The Only Exception (Book 3)

A Blessing and a Curse

Hello my beautiful readers!

It's about to get a bit convoluted so please read carefully. This chapter is extremely important for the series (including True Nature and by extension, Ice Melts, When it's Hot) and it was much harder to translate my thoughts to words than I expected. I've been working in this idea for a couple years, ever since I started writing True Nature and even a bit before. I literally sat down and wrote a timeline so I really hope I got everything right and didn't miss something or fuck up my math but at the same time, there are still a couple things that have yet to be explained. However, I'm not sure which story they'll end up in :) I'm so nervous but excited! I can't wait to hear your thoughts! Let me know if you have any questions and I'll answer in the comments if it won't be addressed in the story directly.

Much love, xx

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Annie's Pov (Adam's Mother):

"My boyfriend went into heat."

Heat?

Heat. Heat. Heat.

Why did that word sound so familiar?

I quickly unlocked my desk drawer and grabbed the small black journal labeled 'W. Notes'. I flipped through the pages until I came across it. The word was hard to miss as I'd written over the letters several times so that it was bold and then underlined it in red for good measure. I cursed myself silently for forgetting when it was right there in black and white. That's right, omega's could go into heat and that meant... I gasped for breath as the realization of what those words meant hit me and my life began to flash before my eyes.

I had always been afraid that this day might come but I'd foolishly thought I could put off the inevitable. I mean, there were rules about this! This shouldn't be happening! I wished once again that I would have never gotten my life so mixed up with werewolves! I knew I was putting Adam's humanity at risk, playing with time the way I had been, but it was so hard to give him up, even if it was what was best for him.

I've made a lot of questionable decisions in my life but despite what he might think of me one day, I do love my son. I love him more than anyone in this world and I never wanted to leave him on his own. I've ALWAYS looked out for him, no matter what he did or who threatened him. Who else would look out for him but his mother? That was why I couldn't lay down and accept my part with dignity back when I had the chance to change everything. I'd been fighting off an illness I deserved. One I knew I should have succumbed to long ago, that is, if I truly wanted the life for my son that I had always claimed; a human life, a normal life. Now, disastrously, thanks to my own failure, my son had gotten himself wrapped up with a thoughtless parasite. A parasite that would infect his entire life, just like it had mine.

"Darling!" I managed to say through the shock. "I hadn't realized that he would ask-" For a moment I wanted to scream about how selfish his boyfriend was for this but I changed tactics. "-Adam! You need to leave! Right now. Get as far away from that boy as you possibly can!" I pleaded, hoping to reason with my only living child before it was too late.

"Ma! I've told you my omega isn't dangerous! Why the hell would you say all of that?!" Adam asked, a little too defensively.

"Y-you're omega?" I inquired anxiously, realizing that my sweet boy was about to slip out of my fingers. "Oh sweetheart... please just trust me. There's something-please, just walk away from him. Just this once." I begged. If only Adam would give me a chance to explain, then maybe he would realize the omega truly wasn't meant for him, not in this lifetime. "There will be other heats, I'm sure," I promised impulsively to incentivize him. "You need time to decide. Trust me, this won't make you happy. I didn't think-" I started, with the intention of blaming the omega for what was about to happen. He was disobeying pack orders after all by seducing my son into spending his heat with him. The little slut. However, I knew my son would never listen to me if I went that route. "Don't blame anyone but me, okay?" I offered instead. "I'm sorry I didn't-"