Episode 2

DIANA’S POV

“Darius!” The yell flied free.

He stopped pounding into her and turned in my direction. When he saw me, he quickly pulled out of Ella.

“I-it's not what you think it is D-Diana.” Darius stammered.

A bitter ragged laugh escaped my lips, it’s not what I think it is, really? Was that the best he could do?

“Do I look like a freaking five year old pup to you, Darius? You’re fucking my step-sist….scratch that, my mortal enemy as a matter of fact! Have you forgotten every single thing she did to me after my father married her mother, how could you be so senseless to betray me like this? With her of all people!!!”

“Oh please, Diana, spare us that grand tale of yours.” Ella snorted at me.

I made to launch at her but Darius held me back, turning me around to face him.

“Don't you dare touch me!” I punched Darius square face in his jaw.

He stumbled backwards, groaning and spitting out blood.

Ella ran to him and caressed his face and a feeling of regret instantly washed over me.

Shit, I shouldn't have hit him so hard.

I was ready to apologize until Ella held her stomach and started puking. Darius held her hair up as she vomited while I stood in one spot, seething with shock and anger.

Was she…..? No, it cant be. Ella wasn't preg…

“We might be having a baby, Darius.” Ella interrupted, a proud grin on her face as she slowly raised her head and wiped some vomit stains from the corners of her mouth with the back of her palm.

“A baby?!” Darius and I screamed.

Ella nodded and then added with an eye roll, “Of course Darius, it’s not like we've had sex just once though.”

My breath hitched in my throat as Ella’s jaw dropping revelation swirled in my head whilst Darius gave Ella a horrifying look.

“For goddess's sake, Ella! Why would you blurt out something like that so casually?!”

Crossing her arms, Ella scoffed. “Someone had to tell her the truth, babe.” she paused, then darted her eyes to me, pinning me with a smug smile. “.....that her supposed nectar-sweet mate and love of her life isn't fucking just her alone. And guess what, I enjoyed every bit of his dick, Diana.”

My pulse stuttered as I tried to say something, but all that came out was a muffled squeak.

Darius had been sleeping with Ella behind my back, not once or twice.

Yet here I was all this years we've secretly dated, thinking that he truly loved me as much as I did not knowing he was part of the men my step-sister frolicked with.

Almost at the verge of tears, I looked at Darius, hoping to see anything other than shame coating his features. Or to watch him rebuff Ella, but none of that happened.

The bastard couldn't even look me in the eye.

Fury and hurt rolled off me in waves as I strutted towards him, not even thinking as the words were coming from my mouth before I could stop them. “I want a rejection.”

Unlike other packs, our pack had this law that only the men could reject the women due to certain mishaps that had happened when the women were the ones who took upon themselves the mantle of rejecting their mates, for whatever reasons they had.

I can't even tell why the law suddenly sprang to my mind but while I was still in my right frame of mind, I was ready to honour it, even though no one's ever come out to confirm that it was true.

Darius face paled instantly. “No, Diana, you can’t want th–”

“You can't freaking tell me what to want or what not to want Darius! Fucking say the rejection words!” Hot tears brimmed my eyelids but I quickly blinked them back. This wasnt a time to cry, especially not in front of Ella.

He hesitated for a moment and I felt my anger doubling.

“Fucking say it Darius! your princess commands that!”

This wasn’t just about me anymore. My hands instinctively brushed over my stomach as I realized what I had to do. I deserve better... and so does my child.

I didn’t need Darius or his half-hearted apologies. I could do this. Alone.

“I won't reject you, Diana….we can talk this through….If your father insists I marry Ella because of my baby in her womb, you could be my second wife or my concubine, who knows? I will be very willing to do that for you, Diana.” he finally said, pausing in between each words.

For a moment, I wondered if I had heard wrong. His second wife really? Wa…was that how lowly he thought of me?

“You know what, Darius?” I sneered. Fuck you…and fuck the pack's law. I, princess Diana of Silent Realm pack reject you as my mate!!”

As soon as the words rolled out of my lips, Darius face began to contort and give off a white smoke as if a bucket full of wolfsbane had been poured on him.

“What have you done to me, Diana!!! Arrgghhhh!!!” A guttural scream tore out of Darius throat. It was so loud and terror filled: so much so that the birds perching around flapped their wings and fled for their dear life.

My mind began to race.

"No! Oh, goddess, no!" I muttered under my breath, backing away in horror.

Darius's body began to convulse, his eyes bulging out of their sockets.

“Darius…!” Ella's eyes flashed with terror as she rushed towards Darius. “Baby, can you hear me?!”

Darius' only response was a scream laced with cries of agony. The next scene my eyes beheld were Darius eye's falling to the ground, a string of skin and blood accompanying it.

“Oh my God!” Ella shrieked and instantly shuffled away from him, turning to me. "You've killed him, Diana…. you've killed the father of my child!”

I stumbled backward, my mind reeling.

This can't be happening.

The pack's law... I thought it was just a myth. Just some silly law the council of elders initiated to keep women under the leashes of egotistic men who weren't worthy of faithful women.

But it's true.

It turned out to be true.

And now I've killed Darius – my mate, the father of my baby and that of my step-sister.

Ella's eyes burned into mine, brewing with hatred and accusation. "Murderer!" she spat, pointing at me. “I won't let you get away with this!!”

I stood frozen, unable to move or speak.

Ella turned on her heel and ran out of the garden with a zeal I'd never seen in her before, screaming for the guards.

My heart sank because I knew what was going to happen. She'd run straight to my dad, not the guards she was screaming for.

My father will come.

His guards will seize me.

And I'll be punished for defying the pack's laws and going ahead to reject Darius.

But I didn't mean to kill him. I thought to myself, willing myself not to cry. I was just so angry... so hurt.

Suddenly, Darius's body stopped convulsing, and he fell to the ground with a thud. His eyes stared up at me, empty and lifeless.

A scream built in my throat, but before I could release it, my father's icy voice cut through the air.

"Seize that murderer of a daughter!!”