CHAPTER 2: Pregnant!

 Athena's pov

I was never destined to bear the Lycan King's child, but after my stepfather had heartlessly sold me to him as one of the breeders who would attempt to bear a child for him, I had accepted my fate, knowing there was no use arguing.

After all, my mother who would have fought tooth and nail to ensure I wasn't forced into doing anything I wasn't comfortable with was dead, and my step-brothers were just as happy as my stepfather to see me leave the house.

What I once called home was nothing but a house where I wasn't needed.

Sometimes I wondered why he ever chose me. I knew he was my mate from the moment we had set eyes on each other, but with the way he acted around me, I doubted he even knew we were mates. Maybe he felt the mate pull and had chosen me without realizing It?

Well, whatever It was that had prompted him to choose me must have certainly been fate or luck because If he had rejected me like the others and had sent us packing, where would I have gone?

I had no place to go and the thought that once I bore a child, I'll be sent out without a place to go to bothered me every single day of my life.

But today, as I sat facing my dresser while Miriam, my second (and most favorite) handmaid brushed my hair, I hummed my favorite song and kicked my legs excitedly underneath my chair like a child.

Miriam couldn't help but chuckle as she dropped the brush and set to braid my hair into a ponytail.

"You seem very excited today my lady."

"Oh Miriam, Imagine the look of awe and happiness on his face If he learns that after all those months of fails and frustration, I am finally carrying his child." My heart was gladdened as I rubbed my tummy through my clothes, and a smile spread across my face as I began playing out the scene of what would happen.

How he would pick me up in the air and spin me around happily when he hears the news. How he would apologize for how he has ever treated me in the past and would turn into a nice caring husband for the sake of the baby.

I absentmindedly smiled at the thought, but I noticed Miriam's expression had darkened and turned gloomy.

"What is it, Miriam?" I ask worriedly and hold her eyes in the reflection of the mirror. She was the only one I could trust with my life and secrets here because she was the only one who had accepted me for me and had stood by me even when the Omegas had stopped coming to serve me. After all, Damon humiliated me to the point that they felt I had no status.

"It's nothing… " she sighed before absentmindedly picking up the brush and running It over my head. "It's just that… I'm really happy for you, but knowing that I won't see you again once you give birth… " her voice suddenly stops like she was being choked by her tears, and I found myself hugging her, pulling her into my warm embrace.

We stayed there for a long time before I pull away to stare into her tear-filled eyes.

I held myself back from also crying because no matter how I tried to console her now, the truth still stands that we would never see each other again. After all, as an Omega who had sworn her undying loyalty to the king, they wouldn't let her go with me.

"Maybe he will change his mind once he learns I am with a child for him… " I smile and watch her expression lighten up at the thought.

"Y- you really think so?"

I nodded even though I wasn't sure.

"I'm heading to his chambers right now to break the news to him…" with my smile getting broad, I stepped back and did a little spin for her. "How do I look?"

I watched the genuine sparkle and awe in her eyes as she stared at me, from my hair to the perfectly shaped cuticles of my toes.

"You are the most beautiful lady I have ever set my eyes on, My lady.."

I was touched by her words and It did serve as some sense of motivation as my resolve to break the news to my mate got stronger and renewed.

I dismissed her and after adding a few touches to my makeup and adding scented oils to my neck and wrists, I set out to find my mate.

I didn't have to bother searching the entire palace when I could use the mate pull to find him.

The mate pull happened to be stronger these days since I got pregnant. His scent had gotten much stronger- almost intoxicating- a perfect blend of chocolate and mahogany wood.

However, rather than being led to his chambers, I was led to the inner gardens by the mate pull. I wasn't supposed to go there as that was the King's private place for resting, but I was too excited to care about any stupid rules.

I couldn't explain the sickening sensation I suddenly felt at the bottom of my stomach as I approached the gardens, for some reason tiptoeing carefully so I wouldn't be seen.

