PREGNANT AND BANISHED

a's

Pregnant? I coul

stepmother suddenly screamed from acros

fist began to furiously pound on my bed

isgust. "Get out here now and wash your sis

ing to slide the bolt into place before pressing my body against

hest, not just from fear but from

hoping to calm her down, though I knew better tha

re told, we'll throw you to the rogues and let them kill you, just like they killed your u

, and her threat to throw me to rogues would normally fill me with

ms to worry about than how

te pregnancy stick in my hand,

ate. I looked at it again and two pink

and there was no

sts scattered across my bedroom fl

so powerful that my legs crumbled and I slid t

happen. I wasn't suppo

loved to abuse and humiliate. I've been bullied and beaten my whole life for not havi

uld I bring a child into this kind of life? A life where they would be r

y mother hadn't died protecting me, thin

ogue attack, so many years ago, eve

e when he began to blame me for my mother's death. He said s

with it. He constantly beat me for no reason, and always cursed me for t

us psychopathic daughter Amelia into our lives. Toget

the whole pack against me when they revealed

wolf into a darkness I could not reach, and that left m

s demoted me to an Omega, a maid at the bottom of the pack, and

eason I ever survived this long was because of Jasper, my kind

who also the Alpha's son was no

other all our lives. I'd loved Asher ever since we were kids. He was my st

sessed with me as I was with him, and he wa

an in the world by asking me to marry him, and for the fir

ationship, Asher begged me to wait until his father retired and

happen soon, I agreed to w

and it was magical. Asher touched me like I was made for him, lik

er and last. After that first night, we couldn't seem to keep o

nd out I was pregnant and unmated, he would have me banished out of the pack, and straight int

o speed up the marriage, or else I w

ind. I had to get to Asher before my

mother. The hallway was silent so I slipped out, moving as quickly and quietly as I co

secret passageway Asher and I always used t

oment for both of us, but knowing how much Asher wanted

o welcome me in as usual. But there was nothing. I knocke

s alert to people at his door unless so

shed the door open but the sight tha

her, the father of my child, passion

her hair, pulling her closer. Amelia responded eagerly of course

he roar of blood in my ears. This couldn't be hap

ngs, and my knees threaten

barely audible, as if saying his name c

me. She pulled back from Asher with a smir

s widened when they met mine, and for a mo

shing to me. But when he reached out to take my hand, I recoi

oice trembling as hot tears welled up

, this was all some horrible mistake. But then, his expression suddenl

those pathetic tears, Lana. I

I'd loved all my life talking to me like this.

cold. "Oh stop it, like you didn't already know this was bound to happen. Did

ly confused no

ed that as future Alpha of the pack, I can't be with someone as weak and pathetic as

es that pierced through my soul. W

u promised we'd be together. You asked me to marry you Asher!"

" he said, his voice void of any emotion. "Did you really think I was going to marry

ed. I couldn't breathe. W

, showing off a big diamond ring-his ring. The

I know you're hurt right now, but you should try to be happy for us. After all, not o

r as She took his hand and placed it on her stomach, the same way I'd

was lying -anything-but he wouldn't even meet my eyes

child. The same man who was supp

p it was suffocating. This wasn't happening. It couldn't be rea

pregnant. And we were both car