ALPHA'S TEMPTATION

s have access to the most intimate part of my body, inflicting hurt on me, and sometimes laughing at my distress. My vagina still hurts from birthing two children, and

voice, and I don't reply. I have no strength left in me. I simply stare out ahead. I must have drifted into semi-comatose sleep, because when I wake, the sun is no more in the sky, and the moon is out. I get up on my feet and hobble around, but I soon discover that the pack house main room is empty, and the doors are open. My babies! I think immediately. I need to find my babies and flee with them. Every single step I take hurts, not only because of childbirth, but also because of the flogging, yet I push on, walking to Alpha Kayden's main house. Kayden's house seems quiet when I get to it. I immediately walk to the back of the house. There is an entrance that leads to the kitchen, and if I'm lucky, from there, I can make my way to the room he once said he would like to use for a nursery. I turn open the door, and step into the kitchen. The smell of freshly roasted chicken wafts through my nostrils, reminding me that I have eaten nothing all day, and my belly churns in response, but I ignore my hunger and move on. The kitchen door eases into a hallway that leads to the nursery, but I stop dead in my tracks. Right in front of me stands Evelyn, looking at me in shock and surprise. She recovers from her surprise quickly, and looks me up and down, giving me a satisfied smirk. "You look so pathetic – just look at what you have been reduced to, and all because you thought you could be better than me."I was never in any form of competition with her, but of course, she will not see reason. Evelyn and her mother live within their own bubble, and nothing I say will ever convince them that they are wrong. "Evelyn, please, let me have my babies, and I promise, I would leave. You will not see me again," I say instead. She scoffs. "The fact that you are still making demands means you do not understand that your life is over. Everything you have ever loved has been taken away from you, your mate, your pack, your children."I shake my head. "Why do you hate me so much Evelyn?""Because he loved you more than he loved us!" She cried out. "Ever since my mother married your father, it was always my princess Melissa this, and my little sweetheart Melissa that, he never talked that way about me! That was why I killed him."I stare at her in shock as her words stir up forgotten pain within me. |Evelyn had killed my fathe