"Oh Damon~" I heard the unmistakable sound of a woman moaning lewdly and it was like every atom of my being froze.

Despite the chilly weather, beads of sweat and perspiration formed on my forehead and slid across my face as I took slow steps forward, my heart racing as I prayed silently that I was hallucinating and It wasn't what I thought it was.

My hands suddenly flew up, holding a cry from leaving my lips, tears filling my eyes as I watched my mate, the father of my unborn child, fucking a woman against the walls of the garden.

His naked broad back dripping with sweat sparkled like crystal water under the sunlight as he thrust ruthlessly into her, growling in pleasure as the woman underneath him wrapped her slender arms around his neck, tightening the grip of her legs around his waist as she took him in over and over again.

"Don't hold back... Please don't " She whispered as her boobs swayed to the effort of his thrust, and my anger spiraled out of control as I watched them, hearing the lewd sounds of his cock thrusting in and out of her wet entrance.

His grip against her ass was tight and rough, leaving marks before she threw her head back, a satisfied smile on her face as he increased his pace, her moans getting louder.

I just stood there. I wanted to go there and rake my eyes over the bitch's eyes and watch her cry in pain before I slap Damon hard across the face.

I knew he was bound to fuck other women someday, but couldn't he have some respect for me at least. Yes- he didn't know I had his child growing in me, but why did he have to treat me this way? I have gone through so many things for him but I just can't take it!

"I'm cumming Damon… " she moaned in that lewd voice that irked me, and without a doubt, I recognized that voice even without seeing her face.

She was the Pack doctor's daughter who we'd run into once in a while when her father usually ran tests on me.

I knew I had to be wary of her the moment I set eyes on her flirting with my mate, but would I have guessed that she would have the audacity to actually seduce him into fucking her?

"Fuck… " I heard him groan before he thrust into her the last few times and pulled away immediately while he held the thrashing woman against the wall as she cummed and moaned loudly.

Their foreheads were glued together as they panted into each other's faces, eyes staring lustfully into each other.

My eyes stung with tears that I couldn't hold back,  and so they slid down my cheeks to the ground, and just when I thought it couldn't get worse, I heard the woman say.

"... So soon? It's not like she knows I'm here anyway… we can go to your room… " with that, she flashed him a seductive look and rolled a strand of her hair with one finger, sucking her lower lip between her teeth and raking her eyes over him. "... And finish up."

"No Sandra.. " he suddenly let her go and began buckling his pants, and when Sandra's eyes met mine- just for a brief moment, I quickly hid behind a wall of rose bushes, my heart in my mouth as I hoped that she hadn't seen me, my chest rising and falling.

After a while and I didn't see any sign of her coming to check out for me, I looked back inside and my heart shattered into further little pieces as I watched Sandra kiss him lustfully and passionately before reaching down to grab his hardened cock from his pants, her eyes holding yearning and desire as she parted to look at him.

"Are you worried that she'd be heartbroken If she sees us? Do you love her?"

My heart stilled as I waited for his answer.

"I don't care If she's heartbroken or not… Besides, she's nothing more than a breeder, and once she bears my child, she will be banished from my pack. Just because she has the privilege of sleeping in my chambers, doesn't give her full rights over me.. " he suddenly raised her chin and I saw the smirk in Sandra's eyes as she looked at him in satisfaction. "I'll fuck who I want to fuck."

And with that being said, I nodded slowly to myself, feeling more numb than heartbroken. My steps were noiseless and quick, and I didn't care to notice the stares I got as I burst into my room and flew onto my bed, crying out my eyes.

I knew I was foolish to ever think anything other than Master and breeder was ever going to go on between us but did Damon really hate me that much?

As I lay down there, I rubbed my stomach absentmindedly and began thinking of my unborn child.

If Damon hated me that much, what was the possibility that he wouldn't transfer his hate toward the child when I leave?

My eyes suddenly darkened and I sat up on the bed.

No… If that was so, then I would rather die escaping than leave my child here to suffer in Damon's hands.