Chapter 2

The doctors didn't find anything wrong with Carmela except a few bruises, but Tatum insisted on her being hospitalised for the best care with a full bodycheck. Leila spends all the time she can squeeze out visiting Carmela. The whispers about her have gotten louder than ever now that Carmela has returned, with everyone asking, when will Alpha Tatum make Carmela his Luna?

The question is not if he will but when he will. Everyone in the pack is so certain of it.

As for Leila, she pretends not to hear these gossips, she tries not to think about it. She is just happy that her long-lost best friend who saved her has returned but the happiness is not a full one.

Leila knows the truth in her heart and it is the pain that comes with it that makes her still live in denial.

Alpha Tatum has tirelessly spent the last two years looking for his lost love and now that he found her, it was only a matter of time before she got the axe of rejection and let his rightful woman take her place. She knew she stole the time with him and she was okay with that. But the baby? The baby really came at the worst timing...

"I can't believe you went through all that Carmi, thank the goddess for the power of true love, what would have happened if the Alpha hadn't found you?" Tracy, one of Carmela's old friends in the pack says to her.

Carmela is lying down in her hospital bed with her feet stretched on Leila's lap while two other women, Tracy and Edna sit by her side.

"Of course he will!" Edna laughs with Tracy as if Leila is not present, "He found Carmi as his mate that night, remember?! The mate bond would guide him!"

a

bond is sacred!," Edna snorts a reply, sneering in Leila's direction all

quiver and she looks up calmly. Carmela pats her friend on the wrist lightly, giving Leila an apologising smile. Leila gives her a

the past two years,

mate, so please drop it about me being the Alpha's mate, okay? It would put him

and the flames of her

her eyes at Leila. "Oh please, Carmi, you are too kind! The Alpha found his mate two years ago, remember?! Hell, you were born our Luna! You bear the phoenix mark,

Carmela reaches for her neck with two of her beautiful fingers,

when the Alpha comes to age and finds his fated mate. Their pack's Luna is revealed long before that - in a prophecy at the birth of the Alpha. Tatum was born the heir, and his

her collarbone when she was ten,

and he did, he found his mate's scent on that fateful night, only Carmela got kidnapped before he could trace it to her, and that scent disappeared like it was never there

been our Luna and married to your mate if this thief didn't steal it right from you!" Seeing

up in shock. They never liked her, she knew, but they weren't bold enough to take it to her face, until

know that she's not actually the Alpha's second-chance mate, they would tear

her hands over her mouth

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