CHAPTER 2

Charlotte looked taken aback to see the woman Teddy Hudson had brought home into their matrimonial home. This house was a gift from Alpha Lucas Hudson to Teddy and her as their matrimonial home. 

After the night Charlotte had accepted Teddy as her husband, Alpha Lucas gave them the new duplex. 

For four years, Charlotte had been living with Teddy, helping him rule the North field pack. After he took over the Alpha position from his father, Teddy hadn't brought any woman home. But today, on their marriage anniversary and Charlotte's 22nd birthday, Teddy came home with another woman in his arms. A fair-skinned woman.

"Can't you greet?" Teddy demanded, his green eyes glowering at Charlotte, making her snap out of her trance.

"Um, good evening. Why's she here?" Charlotte immediately asked Teddy, her eyes moving to the young woman of her age in a seductive crimson gown.

"Do you just ask me why she is here?" Teddy let go of the woman in his arms and drunkenly charged at Charlotte.

Seizing Charlotte by her neck, Teddy told her, "She's the rightful Luna of this pack, the woman who should have been my wife and mate if you hadn't bewitched my father into accepting you as the fake Luna and my mate!" 

Teddy shouted, squeezing Charlotte's neck as he tried to choke the life out of her.

"Teddy..." Charlotte's voice trailed as she tried to stop her husband from suffocating her. She struggled to breathe, trying to break free from Teddy's strong grip on her soft neck, but he wouldn't let go.

"Baby, don't kill her here. That would implicate us and you too," a soft voice said.

Teddy finally let go of Charlotte. She coughed and moved away from the beast of a husband she had married.

With tears in her eyes, Charlotte looked from Teddy to the lady who had just spoken in disbelief. 

"You're right, Anne. If I kill Charlotte here, my father would find out and that would implicate us truly. Come, let me show you to our bedroom upstairs."

"Teddy!" Charlotte jumped in front of the stairs in the living room. "You cannot take this whòre to our bedroom! Take her out immediately!" Charlotte ordered Teddy, whose anger boiled as he heard her refer to Anne Robert as a "whòre."

"What? Who did you call a whòre? Honey, do you hear her speaking? I have been your mate even before you accepted this swine as your wife. I don't want to see her inside this house. Get rid of her and make her leave here and stay outside of our home," Anne said, bursting into tears.

Teddy rushed to meet Charlotte. He dragged her away from the stairs. He was wearing a white shirt and black pants, some of his shirt buttons left undone. 

"Who did you call a whòre? My mate?" Teddy charged at Charlotte and, in front of Anne, removed his trouser belt and started flogging her.

 The maids working in the mansion could only peek at them; none dared to intervene when Teddy and Charlotte were having marital problems. 

Teddy had warned them that if any of the two maids working in his mansion dared to report him to his father, he would have the maid killed.

"Teddy! I'm sorry, stop," Charlotte cried, but at the wee hours of the night, Teddy flogged her, and Anne smiled viciously.

"That's enough, sweetie. Come take me to our bedroom. I need to rest as I'm tired for the night," Anne said, observing how Teddy had flogged Charlotte mercilessly.

Satisfied with how he had disciplined Charlotte, Teddy let go of the woman crying on the tiled floor and walked up to meet Anne, using one hand to clutch his trousers that had loosened from removing his belt. 

Anne smiled and embraced Teddy. "Good boy," she told him as she kissed him on his lips in the presence of Charlotte.

"Come take me upstairs. I'm tired and can't wait to have you," Anne said to Teddy as she had followed him to the neighboring pack function as his Luna, and it was only right that Teddy get rid of Charlotte.

"Teddy, you dare to flog me because of this prostitute?" Charlotte stood up again from the tiled floor. She had blue, mesmerizing eyes that glowed even when she was crying. 

Charlotte was pretty, sèxy, and curvaceous, but she was dark in complexion and still untouched as Teddy hadn't consummated their marriage.

Teddy's anger surged again to hear Charlotte refer to Anne Robert as a prostitute.

"I see that I haven't disciplined you enough. I'm going to kill you today and bury your corpse before my father arrives. What gives you the right to call Anne a prostitute?" Teddy wanted to charge towards Charlotte with killing intent in his eyes, but Anne quickly stopped him. 

"No, baby. Don't kill her; it would implicate us. Come, let us go to the bedroom and make some babies that she is unable to give to you. Once we make the baby, that way, I will become the rightful Luna, and your father will have no other option but to accept me as your mate and the Luna of our pack," Anne said, and Teddy's eyes glowed in admiration of her words.

"You're right. Come, let us go," Teddy said, looking away from Charlotte angrily and his eyes shifting to Anne, who walked up to meet him in her black heels.

Charlotte cried, having worn a pink seductive dress to look sweet for Teddy, but he stared at her with so much hostility in his eyes, while he looked at Anne Robert with love and warmth.

Charlotte couldn't bear the betrayal. When she got married to Teddy Hudson, Teddy had told her that Anne was his buddy. He introduced Anne as his personal assistant, and it was only right for her to acknowledge Anne, even though she didn't like the pretty, fair-skinned woman. 

Charlotte had seen the way Teddy stared at Anne sweetly on several occasions, but she had no idea that Anne was Teddy's real mate and not just his assistant.

"Teddy! I'm not going to take this! I will end our marriage today and divorce you. I, Charlotte Mateo, reject you, Teddy Hudson, as my husband and chosen mate!"

Teddy's eyes surged with rage as he turned to look back at Charlotte. He let go of Anne again, a smirk playing on his lips, and walked up to meet Charlotte, who was shivering and taking steps backward as he approached her. 

"What gives you the right to think that you can divorce me, Charlotte? Are you stupid? Do you think you can walk away from this marriage? Oh, so you want to sabotage my name in front of our pack members and to my parents? You wouldn't dare! The way Anne endured and watched you parade yourself as my mate—is the way you will endure and watch Anne birth my pups." With that, Teddy turned and went upstairs with Anne, leaving Charlotte to burst into tears in the living room.