Chapter 2

Furthermore, I had no milk with which to feed my pup due to being deprived of food, so I had slashed my wrists until the blood poured freely to sustain my pup.

I managed to keep my pup alive for two days with my blood, but my pup still ended up dying in my arms.

My wrist, which was exposed down to the bone, had bled all over the basement's floorboards.

As sticky blood coagulated in my hair, I hugged my pup's cold corpse in my arms as I too breathed my last, my eyes open and unseeing.

I wondered how Toby would react upon coming across this scene, but for the moment, he was only concerned with embracing Cecilia.

His tone was filled with guilt and self-blame as he exclaimed, "It's my fault! I shouldn't have let Joyce appear in front of you with her pup in her arms and make you sad! I swear that this is the last time I'll let that she-wolf bear my pups!

"In the future, you'll never see a pregnant she-wolf in my house ever again. You don't know this, but Joyce actually lied to me in an attempt to make me sympathize with her. She told me that the pup was weak and that the healer recommended hospitalization."

I felt my heart constrict, and it felt hard to breathe.

Two years ago, the small-sized packs that lived near ours had joined hands to surround Toby. I had broken through their formation with an unconscious Toby in my arms, but during the escape, I had been wounded with wolfsbane.

After escaping back to our pack, I was hospitalized for half a month before healers managed to save my life, but my wolf was gone.

During my pregnancy, I was also hospitalized many times in order to prevent miscarriage due to the fact that my body was too weak.

When I was first imprisoned in the basement, I had pleaded with Toby, saying anything I could think of so that he would let me out.

It was because if he really locked me up for three days, I knew that my pup and I would definitely die!

However, Toby had shouted instructions at Barney in front of me. "Go throw this basement key away! Nobody is allowed to open the door for Luna Joyce behind my back! After three days, I want her to kneel and apologize to Cissy!"

My pup was so hungry that they wailed loudly. In order to keep my pup alive, I took down the paintings on the wall and pricked my hands until they were covered in blood. I also broke my nails prying open the basement's skylight.

I used all my strength to crawl out onto the grassy ground outside the skylight while enduring excruciating pain. I dug my fingers firmly into the ground as I crawled upward with my pup in my arms, inch by inch.

However, Toby just happened to be sharing a deep kiss with Cecilia in the garden.

Judging from how passionately they were kissing each other, they were about to progress even further.

Cecilia then suddenly pushed Toby away, glanced down at the skylight, and screamed involuntarily.

As a result, Toby looked up and was furious at the sight of me trying to escape.

In fact, he firmly believed that I had shown up in front of Cecilia again on purpose.

He personally stepped on my fingers and, powerless due to excessive blood loss, I fell back into the basement.

In the end, I stopped breathing with my eyes wide open and a cold pup in my arms.

Toby held the glass of warm milk to Cecilia's lips. "I've already instructed someone to bring Joyce over to apologize to you. If she's sincere about it, I'll get someone to send her and her pup to the hospital. But if she isn't, she can continue to live in the basement with her pup!"

Cecilia drank the milk in small sips, but she still choked on it until tears came to her eyes. The sight made her look incredibly pitiful.

"You can't treat Luna Joyce like this, Alpha. It's very dangerous for pups to get sick!" she exclaimed.

Toby sighed and looked at her with great affection. "It's because you're too kind that you're bullied by she-wolves like Joyce, Cissy! Before she became Luna, she was a very powerful Beta who could live for many days without food or water!"

He gently scratched the tip of her nose. "In fact, it's an Omega like you who needs more tender loving care. And you mentioned that it's dangerous for pups to get sick; it's as if you've carried a pup before!"

Panic flashed in Cecilia's eyes, and she immediately lowered her head.

"Only you can see past my tough exterior to the fragile heart underneath, Alpha," she said with a hint of grievance in her voice.

When she looked up again, her eyes were misty, and her lower lip was glistening from her biting it.

She wrapped her arms around Toby's neck and rubbed her breasts against his chest in a way that made it hard to tell if it was intentional.