“I’m sure it was a mistake, Leila wouldn’t do that to you on purpose,” Tatum frowns as he helps Carmela to her feet, glancing at Leila who holds an unreadable expression on her face.
First, at the tunnel and just now, Carmela is not trying to hide the fact that she wants to harm her. She doesn’t care what anyone says but she is not putting her baby's life at risk by living under the same roof as Carmela.
She knows that demanding for Tatum to send Carmela out of the house will put him in a difficult position but her child’s safety is what is more important to her and Carmela is no friend either.
Who harbours their own enemy?
“She did it on purpose. I'm telling y
Carmela insisted on leaving last night and Leila was all the more grateful for it. No matter how much she whined and complained afterwards, Tatum refused to go back on his words, firmly taking Leila’s side.Leila can tell he is not all the way happy about his decision and it aches her heart, wondering if he still has feelings for Carmela, despite swearing himself to her.Afterall, she is still his mate.Right now, she is with Tatum and Adaline heading for the second day of the werewolf games and she is nervous. This will be her first public appearance after the scandal at Carmela’s welcome back party.How will her own pack members treat her in the presence of other packs?
“Stop…” Leila pinches Tatum’s side, breaking the kiss and noticing the eyes of the other Alphas and their lunas fall on them. “The crowd…..people are staring at us,” she whispers.Tatum gives her a sexy smirk, brushing his thumb over her supple lips, his grey eyes full of lust and passion.“Don’t complain now, you’re the one who said I don’t show them you’re my wife enough. What better way to let them know you are fucking mine,” he pecks her lips again and Leila’s heart races even harder, flushing with a joyful feeling at the way he calls her his possessively.“Kiss her again!” Someone yells from the crowd.&ldquo
“Don’t stay longer than needed and mindlink me if anything odd happens,” Tatum says to Leila outside Amanda’s apartment.They had just left the games for that day and Leila wanted to pay Amanda a visit before heading home. Yesterday when she agreed to stay, she called to have her and Curtis released with immediate effect.“I’ll be fine Alpha,” Leila smiles at him, her heart warming at the concern in his eyes and his voice.“Alright, come here,” Tatum curls his hands around her waist, pulling her into him and leaning against the car and he kisses her sultrily in the open.Leila pushes away, gazing around and feeling hot. Something about the way he kisses her anywh
“I really don’t know where he is at the moment,” Curtis says, fully dressed and leaning against the couch where Amanda is sitting opposite Leila.Leila frowns. It isn’t the reply she is expecting.“I don’t understand. He asked you to come here but you don’t know where he is?”“Yeah, he spoke to pops and they were gonna call Alpha Tatum to sort the whole shit out but then he got a call and just bailed. We haven’t heard from or seen him since then.” Curtis replies.He only just properly introduced himself to Leila as the second son of Kelvin’s aunt who is married to the Alpha of the Death Claw pack. Leila had hoped that Curtis would
“Give me your wrist,” Liana says in the room, taking out an amulet from her handbag and slipping it into Leila’s wrist.Her mother had called her to visit and she spoke with a terrible urgency, that Leila was at her house at first light the next morning.It was rare for her mother to be in such panic and it scared Leila.“This is for your protection and especially for the baby. Without your wolf, your body is weak and your cells heal slower. This amulet will help with that. It will also cast evil eyes away from the baby now that everyone knows you are pregnant.”Leila stares from her mother to the red beaded bracelet with dark spots, joined together by a red and black leathe
Leila stares at herself in the mirror wearing a blue crystal down with black heels adorning her feet, her auburn hair clipped to the side with a tiny diamond tennis necklace hanging around her neck.She smiles a satisfactory smile at how she looks but she heaves a worried sigh for what she is about to do.“My world….Selene must have thought she was creating two people when she gave you this much beauty,” Tatum says from behind her and she turns with a full smile on her lips.There he stands, gallant as ever, handsome as the devil with the smile of an angel on his lips, adorned in an all black outfit. Black pants hanging off his waist and on his brogue shoes, a black short sleeve shirt that hugs his dangerously sexy biceps tucked into his pants.
Just as Leila planned, Tatum’s back barely touches the bed before he falls asleep, he had already been dozing off in the car on their way back home.Leila lies, cradled in Tatum’s arm for a while but her eyes are wide open , her heart racing with many emotions, her mind clouded with a plethora of thoughts.She feels comforted being next to Tatum and she would not trade this life for anything else but tonight she drugged him, even if it is for the greater good, she cannot shake off the guilt that is slowly and painfully clawing at her heart.When she feels Tatum is deeply asleep, she carefully wriggles free from his arms and waves her fingers across his face and Tatum feels it but he doesn’t move.H
“Yes! That’s how you do it!”Tatum jumps to his feet, fist pumping the air, he jams his hands together with much excitement, chuckling with the look of a proud father in his eyes.It’s another day of the contest and one of his warriors has just taken down another wolf that was almost twice his size in wolf to wolf combat.“Did you see how he did that?” He asks Leila, touching her shoulders with excitement.Leila jerks at his touch, like someone jolted out of a trance by his touch. Her body is present there, perhaps her spirit too but her mind is already far gone.“What? Who did what?” Leila replies, glancing f