The Proposal

[ARYA, Three Weeks Ago]

While her parents were fighting over whether to get her or not to Arya, Knight was on a different mission, this time, and it was one that she would take pleasure in. Everyone knew of the Pavlenko family and its heir, the man who had given up on anything and everything.

Everyone knew their misfortunes and all that had happened to the young Pavlenko. However, no one really knew what was going on in there.

Arya Knight was interested in the man everyone was trying to get money out of. The man was extremely wealthy but seemed to want to die more times than he cared about his wealth.

Today, the doctor had come from the hospital, and he looked tired.

Given that Arya had been in his bed a few days ago, she was still curious about this man. And that's also why she had made the housemaid an offer she would never refuse.

Natalya was just like the humans there, a woman who cared way too much about Nikita but was scared that if she showed too much, she would come off as a woman who wanted to separate from Nikita.

Then again, how could she leach off of the young man when all the time she had been protecting him for the people who had long wanted his parents dead?

"Why should I agree?" Natalya had asked Arya three days before the woman had miraculously landed in Nikita's bed.

A werewolf royalty was expected to have some dignity and not just sleep with the first man whose pants were down for her, but this man was different, and she knew it. Who could have known that finally, her urge to live as a human has gotten a purpose?

Here in this household was her mate, a human, one who seemed to have way too much baggage for him to shoulder alone. But then why would she be on the sidelines while the mad destined for her was suffering?

Sure, Nikita and most of the humans knew nothing of the werewolves, but that didn't mean that she would just stay on the sidelines and watch him in pain.

"Because you and I have something in common, and we both want the best for the doctor," Arya had explained, but Natalya couldn't believe her. And she was right to do so.

If she agreed with every Tom and Harry who walked in and claimed to care for the doctor, then the man could have long died before their parents even did.

"Why should I believe you?" Natalya asked.

"Because even though I have been here for the last thirty minutes, you have not rung the alarm bell that's under your seat, or even done something that could trigger all the useless alarms you guys installed since the Pavlenko incident.

"You believe me, and you don't know me and from what I can see, you want what's best for the doctor too," Arya explained while Natalya just looked at her in shock. The woman was either too observant or she had done her homework so well.

Anyone would ask why the princess would show up now, after all that time and even after the Pavlenko saga, but then she hadn't known that the doctor was her mate. As a matter of fact, she wasn't even looking for her mate in the first place.

However, when she saw him in the headlines, her wolf wouldn't shut up about her showing up and benign there for him. Of course, Arya and her wolf had argued, but she had given in and decided to give it a shot. 

"Fine, what would you have me do then? I know this makes me look vulnerable, but no one has ever shown up for the young master. Everyone's out to betray him. How do you expect to suddenly show up and have him trust you?" Natalya challenged.

Nikita was smart and he had lived different lives.

There was just no way he was going to fully trust a woman who had shown up right in the middle of the chaos and who wanted to suddenly help him. He was not stupid, and Arya was proud of him for that.

She had been fascinated by how good-looking her mate was, and how intelligent he was, that there were times she wanted to jump on him. Maybe that was also why she had wanted to know more about him.

"It's simple really, you have to introduce me as your evil daughter. Since Nikita clearly doesn't trust anyone who wants to be on his side, you and I will have to be against him at all costs. If he says right, you say left.

"That will give him reason to live. Please, Natalya" Arya had begged the woman and Natalya had contemplated rejecting Arya's offer. However, there wasn't much to be done anyway.

If the doctor was given a different focus, then he would be determined to eliminate the threat instead of giving up on himself. That would give Arya more time to find a way to save her mate and a way to make sure everything was okay between them when she went back home with him.

You would think that her greatest challenge was introducing herself to her mate and telling him about their destinies, but the greatest challenge Arya knight had was to find a way to convince Mykolajki Pavlenko that there was more to life than he knew.

"My daughter died at birth several years ago," Natalya said and Arya whimpered. She had done her research on Natalya and the daughter had never shown up. 

"I'm sorry, I didn't know. I guess I have to look for another name or personality then" Arya said earnestly. She had lost her best friend Samantha in the hands of goons years ago and so she knew what it meant to lose someone she loved.

She wasn't going to force Natalya to accept her when there was so much at stake. The woman hadn't even seen her daughter mature up and here Arya was, trying to maintain a bond with her mate at the expense of the older woman.

Maybe this was a bad idea, but she was desperate. Her wolf had already identified Nikita to be of their own and if she lost Nikita or if something terrible happened to him, Arya would die. That was the downside to her being the first alpha woman and that too with a human mate.

She was special, but her special nature made her more vulnerable than anything she could have ever imagined.

The good thing about all this, was that's he knew that if she failed to save her mate then she would die alongside him.

However, she wanted to see him live, not because her life was linked to his, but because she wanted to see the smiles she had seen in the previous videos of the great doctor Mykolajki Rostova Pavlenko.

It was a price she was willing to pay.

"You don't have to worry about me. Let's do this, for Nikita," Natalya agreed.