TARA
"Aidan, love, I-I wasn't sure… so I went to see the pack doctor. I'm two weeks gone," I said my voice barely above a whisper. "I'm pregnant."
My heartbeat thrashed in my ears as I finally found the courage to tell him. I was beyond terrified, but I was sure that Aidan and I would go through this together. After all, he was the Alpha of Pack Attica.
Aidan looked up from his phone, and the color completely drained from his face. "No, you're not."
My mouth fell open. What?
"I-I am," I said, fumbling through my pocket for the picture the doctor gave me of the baby. "I'm preg-"
"What the fuck, Tara! Stop saying that. You're not pregnant for fucks sake! Are you that pathetic to lie with something as dire as this?"
I flinched at his tone. Aidan was never mean to me. He never raised his voice or used foul language at me.
"Why would I lie? I swear by the moon, it's yours," I pleaded, tears filling the back of my eyelids, blurring my vision.
With fists clenched and veins bulging from every visible surface of Aidan's body, I knew he was furious.
My throat went dry, my breaths became shallow and haggard, and I didn't realize I was sobbing until the salty flavor of tears slipped past my lips.
"How long have we been mates?" Aidan barked.
"Aidan," I began, but he cut me off.
"Answer the goddamn question, Tara."
"Four weeks," I cried, breaking into more tears. "But it's true. I am carrying our child."
He wasn't hearing me. All Aidan could hear and see was red. "And how many times have we been intimate, Tara?"
I looked up at him with burning eyes, lungs constricting in my chest, and I whispered. "Once."
I remembered that day vividly even if it was weeks ago. Aidan had confessed that he loved me just as much as I loved him, and caught up in the heat of the moment, we completed our mating bond, tying us as one for life.
I wasn't so sure of that anymore.
"And we were being safe," Aidan said. "So, why do you think this lie would stick?"
"I don't know how it happened, but believe me, I won't lie about something like this. Aidan, I'm scared," I begged. "My parents… they're going to kill me. Please, I need you," I rambled on.
In a werewolf pack, there was no worse scandal than an unmated werewolf getting pregnant. Aidan and I didn't announce our union because the pack wouldn't have taken me for their Luna since I was from an omega family. We were waiting for the right time to announce our bond to the pack, but it wasn't my fault that an Alpha's seed was so potent.
Aidan's shoulders fell, and his voice dropped low in disappointment. "I thought you were different. I had real feelings for you, but I didn't know you were just a fraudster desperate for a title."
Each word from his mouth was like a dagger to my soul. How had I become the villain? I never cared about Aidan's wealth.
My body shook as I thought of what was going to become of me. How was I going to tell my parents that their precious eighteen-year-old daughter had lost her virginity, and gotten pregnant out of wedlock?
"Aidan. I can't do this without you. I…" my voice broke off, and I sprawled on the floor, crying.
He looked down at me from the bed, his face not giving off any more hints of his feelings, and he stood up. Without so much as a second glance at me, he walked away. From me and my baby.
This wasn't how I imagined this to go. What was I going to do?
Was I just going to let Aidan walk away from us?
No. I would fight for him. I didn't care what it took, I would make him see the truth.