Last Chance At Redemption

Anna

Ethan's POV

Today is a wonderful and sunny Saturday. I feel the rays of sun hitting my face as I’m laying down in a meadow on the edge our pack with Anna laying over me wrapped in my arms. It’s a beautiful day and sharing it with Anna makes me the happiest man on earth. I can stay here all day and get lost in her hazel eyes that are looking back into mine. She looks perfect in the white dress she has on today as it matches perfectly with her caramel complexion and fits her body, accentuating her curves like it was meant to be worn only by her. Today she let her beautiful hair loose the way i like it. It is a chocolate brown color with natural highlights that seem bright under the sunlight . I love how it passes down her waistline and reaches to her round, perfect bottom. She is the most beautiful woman I have ever met and I still have trouble sometimes believing how lucky I truly am to have been blessed by the moon goddess. I knew I loved Anna from the first day I laid eyes on her and having her in my arms everyday makes me the happiest man on earth. When I am with her, I feel as if there is nothing else missing in my life and I am complete.

“I love you so much Ethan and have something to tell you.” She says as she smiles up at me.

“Oh really?" I ask "what do you have to tell me my love?” I raise an eyebrow at her wondering what the love of my life can possibly be keeping from me.

“I want to show you” she says, smiling as she tries to pull herself from my arms, but I refuse to let go. I want this moment of bliss to laugh forever. She starts giggling and tickles my soft spots until I give in and finally release her. After I let her go, I sit up and realize she is now standing over me and is cradling a baby bump I can't believe I hadn't noticed before. It's like her belly magically appeared in a matter of seconds.

“Anna, you’re pregnant love! I can’t believe I’m going to be a father!” My heart begins to race as I hug her belly while still on the ground and i can feel the wetness of tears of joy running down my cheek.

“I’ll be the best dad I can be, I promise” I say as I continue to hug her belly. This is the best news I have ever received. We had discussed having a pup before but it just never happened and we even started to wonder if maybe we should get a check-up by an expert. This is by far the happiest moment in my life. Even beating the day that we had met.

All of a sudden, the air around us seems to cool down and the wind begins to pick up. She begins to speak and her voice changes from the sweet tone that I am accustomed to hearing to a hoarse voice that sounds as if it were in pain.

“ Now, didn’t your parents teach you that it is bad to lie?” I barely register her words, as I am so caught up in the moment and happiness I feel that I haven’t begun to notice how the perfectly blue sky around me has now turned dark and has been completely covered with storm clouds.

I look up realizing something is off and the loving expression she had just a while ago has been replaced by a look of pure evil and hatred. Her hazel eyes are now foggy white and her cheeks and eyes have sunken into her face. I lower my hands from her baby bump and see that her white dress is now covered in blood. The warm tears I had felt on my cheeks weren’t tears at all but blood that was pouring from her chest. I was so lost in this moment, that I had forgotten this wasn’t possible. As a matter of fact, all of this was impossible because I had lost my Anna already. I had already lost the love of my life and happiness was a feeling that i am never going to feel again. I should have known it was too good to be true.

“You will not be the best dad to anyone because you are a failure, you failed to keep us safe, you did this on purpose, you left us. We would be alive if it wasn’t for you being so weak. Me and my baby were murdered because you are a sad excuse of a man and a weak, useless Alpha.” I hear and I quickly begin to realize that she is speaking to me, but she hasn’t moved her lips. I am frozen in fear as I had never seen anything so terrifying. I have been in countless battles before but have never experienced fear as I am at the moment. How could this day go from the best in my life to the worst in a matter of seconds? The words she said have cut straight into my chest and have hurt me to the very core, as I know that she is telling the truth. I failed them.

“I’m sorry Anna! I’m sorry! Please forgive me, I love you! I have always loved you. It should have been me”, I shout through sobs as she gets closer to me, lowering herself towards my face. She puts a cold lifeless finger to my lips and whispers

“You’re right it should have”. She lifts her other hand and I see she is holding a silver dagger. I do not fight back and only spread my arms wide, welcoming death as she plunges it into my chest while looking me in the eyes. The world goes cold and everything gets dark.