ODETTE’s POV.“Babe?” Malachi calls out to me for the umpteenth time but I just continue facing the wall, not having the energy or the ability to look at him. It hurts, it hurts so badly and there is nothing I can do about it.I struggled to accept the fact that I would give birth to Zachary’s child but I loved the feeling of being pregnant nonetheless. It was my child, mine but it was snatched from me. The more I think about it, the more sad and upset I am. I gently touch my tummy and close my eyes. It is empty now, my child didn’t even get the chance to come into this world..I sniff back a tear, I don’t want Malachi to see me in pain because he is in pain himself. I don’t want him to see me the way I am broken, broken from inside. It’s been two days but it feels like yesterday where I lost my baby. How will I be able to forgive myself for not taking good care of my baby?“Babe?” He calls out again but I continue to ignore him. I can’t even face him, how can I do that without feelin
ZACHARY’s POV.The moment those words reach my ear, my heart skips a beat. What does she mean by my child? What the heck was that? I know Odette and she wouldn’t have kept my child after we broke up. I didn’t even know she was pregnant, how could she call me and tell me something like that?When I went to her house two days ago, I intended to speak to her but seeing her in that condition, I was somewhat happy. She hurt me too, she hurt me and I couldn’t stop myself from injecting her with the wolfsbane before I decided to take her to the hospital. For the time we were together, she didn’t get pregnant but she didn’t hesitate to get pregnant for someone but right mow it feels like my world has come to a fucking standstill.I call her number again but she doesn’t answer. Luckily I am still in New York for a business meeting , I grab my car keys and rush out of the room. I want her to look me in the eyes and tell me those disgusting lies.In no time, my car pulls in front of Malachi’s ho
CHAPTER THIRTY NINE.MALACHI’s POV.I had just finished setting the table for dinner when she walks back into the house looking a bit dejected and tired. I don’t bother asking her what’s wrong because I already know what happened. Seeing her like this breaks my heart. She didn’t say anything for two days and In those two days, it felt like my whole life came to a standstill. She was in pain and I couldn’t do anything about that. It made me feel incapable and unable to take care of my woman.When she showed up at the study earlier, I was happy she was finally out of bed but that didn’t stop her from noticing something was wrong and I had to tell her, I had to break her heart once again. Believe me, I wouldn’t even need to lift a finger to kill an alpha like Zach but she made me promise to wait till the right time. The only thing I can do at this moment is to comfort her and wait for the right time.Letting out a sigh, I make my way towards her and pull her into my embrace. Odette does
ODETTE’s POV.Plopping down on the bed lightly, dad also lowers himself beside me. Concern and worry written on his face. He looks like he is waiting for my permission to hurt Zach and I can understand, I also want to hurt him too, hurt him so much that even the moon goddess will be scared for him.“Mum told me you have been worried” I start to talk, “you needn’t worry about me dad, i am fine”“Do you know how scared I was seeing you on that hospital bed, princess?” He asks me, “I was so scared, it felt like the day your mum was supposed to have her surgery. I don’t ever want to see you in that kind of situation ever again”Without saying anything, I lean into his embrace and he starts to stroke my hair lightly.It is still overwhelming that a man who didn’t father us could love us this way. He never made us feel like we were missing a real father. Sometimes I wonder why he and mum didn’t have another child.“Baby” he calls out gently, “you know the doors are always open for you to co
BRYER’s POV.It has been four days since Malachi locked me up here and he hasn’t shown up. I don’t know if he has gone back to New York or he is purposely not showing up in front of me. I even tried to escape last night but I was hurt because of how weak my body is. My injuries are not healing because of what Malachi poured on me, even though they let me have a shower and stay at the pack house, I am still under the scrutinizing gaze of the pack warriors.Malachi is trying to break me mentally by keeping me here, away from the world and away from my phone. I wonder if Zach already knows I am missing. He must have asked Brendon, I need him now more than ever. This is when I need him to show me I am his mate.I let out a sigh as I plop down on the bed, wincing in pain. The more Malachi hurts me, the more I am going to make her pay for every single pain and suffering I had to go through.The door opens up and I spring up from the bed. An angry sigh leaves my mouth when I see who it is.
