Chapter 1 : Pregnant

Melissa’s POV

 

"Congratulations, miss, you’re pregnant," the doctor said with a smile on his face.

"W- What?” I stammered.

"You are pregnant," he said again, handing me the test results.

I collected them with a shaky hand and was horrified to discover that he was telling the truth. I was two months pregnant.

I looked back at the doctor and noticed he was smiling. Of course, he thought that being pregnant was a blessing for me, and maybe it would have been a blessing for me if the father was a loving man who cared for me, but no, that was not the case for me, that was not the kind of relationship I had with the father of my child.

The father of my child was cold and unfeeling. He did not give a damn about me, not to talk about loving me. Love was not part of our arrangement.

He had made it very clear to me, that I was just his sugar baby, a pet and a plaything to satisfy him whenever he was horny. But that was it. He didn’t love me.

And who would blame him? How could someone like him, someone as powerful, as smart, and as wealthy as Alpha Knox, ever love a wolf-less, unwanted Omega like me?

I was weak and pitiful. Even my own family didn’t want me. My father divorced my mother so many years ago, and he forced me to be a slave to his cruel second wife and her evil daughter.

Nobody in the pack loved me, so why would the whole powerful Alpha of ours give a damn about me and my baby?

This was the question that filled my mind as I stumbled out of the doctor's office and got in the back of the taxi that would take me home. As soon as I got into the privacy of the car, I broke down crying.

How could this happen to me? How could I have let this happen? Alpha Knox would be furious, he would hate me, and he would throw me away or offer me to the rogues if he found out that I let this happen.

I should be terrified right now, I should be scared for my life, so why did I feel a little joy in my heart when I thought of a child growing inside me, the child I and the man that I loved had created?

Because yes, even though Alpha Knox would never love me, I loved him. I loved him foolishly and wholeheartedly. I had loved him ever since the first day he hired me to be his maid, I had loved him ever since he first kissed me, touched me, and asked me to be his sugar baby.

Some other women in better conditions would have said no, but I didn’t have the luxury of doing that, because what most people didn’t know was that Alpha Knox was the only person who cared enough to pay for my mother’s medical bills.

No one else had cared, no one else had bothered to help us. Because in the Crimson Pack, who gave a damn about a lonely Omega and her sick mother?

No one did, only Alpha Knox did, so when he offered to pay my mother's medical bills in exchange for my body, I agreed.

On the first night, we had sex, it was magical. He was the first man to ever touch me, the man who took my virginity. He had been so gentle and sweet, and he knew all the right places to touch as if he had been touching me for years.

And ever since that first time, I had grown addicted to him, addicted to his touch, his smile, his voice. Even though I knew that at the end of the day, he would not love me, there was a part of me that prayed and hoped that someday, maybe somehow, he might come to care for me even just a little bit like the way I cared for him.

A sudden thought struck my mind.

Wait! Maybe this is it! maybe this was finally the chance for him to start caring for me. I know that being pregnant for a man in his position was a tricky situation, but still, Alpha Knox was not a monster.

He would not hurt my child, because, after all, our child would be his successor, his heir to the throne, the future Alpha or Luna of the pack.

The thought of that made me smile, and I managed to let a little hope bloom in my heart that maybe things might just work out.

I made my decision then, I would tell him I was pregnant right now. After all, he had every right to know that he was going to be a father and that we had created the future Alpha or Luna of the pack.

I directed the taxi to park in front of the Crimson Pack House, and I slowly got out of the car to find Knox and tell him about my pregnancy.

It was 2:00 pm, so I knew that he would be in the office right now. I knew his schedule like the back of my hand. I knew everything about Knox. As I said before, I was addicted to him.

In a few minutes, I was standing in front of his office. I took a deep breath and knocked twice, but there was only silence. I knocked again but there was still silence, which was a little unusual.

Usually, Knox would answer at the very first knock, unless he was too focused on the work to notice what was going on around him. In those cases, I would just have to open the door and walk in.

It seemed like this was such a case, so I took another breath, twisted the handle and pushed open the door.

“Alpha, please, I need to talk to you about something important," I began to say, but my words died on my lips as soon as my eyes processed the sight in front of me.

Yes, Knox was definitely in the room, but he was not alone. On his lap was a slim blonde woman whose lips were pressed passionately against his.

My blood ran cold. So this was why he didn't hear me knock? Because he was busy shoving his tongue into another woman’s mouth?

I felt my heart crush into two at the sight in front of me. I had to quickly pinch myself to stop the tears from rising in my eyes, even as my throat began to close painfully.

Our arrangement was a secret. Knox made it very clear that he didn’t want anyone to know that he was sleeping with me. So as far as anyone was concerned, I was just his maid, and I had no reason to be crying over this.

So I forced myself to swallow my tears and watched as the only man I'd ever loved in my entire life was kissing another woman.

Alpha Knox seemed to sense my presence, and he pulled back from the woman before his eyes locked on mine.

"Melissa? What are you doing here?” he said, sounding annoyed that I interrupted them.

It was then that the blonde woman also turned, and I finally saw her face. When I did, the whole world tilted around me, and I felt like I was about to faint.

Because I know her. I know who this blonde woman is. This is Susie, my worst nightmare, my stepsister, who has been abroad for the last three years.

I had prayed that she would never come back, but now she's here, kissing the father of my child.

Susie's red lips widened into a big smile as she saw me. "Hello, sister. It's so good to see you after all these years. Have you missed me?" she asked with a smile.

To any other person, that might sound like a sister who has just seen a loved one, but I knew that was not true. Susie has never loved me. If there's a harsher word worse than hate, then that would be the word I would use for what Susie felt about me.

How did I know that? Well, for example, when we were 15, Susie held me down and shaved all of my hair because she was jealous of the fact that my hair had grown longer than hers. Then, when we were 18, she used scissors to destroy all the clothes I had because someone complimented what I wore and forgot to compliment her.

Susie might be my stepsister, but she was my worst enemy and my biggest bully. Even now, I was still a little scared of her and what she could do to me.

It seemed that I had been standing frozen in the doorway for too long because Knox frowned at me.

“What is wrong with you, Melissa? Don't you have any manners? Greet your sister properly."He snapped.

I quickly snapped out of my thoughts and tried to look happy, but I couldn’t even manage a fake smile.

"Welcome back, sister," I croaked, having to force the words out of my tear-clogged throat.

Knox's frown deepened, and he snarled at me. "Don't just stand there, Omega. Bow and greet her properly because, as of today, Lady Susie is no longer just your sister. She is my fiancée and your future Luna, so show her some fucking respect," he growled, and my heart came to a crashing halt.

"W-What?" I stammered.

Susie flashed a big smile and waved her hand in front of me, and I immediately noticed the big, shining diamond ring on her finger.

Susie smirked, "Isn't Knox the sweetest man on earth? Can you believe that he proposed the minute I came down from the plane?" She laughed. "But I guess he’s in such a hurry to marry me, or maybe it's because he knows I'm carrying his child, the future alpha of the pack," Susie said, and all the blood drained from my face.

She was pregnant?

I couldn’t even say anything; I could only stand there and watch as Knox and Susie lovingly cradled her still-flat tummy.

Knox got her pregnant? How? Susie has been abroad so when did it even happen?

And suddenly, I started to remember all those unexplained business meetings that Knox seemed to conveniently travel out for.

He had been visiting her.

So he had been sleeping with both of us at the same time and got both of us pregnant?

It was then that reality hit me. Oh, dear goddess! I am pregnant with the man my sister Is about to marry!