Betrayed

Scarlett's POV

“Ah, Anna! Oh please help me talk Luke out of this craziness!” I yelled in desperation. “He’s acting up and I don’t know why!” I cried.

I couldn’t seem to move my body, because whatever it was that must've been put into my food was so potent, it was fast weakening my defenses.

I almost breathed out a sigh of relief when she immediately turned to look at Luke with a stormy expression on her face, that was until she said; 

“Why didn’t you gag her?” I heard Annabel ask spitefully, making me gasp in shock. No, not her too!

“I didn’t because I wanted to listen to her shout out for help when I knew that no one was going to come to her aid.” Luke replied with a small smile dancing across his face.

To my utter dismay, Annabel joined in his laughter, but immediately stopped when her gaze locked with mine.

“I would’ve loved to have her gagged though… and make her watch while we do what we always did behind her back.” She said with a laugh.

What did she mean by that?

I had not fully comprehended what she was trying to say when suddenly she grabbed his bulging erection in her hands and turned to look smugly at me.

“You know how many times I wanted to ride this dick but couldn’t because I was scared you would be watching?” She asked; eying me in disgust. 

My heart immediately fell when it finally occurred to me that they were a thing, and that they had been in an affair and smashing each other behind my back for only God knows how long.

“You-you’ve been cheat-cheating on me with my best friend?!” I snarled at Luke who only glared back at me with his arms now wrapped around her waist.

“Oh yes he has!” She snapped. “Only that you got it all wrong there. He hasn’t been cheating on you with me! He has been cheating on me with you!”

I looked up at her in confusion. I could feel my brows furrowed as I tried to get her statement to finally sink in, and when it still didn’t, I turned to look in his direction.

“What she means is that we’ve been a thing even before you came into the picture.” Luke answered my unasked question calmly.

In my opinion, he was a little too calm for the situation at hand. The realization that I had been fooled for quite a while now irked me, even the fact that he was so chill about it irked me even further.

“Why…?” I muttered, confusedly. “Why would you both do this to me?” My voice broke with sadness as I spoke but I paid no attention to it. I was too hurt to.

“I have always wanted to be a Luna…” Annabel drawled, immediately catching my attention. “I knew you were next in line to your father and that whoever you got married to automatically became the Alpha.” She spat.

With undivided attention, I listened to her steely voice that echoed around the empty space while my gaze never flickered away from hers.

“…I didn’t know how I’d go about it seeing as we weren’t even related by blood until you found out that your mate was my boyfriend!” She snapped.

“You should’ve told me!” I cried indignantly.

“I wouldn’t have especially after I saw it as an opportunity to get that which I had always wanted! To get my position as Luna though him!” She snarled.

“The plan was to get him married to you, and then kill you after he had been made alpha… but then you were so loved up, you decided to make him an Alpha even while he was still just your fiancé!”

“He’s not officially an Alpha until we’ve performed all the marriage rites!” I snarled angrily.

“Oh, but he can still be one when you’re pronounced dead!” She seethed, making me gasp in shock. “Especially now that y'all are married in court.”

“You can’t kill me for something as tiny as this.” I cried softly, glancing between the both of them who stared at me like I was insane. 

I could already feel droplets of hot tears leaking out from my eyes from the realization that these two people I had trusted with my life were the very ones that had been wanting to take it for a while now.

“Oh yes I can, and I would, my man is involved.” She replied.

“You can have him!” I cried. I began to thrash around the floor, hoping that it would in a way numb the pain but it doesn't.

“And I want the throne too, would you leave that to me as well?” She asked but I didn’t respond.

“Would you?!” This time she growled, but I still didn’t give her the reply she wanted. There was no way I would give up my birth right simply because I had an over ambitious friend.

She took in The look on my face, and I am quite sure she saw the answer to her question for almost immediately she bared her teeth at me; and as if in a bid to spite me, she pulled him roughly into a wild kiss, which further broke my heart than it already was.

Their sloppy kisses resounded around the quiet room, making it quite difficult for me to ignore the loud sounds it made. 

I instinctively wanted to insert my index fingers ears but I couldn’t, my hands were still very well tied behind my back in a very tight knot.

And then a few minutes later, she suddenly broke out of the kiss to stare directly at me. 

She looked crazed, possessed even but I was almost very certain that she wouldn’t hurt me, she couldn’t!

Annabel couldn’t hurt a fly!

I would’ve gone on deceiving myself with such thoughts, that was until I saw her slip out a silver knife out of her crop top; and

I gulped loudly, knowing for a fact that she would hurt me.

“Please do not do this!” I cried out in fright, while I began to desperately struggle against the ropes holding me in place. “Annabel… Luke!” I cried, but they both paid no attention to me nor my desperate pleas.

“As much as I love the way she’s crying out for help, I do not like the noises she’s making! It’s beginning to irritate me!” Annabel snarled at Luke who looked on at her in confusion.

“What do you want me to do about that?” He asked confusedly, shrugging his broad shoulders.

“The Fuck, are you dumb?! Gag her of course!” She spat angrily. 

As soon as she bellowed out the command, Luke immediately fished out a dirty looking rag from his pants pocket, stalked towards me and was about to secure it firmly around my mouth when I immediately bit into the flesh of his hand.

“Arrrgh, you fucking bitch!” He growled, smacking me hard across my face. Immediately his hands connected with my face, my head reeled backwards, almost snapping off my neck.

“Hit her harder! She deserves it and worse!” Annabel snarled; and at her command, he began hitting and kicking at me everywhere skin burned under his wrath. 

Everywhere his hands touched hurt. It felt like there were millions of needles pricking into my skin from several angles and I had to bite down on my tongue to stop myself from yelling out in anguish.

I couldn’t give them the satisfaction of crying out; couldn’t feed their ego by pleading for mercy when it is quite obvious that they wouldn’t feel any form of pity towards me.

Tears immediately sprang into my eyes when He landed a ferocious blow to my midriff. The pain was so intense that I doubled up, recoiling into myself.

I was pregnant. Fine, they didn’t know about it yet but I had known for quite a while now. I immediately felt something warm and wet trickle down between my legs and I immediately knew, even without being told that it was my blood.

I had probably lost my baby.

“Luke…” I cried, my voice deep with anguish. “ I’m bleeding, you’ve hit your baby…”