Pregnant and Cast Out: The Alpha's Betrayal

I stood outside the hospital door, heavy with our unborn pup, only to hear my Fated Mate destroying our future.

Theo was promising his ex-girlfriend, a woman carrying a Rogue’s child, that he would claim her baby as the Alpha heir.

As for our own legitimate son? He planned to hide him away as a shameful mistake.

When I confronted them, Theo didn't beg for forgiveness. Instead, he stripped me of my Luna title, moved his mistress into my bedroom, and locked me in a moldy servant's cell.

But the cruelty didn't end there. To "cleanse" the pack, his mother kicked my swollen stomach with silver-laced gloves.

I felt my baby die inside me as they dragged me through the mud and threw me out of the territory.

They thought I was just a weak, abandoned girl who would perish in the woods.

They didn't know that the "orphan" they abused was actually the lost daughter of the Alpha King.

Six months later, I returned.

They were throwing a party for the mistress's baby, celebrating a lie.

I walked in wearing a green dress, holding the deed to their bankrupt pack and a paternity test that proved their "heir" was nothing but a fraud.

I didn't come back for an apology.

I came to burn their world to the ground.

Chapter 1

*Aria POV:*

The sterile scent of antiseptic usually calmed me, but today, it made my stomach churn. I stood outside the heavy oak door of the private consultation room in the pack hospital. *My hand hovered over the handle, trembling not from cold, but from a gut instinct screaming that my life was about to implode.* Inside, I could hear the low murmur of voices.

My hearing had sharpened since I became pregnant. It was a gift from the Moon Goddess, a way for a mother to protect her pup. But right now, it felt like a curse.

"Don't worry, my love," a deep voice said. It was a voice that used to whisper sweet nothings into my ear, a voice that belonged to my Fated Mate. "I won't let anything happen to you or the baby."

My breath hitched. Theo.

"But what about Aria?" a female voice whimpered. It was high-pitched, sugary, and sickeningly familiar. Elena. "If the Elders find out this baby isn't yours... if they find out it belongs to a Rogue..."

"They won't," Theo interrupted, *his tone firm, though I detected a strange, glazed quality to it, as if he were speaking through a fog.* "We will say it is mine. And we will say Aria's child... is the mistake."

The world tilted on its axis.

I didn't think. I didn't breathe. I shoved the door open, the metal handle slamming against the wall with a deafening crash.

The scene before me was a tableau of betrayal. Theo, the Alpha of the Black Rose Pack, was kneeling beside the examination bed. Elena, his childhood sweetheart-a she-wolf with no rank and a history of disappearing-was