Chapter 3
Selene’s POV
THREE MONTHS LATER
Two red lines, I blinked, hoping they’d disappear, but they didn’t. I prayed for a different outen
outcome before I took this, but
but the truth was
was staring at me
-cruel and relentless.
I swallowed the lump in my be happening” I murmur.
throat as a
broken cry slipped past my lips. My hands, quivering slowly made its way to cover my own gaps. “This can’t
an that is about to make
a
Tim pregnant. A baby is growing inside me right now. My hand instinctively caresses my stomach, afraid of the little human. difference in my life.
The only person I did it with was Dorian, three months ago. It doesn’t sit right with me that something bloomed between a sexual intercourse that was not made out of love. It was never love. Dorian never loved me
THREE MONTHS AGO NTHS AGO
Dorian and I had sex.
I didn’t know how it happened. I didn’t know what went through my head for letting it happen. I gave him back the ring that signifies our sincerity with each other. There was no doubt that after nights of thinking about it. I was more than ready to let him go. But what am I doing here? Why are we in his bed? Where is his mate?
Thoughts spiraled in my head as I tried to distract myself from the significant details of the present. How the rain patters loudly outside. The room still thick with the warmth of our bodies. Our release staining the white sheets. And Dorian who’s sitting at the edge of the bed, pulling his pants back on.
I grip the fabric covering my naked body as I stare at his muscular back, every crevice adorned with all the glorious scars he’s earned through his murderous wars.
Swallowing the lump in my throat and earning the courage. I finally spoke through the silence. “D–dorian, L. this? I was clearly alright with
…What are we? W–why did you do
“This doesn’t change anything” He cut me off, his voice deep with venom and certainty. He didn’t even look at me as he began to put his shirt back
on “What?“.
“I’ve just been playing with you. Nothing more.” He added. I froze, my heart plummeting as a sharp ache bloomed in my chest. “I don’t understand. What are you talking about?” My hunds are shaking violently yet I didn’t let it simmer out visibly. I want to think it’s one of his little jokes he used to do back theİL
But I could never be more wrong.
“Llave my true mate now, Selene. You didn’t think I’d give her up for a piece of ass, did you!” He mutters, standing up and glowring down at me as bar buttons down his dúnt without a brink of emotion in those icy blue eyes I used to love—still love.
Are you serious?“.
“But if you want, you can stay” He raised his brows, the same way he would look at other pack alphas as though he’s offering a deal, “you can be my littleancret. We’ll just keep things in between in and meet up to fuck and release”
My mund didn’t follow and my heart froze. For a split second, I couldn’t process what he had suggested. My mind rebelled against the reality I’m in He’s really asking me to remain in the shadows while he paraded his mate in the light?
out, trying to contain the dorm raging inside me, want me to be your mistress!
Thoke ou
Dorian sliruggerl.
The weight of his words meant nothing. “If you’re willing
g his ol
those last three wooh. Rage flooded my veins, boiling over. My hand moved before I could stop it, striking his oli-
that rang through the rou
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“How dare you?” I snarled, pushing my hair back from my head as I released a bitter laugh. “You can’t treat me like this! Sure, you can’t love me, I
Hat I will never–never–be your pathetic seriei! scurated, trying to catch my breath in the end…
Dorian stared at mor, stunned by the intensity of my anger. The redness of my slap spread across his checks. Perhaps he’s never seen me like this.
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il let you reduce me to that- I pointed to
“I deserve better than this” 1 hissed, my voice cold now. “Better than you. If you think for ou the bed where moments before. I had believed his lies—“you’re a fool. Dorian. Lam done willi
Without another word, I stepped out of the bed butt–naked and pulled my clothes off the floor, putting them in as I rushed out of his room
-Selene!” I jump out of my memories at the sound of my father’s voice thundering through the room just outside the bathroom I’m in.
“Shit” I murmur, my heart beating wildly in my chest.
With shaking hands. I quickly threw the pregnancy test onto the toilet, trying to flush it out “Get the fuck out of here. Selenet Father growled and I instantly nabed out, forgetting to close the door behind me
He turned to look at me with rage in his eyes, clouded with a hint of drunk state. I didn’t have the hypersensitivity of a wolf but I instantly smelled. the alcohol evaporating in the air as my father marched towards me at an angry pace.
You fucking ruined everything, you little brat He muttered, grabbing my chin roughly. I whimpered but didn’t move. This is a daily routine with my father ever since Dorian introduced his real mate in the picture. I was my father’s leverage to succeed in the pack and losing the mou taluable asset–the Alpha’s heart was the last nail to break him down into this–a lowly, abusive drunkard.
“Why do you look like that?” He murmurs, suspiciously shifting his groggy eyes between the opened bathroom door and my expression. “Are you hiding something from me?”
my gaze towards him and his eyes penetrate through me like electromagnetic fields, seeping through my linde secret. Before 1 shoves me past his way and towards the door. My heart instantly drops to my stomach and I turn to run behind him.
ore 1 knew it, he
“Father-
1 stop halfway from following him when he’s frozen on the spot, in front of the toiler where I hopefully flushed out the pregnancy test.
“You fucking bitch”
I guess I did not flush it out
Father instantly turned to me, in his most sober state now and I quickly turned around, about to escape when a groan slipped past my lips when he yanked my hair back. “You’re a spitting copy of your mother. You two are whores!” He yelled, turning me by the hair to look at him.
Trani began to collect in my eyes at the feeling of my scalp separating from my head at the force he’s pulling. “Father, please “I was immediately cut off when my cheeks turned to the side and the tangy taste of blood left my mouth at his loud slap.
“It’s had enough that you can’t keep that man in the palm of your hands and yet you’re now pregnant with some bastard’s child?!” His voice was venomous, and before I could defend myself, his hand lashed out.
The firm blow knocked the breath out of me, sending me crashing into the bathroom wall. Pain exploded through my ribs and I gasped, struggling
Another hut came—this time to my face. I fell to the
to the floor as his fists rained down on me, the world spinning around me in blurs of pain and terror
Theard the door bunu open. My mother’s desperate voice through the chaos.
“Stop Stop?” She threw herself between ys, her body shielding mine as she screamed. “Please! You’ll kill la Father didnt stops. He wasn’t going to. His eyes grew wild with rage I’d never seen before.
“I shuudel kill her And that ingrair of a child in her belly!”
My mallary’s arms wrapped around
pulling me against her. She pressed her trembling lips to my car, her voice urgent and strained.
Iran. Er hobed, blood hiling my mouth. “I can’t leave you here
“You have to” she imited, her grip tightening as her eyes met mine–full of both feat and resolve. “Go, now.
Her words were ferer, giving no room for argument, but any heart wrenched in my chest. I couldn’t leave her to face h to this ruglatmare.
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no choice.
him alone. I couldn’t leave her
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Chapter 3
Mother’s eyes locked onto mine, pleading. “I’ll hold him off. “Go, now. Before it’s too late.”
With one last look at her–my mother, my protector–I forced myself to get up, despite the searing pain coursing through my body. Tears. streamed down my face as I turned and ran.
“You’re dead to me, Selene! You hear me? Dead!” Father’s voice roared behind me, his threats filling the halls like a storm I couldn’t escape.
But I kept running.
