A surprise for Tori

CHAPTER ONE- A SURPRISE FOR TORI

Tori’ Pov

“Congratulations ma’am. You just gave birth to a beautiful baby girl,” the mid-wife announced.

I groaned in agony as I struggled to sit up and look at my baby but the sharp pain that hit my belly made me give a short scream and had me falling back on the bed.

“Take it easy! You just had a surgery,” the midwife said and brought my baby to me. As I looked at her innocent face, a dry smile formed on my lips but it was quickly replaced by a sad smile.

My husband, Alpha Victor wouldn’t like this. This is my third daughter.

The door suddenly opened and my husband barged in.

“What’s the gender?” He asked impatiently, his hard face had a hint of hope and frustration.

It hurt that he didn’t even ask how I was. I just had an emergency CS section to deliver my baby due to some complications.

“I just had a CS, my love. At least….”

“The gender!” my husband barked at the midwife who squirmed in fright, her eyes laced with fear.

“It’s a girl!”

“I knew it,” he hissed angrily, hitting his fist on the wall while I shook on my bed, my face drenched in sweat.

“You are such a useless woman! Why can’t you give me an heir? You know I want a future Alpha and you have refused to give me that,” he yelled, his veins almost popping out of its socket as his face reddened in anger.

Hot tears streamed down my face and I tried to cry, but the sharp pain in my belly hit me like a knife stab and I immediately swallowed my tears.

“I…I only give birth to what you put in me,” I managed to say, my lips quavering.

“Nonsense! All you ever bring is badluck! To hell with you!”

I watched my husband angrily storm out of the room without bothering to check if I was okay. To make it worse, I couldn’t cry out my heart and express myself because of the pain in my belly and I had to hold it in. Not being able to cry freely was a different type of pain I didn’t know existed.

My heart was so heavy, and all I wanted to do was vanish from the surface of the earth but I have three daughters, and I can’t leave them alone.

My husband, Alpha Victor, is the leader of one of the most powerful packs in the city. We met at a party where Alphas from different packs come together to dine as a sign of peace with the neighbouring packs.

My name is Victoria but I was  usually called Tori which is a short form of my name.. As a Beta’s daughter, everyone expected me to marry the Alpha’s son of my pack, not Alpha Victor who was rumoured to have killed his father to be the Alpha of his pack but I didn’t listen.

Alpha Victor fed me with a lot of stories on how rumours were spread about him and because I love him, I fell for his charm and good looks but look where it landed me.

“When will I get discharged?” I turned to the midwife, who was looking at me with pity.

“It takes two to four days, depending on how quickly you respond to treatment, so be careful not to cry heavily so your stitches don’t remove,” she advised, and I nodded.

I had to hold my hurt in, even though it is eating my heart away, I must be strong for my daughters. I had three daughters in three years without any spacing, all because I wanted to bear a male child for him but he never cared about my health and how it affected me.

I healed really nicely and in three days, I was discharged from the hospital. I felt sad that my husband had not come to visit me even once.

I knew my step mom, Riley would be taking good care of my two daughters so I wasn’t worried about them. I hired a cab and went straight home.

As the Alpha of Night Wolves pack, which had grown to be one of the best packs around, my husband was quite wealthy with properties scattered all over the pack and beyond.

I wondered why he couldn’t send one of his drivers to come and pick me up in one of his numerous cars. If hurt so badly, but I tried to be strong.

As I entered the mansion, I was shocked to see my two daughters, Millie and Candy, sitting inside a cage in a corner. They looked tired and hungry.

“What!” I carefully dropped my baby on the sofa and quickly ran to meet them. 

“Mummy!” My girls cried out, their sad eyes, full of despair and hopelessness, looked up at me.

I carefully untangled the wires used to lock the cage and they were finally free. I gave them a tight hug and they sobbed in my arms as hot tears poured out of their red eyes.

“Are you okay?” I examined both of them, clenching my fist in anger as tears streamed out of my eyes and I felt a sharp pain. My stitches haven't healed.

“Who did this to you?” I asked, my tears were quickly replaced with burning anger that almost threatened to consume me.

“I did!” I heard my step mum, Riley’s voice and I looked up as I watched her walk down the stairs, shock and surprise evident on my face. This is someone I entrusted to look after my daughters.

“You locked my daughters in a cage?” My mouth flew open in shock.

“Of course I did. They were very naughty so I decided to teach them a lesson,” Riley replied, a playful smirk on her lips.

“B-But, what could they have possibly done? They look starved and tired. Did you even feed them?” I clenched my fist, as my eyes reddened in anger and I resisted the urge to punch her in the face.

“That rascal Candy peed in her pants! And Millie spilled her food all over the place. Gosh! Your kids are so ill mannered! You need to have seen the way Candy was speaking to me!” 

My eyes twitched and just when I was about to move forward and grab her hair, I saw my husband walking down the stairs.

“Hey honey!” Riley smiled and went to give him a kiss and I looked at both of them, my face as white as snow. What is going on here?

“Honey?” I repeated, not sure I heard properly. I was trying to process all of this information. First, my husband abandoned me, my kids were locked in a cage and now this? I didn’t even know what to confront him with first.

“That’s right. Riley and I are together now,” my husband announced and my mouth flew open in shock. Never in a million years would I have seen this coming.

My stepmom and my husband? What? How? Huh?

Riley is only five years older than me, my dad married a lady almost my age but I didn’t mind because she was so kind. She even left my father to come and look after me in the mansion to help me take care of my kids.

So she’s cheating on my dad? And sleeping with my husband?

“What…I can’t believe this”

“Riley is pregnant and I’m getting married to her. I, Alpha Victor, reject you as my luna, so pack your things and get out of my house. I want a divorce!”