Chapter 2
“Selene, the power’s out in my apartment. Lucas was worried about me staying there alone, so he asked me to crash at his place for a while. He even changed the door code to my birthday so I wouldn’t forget it. You don’t mind, right?”
My gaze dropped to the thin strap of Emily’s camisole, barely hanging on her shoulder. Red scratches and kiss marks trailed down her chest–she clearly wasn’t wearing a bra.
“Selene’s always so sweet. Why would she mind?” came a taunting voice from inside.
Lucas was lounging on the couch, his pants a wrinkled mess, shirt on backwards. A wet stain still darkened the cushion beneath him.
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He got up and pulled me into a hug.”You’re pregnant, and you’re still running arounddat night without telling me? What if something happened to you? What the hell was !! supposed to do then?”
A wave of cheap perfume hit me, so stronggitt made my stomach churn.
He looked at me like he cared–but it was all an act. While pretending to be the perfect husband, he was screwing his ex in my house. He’d even changed the lock–not to help Emily, but to keep me from walking in on their disgusting little game.
I didn’t say a word. Just brushed past him and went upstairs.
That night, Lucas–who normally hated milk -brought me a glass himself.
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“You’re in your third trimester. You need more protein and calcium. Come on, baby. Drink up.”
I stared at the glass in his hand. My expression hardened. “I don’t want it.”
His jaw tightened, but he forced a smile. “It’s for you and the Pup. Don’t make this harder than it has to be.”
Then, without warning, he shoved the glass to my lips and forced the milk down my throat.
It tasted cloyingly sweet, with a metallic aftertaste. As soon as I swallowed, my body started to go heavy. My vision blurred. I thought I saw two shadowy figures by my bed before everything went dark.
When I woke the next morning, every muscle
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in my body throbbed. I could barely sit up.
After Lucas left for work, I pulled out my phone and opened the hidden camera footage I’d placed in the flowerpot the night before.
The second the video started playing, it felt like a bucket of ice water had been poured over my heart. Shame and fury twisted inside me like knives.
After I’d passed out, Lucas and Emily had kissed their way from the front door to my bed.
“Lucas, do you know how awful it is watching you live with that woman every day?” Emily purred. “You know I’m the one who’s supposed to be your mate.”
Lucas spat on my face and snarled, “That
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fat pig doesn’t hold a candle to you. I only married her because of the Pup. You really think I’d let you go through childbirth? She’s not even worth a single strand of your hair.”
Emily looked down at me with eerie fascination. “Are you sure you gave her enough sedatives?”
She started tugging at my clothes. “What if she finds out the truth after the baby’s born? We need something to hold over her–or the Alpha Family might come after us.”
Lucas didn’t even hesitate. He joined her, pulling off the rest of my clothes until I was completely exposed. Then they dragged me to a chair and forced my legs open, facing the bed.
Lucas pulled out his phone and started snapping photos while Emily moved my
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limbs around like I was some lifeless doll.
Once they’d gotten their fill of pictures, they started touching me–doing things so vile, so depraved, I can’t even bring myself to put them into words.
I stared at the footage on my phone, sobbing, my chest aching like it was being ripped in half.
I shut off the video and, without a second thought, swallowed the pills the Pack Doctor had given me.
“What are you taking?”
Lucas’s voice rang out behind me, sudden and sharp.
I looked up and met his fake, worried eyes.
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“Just some calcium,” I said, keeping my voice
steady.
