Chapter 103

103 iv. The Heir

The way he looked at the child, made her want to throw up. She has never been that jealous before, but it was because she has never seen that much joy in his eyes.

She smiled bitterly as Dominus joined his wife and child. He seemed to have forgotten she was even there in the same room.

He took the child in his arms and gingerly lifted him up, showing him to everyone. It was when their eyes met, finally reminding him of her presence.

He hesitantly walked toward her, and showed him the child. The child resembled him a lot, there was no way to deny it was his.

“He looks exactly like you,” she felt like she was being choked, in a painful way where she can’t even seem to breathe.

He didn’t catch the hurt in her voice, his focus was entirely on the baby. He smiled and replied, “I think so too. We should name him soon. What do you think about Jiro?”

Her knees shook, it was the name they have agreed upon for their baby when they were still planning their wedding. She smiled wide at him, all the while keeping her pain hidden from his sight.

It was because he has given up on breeding her, on having a child with her, that he is giving away the name she wanted for their child. She never knew he can be this cruel in the end.

“That sounds fitting,” she said, her voice forcefully made cheery as the eyes of the rest of the pack looks at her.

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Most were scornful looks, probably telling her in their minds that it is what she deserved. For being the alpha’s human girl concubine, she deserves all the pain in the world.

What she hates most is the secret pitiful looks she get. She felt her chest tighten, her breathing constrained. She hated most that they felt pity for the human girl who loved the alpha all her life, became his concubine, and is now on the road to being disposed of.

He placed a gentle kiss on her forehead and went back to the wife waiting for him. Their eyes met and she felt the condemnation and triumph swirling in his wife’s heart.

That’s right, exactly how she said it. She will be able to replace her in due time. Soon she will be nothing to him, just an old and broken little toy.

She turned her back and walked away. She was already midflight on the stairs when she came across her grandmother.

Anger swirled in her heart for this woman who took everything from her. It should have been her beside him if she didn’t orchestrate everything.

She made her hand him to another woman that he did not even care for. This woman in her mind, is a monster.

“Mary,” the old woman called to her, she forced herself to smile as she met her eyes.

“What is it, grandmother? Is there something more you want me to give up for you? Do you even realize how much I wanted to die right now? This all happened because you went through my mind and made me give up on him,” her frustration came as her voice trembled.

The grandmother held her hand and squeezed it, “You will get through this. I promise, you will not lose him completely. You just need to share him with his family. He has a child now, an heir you were never qualified to give him in the first place,” the old lady told her in such a gentle tone that she felt like acid was poured into her heart.

How can she pretend to take her side, when her words even betray all good intentions? How can this woman who raised her feel no pity for her at all?

“Not qualified to carry his heir? Is that how you have always viewed me, granny? Is that why you made me give up on a life with your precious grandson? I should not have believed you and your lies! It is all because of you that I am suffering right now at this instance,” she felt tears gliding down her cheeks at the injustice of it all.

“You don’t get the right to raise your voice like that to me, young lady. Know your place in this household,” the matriarch looked her straight in the eye as she shook from uncontrolled anger.

“And where exactly is my place in this family? Below everyone else? You have treated me even lower than an omega, and you dare call me your grandchild,” she raised her voice even louder, earning a slap from the old lady.

“I said, know your place. If it wasn’t for me and this family, you will not even have a roof over your head. You would have died a long time ago if not for us. Be grateful and do your part, or get out of our house, our protection, and our providence,” the old lady made a point to whisper the last part.

Saying it brought her pain just as much. It wasn’t that the young woman in front of her was not treated by her as a family or that she lacks any worth in her sight.

The truth is, if not for the very unusual circumstance they have been facing, she would have allowed her and the alpha’s union. She just had no choice.

The pack will never accept a human girl as the alpha’s mate. It was either to separate them legally or to face a revolt from the pack and lose everything her family fought to keep.

Dominus is the alpha their family has been waiting for, the one destined to unite the pack. That is why she couldn’t allow him to throw everything away for one girl, no matter how dear to her she is.

When she took running, almost slipping into the staircase, she did not try to stop her. She did what is best for everyone.

Her heart broke as Mary started to disappear from her eyes, a vision of her as a little girl who always tried to please her makes her feel even more guilty.

She wondered if Dominus can ever forgive her for what she has done. She has indeed orchestrated everything until now.

The one who caused them to stop their wedding, the one who planned his engagement to another woman, and the one who gave the key to his wife in order to enter the dungeon.

She felt her heart constrict as she recalled the events of the night before. His wife came to her pleading for her help.

No matter what the woman did, Dominus won’t touch her or even look at her. He refused to even stay on the same bed with her.

She begged the matriarch for a way to have a union with him, it is the only way he will touch her. Her family has suffered so much shame because it has been a year and she has not even yet produced an heir.

So she included in his tea a potent aphrodisiac that not only made his mind hazy but caused him to hallucinate.

She told the woman to never speak to him so that the illusion doesn’t get broken. She showed her the dungeon where he kept himself locked, have the guards opened up the room and threw her in.

Even when the girl screamed and the rough slapping of skin to skin can be heard by them outside, she did not bother to go in, not until she was satisfied the knotting has been done.

They entered the room with the alpha still mounting the poor girl who lay helpless on the floor, the blood that covered the floor was enough for her to shriek.

She has never seen anything more depraved, neither has such been done before. Mating someone in their human form while the other is in his wolf form is too cruel, too inhumane, that it simply was not done.

The woman was brought to the hospital, the medical team was even more shocked than she was. They have sealed her files in hopes this never comes out.

This was beyond what was allowed, even the elders have prohibited such mating, because in such cases, the other one is not on his sane mind. Combined with the potent aphrodisiac she gave him, there was simply no way for him to refuse.

She felt guilt eat at her as she turned around and found Dominus standing behind her. His golden eyes focused on hers as if he was suspecting her to have done something.

She raised her head high and smiled softly at him, “I have yet to see my great-grandson. Come accompany me to him.”

“You can go upstairs he is right in her room,” he was referring to his wife’s room since he has never shared the room with her.

“Why don’t you spend a bit more time with your wife and child,” she held into his arm as he stopped, begging him to at least fake some affections for his wife and child.

“That woman will never be a wife to me. You know very well what happened that night. I have my suspicions about how it happened. If I find out who are those behind this, I’ll have to rip them apart in front of that conniving woman upstairs,” he whispered the words but she felt the impact shake her heart.

“Please take your hand off me, grandmother, I have to look for my queen,” his face darkened as he said the words.

When he had passed her, she felt a double dose of the guilt she was feeling a while ago. She did everything that she knew was right.

So why are the heavens punishing her this way? Why do the grandchildren she has cared for all her life turn their backs on her?

She clutched her heart as an assistant of her helps her to continue walking up the stairs and into the room. She almost felt like her legs are made of lead, it was so heavy for her to lift.

When she entered the room where Cinderella was lying in, she saw a miserable woman sobbing in her palm, the baby forgotten in a crib as it wailed.

“Why? I have given him everything. Power, prestige, an heir. Why can’t he look at me even once? Why can’t he stay beside me even for a moment and hold my hand?” Cinderella was sobbing, but she felt no pity for the woman.

She despises the woman before her, the one who caused her to do unspeakable things to her loved ones. She smiled seeing her in her own suffering.

If heaven itself is punishing her. Then, both of them should suffer for their mistakes.