Heart of a demon

While I Was Bleeding Out, He Lit Lanterns For Her

Katie Oettgen

As I lay on the floor of our manor, bleeding out from a ruptured ectopic pregnancy, I used my last ounce of strength to call my husband, Cole. I begged him for help, my vision blurring. But the only thing I heard was the clinking of champagne glasses and his mistress's giggle in the background. "Stop the drama, June," Cole snapped, his voice cold. "We're about to go on stage. Don't call again." He hung up, leaving me to die alone on the Persian rug while he accepted an award with another woman on his arm. I woke up in the hospital days later. My baby was gone. They had removed my fallopian tube. Cole finally arrived, smelling of expensive scotch and his mistress's perfume. He didn't hug me. He didn't cry. Instead, he leaned over my hospital bed, pressing his knee into the mattress until my fresh stitches tore open and bled. "You embarrassed me by calling an ambulance," he hissed. "My mistress, Alycia, says you're faking it. Clean yourself up." He left me bleeding again to go announce a $10 million donation to Alycia's "groundbreaking" medical research. I stared at the TV screen, numb. The research Alycia was taking credit for? It was mine. I wrote that patent years ago under a pseudonym. They thought I was just a poor, orphan housewife who needed Cole's money to survive. They had no idea I was actually a billionaire scientist hiding my identity. I pulled the IV needle out of my arm. A drop of blood fell onto the divorce papers I had been hiding. I didn't wipe it off. I signed my name right over it. Then I walked into the bank, reactivated my dormant account with $128 million, and bought the penthouse directly overlooking Cole's house. The mourning widow is dead. The avenger is born.

Romance Crime Revenge Pregnancy Enemies to Lovers Pregnancy Personal Growth

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The night stood still and bloodied with cold darkness in the Blackmoon pack, on the day the son of the Alpha was to be born.

Waiting patiently in his meeting hall with the seven alphas of different packs.

"You can't let that child live" Alpha Jack said with a repititive force,

"Do you want him to kill his own son without knowing anything about him" Alpha Zid reverted.

"But the prophecy is not something to be dealt with, you heard the witch, she said that the boy will kill his father and mate with his mother, that is a cruel abomination" Alpha Jack said again.

He was against letting the boy live, the Blackmoon pack was the strongest pack of the seven realms of the West, Alpha Ethan ruled it with a ruthless power causing dominance and submission from the various packs.

"What if the witch was lying" Alpha Crood said raising some intuition.

He still saw some hope at the end of the tunnel.

"Has Helen ever lied" Alpha Jack replied.

Alpha Ethan sat quietly watching them but his mind had diverted from them, he couldn't let his son mate with his own mother, that was something he would never allow. This was a punishment from the moon goodness because of his sins but wasn't she too cruel with her punishment.

"I say we kill the child before this issue escalates much further" Alpha Luther lashed out.

"The Luna forbids it" Alpha Zid sneered,

"And what can the Luna do about this matter, if she going to watch her Alpha die and also mate with her son" Alpha Jack jumped banging the table in anger.

"Alpha, what do you say" Alpha Zid asked waking him from his reverie.

"I need to think, you are all dismissed" Alpha Ethan ordered.

His mind was in a mess and he couldn't take it anymore with these Alpha's arguing like they really cared about him, if they were given a chance, they would immediately betray him.

"Kill the child" were the last words his special adviser gave to him before he dismissed him.

He thought long and hard, there was no need for him to keep his child, he hadn't known him yet, killing him while he was still a baby was the best choice for him.

Then he recalled his Luna begging to spare her son's life, she was the only good thing that had ever happened to him and he had to do everything to make her happy.

The cries of a baby could be heard from the Pack's hospital, Ariana held unto her baby unwilling to let him go, she knew the cruel fate that awaits him when she lets him out of her sight.

"Luna, the Alpha is here to see you" Bridgette the Pack's nurse said.

Walking in, Alpha Ethan's dark and cold gaze fell on his son, there was a striking resemblance between him and the boy.

"Isn't he beautiful" Ariana said looking cutely at him.

"He is" he confirmed.

"I want to name him Axel" She brought his hands to touch the boy but he resisted.

Alpha Ethan didn't wish to go back on his words, he had decided to kill the boy.

"You have come to a decision, you want to kill my son" she understood his actions clearly.

She had hoped that he would change his mind when he sees his son.

"It's for the best" he sulked.

"No, I will not let you, you can't take my son away from me" she yelled shifting away from him.

"We can have another one" he uttered,

"No" She screamed, the pack members within the hospital could feel her pain.

She was their Luna and the bond was tremendous.

"Don't make this any more painful than it is. Let's do this now that we barely know him" Alpha Ethan said.

"Barely know him, ofcourse I know him, he is my son. And I will not let you harm him" She raised her voice in a commandeering tone but Alpha Ethan never submitted.

His eyes became dark with rage and he cursed within him.

Ariana held her baby with tears in her eyes, he was her only hope, her husband was already a monster before she found out that he was her mate, if he decided to kill his own son, it wasn't a new thing to him since he had killed his own father in cold blood.

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