Do you Love Him.

Ava.

I sat down there sobbing, watching as my mate walked out on me after telling me he was going to hurt me over another woman.

Everything about what was going on hurt so bad I could barely breathe.

I should have been treated better. I struggled to get to this position; I struggled to get Zane’s attention and love.

 But I knew the bitter truth; Zane never loved me. I could see that clearly now, it had been a one-sided relationship all along.

I looked around me at the home I shared with Zane for more than four years at the pack I had worked so hard to mold and maintain.

In the early stages of my becoming a Luna, I knew nothing about governing a pack. It was all too overwhelming in the beginning.

But I was determined to show Zane that I wasn't some woman that just wanted to answer the title of Luna.

I worked hard to adapt, to learn, and this was how I was treated back. My mate had cheated on me with my friend.

My wolf was howling in pain, adding to how miserable I felt. I could see the anger, pain, and frustration pushing forward, threatening to erupt and I let the emotions loose to hurt to fight them back.

Lifting my head to the ceiling of the room I screamed.

"Why Goddess, why, why did you bless me and curse me. You made me a Luna and yet you cannot give me a child to secure my position and the heart of the man I love. Why?"

The room was silent. Of course, the Goddess wouldn't answer.

I dropped my head to the ground, gritting my teeth in pain, and banging my fists on the ground.

"Why, why, why" I muttered as I punched the floor with my fist a lot of memories whizzing fast behind my closed eyes.

Even though Zane said he wouldn't take away my position, I knew I had lost both the position and his heart.

It was cruel. If I had been rejected, it wouldn't have hurt as much as it did right now.

My mate had gone off and slept with another woman, and now they had a child together. It was the most painful thing to hear, the most painful thing to experience.

I didn't know how long I stayed there on the ground crying, but soon I was dry-eyed. There were no more tears left for me to cry. I had nothing more left to give.

My days in this house and my marriage with Zane had come to an end. Looking around the den, I came to a conclusion.

I will have to leave the house. I couldn't remain here anymore looking at the eyes of the man who was my mate bringing in another woman to live with him.

It was an insult to any woman’s dignity.

With difficulty, I got up from the ground and staggered a little as the pounding behind my head intensified and the room swam a bit.

My heightened sense of smell picked up a familiar scent which let me know that someone was in the living room with me and that someone was the last person I wanted to see.

I turned back to see Cassie standing at the threshold of the door.

Anger surged forward, clouding my vision, and it took me a great deal of self-restraint not to launch myself at Cassie.

I had to remember she was pregnant. My wolf was mad. It wanted out; it wanted to launch itself at her and attack her.

I just stood there watching my best friend and the woman who had taken my mate away from me. Loathe coursed through me as I desperately fought to keep my wolf and anger in check.

"Ava…" Cassie started, walking toward me.

"Don't you dare!" I roared. "Don't you dare come close to me, don't you dare."

Cassie’s face was twisted in a mask of pain.

"I'm so sorry, Ava. I didn’t mean for it to happen this way. I got caught up in the moment, I…"

"You got caught up. Cassie, are you kidding me? He's my husband, he's my mate. How the hell did you get caught up in something that belongs to someone else?"

The anger I was so desperately trying to fight was growing by the second and it was threatening to consume me.

"He came to me Ava. I wanted none of this in the beginning but I pitied him, and… I… believe me, I didn’t know when all this happened."

Her words were grating in my ears. Every second, every minute i stood there listening to her I felt like I wanted to commit murder, just reach up to her grab her neck and snap it.

"I'm so sorry Ava, I know what I did was wrong, I'm so sorry."

Cassie suddenly burst into tears, her little body rocking as she cried.

But I didn't care. Her tears weren't going to bring back my mate she had taken wrongfully . It wasn’t going to take care of the damage she had caused.

"I want to know one thing, Cassie. Will you at least tell me the truth to this question I'm about to ask? I deserve that much at least don't I?"

"Yes, I will," Cassie replied, looking at me with eyes filled with tears.

"Do you love him?"

There was a pause as Cassie stared at me, her eyes glassy.

"Answer me, do you love my mate?" I bellowed.

"Yes, yes, I do Ava and I'm so sorry" Cassie blurted out, as she started crying again.

I closed my eyes at her answer and opened them again.

"Get out," I growled, my wolf, fueling me with anger.

"Ava I...”

"I said get out!”

Cassie flinched at my voice and turned, running away from the living room.

"That was unnecessary."

I looked to my left to see Eli, one of the pack wolves watching me.

"She shouldn't be treated that way. She's pregnant, you know?"

Eli was a gamma, one of the lowest ranks in a pack and now he had the audacity to step into my house and stand up to me.

With lighting speed, I reached Eli faster than he had time to react and flung him to the wall, pinning his head to the wall.

"I'm still your Luna, and you will know your place. If you so much as talk to me in a disrespectful manner, I'll make sure you pay dearly for it."

Eli was scared, he gulped, his throat bobbing up and down.

"And if you so much as look in my direction, I'm going to make sure you never see again," I growled, my eyes flashing amber.

My wolf's anger was getting the better of me, and I didn't care. I wanted to feel anything but pain and sadness right now. The anger was fitting.

"Have I made myself clear?"

Eli nodded, his head moving up and down like a fish out of water.

"Now get out," I snarled.

I let go of him and he dashed out of the house and I was left alone with my anger and pain.

A run in the woods would do anything but stay here.

Running out of the house, I shifted to my wolf's form, completing the change quickly as I bounded into the woods.