ODETTE’s POV.I continue pacing up and down the room, Bryer’s words still lingering in my head. I know exactly what she means but I do not know the damage she had done to him. Well, I don’t feel bad for him, he allowed himself to be used by her and this is his karma.“Babe” Malachi calls out to me, “you just had a miscarriage, stop walking around like that”“I am fine, Malachi. You don’t have to worry about me”“There goes that statement again” a frustrated sigh leaves his mouth, “you know I will always worry about you and yet you..He stands up from the bed and comes to a halt in front of me.“I don’t want you stressing”“How much damage do you think Bryer did to Zach?” I ask him and a huge frown appears on his face.“What? Are you worried about him right now?” He sounds a bit upset, “like….“Of course not, Baby” I cut him off, “get your heads out of the gutters, I just want to know the level he is on. I don’t want him experiencing his karma when he is not in his right senses. He nee
ZACHARY’s POV.I keep pacing up and down until I hear her footsteps behind me, I turn around to see her walking towards me, an expressionless look on her face.In the past I would have pulled her into my embrace and maybe kissed her but right now we have become strangers to ourselves. Looking at her, the thought of my child growing in her belly envelopes me and I swallow hard, the deed has already been done, there is no need to cry over spilt milk.“Where is Bryer?” I ask her, “I have not come to cause any problems for you since you had just had a miscarriage but I need you to give her to me, I do not have the strength to argue with you”“Did you ever love me, Zachary” Odette asks me,her tone calm and gentle, “did you ever sit down and think to yourself that this would hurt me? I gave you nothing but love and this is how you repay me, Zach?”“What the heck are you doing now?” I groan in frustration, “tell me, do you want me back? Do you want me to take you as my Luna again?”“Bryer’s
MALACHI’s POV.As soon as those words leave his mouth, my eyes darken and I let go of Odette, taking slow steps towards him. Did he just call my woman his wife in my presence? Did he just open his mouth and fucking call her his?The more I think about it, the more my wolf howls in my head. I want to kill him, shatter him into a million pieces and make sure his wolf never recovers. How dare he? How dare he stand in front of me and call her his?“What did you just say?” I ask him as soon as I come to stand in front of him, “did you just call my wife your woman?”“What did you expect?” Zachary blurts out, “it was bound to happen sooner or later. Fine, I was not in my right mind and you jumped in to make her yours. What did you think? That you would have a love story like her dad and her mum?”My hand collides with his face in a slap and I grab him by the neck, my eyes burning with anger.The pain in my chest is still lingering a little but hearing him call Odette his wife makes my wolf s
ZACHARY’s POV.Standing in front of hundreds of eyes a few days after my investigation started is actually not the right thing to do but being involved with Bryer has caused me so much already and I genuinely want my wife back. If this is the price I have to pay in order to get my wife back, I am more than willing to pay for it. The only thing I want now is to get my wife back and we can stay happy together. I am actually tired of seeing her with Malachi. I want to see her happy and smiling with me. That’s the only thing that matters to me and I don’t care how I do it, I just want her.“You can start now,” the person standing beside me says. She is Malachi’s assistant and seeing the smug look on his face as he is seated at the back of the hall aggravates me the most. I hate that he always gets the upper hand in this, I hate that I have to do this in front of him.Letting out a sigh, I clear my throat lightly before pulling the microphone towards me.“Good evening everyone and thank y
BRYER’s POV.“Due to the injury, you won’t be able to wolf out for a while” Jacquline tells me and I ball my hands into a fist, this is four days after Odette attacked me. I left the hospital after footing the bills in the Bahamas and I came straight home.For four days I have been unable to move and it’s all thanks to that bitch I am going to hold her by her neck and make sure she pays for everything she has done to me.“I made some tonic for you, you will be fine soon” Jacquline says again.“Thank you”“I will take my leave now so you can rest”“Before that” I stop her, “don’t forget what we talked about”“Of course”With a little smile, she walks off while I am left to my musing again. Odette, that motherfucking bitch. I am going to make sure she pays for what she did to me and Malachi, I won’t let him line in peace either.Someone opens my front door again, making my forehead crease into a frown.“Jacqueline?”“Would she dare come here?” A familiar voice filters into my ear and my
ODETTE’s POV.The moment a knock resonates on our door, I allow Malachi to open it while I sit on the dining table. My mind on how to make her pay for what she did. I have let her go a lot of times and she actually thinks I am a weakling. This time around, she is going to wish she didn’t mess with me again.As soon as she steps in, Malachi’s face changes for the worst, he looks disgusted.“Aren’t you going to welcome me?” She asks, “thanks to me, you are popular again”“Speak to me and not my husband” I cut her off, “I am the one who asked the receptionist to let you in. I mean shouldn’t you be allowed to crash our honeymoon since you are a distinguished guest?”I stand up and this is when Malachi’s eyes open wide the moment he sees me with the baton, even Bryer takes a step back.“I mean, you are too important for me to ask the receptionist to send you back. You caused such a scandal back in America and you jumped right on the next available plane to the Bahamas, you are something ar
