Scorned Luna's Rising

CH2: Jasmine's Pov

I waited at the front door of the doctor’s office, my heart pounding with a fear I couldn’t shake off.

There is no one else for me to run to if Kade rejects me and he knows this. I am an orphan, stripped of every anchor. My family was slaughtered when my Pack was wiped out, leaving me and now not just alone, but poor and powerless. Maybe that’s why my mother-in-law felt no shame in telling me last night that I would be the one to help Elena settle into her place as the new Luna.

But that’s something I can never do.

So at dawn, while the pack still slept, I slipped away quietly and came here to the hospital. I needed to see the doctor. I needed to know if my desperate gamble had worked.

She told me before that it was too early—that I should come back in a month to know for certain if the last vial of Kade’s sperm they had stored, which she’d inseminated into me two weeks ago had taken root. But I couldn’t wait. Not after what happened yesterday.

I haven’t told Kade. I wanted it to be a surprise, a miracle he’d never expect. Another IVF, another hope clawed from the ashes of disappointment.

Now, all I can do is pray. Pray that I am finally carrying his child. Pray that when the doctor checks me today, she’ll tell me yes even if fate later steals it away in miscarriage or stillbirth.

Because all I need right now is the confirmation. The fragile proof that for once, my body has not failed me. That maybe this time, Kade won’t find a reason to cast me aside.

That maybe, just maybe, I can be enough.

I waited for hours for my gynecologist to arrive. With the storm raging outside, the network on my phone was dead, making it nearly impossible to contact her.

The pain I felt while waiting was unbearable. It is said that whenever one’s mate becomes intimate with another, their bond lashes out, searing their chest with torment. I had endured this daily for the five years I was mated to Kade, but today it was worse.

Every hour, sharp bolts of agony ripped through me, so deliberate it felt as though he was punishing me—sleeping with multiple women just to drag me back to the pack I had snuck away from. Multiple women, because I refused to believe Elena alone could withstand him for those relentless intervals.

By 5 p.m., drained and trembling, I gave up on waiting for my gynecologist and rebooked to see the doctor on duty. I trusted my gynecologist as she was my friend and confidante, my personal OBGYN, but desperation pushed me into another’s care.

When my name was called, I entered the office, nerves raw and hope clawing at me. The doctor was brisk and efficient. It didn’t take her long to wheel the pregnancy scanner to my side, rub the cold gel across my belly and press the wand gently against my skin. I kept my eyes on the fuzzy, shifting images that flickered across the screen, trying to decipher them until her words froze me in place.

“Congratulations, ma’am. You are pregnant.”

I blinked at her, my heart stuttering. “Pregnant?” My voice was hoarse with disbelief. It was everything I had longed for, yet hearing it aloud stunned me. For three years, I had carried emptiness. And now?

“Yes,” she affirmed, her smile warm. “And it’s an Alpha pup. With the size and strength I’m seeing, it will be powerful. Who knows, perhaps there are two or more.” She chuckled softly, as if teasing.

The room tilted. I was shaking but this time from joy. Finally. The answer to years of broken prayers.

As she turned to her desk to scribble a list of prescriptions, I hastily dressed and bolted for the door, my emotions too overwhelming to contain. She called after me, even stepped to the threshold, but I didn’t stop.

I was going home. Back to the pack. Back to Kade. This news would save us. This pup would mend the cracks of our crumbling marriage. Maybe this time, the pregnancy would survive. Maybe this time, everything would finally be right.

But as I stepped out of the hospital, a sleek black car pulled into view. Several men climbed out, their eyes locking on me. They were Kade’s men.

I didn’t run. There was no need. They had finally tracked me down. I was never allowed to leave without his permission. The only exceptions were hospital trips, always shadowed by the Omegas he had assigned to spy on me. Of course, they had reported back.

My phone suddenly buzzed in my hand as the storm had passed and the network returned. It was my gynecologist. Relief surged through me and I quickly answered, eager to share the news with her before the men closed in.

But her voice came rushed and wrong.

“I’m so sorry, Jasmine. There’s been a mistake. I just discovered that the nurse mixed up the vials. Your mate’s sperm was replaced with another belonging to one—”

The world crashed and my phone slipped from my hand deliberately, hitting the pavement with a sharp crack. I couldn’t let them hear. Couldn’t risk them checking my call logs later.

“No…” I whispered, my lips trembling as the men reached me, their rough hands closing around my arms.

They dragged me toward the waiting car and the only word I could muster was a broken echo. “No…”

Pregnant. Yes I was, but not with Kade’s child. I had been inseminated with the wrong sperm.

*****

We arrived at the pack house and before the car even rolled to a stop, the men were already dragging me out. Their hands gripped me so tightly I could feel the bruises forming beneath their fingers.

