Chapter 17

Lily

The day before the gender reveal party for my child, I have a disturbing phone call. I’m not even sure why I picked up my phone in the first place. Probably because I was tired, and now I’m paying the price by listening to my condescending mother yelling at me.

“We kicked you out of the pack because we thought it would benefit you. Your sister and I had this idea it would send you on the right road of becoming less of a failure of a werewolf. But here you are, pregnant—PREGNANT—do you have any idea how humiliated I am? The whole pack is laughing at you, and had your father been alive—”

“Then he wouldn’t have called me at six in the morning to lecture me!” I interrupt. I’m tired of my mother always playing the victim.

“Oh, he would have called you, alright! He wouldn’t accept that you’re pregnant to some random werewolf. Do you even know who the father is? The pack member from our pack that saw you and smelled your pregnancy said you’ve managed to make the Alpha of the Luan pac