Pregnant I left him To His First Love by Collins Patrick

Chapter 5

Tatum is sitting on Carmela's bed in the dark, with Carmela on his legs, her head resting calmly on his chest, with one of his arms around her waist while the other slowly runs up and down her hair.

As his Luna and bearer of his mark, the mindlink gives Leila access to all of Tatum's physical senses and what she sees in her vision cripples her heart, forcing the tears she has been holding back to run down the corner of her eyes. Whatever hope she held out that she meant something to him instantly shatters and an unbearable pain rips through her.

A pained smile curves up Leila's lips and she is about to cut the mindlink when Tatum's voice barrages into her head.

'What is it?'

The coldness of his voice hurt her even more than the image in her vision. It's like this man feels absolutely nothing but irritation towards her since Carmela returned.

Before Leila can even form words in her head, Carmela notices the glow in Tatum's eyes and guesses it's Leila mindlinking him.

She jumps down from his legs, knowing Leila can hear and see her through Tatum's senses.

"You should go to your wife Alpha, I didn't mean to keep you from her," She says in a pitiful tone, bowing her head.

in a dark confined room has made me- has made me-" she starts to heave and sob, tears cascading down her pretty brown

is on his feet almost immediately, pulling her into his arms

now my dear, no one will harm you ever again. I promise," He says in

sobs silently, seeing the intimacy between her best friend and her husband. She feels pity for Carmela who

an impossible choice. A selfish one or a selfless one, to fight for

room for her in the house tomorrow, She'll be moving in

that the choice is not hers to make but

her face with the back of her hands, a crippling ache stabbing at

only one choice she has to make, actually two. Get rid of the

"Tatum.....please help me-"

night in the arms of another woman. The sorrow and emptiness she feels

becomes too miserable, this pain of loss that she feels for what was never hers has

wants a divorce before he tells her. She's not sure that her poor heart can take it hearing those words from him, no matter how much she expects it, so she will take the initiative and save herself the pain

opens the mindlink but quickly closes it, the intimate moment of Alpha Tatum and Carmela returning to her memory as vividly as she saw it last night,