When we reached the open courtyard, my heart faltered. Scattered across the ground were my belongings, the few clothes I owned and books I had cherished for years, were all dumped carelessly for the pack to scavenge. Omegas pawed through them greedily, snatching what they wanted as though I had already been erased from existence.

I said nothing. I already knew what it meant. Kade had thrown me out. And yet that wasn’t what crushed me most. Not the humiliation or even the fear of rejection. What consumed me was the weight of my secret—the truth that I carried a pup but not my mate’s. Another man’s child grew inside me.

How could I ever explain that without being branded a liar, a w***e and an immoral woman who spread her legs for strangers? Who would believe the truth about the hospital’s mistake? No one. Not in this pack.

The men shoved me hard and I stumbled forward. By the time my knees hit the polished floor, I realized I had been thrown into Kade’s living room.

“Where did you go, Jasmine?” His cold, thunderous voice sliced through the air.

I didn’t answer. My eyes burned as they fell on him seated on his throne-like chair, Elena beside him, her hand draped possessively over his arm.

He had already moved her into my place. My belongings cast outside, her perfume filling the home that was once mine. My chest ached with fury and despair.

“Can’t you speak?” Elena’s voice lashed at me, sweet and venomous. She tilted her chin proudly, her lips curved in a smirk. “The Alpha is speaking and you dare stay silent? Tell me, is this how you’ve always disrespected him? Well not anymore. I’m here now and things are going to change.”

My wolf snarled within me demanding release. She wanted to tear Elena apart, to shred her arrogance to pieces. But I forced her back down. We were too weak. An Alpha’s daughter shielded by the man who had already turned against me, fighting her would be suicide.

“Leave her, baby,” Kade murmured, his gaze never softening. “I have better plans for her. Ones that will benefit us.”

I frowned, my stomach churning. Plans? What did he mean—?

Before I could make sense of it, his beta stepped forward, holding out a document and a pen. I caught the bold headline immediately. My hands trembled but before I could read further, Kade rose, his voice sharp and deliberate.

“I, Kade Fangu, Alpha of the Bloodfang Circle, reject you, Jasmine Hugo, as my fated mate. I sever the bond that ties us.”

The words ripped through me like claws. My chest caved in and an invisible blade began tearing my heart apart. I gasped, clutching at the emptiness left in the wake of the broken bond.

There was no point resisting. No reason to hold on to this cursed tie. Not when I carried another man’s child. My lips barely moved, but the words escaped anyway. “I… accept your rejection.”

The torment ceased instantly, though the hollow ache remained. My wolf whimpered, collapsing within me but I forced myself to stay strong. For the pup I've prayed for, for years. Weakness would only destroy us both.

I lifted the pen with a shaking hand and scrawled my name across the divorce papers, Kade’s bold signature already etched at the bottom. Regret burned my throat. I should have done this first. I should never have given him so many chances. He had drained me dry and still cast me aside like trash.

When I handed the document back, I rose to leave. But before I could take two steps, a guard blocked my path.

Confusion surged. “I don’t understand, Kade,” I said, forcing steel into my voice. “You’ve rejected and divorced me. With council of bonds approval, no less. What else could you possibly want?”

His lips twisted into a cruel smile. “You think it’s over, Jasmine? No. You’re more valuable than you know. Dominic Cherez has been looking for a woman from WestHaven. For reasons I don’t care to understand. He’s offering ten million dollars. Enough to fund my wedding to Elena next week without touching a cent of my savings. Why would I let that opportunity slip away?”

My body went cold.

“At least she’ll finally be useful,” another voice cut in. His mother. She stepped into the room, her eyes sharp with disdain. “She’s been nothing but dead weight since she came here.”

Useful. That word sliced deeper than rejection itself. My life, my love, my sacrifices had all been reduced to utility. To nothing. Tears blurred my vision.

“There’s no way I’ll let you sell me like cattle!” My voice cracked with defiance. “To Dominic Cherez, of all people? The media’s infamous womanizer? You disgust me, Kade.”

His smirk widened. “It’s not as if you have a choice.”

“I have a choice!” I roared, my chest heaving. I turned sharply, determined to escape but once again a body blocked me.

“Charles?” My breath caught. “You…?”

The same man I had once saved, the thief I had defended when others tried to tear him apart, now stood against me.

His eyes hardened. “I was demoted to gamma because of you, Jasmine. Maybe if you weren’t barren, maybe if you had given the Alpha a child, things would have been different.”

My heart cracked further, disbelief flooding me. Even him was mocking me?

“Stand down,” he whispered darkly. “Unless you want me to make this harder.”

I stared at him, betrayal upon betrayal suffocating me. My heart, my wolf, my very soul shattered into pieces.

My lips pressed into silence. Every instinct screamed at me to fight. But I couldn’t risk it. Not when the fragile life inside me had finally taken root after years of emptiness.

I swallowed my pain and despair. For the sake of the pup, I endured.