Luna's Revenge: The Alpha's Mistress Stole My Son

Chapter Six

Bella POV

“Leave,” Caleb orders and turns his back on me. I watch as Emma follows him, Nicholas by her side. The pain is unbearable. I feel Violet’s hand closing around the cloth of my gown.

“We have to go,” I manage to tell her through the tears, and we walk away.

No one even spares a glance at me. As I walk through the crowd, to feel my wolf stirring. She is trying to tell me something, I can sense her reacting to … What? Someone? She shifts, calling me, but I cut off the connection.

I can’t listen to her, not now. Whatever it is can wait. So I ignore her and continue walking. We have nowhere to go. Caleb and I have been married for years - I thought my home was here. It turned out I was wrong. Violet and I kept walking. I didn’t pick up anything, we just left. It is dark, and the wind turns cold. We can’t spend the night in the woods- and even if we do, what then? What happens after the night ends? I have only one choice- a choice I was hoping I would never have to make, but there is no other way.

We have to go back to my former home. I say “home”, but it was never one. The place we are headed to is a small house, far from the castle. It is a very old building- after my mother’s death, my father sold whatever he could and disappeared. This place is a constant reminder of what it means to be an omega- exiled even in your clan, a daughter of a drunkard father who despises you more than anything.

It is also one of the places I have always hated, and I was so happy to leave when we discovered Caleb and I were mates.

Violet has never been here- I truly believed she would never see this place. And yet, sometimes the things we thought we escaped come back to us unexpectedly. We arrive at the house after a tiring walk. Violet didn’t complain even once.

“We will stay here for now,” I tell her, and we proceed inside.

There isn’t much- my father gambled on most of the things he could. I open the windows to let air in, and the place suddenly turns cold. Violet helps me gather wood, and I start a fire. By the time we are ready with cleaning and tidying up, I am exhausted. It’s the middle of the night, and I sit in front of the fireplace. This is when all the events from the past days come crashing down on me. I lost everything. The life I spent years building is gone, in the blink of an eye. How could fate be so cruel? What did I do to deserve this?

“Mom?” Violet whispers and kneels before me. She is still wearing the official gown from the ceremony.

“This… this is your old home, isn’t it?” Violet asks, and I nod. Then I tell her about her grandmother and her grandfather. It’s better if she knows if we are to live here from now on.

“Dad doesn’t love me anymore, does he?” She whispers, I can feel the sadness in her voice seeping through her, and it’s heart wrenching.

“He loves you,” I tell her, and I really wish it were true.

“But he doesn’t want me,” she says,” is it because I am a girl?”

My vision is blurred. Violet is so beautiful and smart. But she is a girl- the curse of the Bloodflame pack.

“He loves you,” I manage. “Of course he does. He is your father; nothing can change this.”

Violet lowers her head and fixes her eyes on the ground.

“But Dad kept Nicholas.” Her voice is barely audible. Something inside me turns. “This can’t happen”, I tell myself. I can’t have my kids separated, no matter what. They are my flesh and blood, and they have never been separated from me and from one another. My hand finds Violet’s.

“We will be together again,” I tell her, “I promise you. I won’t let anyone separate us.”

Violet jumps from her seat and wraps her arms around me.

“I love you, Mom!” she exclaims, her hands closing around me really tight. I lift mine and hold her.

“I love you, too. Everything will be okay, I promise you.”

We stay like this for a while and until Violet’s eyes start closing. I put her to bed - she sleeps in the room that was once called “mine”, but I never felt like I belonged in it. After that, I try to sleep, but I can’t, so I get up and plan what to do, rehearsing what I am going to tell Caleb tomorrow. I have to go back there and speak to him; there is no way I will give up my child so easily.

I wait for the dawn to break and get ready- I make my hair and change into one of the dresses I found in the wardrobe. It is a pretty gown I wore years ago. I didn’t know if it would fit me, but I am surprised to discover it’s even a bit wider on me.

It will do perfectly. Violet is still sleeping, so I go to her. She wakes up as I kneel next to her bed.

“We are going to Dad and Nicholas,” I tell her, and she sits up.

“Really?”

Her eyes are wide.

“Yes. Let’s get ready.”

I made her hair and dressed her in a pretty dress of mine from when I was her age. Perhaps my father couldn’t sell those, so they were neatly kept in one of the wardrobes. Violet looks like a doll. We get to the castle quickly. I hold Violet's hand, and it gives me confidence. I know why we are here, and I am not leaving until I have my son back.

One of the maids sees me as I enter the castle.

“Miss Bella,” she says, confused, and tries to block my way.

“I… can’t let you in.” She stutters. I clench my teeth, irritated.

Where is my maid now when I need her? She would never do this. But I also know Olivia has probably already got rid of her, and there’s no point in hoping she will show up.

“I am here to speak to my husband,” I declare, and one of Caleb’s betas shows up. William. Oh, no… of all the people who could have come, now it had to be him. Meeting him is worse than meeting Olivia.

“Bella,” he says, slowly and the maid glances between us, then she disappears down the corridor.

“Caleb is no longer your husband,” William says, running his tongue over his lips. My skin crawls. William once tried to kiss me, and I pushed him away. If he tries now, in front of Violet… I have always tried to push him away, but he is much stronger, and no one will help me if he tries to do something now. My daughter moves closer to me. I steady myself.

“I am going to speak to him,” I lift my chin, challenging, and William snorts.

“You are desperate and pathetic,” he says. But I don’t care. Maybe he is right; however, neither of them will ever understand how I feel. They are incapable of knowing what it’s like to be a mother who might lose her child. So be it- I am pathetic. I don't care, I would take whatever if that would bring my son back.

William senses the shift in me- I am just an Omega, but he takes a step to the side and lifts his hands.

“He will never be yours, Bella,” William says, “he never was.”

And I don't know if he means Caleb or Nicholas.

***

I ask Violet to wait for me in the small library on the first floor and go to Caleb’s study. I can sense he is there. But as I opened the door I immediately realized he was not prepared to see me.