~Pierce~"Call me crazy, Pierce, but–" his half sister paused, maybe for dramatic timing, or she began to second-guess herself for venting to him; perhaps it was an amalgamation of both reasons. Whichever it was, she continued, "... I kind of feel bad for her." Pierce switched the cocktail in his fingers, subtly playing with his glass."Becca," he placed his glass back down the bar humr behind him, holding his phone closer to his ear, "I'm going to lay it down as nicely as I can..." He sucked in a short breath, "How by the goddess name is that my problem?""Haven't you heard about what happened to her at the party she threw for me and my baby? How humiliating it was for her?"Pierce, normally a man of adequate patience, didn't have much to spare for a woman who would willingly agree to be mates with his clown of a brother. "...and to think he even cheated on her too with her closet childhood friend," Becca wouldn't stop, and Pierce tried to focus on his drink and not on the infideli
~Rosa~ Rosa lodged in a hotel during the divorce proceedings. It was usually quick and brief, the main thing being the verbal rejection. But she couldn't stay here forever, so she decided to go back to her parents' mansion. The choice she had made after endlessly pacing from one side of her room to another. Her marriage was over, there was no sugar coating it. Five years of her life had gone down the drain in a single second. Five years, she staggered until she found herself sitting on her bed, thinking about all that wasted time. Maybe just maybe if her parents didn't sell her off for a higher rank she might have actually met someone who cared about her, someone who loved her. Rather, she spent those years bending over backward for a man who couldn't hesitate to sleep with another woman, and of all the women he had to pick, just had to be his secretary and her former friend. Suddenly, she aggressively wiped away the tears with the back of her hand, deciding not to cry anymo
~Kevin~ She'll get over it. Kevin repeated to himself over and over again during the seven-minute drive to the pack house. Every muscle in his body buckled nervously, and his stomach felt taunt, yet …he chose to be confident. She wouldn't abandon their marriage, or more accurately, she couldn't. He'd made sure of that when he married her for financial aid and gave her parents something that money couldn't buy so simply put, she was his piece of property. His wolf was moaning and groaning that he'd cheated so shamelessly, but Kevin ignored it. He entered the pack house for the first time in days, recalling the events of the family gathering with a grimace.His half sister, Becca, had made a softly passive-aggressive statement that maybe the fault of having a child might be his. Of course, he was enraged and had to defend himself! He was an alpha for goddess' sake! How could he stand being publicly called impotent and brush it off with a laugh? It was Rosa’s fault for giving hi
~Rosa~“Will Kelvin be available by twelve?” Rosa could hardly believe that she needed to draw up a schedule to see her own mate. Fortunately, his secretary was also a long-time friend of the house since childhood. “I don't know, his schedule is quite congested today,” Sandra admitted regretfully. Sandra, Kevin's secretary, came from a mid-ranking family that fell on hard times; it was due to Rosa's parents taking them in as servants that kept them off the streets. “I know that I might be imposing on you, but is there no way you could sneak me in somewhere?” Rosa was practically begging now. The two of them had grown side by side like sisters. Rosa was the one who recommended Sandra as a plausible choice for Kevin to pick as his secretary, and it turned out to be one of the few requests she had made in their marriage that he took seriously. “If it's you…I think I can figure something out.” A sigh of relief washed over Rosa. She knew that she could rely on such a wonderful ch
~Rosa~A cold sweat caught Rosa despite the air conditioning inside the packhouse. She straightened up and moved robotically away from a fallen flower vase and made her way through the sea of rowdy guests to find Kevin at the center with his hands crossed and glaring at his half sister’s mate He spotted Rosa and his eyes up with determination, grabbing her by her arm and pulling her to his side. “My mate is pregnant,” he declared again, this time more firmly. Rosa's heart sank and she tugged on his arm, alarm ringing in her ears. Neither of them had confirmed anything. He was the one who had gone on about being cautious, so why was he now throwing caution out the window? What if she wasn't with child? Then…“What's going on?” The hairs on the back of Rosa’s neck stood on end, her body tensing up the moment she saw her mother-in-law. “Has everyone gone mute, who's pregnant?!” Magret looked in everyone's direction but Rosa and her chest squeezed with the pain of being overlooked
~Rosa~“I think I'm…pregnant,” Luna Rosa of the Everwoods pack said slowly, each syllable was uttered with care as she looked at the mirror to gauge her mate, Alpha Kevin’s reaction. “A-are you sure?” His bare feet crossed the bathroom, his huge arms encircled her waist. His voice belched with anxiety and sprinkled with doubt. She couldn't blame him, she could hardly believe it herself. It had been four years already. To Rosa, they had been the longest four years of her life. “I've been having morning sickness for a week now, and I'm also two weeks past my period and nothing,” She wasn't sure if she was reassuring him or herself. There have been many times when she had broken down in this very bathroom waiting for the second red line to pop up and announce to her that she had taken in, only to be hit with disappointment with the dizzying impact of a sledgehammer. “What should we do?” She said looking at her husband with endearing eyes, asking him that question came like a reflex.