บททั้งหมดของ Locked Away While She Was Loved: บทที่ 1 - บทที่ 10

After I got pregnant, my mate, Alpha Ryan, always had an excuse to miss my appointments at the Pack Healer's. But today, I saw him there anyway. He was with his pregnant childhood friend, vowing to protect her child forever.Just three hours ago, I had begged him again."Ryan, wait."I reached out and grabbed his sleeve.His body went rigid."What is it?" he asked, his gaze darting to the clock on the wall."I have a check-up today," I said, gently touching my stomach. I looked at him, full of hope. "You said you'd come with me."He was silent for a few seconds."Monica, I…" He rubbed the bridge of his nose. "Pack emergency. It's urgent.""What is it?""You don't need to know." He snatched his jacket. "I'll be back as soon as I can.""Ryan!" I followed him to the door. "You're always like this now! It's been a month. You barely touch me. You barely even speak to me!"He stopped, his back to me."I'm dealing with pack business. It's important.""What about our child? Your heir!" My voic

The door closed.I collapsed onto the floor.I could feel our mate bond, distant and thin, being smothered by another woman's scent.The pack was already gossiping. Ryan had abandoned me.I stayed home, enduring the sharp, pulsing pain from the bond.Two weeks later was the full moon celebration."Luna, are you sure you should go?" My omega housekeeper, Lena, looked at me with worried eyes.I stared at my haggard reflection in the mirror. At over four months, my belly was just starting to show.I had to go.I refused to let them see me as broken.The grand hall of the Black Moon Estate glittered with light.I walked in alone, wearing a black evening gown, my head held high.The chatter died instantly.Every head turned toward me. Their eyes were filled with pity, mockery, and morbid curiosity."Monica?"Chloe, Ryan's sister, glided toward me, a viper in silk.She was flanked by the daughters of pack elders, her face a mask of fake concern."Are you alright? You look awful.""I'm fine.

"I sacrificed it."The Moonfall poison felt like fire in my veins.And the pureblood power inside me was a beast clawing to get out.I lay in a pool of my own blood, watching the shock and horror spread across Ryan's face.For the first time, I tasted revenge. It was sweet."A child his own father wouldn't claim," I whispered, "doesn't deserve to be born.""No!" Ryan fell to his knees beside me, his hands trembling as he reached for me. "Monica, you can't do this!""Can't I?" I gave him a cold smile, blood trickling from the corner of my mouth. "Why not?""That was our baby!" he roared, his golden eyes shimmering with pain. "The child we waited for! He was supposed to be the pack's strongest heir!""We?"I struggled to sit up. The mate bond shattered in my chest, splintering like glass.The bloody ritual circle on the floor began to pulse with an eerie red light. It was an ancient sacrificial rite, a forbidden magic only a pureblood could command."The child we waited for?" I laughe

Three weeks later."Monica, I know you're in there."Ryan's voice came from outside my door. It was ragged, broken, and desperate.I sat on the edge of the bed, a writ of passage to the lawless "City of No Light" resting in my hand.Dr. Draco's connections were even better than I'd imagined.It was the perfect escape."Please... let me in."His voice was trembling.Twenty-one days. Twenty-one days he had shown up at my door. Begging.Through a crack in the curtains, I could see his gaunt figure.The once-proud Alpha now knelt outside my door like a beggar.Ever since the night of the ritual, his Alpha power had been fading.His golden eyes had grown dull, his strong body withering day by day.This was the price of losing a pureblood heir.The curse of a broken bloodline."Monica..." His voice grew weaker, made more desperate by the falling rain. "I know I have no right to ask for forgiveness... but please... just give me one chance to explain..."Explain?I stood up with a cold smile

Ryan's POVI stood at the entrance to the City of No Light, staring at the black mist that shrouded it.Eight years.For eight years, I had searched for Monica like a mad dog.But it was as if she had vanished from the face of the earth.Now, my time was running out.The bloodline curse was devouring me from the inside out.The healers said I had three months, at most.The "Heart of the Moon" was my last hope.A mythical artifact said to heal any bloodline wound.If it was real, maybe I still had a chance to find Monica. To apologize. To beg for her forgiveness."Alpha, are we really going in there?"My guard looked at me with worry.Most of my pack had turned their backs on me after the... incident. Only a few remained."You can go back," I said, my voice hoarse. "This is my choice."The guard was silent for a moment, then shook his head. "I swore an oath to protect you."Loyalty.The word sounded like a bitter joke to me now.If only I had shown Monica the same loyalty, maybe none o