Pregnant I left him To His First Love by Collins Patrick

Chapter 166

"I'm sorry about your dad's illness but seeing me won't heal him. Excuse me," Leila says coldly, turning away.

Tatum blocks her path, looking straight into her beautiful blue eyes, wishing they didn't have such coldness and hatred in them towards him but he knows he deserves it, he deserves more than it.

His sins against her are grave and he doesn't know the first way to redeem himself.

He cost a mother her child. Is there even redemption for that?

Even though it was never part of his plan, it is still his fault that their child is dead, his child, his heir. He cannot imagine the pain Leila must have gone through when it happened, the agony and anguish she must have been in and it crushes his heart.

All he wanted was to keep her safe, to protect her from Trent and Carmela, it's why he never wanted to tell her anything he was up to back then, why he repeatedly told her not to speak or antagonise Carmela so Carmela can drop her guard and he can nail them with proof but Leila was adamant.

the Alpha, yes, but a young Alpha with the weight of a prophecy hanging over his head, Trent was his father's Beta, a powerful man in the realm with connections, the council was loyal to him and Carmela had the entire pack behind her because of the prophecy. It was a losing battle, he could not take them on and keep Leila safe at the same time and when they framed her for killing the pack witch, going to the length of paying someone to admit that Leila hired him to do it,

led the chase after them himself, so he could lead them in that direction and hope she survived. He didn't know his child would die,

her to hate

see you," Tatum says, closing the gap between them, his heart racing

her. The woman in front of him is a work of perfection, hand crafted by the goddess with precision, the radiance of her beauty is ethereal, her smile, one he may never see again lights up a million hearts at a glance, she is beautiful inside out, a true queen. "Are you trying to blackmail me emotionally? Is that what you're playing at? Listen, I'm sorry if the only member of your family with a

words slice something deep inside Tatum, compounding his sadness, amplifying

he

even possible at

he lost

he had put things in place for her to return. In the beginning he thought he could bear to let her be with Kelvin, he deluded himself into thinking it was the ultimate sacrifice to pay for his love but he quickly realised that a life without teila is not a life

years, he waited painfully to see if things would work out with Kelvin, he waited for news of their marriage and the longer it took for anything to happen, the more he became certain he had