MALACHI’s POV.The scent of my favorite dish finds its way into my nose as I make my way out of the room after taking a shower. I need no one to tell me who is in the ensuite kitchen because I know it’s my wife. No matter how many times I tell her not to bother about cooking, she never seems to listen but I have made peace with that. She can do whatever she pleases and I will be behind her to guild her and take care of her.Besides we are on our honeymoon, she can do as she pleases. I can only watch her and admire her, thanking the moon goddess for blessing me with a beautiful soul such as hers.“Sleepy head” her face breaks into a smile when she sees me, “i thought you wouldn’t wake up”“How can’t I?” I round the kitchen counter and snake my hands around her waist, “I have the most beautiful woman so I should always try to live up to that. This smells delicious” I look over her shoulder before pressing a kiss on her cheek“Well, you always cook for me so i decided to return the favor
ODETTE’s POV.Malachi wraps his hands around my waist while I lean into his embrace. Our hotel suite is facing the ocean directly and it looks so beautiful. Part of me wishes that we can stay here for all of eternity without having to worry about anyone or anything. We have been here for three days and I can tell you that they are the best three days of my life after my wedding.I am still in awe of how Malachi was able to come up with such an amazing wedding ceremony. I am still having the jitters from the many gifts he got me. I mean he is the best husband one can ask for and I am glad he is mine for all of eternity.“What are you thinking about, wifey?” His voice filters into my head and I can’t help but smile. Wifey! I love the sound of that.“Nothing my love, just basking in the glory of our honeymoon. I can literally not get enough of it”His soft chuckle reaches my ear and my body tingles. No matter how many times I have heard this man speak or laugh, I genuinely can't get enou
ZACHARY’s POV.The more I keep looking at the pictures, the more I feel like smashing everything in front of me to the ground. She looks happy, she looks happy with him when it should have been me, when I should be the one standing beside her and smiling like that. Malachi has his hands on my woman’s waist, fuck I want to kill him, I want to make him pay for taking her away from me.My thoughts are interrupted when a knock resonates in my ears and my assistant makes her way in.“Sir, the reporters would not leave”I let out a sigh, they have been standing in front of my gates all morning after the pictures of Odette and Malachi have been circulating around the internet. Massaging the space between my brows, I finally drop my phone and I stand up.“Since they are so nosy, let’s give them something to talk about.I am dressed in a casual pair of grey joggers and a white T-shirt but I don’t care about that, they came to meet me in my house so they will meet me as I come.“Okay sir”In no
BRYER’s POV.I angrily smash the vase on the ground and watch it shatter into a million pieces. As if that is not enough, I grab the other porcelain vase and smash it again. How can Malachi do this? How can he get married to her and that too, everyone has been talking about it. Every news house, every blog, every newspaper, everyone on the internet has been talking about Malachi Bromte’s mystery wedding.It should have been me, I should have been the one standing beside him and not that good for nothing bitch.“Fuck!!” I yell at the top of my voice, anger enveloping me. I refuse to cry, this can’t be happening. No!! Tears start to stream down my eyes. It should have been me, I am the one fit to stand beside him and love him. I have worked so hard for him to see me, for him to acknowledge me as his own but he chose some rich heiress. Didn’t he see that I also worked? I worked hard to make him see me, like me, he even became my best friend so how did we get here? How did he look me in t
ODETTE’S POV.Being in his embrace feels like a lifetime of happiness and joy, I can’t imagine myself in the arms of another. Malachi has my heart and he has it for all of eternity.How didn’t I even see through his façade of planning a ceremony for us. He didn’t even mention anything about it even by accident but I love it, I love the surprise it came with and that’s why I am tucked in his arms trying to pull myself together. I don’t even know what I am going to do without this man in my life.“Okay now?” His voice cut into my train of thought and I nod, pulling away from him.“Malachi Bromte” I start to speak, “today before our family and friends, I vow to give you all of myself, my hope, my dreams, my forever. I promise to love you fiercely, to stand by you and support you in everything you do. I promise to be your sanctuary, your biggest cheerleader and your fiercest protector” I pause for a moment, the emotions are overwhelming, I can’t believe I am standing in front of everyone.
MALACHI’s POV.Seeing her cry, seeing her shed tears made me so upset and how I want to bang both their heads together for making her cry.“Is that the best you can come up with?” I ask the two of them.“What did you expect?” Jayden chips in, “she is so loved up when it comes to you, she wouldn’t even leave the house”“Even though, using aunt as bait is not something I agreed to”“Well, sorry about that” Jayden says, “but you must not know, mum is sick too. She was at the pack healer since. She told us not to tell Odette because she didn’t want her to worry about her”Before I can respond to him, Odette bursts out of the hall running towards me.“Babe” she comes to a halt in front of me, an excited look on her face, “dad, mum..“Calm down, honey” I gently cup her face, “okay?”“It’s a fucking wedding ceremony baby” Odette beams, excitement written all over her face, “the hall, it’s our ceremony and it’s..“You like that?”“Of course” she looks so happy, so fucking happy, “I fucking li