Her Death

Lyria's POV

Words failed to express my shock the moment the pack doctor handed me the test result.

"Congratulations, Luna Lyria. You are six weeks pregnant,” the doctor said calmly, a faint smile on her face.

As much as I wanted to doubt this happening, Doctor Liz is the most qualified doctor here in this pack. She was also the doctor who told me to give up trying after five failed IVS.

“Doctor, how is this even possible?”

“I don't know, but you can call it a miracle, Luna Lyria,” she replied sweetly. “All you need right now is rest, eat healthy food, and don't miss weekly checkup.”

“I would,” I said loudly, unable to contain the joy and excitement bubbling inside me.

I put the result into my bag before leaving the hospital, imagining how I was going to break the news to Alpha Dave.

The driver started the car the moment I got in, my heart racing at each second that went by. Even though I was going to wait until midnight for Alpha Dave to be back home, I can't wait to arrange my pup's room…

I snapped out of my thoughts the second the driver pulled over. Without hesitating, I hurried out of the car the moment I caught a glimpse of Alpha Dave's car.

Talk about the perfect coincidence.

Is my sister-in-law here again? I moved my gaze from the bag and heels on the table, preparing myself for her nags.

Or maybe it was perfect that she was here. She would get to know I am not the barren woman she now addresses me as.

“Yes… fuck… Alpha Dave…”

My eyes blinked the moment I heard the sound coming from the bedroom.

No, I must have misheard those words.This must be my hormones reacting…

The doubts I had shattered the moment I opened the door, coming face-to-face with my husband and my best friend.

They didn't notice my presence. The both of them were so engrossed in the act, Alpha Dave buried inside of Selene, who was moaning loudly, her hands circled around his neck.

“This is the reason why I wanted to move in… damn… this bed is just so fucking amazing…” her voice echoed. “I want you to fully become mine! I can't keep sharing you.”

I stood there dumbfounded, trying to make sense out of that single statement.

For goddess' sake, Ariana is a mother of two. She is married. She claimed her husband was…

“I have always been yours just as you have always been mine." Alpha Dave's words were like a dagger, stabbing straight into my heart. “I would divorce her when the time is right. She is still useful, at least with the domestic work.”

“What about our sons? Are we going to continue doing this? I am tired… five… five fucking years, Dave...”

Even though the sound of their skin slapping against each other was loud, their conversation was so loud. Louder than even their moans.

I felt my knees weaken, my body shivering like I was placed in a freezer.

The handbag I held tightly fell off my grip, causing a loud thud on the ground.

“Lyria—”

“So this was all you have been doing behind my back, Alpha Dave? You have been cheating on me?” I interrupted Alpha Dave, who was staring at me with shock on his face.

I tried to hold back the tears that welled up in my eyes, but it was too late.

“Lyria, sooner or later you would find out about this. I think it is time you know this,” Alpha Dave’s voice echoed, sounding like he was talking to a five-year-old pup. Like what he did wasn't wrong.

Not even an ounce of shame or guilt in his voice.

“I love Ariana, and she is my fated mate—”

“If she was, why then did you marry me? It's been five years, and this is all you have to say after doing this to me?” More tears ran down my face as I threw questions at him.

“Lyria, please don't blame him. We were in love, but it was just that he had to marry you because you were the Alpha's daughter and had something to offer him,” Arian, who now had the duvet wrapped around her chest, defended him. “Come to think of it, you should be grateful he didn't push you out. He even saw a little bit of usefulness in you.”

“You can't even give him a pup, not even a miscarriage, Lyria. If anything, you should even be grateful he allowed you to stay for this long. No man can, especially not for an omega like you,” she continued.

Every word landed on me like a rock, breaking the whole of me into pieces.

This was the same friend I have supported many times. On days Ariana would come crying to me about how her husband can't afford her sons' school fees. On days, she would ask for my expensive jewelries. Not once have I turned away.

Without thinking twice, I walked up to Ariana and slapped her. Unable to sate the anger now burning through me, I raised my hand to slap her again, but Alpha Dave slapped me instead.

My husband slapped me for Ariana!

“How dare you slap her? If you weren't late Alpha Xavier’s daughter, I would never have chosen a female like you over my fated mate!” He barked at me, staring at me like I was some sinner.

“So you—”

Alpha Dave pushed me before I could complete my statement. I fell hard to the ground, my head landing directly on the glass table at the corner of the bed.

Blood gushed out of my head and my thigh when I landed on the ground, my body too weak to move, my head hurting so bad, like my skull had cracked open. I moved a finger, hoping Alpha Dave would at least come for me.

Help me up…

“Dave, it is better she is gone. This way we wouldn't have to keep worrying about what the pack elders would think,” Ariana’s voice echoed.

Even though my gaze was blurry, I could still see her facial expression. Even though life was slowly slipping out of me, every part of me was hoping Alpha Dave would look my way. Help me up and rush me to the hospital.

I am his wife, for goddess's sake!

“You are right. If only you were the Alpha's daughter, all of this mess wouldn't have happened," Alpha Dave's words made me want to scream, want to curse the twenty-year-old me who believed he was in love with me and that every other man would never come close.

But all of that effort to move, to shout, made no impact. I felt life slowly drained out of my body, the environment getting darker as my mind went blank.

I was dying… by the hand of the same man I had loved for five years!