The Alpha Who Left Me Pregnant

I threw my engagement ring into the toilet, and then we left. Before getting into the car, I blocked Travis’s number. In less than a day, my life had completely changed.Now we were on the worst road trip ever, heading toward a future I never planned. Kael, however, was trying to stay positive.“Is Aunt Aria going to be there when we arrive?” he asked as we took the exit to Pinecrest Valley.She wasn’t really his aunt, but he had called her that since he was a baby, and Aria and I both loved it.“She’ll be at work, but she’ll come over as soon as she can,” I said.“Cool. I miss playing with Lila,” he said, resting his head against the window.Lila was Aria’s one-year-old daughter. My best friend had gone through a lot. Losing her husband in a car accident just six months after having a baby was one of the hardest things she had faced. Compared to that, my problem with Travis felt smaller. She had moved back home to be close to her mother, who wanted to help with the baby.I hadn’t bee

Stacks of forms, spreadsheets, and bank papers were spread across the desk in front of me. All of them showed the same thing. The pack was in serious trouble. When they called and begged me to come back after my father died, part of me thought they just wanted an easy plan for a new alpha. No need to struggle with choosing someone when there was already one in the family line. But now I could see they didn’t just want an easy change, they were desperate for help.Somehow, my father had put the pack into huge debt. There was barely enough money left to keep things running. Some accounts were even below zero. Even the investments and stocks he had built over the years were gone. Everything had been taken out.I threw one of the papers aside, and it spun through the air before falling to the floor. None of this made sense. I had been back for almost two months, and still couldn’t figure out where the money went. There were no signs of big spending in the receipts. No expensive cars or va

"Mom, are you going to tell me who that lady was?" Kael asked as we drove out of the grocery store parking lot. ​"Not right now, Kael." I was trying very hard to stay calm, and I definitely couldn't explain to him that he had just met his aunt for the very first time. Luckily, he stopped asking and became quiet, like many teenagers do. It let me sit with my own anger during the whole drive back. When I parked the car in the garage, he took a few bags and walked loudly into the house, leaving me to get the rest of the stuff. ​"Great," I said quietly to myself while closing the back of the SUV. "Really fucking great." Now my son is angry. It was all because I was keeping secrets from him. We had been back in town for less than two hours, and I was already feeling bad about it. ​In the kitchen, the bags of groceries were sitting on the counter. Kael had already gone to his room. A part of me wanted to go in there and tell him to get out here to help me put the food away. But the sma

I had never loved any other man the way I had loved Orion. Not even Travis. I was never completely in love with Travis like I had been with Orion. I was only twenty when Orion left, still just a kid, but we were soulmates. ​More than that, I was his fated mate. When Orion left, my heart had broken in a way I never thought possible. If Kael had not come along a few months later to give me a reason to live, who knows what might have happened. ​My phone rang around the time we were finished eating. Kael was talking with Aria and Liz, whom he had not seen in many years. I went into the other room to answer the call. ​"Ma’am? This is Tammy. We talked earlier?" ​The woman from the water company. "Yes, is my water turned on yet?" ​"I wanted to let you know our man has everything moving. He is checking the meter again to make sure it is working right, but he needs you to sign for everything." ​"Ugh, is that really needed? I am visiting friends." ​"I am sorry, ma’am, it is the rule. Tha

In just a few seconds, my whole world had been turned over, shaken up, and thrown away. I had a son? Was this actually happening? ​So many thoughts and feelings rushed through me. How could I have left Elara? I had let her raise my baby all by herself for fifteen years. Selene had lied to both of us, and that made everything worse. Why would my sister lie like that? Why? ​"Okay, Mom? I know you told me to go to my room, but—" ​"Oh my God, Kael, what did I tell you?" Elara snapped, putting her fists on her hips. She always did that when she was angry. ​The boy was looking at us with a serious face, his eyes moving from his mother to me. Every time he looked at me, I had a strange feeling like I was looking in a mirror—a mirror from twenty years ago, but a mirror nonetheless. There was no way to deny it or hide the truth. The kid was mine. ​That was when I saw his black eye and the bruise on Elara’s face. Where did that come from? Who did that? Even after all the years and the pain