The Alpha’s Arranged Bride

JOANNA’S POV

I stared at him in shock as I quickly stood up. He was about to walk away, so I grabbed his arm, stopping him. He yanked my hand away before pushing me again. I stumbled back and fell to the ground on my buttocks.

For a brief moment, I could not understand what was going on. Why was he behaving like this? “Babe, why-”

“Don’t you ever call me that!” he yelled as I got up.

“Why? I thought you wanted this. It’s your child. Our baby. All the times we-”

The words got stuck in my throat as he wrapped his hands around my neck, forcing my back to the tree and strangling me. The look I saw in his eyes differed from the person I had known all this while. His eyes held no gentleness that I was used to.

It was filled with something new and scary. His aura filled the entire forest and, being close to him, it felt like I was suffocating not only from his strangulation. In my heart, I wanted to believe this was a dream. This was not how I thought everything would play out when I found out only days ago that I was carrying his child.

It showcased his lack of safeguarding while being intimate with me. I tried everything I could to hide it from my parents until I told him so we could plan how to start the ceremony. I held his wrist, trying to make him free my neck.

“Ba… Toot, plea…” The words were difficult to come out of my mouth as he increased the force he used to hold my neck

“I… Can’t… Breathe.” I managed to say. He immediately let go of me, making me fall to the ground, rubbing my neck.

“We can never see each other from this day onwards.” He was about to walk away.

Again I rushed over to him, holding his hand, but he pushed me far away from him. “Don’t touch me,” he barked.

“Please don’t do this to me. We’ve been through a lot to get to this point. I need you. Please,” I pleaded, but nothing I said made his gaze gentle on me. Instead, it became worse and fiercer.

“Please don’t do this to me. You promised to get married to me. You confessed your love to me so many times. What about the letters? The promises. Please,” Crawling towards him, I begged, but my mistake became apparent when he carelessly stomped on my hand.

I yelped in pain, my eyes and face filled with tears and pain. “It hurts. Please stop. Please,” I pleaded, but he refused to stop.

He put more weight before finally letting go. I took my hand before taking a seat. My sobs increased as the pain was unbearable. “Why? Why are you acting this way towards me? I love you and I thought you loved me too,” I said in between my sobs.

He scoffed. “You are an ordinary human. How do you expect me to fall in love with someone like you? You were only a means to keep myself entertained before I finally got married to whom I wanted to,” his words shocked me.

My heart shattered immediately. But I could not give up. We had come a long way to be here, there was no way he was trying to give up on me now while I was carrying his child. “You never cared that I was human,” I told him, but he scoffed.

“That was what you thought. I want my Luna to be strong, not weak like you. You knew this. You just want to tarnish my image. I know you want power. All this while, you have told me people bullied you because you were human, so you wanted to take over. That’s why you went ahead to get pregnant,” he told me.

I shook my head. “No. I would never do that. I never cared about all of that. I love you, and that was all I cared about.”

“You expect me to believe that? So why were you with me then?” he asked.

It came as a surprise to me, but he will question my reason for being with him. “Toot. I love you. And I only put interest in the politics of the pack because that was what you care about,” I told him, but he still refused to believe me.

“I don’t believe you. Why would you think I would easily believe that child is mine? We have not seen each other in weeks, so how could that bastard possibly be mine?” he said.

“No, I never cheated on you. I have always been faith-”

“I’m not stupid. I can never believe your words.” He was firm with his words.

“Please don’t do this. Please. I beg of you. I never, for once, thought of cheating on you. You are my life,” I confessed.

He stayed quiet, just staring at me. I thought maybe he was finally having compassion. Maybe he feared the thought of having a child so early, so I tried as much as possible to understand him. I moved closer to him, and he helped me up.

“Do you want us to remain together?” he asked, and I nodded.Upstodatee from Novel(D)ra/m/a.O(r)g

“Get rid of the bastard.” My eyes widened in shock.

“You don’t want to?” he questioned, then let go of me. “I knew you were just a gold digger,” he added.

“But it’s our child. Why would you want to kill your child? You said you wanted a family with me. This is our chance,” I sniffled, then moved closer to him.

I stretched my hands to touch him while I spoke. “I know you are scared. But we can do it together. There is nothing we cannot do together. You told me this.”

The moment my hand touched him, he grabbed it with force, making me wince. “This would be the last time we are going to speak with each other. I never want to see you or that child. When you are ready to get rid of it, then we can talk.” He spoke with gritted teeth, pushed me to the side, and then walked away.

I thought this was all, but it was only the beginning of my suffering.