A month later, Iris found out she was pregnant. To find out how Adrian would feel about this, she had ignored all his maltreatment. Roxy now frequented the pack. It was almost as though she was living Ng with them. She had also caught her with Adrian on various occasions but had not said anything, believing that things would get back to the way it was between her and Adrian before their marriage.'You might be the Luna in name , I am the one really married to Adrian', Roxy gloated one day. 'You have no place here and soon, you will be driven away. We hat will you do then?' she taunted.Iris kept quiet, not responding to her taunts but continued doing what she was doing in the kitchen.'Cat got your tongue?' Roxy asked. 'No response? I can see that you have already accepted your fate of perpetual suffering in the hands of your so - called husband!'Iris continued cleaning the gas and kitchen cabinet, ignoring her. 'Aren't you the one I am speaking to?' Roxy asked pushing Iris, who hi
Adrian stared at his brother in amusement. 'Oh, that is how you want to play it, now isn't it?' he asked. 'You want to go and spill it to the Alpha King with the hope that he will dethrone me and make you the Alpha, so that you can have my wife, isn't that so?'By this time they had stopped fighting and we're breathing heavily from the exertion.Andrew looked at his brother and shook his head in exasperation. 'You are incurable!' he muttered. ' What a shining example of an Alpha you are. Do you think you deserve that title?', his voice was rising now in fury. 'I always looked up to you! Do you know that Iris is..''Andrew, that's okay', Iris said, looking hard at him and he recalled that he was not supposed to tell Adrian anything about her pregnancy just yet and kept quiet. 'Calm down! It will be alright!''That Iris is what?' Adrian prompted. 'Continue!'Andrew shook his head again. 'That Iris is your mate, your Luna and should be treated with love and respect. That was all I wanted
'Stop pretending!' Adrian said.'If you think lying as though you have fainted, will stop me from punishing you, then you better have a rethink!' he said raising his hand to hit her again but Iris remained unmoving. He turned her round but she remained still. He was about to leave the room when he saw blood dripping from her thighs. 'What the hell?' he thought and carried her back to the pack hospital that was in the same building, from where he had dragged her some hours previously.The doctors hurried to attend to her.'Why was there a lot of blood?' Alpha Adrian asked his personal physician when he came out after a couple of hours inside the ward with Iris.'Alpha Adrian, didn't you know your Luna was two months pregnant?' the doctor asked.'Well.. I er.. but why was there so much blood?' he asked shocked by the news. Why hadn't Iris told him she was pregnant?'We managed to save the pup this time', he said. 'but like I told your brother, she needs to take it easy, rest alot and ke
'That serves Andrew right for always supporting Iris against me!' she said to herself, as she walked into the room where Iris was receiving treatment.She looked at her sister looking so pale. 'My sister?' She isn't my sister. We are not related. Our fathers are different so are our mothers. I feel like I was just adopted with no blood relations to them!' she told herself.Iris stirred.'Oh, you're awake!' Roxy said.'Roxy, what do you want?' Iris asked weakly.'Is that any way to treat your own sister?' she asked sarcastically. ' I came to see how you are faring and all you can ask me is what I have come to do in your ward?''Please leave!' Iris said. 'I don't have the strength to argue with you'.'Then don't. Just listen!' Roxy commanded. 'Adrian will never accept the baby you have in you', she said smiling maliciously. 'He just left now. And do you know what he said before leaving?''I'm sure you will tell me!' Iris said with a hint of irony on her voice.'You bet!' Roxy smiled, ob
'I have smeared an anti-inflammatory cream on the bruise on your cheek, Luna Iris', the doctor said after checking up on her. 'The injection I just gave you contains a sedative, it performs a dual function of easing any pain and discomfort you might feel and luring you to sleep'.Iris nodded, she could not say anything. She was too overcome by the events unfolding daily in her life.'Thank you very much, Doctor ' A drew said.The doctor nodded and left, wondering what the problem was with Alpha Adrian. How could he make him attend to Roxy first before his own Luna?Andrew had come for him and as he was hurrying to see what had happened to their pregnant Luna, Adrian had stopped him.'Where are you going Doctor?' he asked. 'To attend to the Luna to avoid any danger to her or the baby!' he replied respectfully but purposefully.'Attend to Roxy first!' he ordered. 'She is seriously injured and can barely move!''Sorry, Alpha?' he said astonished not believing he had heard right.'Do you
'What a cozy little scene. My Luna holding hands intimately with my brother who is head over heels in love with her!' Adrian said, leaving the door he had been leaning on and coming at a leisurely pace into the room. 'What are you going to do, dear little wife, divorce me? Reject me? So that you can be together with your lover?''Adrian, you are despicable?' Andrew spat.Fearing this was going to lead to another fisticuff, Iris quickly intervened. 'Andrew, thank you for your support but right now, I'd like to be left alone with Adrian, if you don't mind'.'Are you sure about this?', he asked. 'Iris, he...''I am sure, Andrew', she said, looking at him imploringly. He opened his mouth to say something more but changed his mind and shutting his mouth, left the room.'What a touching scene', Alpha Adrian said. 'Is your lover planning on dethroning me so that he can take both my position as Alpha and my Luna?''What do you care?' she asked. 'Afterall, you have decided the pup in my womb
