boy had to

tell her. She couldn't help but notice the color similarities between their eyes.

"She said there will be times when I have to do good without thinking about what I am getting in

return," he said with a smile on his lips. Talking about his mother was his favorite topic.

"And you didn’t cry?" Enya asked, and Thiago smiled a little at her question.

"No! That thought helped me a lot. It lifted a lot of pressure from my shoulders. Whenever I

used to do any good deed, I couldn't stop thinking about what candy I would get today. The

thought was so intense that it began to bother me. The day I realized I don't need to do good to

get something, the pressure lifted from my shoulders. I was no longer worried about what candy

I will be getting today," Thiago said with a bright smile on his lips.

"Wow! mom was such a nice person," he thought as a big tear ran down his eyes when he tried

to think more about his time with his mother, but it wasn't long before he began to notice some

memories were forgotten now.