Chapter 2

Victoria lost her balance and fell to the ground.

The cup in her hand cut her palm. I could saw that her palm even shifted into the form of a werewolf’s paw. There were a lot of blood on it.

Alex saw what happened, he dropped the documents in his hand and rushed out, looking extremely worried.

“Who hurt her?”

That colleague looked terrified and quietly stepped back.

Then I met Alex’s questioning gaze, he paused for a long time.

I sighed.

“I did. She deserved it.”

Victoria looked into Alex’s eyes and said, “Maybe I did deserve it! My werewolf senses made me fall in love with someone I couldn’t have! She calls me the ‘side lover’.”

Alex held Victoria tighter.

“But I want to let you know, Alex. Whether you are the Alpha King or a poor wolf, I will be by your side forever. Unlike someone else. Nothing can separate us. I don’t care if I can be the Luna Queen!”

Victoria glanced at me.

Alex, who had been on the battlefield for years, was completely fooled by these words.

He looked at Victoria and said to her, “It will make me worry. Please don’t do this anymore.”

There. Alex really did care about Victoria more.

Then I felt a sharp pain in my heart.

“Alex, I need you to go to the Black Cloud mountain with me next week. And I also need 50 grands. This is for my birthday this year. Please.”

Even though we have been the Luna Queen and the Alpha King for years, we still talked like this.

We never contacted each other more than necessary.

We only reached out to each other when we needed something.

Our joint account has always been managed by Alex. I had no idea how much money we had, but whenever I asked, he would transfer the money to me without any hesitation.

Except this time.

He looked at me in a cold way and said, “I can agree to all your requests, but… Kate, You need to apologize to Victoria first.”

In that moment, I knew Alex was trying to get even for Victoria.

He needed my pride as the payment.

It was also the first time he would publicly humiliate me for a she-wolf.

My fists clenched tight.

Suddenly, I felt a twist in my stomach. I really needed to vomit.

“Forget it.”

I don't want the money anymore.

He doesn’t love me. Even if I have got the money, he wouldn’t get me the antidote, it would be all useless.

I turned around and left.

As I stepped out of the company, I thought, if Alex found out that agreeing to my requests today could let me live longer, would he do it?

What would you do then, Alex?

I went home by myself.

I could still feel waves of nausea hitting my stomach. At the same time, my heart ached.

Cold sweats broke out all over my body again and again.

I couldn’t sleep.

When I was just about to take some sleeping pills, a thought suddenly struck me.

Am I pregnant?

I got in my SUV and drove to the Healer’s place.

I asked her to check if I was really pregnant.

She said yes.

Apparently, a little wolf pup has been growing inside my belly for three months.

The Healer looked at me, hesitating whether to congratulate me or feel sorry for me.

I asked her, “Is there any way I can hold on until I give birth to this pup?”

“There is. But I wouldn’t recommend it. This kind of special herb would worsen the pain in your body and make the pup grow quickly. There are still risks taking it.”

I took the herb home and fell into a deep sleep.

In my dream, I was back to when I was only 20, at Victoria’s age.

Alex was really weak and poor then, but he really loved me.

It was my birthday too.

I passed by an herbal tea cafe and saw a mated couple inside.

They were sharing a Frostpaw Snow Cake. The cake looked so delicate and expensive.

I still remembered it was snowy heavily.

Alex and I were in our wolf forms.

We ran through the forest and hunted together in the heavy snow.

I rolled a snowball and asked him. “Alex, doesn’t it look like the cake we just saw?”

Alex looked at me for a while without saying a word.

Suddenly, he came closer and hugged me tight.

Somehow, I felt his tears on my shoulder.

A few days later, I saw Alex staring downstairs in front of my apartment, holding that Frostpaw Snow Cake I wanted.

He was really happy. Even if it was not my birthday anymore.

Alex had nothing. That $200 cake must have cost him several days’ wages.

I knew he must have gone hunting with other packs in the snowstorm, staying out for days and nights to earn that money.

I stared at his paws. They were covered with chilblains from the cold.

At that moment, I couldn’t hold back my tears anymore.

“Alex, you shouldn’t have done this for me. You are a werewolf who is meant for greater things. I don’t want you to suffer for me.”

I added, “And I don’t deserve such an expensive gift anyway.”

“Kate, you are the best wolf I have known in the world. You are my chosen mate. I will give you the best things in the whole world. No matter what it takes!”

Alex held my paws tight.

That day, we cried together in the forest.

We also ate the cake. I couldn’t remember how it tasted. All I remembered was that we were together and we were happy.

After Alex made me his Luna Queen, he never paid any attention to my birthday anymore.

If I had a birthday party, he would be there. But that was it.

He has never given anything like that precious anymore.

I slept for a very long time.

Then I heard my cellphone ring. I answered it.

To my surprise, it was Alex.

“Kate, are you there?”

I wasn’t sure if it was the Alex from my dream or the real Alex who fell in love with Victoria.

I said, “Alex, it is snowing. Let’s go to the forest and make a cake out of snow again.”

Before he could say another word, I hung up.

I fainted.