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“Then what happened?” Sebastian suddenly spoke up, his voice raspier than usual.
I closed my eyes, unable to face him. “Mom called to tell me Thea had given birth to a boy… your heir, and that you fell completely in love with him the moment you saw him. That night I broke down again, all the pain I’d buried resurfaced. I was so angry. Angry at myself for rejecting your proposal, angry at you for getting drunk and sleeping with Thea, angry at Thea for getting pregnant and marrying you, even angry at the newborn baby.”
I heard a sharp intake of breath. Without turning, I knew it was Sebastian. Even now, I still felt uncomfortable around Leo, because if everything had gone the way I wanted, he
wouldn’t exist.
“I wanted to punish you. Wanted to hurt you like you hurt me. I knew you always hated the way Jaxon was obsessed with me, so I decided to use my former mate. That night I approached Jaxon and seduced him…”
I didn’t need to continue, but everyone understood what happened.
“I’d planned for news of me sleeping with him to reach you through others, to hurt you. But the next morning I immediately regretted it, realizing how stupid it was to sleep with someone I didn’t like and had rejected, just to get revenge on the person I loved. I told Jaxon it was a mistake, that he should forget what happened between us and leave. I thought that was the end of it.”
“We went back to ignoring each other, pretending the other didn’t exist, until my period was late. One cheap test, then a doctor’s appointment, confirmed I was pregnant.”
It was the worst news I’d ever received. Deep down, I’d always believed Sebastian and I would get back together someday. I didn’t want an unwanted baby to stand in the way of that. I didn’t want the consequences of my poor choice staring me in the face forever.
I wiped the tears from my face and continued, “I told Jaxon the news, and that I didn’t want the baby, wanted to terminate the pregnancy, but Jaxon threatened that if I dared do that, he’d tell Mom and Dad. It was the worst time because I was forced to carry a child I
didn’t want, with no choice in the matter.”
“You wanted to kill your own pup? Your mate’s child?” Mom’s voice quivered painfully,
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both our wolves whimpering simultaneously.
I nodded, unable to say it out loud, but the truth was clear. I went on to describe how I hid the pregnancy from my family, how I gave birth because Jaxon insisted, and how I didn’t even look at the baby once before leaving the hospital after he was born.
“I had the nurse give him directly to Jaxon. I didn’t want any contact; I considered my responsibility over and believed I could now break free from the chains Jaxon had placed on me when he forced me to keep the child.”
I didn’t care about the child, how he was doing, what he ate, or anything else. I just wanted to forget I had a child with a mate I didn’t want and had rejected.
I knew this made me look like a complete bitch, but honestly, I didn’t care. This was my
choice, this was what I wanted.
“And then you continued your life like he didn’t exist, right? Like he was nothing?” Mom
stood up and asked.
“Mom…”
“Shut up!” she shouted, then repeated more softly: “Shut up. Today, you’ve successfully destroyed the last intact place in my heart. As if losing your father and Thea wasn’t punishment enough, now I discover what a cruel daughter I have… I can’t even look at you right now, I just can’t.”
With that, she walked away, leaving me sobbing on the ground.
I looked at the others as they left one by one. Roman was the last to go.
He shook his head, and I thought it was in disgust.
“Of all people, I never thought this would happen with you, Aurora. Not you,” he said
before walking away too.
I was left alone, crouching in the yard like an exiled rat, lonely and desperate.
I curled into myself, tears flowing freely. Hours ago, everything had been perfect until Thea came here and ruined everything again. Last time she destroyed my future with
Sebastian, and this time, it was so much more. I would never forgive her. Never.
