Damon"You asked to see me, Alpha?" "Indeed," I said to my beta, raising my head from the files that were currently scattered on my table. "How was your night out?" He said, raising his eyebrows with a small smile on his face and I fought the urge to smile as well but I couldn't. Not after what had happened last night with Hayley. When Candice had come to me, informing me about the latest rumor that had to circulate the pack. According to her, they were already saying that I would crack under the pressure and replace Hayley with Annie.I had been enraged, but the moment my sister had told me that Hayley had heard that rumor, my anger had turned to sorrow. I had done this to her and I couldn't even rush to her side to console her, for fear that she would send me away. I couldn't lie that it was not eating away at me that I could not sleep in the same room with her anymore and it seemed like with each passing day, my chances of getting her back were dimming. The light in her eyes h

HayleyIt felt like the world was spinning around me. It felt like I was about to fall even though I was currently sitting on the ground in my bedroom. It felt like everything was crashing down on me. It felt to me like I was losing my mind. The events of the entire day kept replaying in my head and I wondered how it had gone so wrong. One minute, I could not even wait to show Damon the lingerie that I had bought and laugh with Candice about finally being brave enough to even purchase something so scandalous, and the next minute I was being stopped by guards and accused by my husband and his mistress that I was trying to commit murder. A murder that I was sure I was being framed for because even though I had felt many things, the one thing that I had never thought of regarding this issue was how to kill Annie or the child she was expecting with Damon. Now I was on house arrest, with guards stationed outside the door to keep me from leaving, not knowing what was going to become of

DamonI had no idea how things had gone from bad to worse all in a few days. One moment, I was happy and sure that Hayley and I were going to find our way back to each other and that we were going to come out of this scandal stronger than ever, and now this? I had refused to believe it, I didn’t even want to think about the possibility that Hayley was capable of trying to murder Annie and my unborn child, but the evidence was too overwhelming. In fact, she was the only one that stood to gain the most from Annie’s demise because it would mean that she would no longer have a rival who would struggle for her position as Luna. No one would question for her to be replaced and it would be as if I had never even cheated because there would be no evidence of it. No Annie. No child. As much as everything sounded exactly like that and pointed to Hayley as the culprit, every night when I went to bed, I asked myself if there was even a one percent chance that all of this was just a big mistake.

DamonStanding at the head of the table, with the heavy atmosphere causing my shoulders to fall, as it came on me like an impending storm, I shook my head. It was strange and it still felt untrue to me, knowing that the place I had loved more than anything in the entire world, and the one place I always ran to when the problems of the world felt like it was collapsing on me, my home, had become a place of eternal torment. Waking up every day, it was there like a dark cloud over my head, the realization that I had somehow lost everything that mattered to me. The elders had assured me that stripping Hayley of her title as Luna was the best thing we could do for her in the face of an accusation as terrible as an attempted murder of my unborn child, an accusation that I was still trying to wrap my head around especially with all the evidence pointing to her. When she had walked into that dining room to announce that she was in fact very ready to sever the bond we had so quickly, it mad

HayleyThe room around me seemed to cave in on me and all my mind could dwell on as I picked up all of my stuff, folding every piece and parcel of clothing into the box was how life had been when I had driest moved into this room. I remembered how in love I was with Damon at the start of our relationship and how we had vowed to be together forever. I should probably be grateful that I could leave this place with my life as opposed to being killed for a crime that I did not commit.But at what cost? A sinister voice whispered, reminding me of all I had lost. My husband, my title, everything. Yet, I knew that now I had someone I needed to live for. I was pregnant and even though all I had ever wanted was to share this moment with my husband, alas it seemed I would be doing it alone.Amidst my preparations, there was a harsh knock on the door that threatened to remove the door from its hinges and I jolted in surprise, wondering what could be happening again. Could it be that something bad