Pregnant With His Twins, Cast Away For His Lover

Chapter 6

The walk of shame.

She will be walked naked throughout the entire pack for a whole day and whoever she passes by has the right to do whatever they please to her, she can be beaten, spat on, ridiculed beyond measure, it is the worst form of humiliation and punishment.

The other men seeing her naked body becomes the least of Astrid’s worries and she lunges at Zane’s feet, clutching it tight in her grasp as she looks up to him with pitiful, teary and red eyes.

“Please Zane, listen to me, I am innocent, I have been framed, I don’t know that man, I don’t even know I got here,” she pleads, tears spilling out of her eyes. “I swear on my late father and mother, I have been faithful to you in our marriage, I love you Zane, I cannot cheat on you, what reason would I have?”

The words fly out of her mouth in panic as fear makes home in her heart, desperation coating every sentence that leaves her quivering lips.

Zane looks down at her, his eyes hard as steel, cold as ice, freezing over the broken fragments of her already shattered heart.

“You’re pathetic, a bloody liar and a cheat. I thought the goddess is supposed to give us some virtuous faithful mate who will be a part of our soul, to love and cherish us no matter what and this is what I get?” he scoffs with disdain, “what a joke.”

“Zane, no…please don’t say that…I would never do that to you, please, believe me,” a heart rending and gut wrenching sob tears out of Astrid as she tightens her hold on his leg.

She doesn’t know who did this to her but Zane should know her, he should know she would never do such a thing to him, he should believe that she was framed.

She has never given him reason to doubt her before, she doesn’t leave the house without his permission, not even to carry out her Luna duties, he knows everything about her, she tells him everything.

Why would she even need another man when he is all she desires? Everything about him sets her on fire, she loves him more than words can express and even if he has broken her heart, brought another woman into her bed and chased her out, she is still madly in love with him.

She still wants him.

“Don’t make me f*****g kick you,” Zane growls at her. “You foolish woman, is this meant to be your act of revenge? You want to ridicule me? Humiliate me? Drag my name in the mud? Well fine, you already have and now you will pay for it.”

He turns to the guards coldly, “I said, take her,”

His alpha aura blazes around him, his command absolute and Astrid can do nothing more than let the pain take over her heart as the men yank her away from Zane, holding her up against his vengeful gaze as the tears continue to spill from her eyes.

“Please….let me explain, after leaving the packhouse I–”

“Shut that lying mouth of yours, I found your lover and he confessed to me, how you’ve been having an affair for over two years. You have no dignity, no shame and I curse the day I found you as my fated mate.”

Astrid is too petrified to speak at first, the tears just fall from her eyes, the pain squeezing away at her heart, her chest tightens and her breath becomes laboured.

Why her? What did she do to deserve this? Who would do such a thing to her, frame her and still stand to defend it?

“No…no….believe me, please, I love you Zane, even before we were mates, I’ve always loved you, I would never do this to you, someone did this to me, I don’t know that man,” she cries out weakly, tears mixing with the mucus that drips down her nose and runs down her lips as she stays bare before him, waiting for what she knows is about to come.

A Luna cannot walk the walk of shame, she is believed to be the mother of the pack, a symbol of morals, honour and chastity, everything she is not right now in the eyes of her alpha.

For her to serve the punishment, Zane will have to reject her and denounce her as his Luna. She thought she would have time to prepare herself for it in three days, to comfort her wolf ahead of time, to take herbs to protect her pup if the pain becomes too unbearable for her wolf that it begins to have an effect on her body but now she will have to face it without preparation.

Zane narrows his eyes at her, his rage oozing through every pore in his body. “I didn’t love you, I never have and never will but I have never been unfaithful to you, even yesterday, I didn’t touch her and now I regret that I didn’t, knowing what a shameless slut you are.”

His words slice deep, cutting through Astrid’s heart without mercy, slashing it into a million pieces, each piece aching and full of despair.

“I, Alpha Zane Luther, Alpha of the Moonstone Pack, under the all seeing eye of the goddess reject you, Astrid Leto, as my fated mate and I denounce you as my Luna,” Zane announces in a cold and soulless voice, his eyes hard and holding no remorse.

Astrid yells as her wolf howls in pain, slamming against the walls in her head, she throws the warriors away from her, arching downward in pain and grabs her chest as a strong and sharp pain attacks her heart like a sharp axe was driven into her chest from behind.

She sucks in a sharp dry breath as she looks back up at Zane. Blood coats underneath her eyes, spilling out with her tears.

What sort of pain is this?

Is she going to die?

She cannot survive this, not a muscle, not a cell in her body is not feeling this pain.

“Z….Za…”

She stretches her hand to hold him as her knees buckle but he moves backward and before her body reaches the floor, a sharp white light blinds her vision and everything goes dark.