chapter one

Laila’s POV

Blood. Blood was everywhere.

As soon as I pried my swollen eyes open with all the strength I could muster, that was the first thought that came to my head. I also felt immense pain and agony tearing at my head but that couldn’t even begin to compare to what I was feeling in my lower abdomen.

Groaning weakly, I used all my strength to look downwards and what I saw left me horrified and if not because I was too physically drained to do so, I would have screamed my lungs out.

First off, I was naked, without even a shred of clothes to cover my body but that was not what got me going insane. Instead, it was the fact that my stomach had been cut open and blood as well as some of my innards were spilling out in copious amounts.

It was a jarring sight and the fact that I was not dead left much to think about.

I began panting erratically, my whole-body trembling as the scene before me sent my mind into utter chaos.

Just when i had almost sunk into my craze, I froze in shock when I noticed something. It was subtle and if I hadn’t squinted to get a better look, I wouldn’t have noticed but I did.

At a rapid speed visible to the naked eye, the large and gruesome gash on my stomach was closing up on its own. Even my previously spilled guts seemed to be pulled by a force and it was entering my stomach again.

It was healing? The hell?

Throughout my existence, I have never heard or seen anything like this. Wolves never self-healed and only after treatment could even a small cut be closed much less a gash as big as this. I was an omega so even if this wanted to happen to anyone, it couldn’t have been me as I was anything but special.

What the hell is this new ability and why did I suddenly gain it?

By the time I was able to extricate myself from my thoughts, I noted much to my shock and relief that asides a hideous scar, there was no trace of the previous wound. I also found that all the weakness and fatigue I previously felt had all but vanished into thin air and I could move my limbs more agilely and freely.

Confused, I pushed myself up and then to my feet. I would have continued to dwell on it but my mind was pulled towards my surroundings. I furrowed my brows when I noted that I was in the woods, one I couldn’t recognize.

What the hell happened? Why was my body like this? Where was I?

I wracked my brain as I tried to recall anything but all I could remember was eating dinner with Damien, my Alpha and husband.

Whatever. When I get back, ill be able to find out from Damien about why I’m here. I’m sure he’s growing panicked looking for me.

At the thought of my husband, a smile finally appeared on my face. Damien was my everything as well as my knight in shining armor.

As an omega, I had faced quite a lot of bullying and discrimination and the fact that I was but an orphan in the pack didn’t help matters at all. If not for accidentally meeting Damien, the Alpha heir of the pack back then who turned out to be my mate, I might have not survived till now.

He had made me his wife and although he was cold at times, he never let me suffer at all. He was all I could ask for and more and we have been married for three years during which Damien had eventually taken the Alpha position and I, Luna.

Wait! I could vaguely remember that I wanted to tell Damien something when we had dinner together last. I was even very excited about it. I frowned as I tried to remember what it was but I was not able to no matter how I tried.

Shivering from the cold air touching my bare skin, I shook all those thoughts away and decided to think about it when I was dressed and back in the pack house where it was way warmer than this.

It took a while but I was now standing in front of the pack manor and thankfully, I was dressed although in clothes that were two sizes shorter than me. I had thankfully met a healer in the woods who had gone to pick herbs and she had kindly lent me her clothes and directed me to the direction of the pack, although with a peculiar gaze. Not like I had any choice as anything was better than the dignified Luna of the Raven Pack prancing around stark naked.

I noticed though that immediately I entered the pack, although the pack members greeted me, there was no respect and their eyes held an odd glint but I decided to put it asides as nothing was more important than getting home.

There were no guards at the entrance so I just walked in, noting to myself to have Damien investigate that matter as soon as possible because if I could just walk in, an enemy could too.

I had barely entered the house when I heard music and laughter echoing from inside the main hall. I frowned and paused my steps but still made in that direction.

“Congratulations Alpha and Luna. The little prince sure is a striking image of his father. I’m sure he’ll be even more outstanding.” A male voice I found unfamiliar commented and laughter run out.

Alpha and Luna? Little Prince?

I scrunched my face into a frown as I wondered what the hell I was hearing. A feeling of unease engulfed me and I quickened my pace just in time to hear a female voice that made me involuntarily shiver speak with laughter.

“Great Elder, you have a keen eye. Its true that my little prince is a splitting image of his father. Honey, do you think so too?”

My head immediately began throbbing as vague flashes of images continuously appeared in my head. I pressed my head to my forehead as I swayed and then tried to steady myself.

Groaning in discomfort, I bowed my head as I tried hard to piece together these memories and when I finally did, my heartbeat stopped.

My eyes shot open as I finally remembered why that voice seemed so familiar to me.

That was Fiona, a woman who had come to our pack a month back, who Damien had introduced as his friend.

My heart began pounding violently in my chest when I also remembered that she was in fact the reason for waking up in that state. She had drugged and kidnapped me and then for months, she confined me to a cellar in those woods where she tortured me to the brink of death everyday but never actually killing me. She kept telling me that I deserved to die for taking Damien from her as he was originally hers.

For months, she kept me confined to that place and I never saw even a shred of daylight.

The memory of the time she cut me open emerged and I trembled violently in fear. The psychotic woman had forced me to stay awake all through the time she cut my stomach open with a dagger and I felt every shard of pain.

I felt like there was something important that I was forgetting but I didn’t have time to dwell on it when I heard that evil woman speaks up again.

“Alpha, aren’t you going to answer your Luna?” her voice was tinged with a bit of childish whining.

Listening to her words, the feeling of unease from before returned in full force and I quickened my pace to the main hall. I already had an inkling of what was happening but I didn’t want to believe it until I saw it with my own two eyes.

“Be good, Fifi. Of course, our child looks just like us.” I got to the entrance of the large hall just in time to hear those words come from the man, I had taken as my everything.

I stood there in sheer horror as I took in the scene before me.