I shook my head fervently, feeling the tears fall."You promised me forever. Y-you swore. W-we're fated mates.""That was then and this is now. When we met, I settled on Aine. Caitlin is my mate and she is now my forever. She is everything I want in a woman. She represents both the pack and I well. I am to be the Alpha King, I cannot be walking around with you. You do nothing for me anymore."His words sliced through me, almost bringing me to my knees."I could try," I pleaded. "Just give me a chance to try,"It would be a waste of time. You're mediocre at best."I pulled in a harsh breath. It felt like I had been slapped."So you're rejecting me?"My lungs burned for air as my mind reeled around his words. He moved closer to me and his eyes went to the mark on my neck."This is what I wanted to discuss with you."I looked at him hopefully."I will have to give Caitlin my mark. She will be my chosen and be by my side. But I will still provide a home for you here. You will always have
My placenta had ruptured. That's what she said. There were so many noises going on around me but I was numb to it all. I was cold, so cold.It kept replaying in my head and if I closed my eyes it was all I would see, him thrusting into her over and over again. It was the final straw. There was nothing left. He broke me. I was here but I wasn't. I was a ghost, a shell of my former self.Lindsay brought me to the pack hospital. I was barely conscious. It was inevitable that Eion had to come with us, there was no one to leave him with and there was no time to waste.The pain was unbearable and the bleeding wouldn't stop. Our pack doctor, Cloud, Lindsay’s mate rushed me in immediately. Even all his years of experience and professionalism couldn't mask the terrified look in his eyes. I asked him if this was how I was going to die. He only blinked back tears. At least I'd known this was coming compared to everything that had happened to me in the past few days.I guess he heard. I don't kn
Lindsay and Cloud wanted to come but I couldn't take them with me. It was too dangerous. I didn't know what lay ahead. They already helped me enough. Most importantly they had family here, I couldn't take them away from them or forgive myself if anything happened to them because of me.If anything, Lindsay could honestly just say Cian came for me which was the truth. She wouldn't be liable. If they pressured her she could add that I went to my parents, they wouldn’t come looking there for me anyway.Hopefully I'll be gone by then.I'd miss her more than anything. Lindsay was really my only friend and more like a sister. I surely will miss her. I don't know what would have happened to me if I didn't have her. This was one of the most terrifying moments of my life. I had to remind myself to breathe. It's because at any moment anything could happen. I could watch my son's life end right before my eyes.I hugged Eion tightly in the backseat as the panic settled in. He was still sleepy,
It was terrifying to say the least. I was staring out at the lawn. It made sense, but the thought of being alone against them was jolting. We left together with me practically following him out in the darkness and now here I was with no idea where I was going."I know it's terrible that you have to when you aren't in your best state. I know you're in a lot of pain and you really seem out of it. You're barely hanging on but you are surprising."I looked at him questioningly. I'd never had anyone describe me as surprising. He placed his hands in his pockets and the light caught his hair reflecting a hue of dark brown. His grey eyes were comforting."You're much more than people let on. You have to try and stay here in the present. It's not just Eion anymore, you have two more people who are counting on you. I would drive you halfway across Earth if I could but I'm just one man, a demoted Beta with a high risk pregnant woman and a toddler against one of the most powerful men and packs in
Driving across the country with a broken heart and a toddler while pregnant is one of the hardest things I've ever done. I could barely see much out of my left eye because it was swollen. I couldn't wait it out until it went down. Time was of the essence and it could cost us our lives.I could taste the blood in my mouth as I pulled out of my father's driveway. I had to wipe my lip every few seconds because it refused to stop bleeding. It was just like old times growing up. I tried to blink back the tears as I directed the car to the nearest gas station for gas and supplies.I got a lot of stares when I stopped at the local gas station and I tried not to dwell on it. I only paused to look in the glass window. The extremely swollen half of my face was decorated with shades of purple turning black and blue. I absentmindedly reached out to touch it. It hummed in pain. I didn't think I could look any worse.I didn't think about it. I drove non stop until I couldn't anymore, day and night,
It was like a call in the darkness. My body was frozen in fear. Oishin’s commanding voice sounded on edge and I hung up the phone quickly. There would never be enough time in the world to calm my racing heart. I didn't stay there that night, I left immediately.I knew I had to keep a tighter rein on myself. I couldn't let myself go, if not for me then for everyone else with me. I had to fight it with everything I had. I was terrified of what was happening. If I went then they went with me and that was the most terrifying part of it all. They needed me more than anything else.So I tried. Whenever my mind drifted to him I thought of something else, anything else. It was beyond mentally draining and sometimes I would find myself disoriented and sweating profusely ready to lose consciousness. But it worked. I was holding on to my sanity.It took a week to arrive at the Half Moon sanctuary. It was a disappearing turn off, hidden deep within the thick of a forest, the only sign of an access
Some of the huts used thin sheets to block the entrances but I needed them to bundle Milo up so he was warm. I placed him to sleep between me and the wall. He had already been falling asleep by the time we got to the room. I brushed his dark hair back as I watched him sleep. "I'm sorry it's not the best." A lot of things had become startlingly clear in the past few days; the bitter truth. I had blindly placed too much faith in Oishin thinking he would never hurt me. I had placed everything into building him and his pack. But here I was in a run down hut with no money and nowhere to go, I went in with nothing and I left the same. I hadn't made sure I had even an account set aside or something of value in case something happened. I left with nothing. I didn't have any skills other than being luna. I had blindly followed him in the name of love thinking I was taking my rightful place only for it all to be a joke. The simple gold ring that he had given me for my worth couldn't have aff
The man struggled to breathe, his veins protruding out from his neck. My rescuer promised him death if he set a foot back inside our room and then he threw him out like he weighed nothing more than a feather. I was in the corner with Eion, with nowhere to go, fighting to breathe against the now rapid pains from over exertion. Sweat broke down my back and my vision was a bit blurry. We were cornered. I didn't know him either or his intentions. He could be even worse than the man he just threw out and he could kill the both of us without even breathing too hard. I needed to escape and get us to safety but the pain was too much. I couldn't move as fast as I could. He finally looked down on us. He was a tall hulking man, with long thick brown hair and eyes so brown they shone golden. "You might as well stay. Out there isn't any much better. I assure you, he and his friends are going to get retribution if you set foot outside with that boy,” he grumbled in clear annoyance when he saw me