I was filled with joy to see my baby soaked in blood crying in Stacy's arms, it was an accomplishment to me as I was now a mother.
Frederick scrambled to my side holding my hands in his whispering words of encouragement.
"I knew you would never disappoint me, I knew you would make me proud, you have always done so, today was just another form of bravery from you my beautiful and elegant luna," Frederick praised me in his royal baritone making me giggle.
"Thank you, Alpha," was all I said with a small voice.
Beneath, I felt some sharp pains I never thought of, the pangs of childbirth were a very painful ritual every woman was going to pass through, mine was just extremely painful.
Besides this pain, I was feeling an extra agony, which may be caused by losing too much blood, but I felt very weak. In a moment the only thought was I was going to die.
I was already losing connection with my wolf as my heart failed to beat properly.
"Can I have my baby?" I asked closing my eyes.
Stacy with the help of the maids had already cut off the placenta from the baby and was about to give him a warm bath.
"Let us remove the blood from his body first," Stacy proposed but I objected firmly.
"Just give me the baby," I let out.
She obeyed and handed me, my tiny baby.
A look at the baby I carried in my arms gave me the worst recognition as tears started flooding my eyes drawing attention towards myself.
"Sweetheart, what is the problem, are you not happy carrying your own baby?" my alpha asked his voice filled with concern.
There was only one way to explain this phenomenon coupled with the way I am feeling ever since I put to birth. The words came out from me more confidently than I had planned it and followed with a fresh wave of tears.
"Curse," was all I muttered.
"Curse?" Frederick choked out.
"Curse?" I heard the maids gasp repeating my exact words.
"Calm down and explain please," Frederick mumbled.
How could he have forgotten so soon? how could Frederick have forgotten the prophecy so soon? yes, it has been more than a dozen years since that prophecy was given but when you see the curse you should be able to know.
"Do you remember the prophecy of the wolves that was given years back to the alpha that a curse will be born to this land and the mother will immediately die after childbirth? the issue was we didn't know when the baby was going to come or who was going to give birth to, I guess we gave birth to him in our reigned," I explained bowing my head.
"No, that can't be, how did you know he was the one?" he questioned raking his head.
That was when I looked at the baby thoroughly then carried him to show Frederick with.
The baby in my arms had Golden hair, he already had an air of an Alpha, power flowed through his body as he wriggled in my arms crying in his weeny baby voice.
"Is his hair color not enough reason make me believe so? we have given birth to a shifter and above all a Golden wolf," I exploded crying.
The golden wolf was the most powerful of all the pack and before now, we had never had any of those. We always heard of shifters but had never seen one, and having given birth to one will only add strength to the weakness of the pack.