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
Humming a tone to herself with a little smile on her lips, Leila pours out two glasses of orange juice. She stares down at her stomach and her bulge is becoming quite noticeable.Her smile morphs into a full one and she runs her hand down her stomach, her heart feeling fuzzy, before placing the glasses on a tray, retrieving a box of cookies from one of the kitchen drawers and placing some on a plate which she puts on the tray and makes her way to the living room.She has already sent over a letter to the pack witch to inform her of her intention to have a meeting and all that remains is for it to be scheduled.“Here,” she hands Tatum one of the glasses and he slowly takes it, barely saying a word or really even looking at her.
Leila rolls her eyes at Carmela and practically storms upstairs to her room. She cannot ask Carmela to leave, she doesn’t want to upset Tatum.She doesn’t even know why she mentioned Carmela to him in the first place, it was her jealousy speaking.What woman would be happy that the man she is crazily in love with is thinking of another woman?She slams the door shut, crashing on the bed, seething with a scowl on her face.She feels so much rage at the mere sight of Carmela with everything that she has discovered so far. She needs to find a way to quickly expose Carmela for who she really is.When will Kelvin get back to her on the assassin? That
“So what if I am?”Leila’s harsh words slash through Tatum’s heart ferociously, inflicting a gruesome pain on him. He was hoping she would deny it, that she would lie to him but she didn't.“Why did you even banish him? What did he ever do to you?” Leila raises her voice as tears break forth from her eyes and it breaks Tatum’s heart even further.What is so special about Kelvin that she loves so much that she is not willing to let him go?What does Kelvin have that he lacks?What does she see in Kelvin?“He attacked the head warrior of the pack, I can
“Do you love Carmela, do you want to be with her?” Leila fires his very own words back at him.How many times does she have to tell him that Kelvin is just her friend? There is only one man she has ever had feelings for and that is him.If Tatum and Kelvin both had guns to their heads and she had to choose one to survive, as much as it would hurt her to make the hard choice, she would painfully choose Tatum because life without him would be meaningless.Even if she knows deep down in her heart that Kelvin would willingly give his life for her.Sadly, she cannot say the same for Tatum.Instead of owning up to his mistakes and
“Is this really necessary mom? I don’t think I want to do this,” Leila grumbles.She steps out from the front door, clutching her fur jacket with both hands against her neck, seeing nothing but tiny rays of light in the misty fog.“You’re the one who sent my son on a fool’s errand. If he was here, he would carry you through the hike but I am not breaking tradition and endangering my grandchild because of that,” Adaline replies curtly.Leila doesn’t miss the subtle eye roll Adaline gives to her but she knows she deserves it. It’s been a week since Tatum left in search of Kelvin after further pleas from her and she hasn’t heard from him at all.No
“Walk ahead,” Leila says to Carmela, squinting at her as they trudge up the small hill.There is no need to hide it, she doesn’t trust Carmela at all, this is a woman that had her locked up, tirelessly tried to poison her and eventually tried to kill her, there is no way she can walk with her back turned to Carmela.Adaline may be here and so Carmela may not try anything but she cannot take that risk. The fact that Carmela knew the assassin that attacked her on two occasions still baffles Leila’s mind.What she cannot make sense of is why Carmela would stage an attack, fake her own kidnap and then return now to try and kill her so she can become Luna when she could have just stayed and married Tatum naturally.