''Doctor', Adrian called, he was with Roxy. 'Are the rest results out?''That is the reason, I called you, Alpha', he said. 'The results show...''Wait a minute, doctor', Alpha Adrian said. 'I'd like for the result to be ready in front of the Luna!''Is that really a good idea?' the doctor asked, clearly uneasy and fidgety.'Are you questioning me?' Adrian asked.'No, my Alpha', he said hurriedly. 'Of course not! I wouldn't dare!''Good!' Adrian said, 'Now come let's go to my Luna! Roxy come along'.'Wouldn't miss it for the world!' she said and Adrian looked at her strangely. 'I mean, I'd want to know if my little sister has been faithful or if I was right to suspect her!' Roxy amended, quickly, thinking to herself that she'd better be careful. Adrian was a smart Alpha male.'Now, doctor', Adrian said, when they got to Iris' ward where she was trying to sleep but failing woefully because she was anxious for the test results to be ready so that she and Andrew vindicated. 'read the
'And you, Roxy', Andrew continued. I feel ashamed that you are related to this wonderful woman!''If you knew what she did, you would not be saying...' Roxy was saying but Andrew did not pay any attention to her.'Doctor Ricky', he continued, 'I have always held you in the highest esteem. 'Why did you do this?''Do what?' Roxy asked, getting scared. 'What are you talking about?' she asked very hurriedly.'Will you confess to your crimes or should I do it for you?' Andrew said looking at the doctor.'I do not know what you are talking about', Dr. Ricky said, turning back to go back to his room office.'Not so fast!' Andrew said pulling him back by tugging the helm of his lab coat.'You do not want to own up to what you did right', Andrew continued. Iris was not sure what was happening. Adrian was staring at his brother like he had lost it. Roxy was looking very scared but telling herself there was nothing to be scared about.'You speak of hard evidence but what evidence can be harder
'Dear Iris,I do not know what my life would be when you get this letter. I may have died or become a rogue, a wanderer. But whatever I become, I know you will not make it your business because I do not deserve it. But once more find it in your heart to forgive me and my family. I wish you all the best.NB: I have accepted your rejection, you must have felt it the instant that I did. And attached here is the divorce papers I have duly signed.Once more, I wish you the best!'Adrian B.Iris got this a week after her lengthy discussion with Adrian. She shed a few years. It was sad really. They had started well, at least so she had thought when they met. She had been so sure theirs was going to be like the love her parents shared that had stood the test of time and survived against all odds, but it was not meant to be.'Iris, what is the problem?' Millicent asked, when she saw tears in her daughter's eyes.. She just came to check on her daughter after having a steamy mating session with
'Iris, could not find it in your heart to forgive me?' Adrian asked. 'I thought you loved me?' This was coming three months later and when Iris had recovered enough and agreed to see him.'Loved' being the operational word here, darling. Right now, I do not even hate you!' Iris said, smiling at him. ' Hating you takes alot of energy I do not have to expend. The eighteenth months I spent being your wife was not all a waste. It thought me about self preservation and how fickle minded some beings can be!''I hoped you would forgive me for the pain you had to go through as my wife. I can't blame it all my mother but if I had had the right guidance, maybe I would have treated you better'.'Andrew is younger than you are and of the same parents', Iris said laughing amusedly. 'If anyone should act irrationally, he would have been my best bet but your irrational behaviour is unrivalled. I begged you to allow me go and stay with my parents till the pups were born but what did you do? Most prob
'Yes, please have Selina Blake ushered into this place at once!' Alpha King Sylvester said.'Mum, I know that I lost the baby from the heavy shove Roxy gave me, telling me it didn't matter if I lost my baby since she was going to give another to Adrian and make him a better wife than I', Iris said very weakly. 'But Wendy gave me a kind of brew that made me feel fat worse. It may have contributed to aborting the pregnancy as well because I felt an unbearable pain after taking it. As he also did not call for the doctor when I asked her to!''Wendy will be taken care of, don't worry. She signed her own death warrant when she messed with you my beloved daughter!''You got here so fast, I did not know if the mind link I sent mother went through before I passed out!' Iris said.'It did and we rushed to this place as soon as we possibly could!' Millicent said kissing her frail hands. 'Now you must go to bed, the rest will be said outside so as not to disturb your rest. I can see you are drow
