~Kira~Left with nothing to do aside from moping around, I decided to go and visit the Pack doctor in her office. I’d been wanting to do that ever since the time she lied to the alpha to protect me. With Alianna too busy to chat with me and the alpha busy with the warrior selection process, I wore a little dress and stepped out of my room to outside.The sun felt good on my skin, and it made me feel even better than when I was in the room. The walk to the Pack hospital wasn’t too far away and in a short while, I was in the building. The receptionist greeted me when I came in, bowing slightly. I asked to see the doctor in charge and was told to wait for a while because she currently had a patient that she was attending to.Soon enough, the doctor stepped out. She looked shocked to see me but schooled her expression immediately. She curtsied and looked up at me with a smile. “To what do I owe the pleasure of this visit, Luna?”“I came to see you, Doctor,” I replied.She nodded. “Let’s
~Kira~My brain registered what Xavier was saying as I looked down at myself. The fact that I looked like someone who had tussled on the ground with her lover, and Jay was shirtless, spoke volumes.“No, Xavier; this is not what it looks like” I started, feeling the need to explain what had happened, but his growl stopped me.“What were you doing with my mate in such an enclosed area of the woods, Jayden?” Xavier asked again.His voice was low and dangerous, his eyes burning with a mixture of anger and betrayal. I stood beside him, my heart pounding with fear and confusion. The air crackled with tension, thick and charged with unspoken accusations.Jay, usually confident and composed, looked genuinely caught off guard. He glanced at me, then back at Xavier, his own expression tightening with concern. "Xavier, it's not what you think. We were just...""Just what?" Xavier's voice rose, cutting through the stillness of the woods. "A harmless run? Is that what you were doing?"I stepped fo
~Xavier~I couldn’t believe the words that had come out of Kira’s mouth. What the fuck does she mean that she is pregnant? And worst of all was that the baby isn’t for me but for her ex who almost made her commit suicide?What the fuck!My head was pounding. My breath was ragged. And I fought so hard to take control of my emotions. I could feel the wheels turning ferociously in my brain and looking for an exit to break apart.The worst thing that I detested in this whole life. Pregnancy! And I’d fucked her with another man’s baby in her belly? Dumping my load and all? So what had happened to the herb that I’d been feeding her with almost every day? Why hadn’t the herb helped in terminating the thing in her belly since she started taking it?Fuck!My hands shook with anger as I threw punches at the punching bag suspended from the ceiling, the force of my fists making a hole in the bag and ultimately pulling it down. I groaned loudly in frustration and stomped on the punching bag which
~Kira~All through the day to the next, I didn’t set my eyes on Xavier. I went out of my way to look for him in all the corners that he usually is, but it was as if he had been blown off the face of the earth and the Packhouse.When I asked his beta, all he told me was to give him time, and that he wouldn’t be found if he didn’t want to be found. All the other people that I ever also asked said that they hadn’t seen him since the day before. I went to bed with tears in my eyes, crying until I finally felt the hands of sleep slowly drawing me away from my consciousness.But this morning, one of the servants that I’d continuously asked about the whereabouts of Xavier came to me when I was talking to myself in the garden. That had been a way for me to cope. I hadn’t turned to Jay because I didn’t want Xavier to misunderstand anything about us in case he saw us together again. He tried so many times to stay with me but I told him not to worry about me and go about his daily business.Now
~Kira~I blinked twice, trying my best not to drop any tears. If it was just Xavier, then I wouldn’t mind showing my weakness, but Lola was there and I knew that seeing me in distress was the only thing that would make her happy. So I refused to give her that satisfaction.“I’m not just anyone, Xav. I’m your mate and Luna. And you can’t talk to me in front of your…mistress. Is that what she is right now? After you promised that there was nothing going between the two of you?”He took another drag and held Lola’s neck as he blew the smoke in her face, very close to her lips. In fact, their lips almost touched. Lola was enjoying whatever was happening a little too much. She giggled again like a high school teenager who had just received her first kiss from her longtime crush.I would be a great liar if I said that the scenario playing out in front of me didn’t hurt. It hurt like hell. It squeezed my heart as tight as possible, and then yanked it out before breaking it into little pieces
~Kira~When I finally got to the privacy of our room, I broke down. Those tears that I’d been holding in for the longest time finally got free, and they rained in torrents. I clutched my chest as I tried not to think about what I’d seen back in Xavier’s office. At this point, I was starting to believe that I was actually cursed. There was no other plausible explanation for what was happening to me. I was still beating myself up when a knock sounded on the door.“Go away. Go away, please” I muttered and curled myself on the bed. I grabbed one pillow and cried into it.The knock sounded again. I groaned in frustration and raised my head from the pillow. “I said go away! I don’t need anything from any of you!”The knock stopped. But after a few seconds, the door carefully swung open, and a small gasp sounded. I turned and saw Alianna. Of course, she’d be the only one who can open the door even when I say no."Luna, what's wrong?" Alianna asked gently, setting the tray of food down on th
~Xavier~For days, my mood was entirely off. Anyone who got in my way was treated accordingly and made to pay for a problem that they knew nothing about. Everything that I’d tried to do to forget that Kira lied to me, proved abortive.Initially, I decided to give Lola a chance when she slithered up to me like a serpent in need of a rat to feed on, but I couldn’t even stand her for one whole day. After Kira barged into my office that day and saw us, I immediately sent her out after I was sure that Kira wasn’t anywhere near the office anymore.Seeing her in that deplorable state weakened any sort of erection that I would have gotten from Lola’s touch- not that I was going to anyway. For a moment there, I was tempted to take her into my arms and comfort her- tell her that there was no need for her to be so hard on herself. I was tempted to clean that one stray tear that escaped from her eyes, even though I could see how strongly she tried to keep the others in.I hadn’t spared her a gla
~Jake~(Back at Crescent Pack)I looked at Ella as if she had grown two heads. I didn’t understand anything anymore. Our union wasn’t what it used to be and I’ve been getting easily irritated with almost everything she does. It doesn’t matter if she was trying to please me or not, I just didn’t see her the same way anymore. Watching her stand before me, telling me the same bad news that I’ve been hearing for the past couple of months now, I felt bitterness rise like bile in me.“What do you mean by you lost the pregnancy?” I asked.She sniffled as she looked up at me with tears in her eyes. “I had a miscarriage. I don’t know what happened. I woke up and saw that I was bleeding. I visited the doctor and he said that the baby is gone.”I knew that I was at least supposed to feel some sort of pity for her, especially since this was our baby that we were talking about. But all I felt was anger which I couldn’t even tell where it was coming from. It wasn’t as if she was the reason for her