Locked Away While She Was Loved
My mate, Alpha Ryan, started skipping my healer's appointments after I got pregnant. He always blamed pack business.
But I found him at the clinic anyway.
He was with another pregnant she-wolf—his childhood friend, Bonnie. He held her with a tenderness he no longer gave me.
"I'll take responsibility for this child," he promised her. "He'll be safe."
His words shattered my world.
Their child?
I stormed in to confront them and saw it: his temporary mark on her neck.
He swore the pup wasn't his.
He claimed a rogue attacked her and the mark was only for protection.
His lie was a knife twisting in our mate bond.
I was carrying his pure-blooded heir.
But he let the pack brand my child a bastard, while hailing her half-blood pup as his true heir.
To protect Bonnie, he locked me in a silver-laced cell. The silver was a living death.
He didn't realize his mistake until I took the forbidden herbs, sacrificing our child and collapsing in a pool of my own blood.
Only then did he cradle my broken body, begging for a forgiveness I would never give.