Millicent fastened a metallic chain on Wendy. 'I came prepared to take you down should you be responsible for my daughter's predicament. This metal chain will drain you of all your powers and make it impossible for you to do the disappearing acts for which you are known!''Ha, ha, ha, ha!' Wendy laughed. 'I told you when we met that the war between us was not over yet. I am glad that I took your daughter's happiness from her. She was guarding that pregnancy jealously. I killed three birds with just one stone!' she mocked. 'I had thought it was just one baby but it was actually three. Ha,ha,ha,ha. This is poetic justice!''You shall be so severely punished that you will beg for death but it shall be slow in coming. I shall make sure to kill you ever so slowly, you won't forget it in the afterlife!' Alpha Sylvester swore.'One more thing', the doctor strained his voice to be heard above all the noise. 'May I see the Iris' parents and husband in private, please?'Three of them followed h
The screams had not gone unheard. Adrian had been having a meeting with his guards when he heard it. He rushed towards the sound to find both Iris and Roxy on the floor, unconscious and Wendy crying. There was blood everywhere!'Doctor, Adrian screamed. 'Come here quick!There was a flurry of activities as the ladies were laid down on the bed and the doctor started treatment immediately.'Do all you can to save my baby!' Adrian commanded. Tears were in his eyes. There was just so much blood and Iris was looking as pale as death. He could not afford to lose his baby and he realised with a pang that he did not want to lose Iris as well.Andrew rushed in. 'What's going on?' he asked when he saw the two females on the bed unconscious.When no one answered, he went to Adrian and shook his shoulders. Adrian was still in a state of shock. 'What happened, Adrian?'He was still shaking him when Alpha Sylvester and Millicent rushed into the room.'What happened here?' Alpha King, Sylvester bell
Adrian could not understand what the problem was with him but it was as though he was at war with himself. He realised that a part of him wanted to continue punishing Iris while the other part wanted to treat her with the love overflowing in his heart.But he kept maltreating her.Iris was surprised at the reverse in Adrian. I thought he had changed, he seems to have grown worse these days, she thought.'Adrian, you did promise me, you would think about my request to go home to my parents till the pup is born!' she asked him one day, after he eased out of her. The encounter had been very rough and inconsiderate of her feelings. She had been scared for her baby all through the time he kept thrusting savagely into her, as though in renewed punishment for something she had done,not unlike previously. She could take it before but not now that she had something to lose.'Are you going to force me to give you an answer now?' he asked furiously. 'In short, I have changed my mind. You are no
Iris dared not hope that the change in Adrian was as a result of a change in his feelings for her. If he would say the three magic words, she knew she would forget all that he had done to her in the past. But though she sensed a slight change in him, he did not act towards her like he lived her. He paid more attention to her stomach and she knew he was just interested in the pup and not in her!‘I better enjoy this reprieve while it lasts be ause after the birth of the pups, he might retrogress back to where they started. Not for the first time, she wondered what kind of future she would give her baby with a broken home and the hatred her inlaws except for Andrew of course had for her. Would such hatred be transfered.Two days later, she was resting on the bed, when Wendy, Roxy's mother came in to see her.‘Iris, how are you enjoying your marriage?’ she asked mockingly.‘The goddess be praised!’ she replied smiling. She knew why Wendy had asked the question and she was not going to gi
'Mum, is this really you?' Roxy screeched with joy. 'You were gone for so long!''A lot happened to keep me away', Wendy replied, slumping in a couch. 'I was determined to get here no matter how late it may seem and that's why I am here!''I was beginning to wonder what was keeping you, dear friend', Selina intoned when she came into the room to join them. I tried to stop them marrying, I kept postponing it till I could postpone it no longer. But I believe you have a plausible explanation. Tell us your story and how we can remedy this situation!'Wendy smiled. 'I knew that by now, Adrian would be married to Iris. I had hoped you might have come up with a way to stop them but you did well by stalling them'. Her face became serious. 'I had set out into the fields to get that rate plant for the potion I told you about but I was caught unawares by some rogue wolves!''Rogue wolves?' Roxy and Selina exclaimed, simultaneously.'Yes!' She confirmed, nodding. 'I just got to the field where I
Adrian went into their room after speaking with his mother and found Iris sleeping.He stood looking at her for a long time, thinking that she was indeed a lovely girl. His gaze shifted to her stomach and his heart twisted and he vowed he wasn't going to allow any harm befall his pup no matter the situation between him and Iris.He walked away from the door and went towards the bed Iris was lying in as though in a trance. He knew Iris was out and wouldn't wake easily due to the drugs she had been given.'I have given your Luna her medications.', the doctor said. 'She should not be disturbed. The drug will put her to a deep sleep, though a mild sedative because of her condition, it will still make her sleep deeply because of her injuries and the stress she's been through!'He touched her stomach, 'I'll let no harm befall you, my darling pup', he said as he kissed the stomach. He felt close to his pup and strangely drawn to Iris the more. He saw a lock that had escaped down her cheek a