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Tatum hears Leila’s grunt just as he feels the bond completely sever on his end and the constant pain he has been feeling leaves him, he realises he made a mistake by accepting Carmela’s rejection. He may have mentioned Carmela’s name but his wolf does not know who Carmela Eston is, his wolf only knows that they have accepted the rejection from their mate and the bond became severed. “Fuck,” Tatum mutters, turning to look at Leila to see her cradled in Kelvin’s arms, her hands on her chest, her face full of pain, her eyes red and teary, bulging veins lining her temples. His heart breaks because he knows exactly what level of immense pain she must be going through, it was what he was avoiding, he didn’t want her to experience it. As an Alpha himself, he could barely cope with it in the early days. He rushes over to kelvin and Leila as the guards take Carmela away from the courthouse too her house arrest and the crowd begins to disperse but Leila shoves him away from her. “Don’t tou
Leila opens her eyes, unsure of how long she has been asleep but the one thing she notices is that the pain is gone, she can no longer feel it anyway and her wolf is fully present but sad, very sad. She groans and turns to her left to see Amara fast asleep beside her and she smiles, her heart flooding with warmth and she kisses Amara’s hair. The whole world may abandon her but she is sure that her daughter will never leave her side. “How are you feeling?” Kelvin’s voice makes her turn her head and she sees him reclining on the couch adjacent to her bed, smiling at something on his phone before his gaze shifts back to her. “How long was I out for?” She asks in a weak voice, adjusting herself into a sitting position. “Two days, in and out,” Kelvin replies just as Leila’s stomach growls. Leila’s eyes almost coats with tears. What would she do without him? For those two days, though unsure, she remembers a man beside her, tending to her the few minutes that she could keep her eye
“What?” Leila asks, her eyes going thin in shock as she drops her feet from the bed, the sound of her heart thrumming reaching her ears. Tristan is her only solid evidence against Carmela, how did he end up dead? She kept him safe. Kelvin sighs, putting his hands against his forehead and he looks down before looking back at Leila. “I don’t know exactly how it happened but when I got there, he was without his head or any of his limbs, someone cut them off and considering he’s a fugitive, I couldn’t call or alert the warriors of the incident, I had to bury him at the base of the tree myself.” The horror of Kelvin’s gruesome description of Tristan’s death makes Leila’s heart sink. Tristan did say that his life is in danger, that the Lycan king is after him but there is no way Antonio would have found him, that treehouse has existed for years and has never been discovered by anyone, there are only two people who know about it asides from Tristan, her and Kelvin. She looks at him sharp
Leila did not think that Kelvin meant it when he said he won’t be in touch but apparently, he did. It’s probably the first time they are having a fight and she feels bad about it and about suspecting Tatiana at all. She did not know that healing Amara came at such a cost for Tatiana, Kelvin must have kept it a secret not to bother her and Tatiana on subsequent visits never acted bitter or showed any resentment for it and it only makes her feel worse about what she insinuated. She was only trying to point out the obvious but clearly, she overstepped and she regrets it. Kelvin is right, Tatiana is his woman, she is family, she will be on their side, she had no reason to doubt her but is that reason enough for Kelvin to just completely ignore her since that day? He won’t take her calls, won’t reply her texts, she even went to his house and apparently he moved to a new apartment a few weeks before they had their fallout and he did not even inform her. It’s the first day of the hearing
Leila walks away the moment Tatum walks up to them, completely ignoring him. It is the first time she is seeing him since the rejection became complete and the matebond completely severed but she still feels uncomfortable being in his presence. She cannot feel her wolf yearning but something about being close to him still pulls her. Despite her anger towards him, despite her hatred, Tatum seems to still have an effect on her and she doesn’t want to deal with him right now, not with everything that she is going through. “Let me help you Leila,” Tatum calls after her but she keeps walking ahead. He runs up to her and pulls her back by her arm, putting some distance between them when she scowls at him. “I don’t need your help, I don’t need anything from you Tatum. I’ll bring the divorce papers to you and we’ll call it a lifetime between us, just, fuck you Tatum,” Leila says, her eyes brimming with tears as painful sorrow washes over her. He is the architect of all her problems. Eve
“Good job Bass, keep me posted on how it goes.” Kelvin ends the call with Bass and stares at his phone with a confused expression on his face after Bass fills him in on the outcome of the day’s event. He grits his teeth and scrolls through his recent call logs, staring at Leila’s number. She has given him quite a number of missed calls and texts in the last few days but he doesn’t want to talk to her, not right now. It hurts a lot that she would even doubt him or Tatiana when he would never doubt her. He still has to help her but he can help without being in her presence, perhaps when this tightness in his chest begins to loosen up, he’ll show his face to her again and also apologise for ignoring her. Now is not just a good time. Tatiana steps out of the shower naked, towelling her hair, her boobs jiggling from the movement of her arms and Kelvin smiles at it, smiles at her, unable to believe that a goddess like her is his, to love, to hold, to cherish and to fuck. He tosses his
“Brother, what are you doing here?” Tatiana asks in a frenzy, shock and fear clear in her demeanour and Kelvin looks from her to the stranger, his heartbreak only compounding. Tatiana only mentioned sisters, she said she was an orphan and her sisters were the witches of her coven, some of whom he has met, invited into his home, wined, dined, shared jokes, laughed and had meaningful and thoughtful conversations with. How much more lies has she told him, does she even really love him or has he just been a fool? “We haven’t been officially introduced, I’m Antonio,” Antonio keeps his attention on Kelvin, completely ignoring Tatiana who flicks a dress on to cover herself, “but many call me the Lycan King.” Immediately the words leave Antonio’s lips, Kelvin feels a strong, lethal aura bearing down on him and never in his life has his wolf had a stronger urge to yield to the aura of an Alpha and he bows, shock and realisation hitting him at the same time and he looks sharply at Tatiana wh
Riding in Tatum’s car back to her house, Leila steals a glance at Tatum who has his eyes fixed on the road. It's a big risk trusting him, considering the past but something deep inside her tells her it’s okay to trust him.His testimony as the Alpha of the pack will hold weight and could easily sway the judge to favour them even if it cannot be proven, that is the real advantage he provides but she will feel much better if Kelvin was also here to help.She should never have said those words to him. What got into her? He only just found love after so many years and she unintentionally tried to sow doubt in his heart about his lover, she probably deserves this treatment he is giving to her.She takes out her phone to call, he doesn't take his calls, she tries to mindlink him but he cannot be reached. She sighs defeatedly, becoming worried about the midlink unable to reach him, he was previously only blocking her. Did he leave the pack again?“Alright,” Tatum says, pulling the car to t