Whatever it was that Eden was going to say had somehow managed to create tension in the room. I was positive now that they were trying to hide something from me.
“If you want to stay in my home, you need to be honest with me. Isabella is my mate and if you know something that I don’t know then you need to tell me.” I threatened. I didn’t want to threaten her family but I was desperate to know what they were hiding from me. It had to be something important, they wouldn’t act this way if it wasn’t.
“We weren’t trying to keep anything from you.” Lucy whispered with tears in her eyes. Austin seeing her distress immediately walked over to her side and pulled her into his arms. “We just weren’t sure whether or not Isabella would want you to hear it from us. We also weren’t sure whether or not this was the right time for you to find out.”
Why would Isabella not want me to know something? She didn’t hide things from me. The only thing she’d hidden from me was that entire situation with the Blackners but she didn’t completely hide it either. She did mention it to me; she just never gave me the full details.
“Actually,” Eden cut in. “we don’t think even Isabella knows. She had an idea to call the doctor but it was only confirmed after her disappearance. She wasn’t there to collect the results from him.”
Isabella’s sisters were not making any sense to me. What exactly were they trying to say to me? What results did the doctor have for her? no one was speaking fast enough for me and I was losing my patience.
“I do not understand. Explain to me what you’re trying to say.” I growled impatiently. If this was something that could help with finding Isabella then I needed to know right away. I couldn’t understand why they were hesitating to tell me.
And why was Isabella seeing a doctor? Was something wrong to her? All of these questions were sending me closer and closer to insanity! She knew how much I hated when she kept important things like that from me; she understood that after my reaction to her keeping my sister’s secret. But she also thought at the time that she would be marrying someone else. I couldn’t hold it against her but I couldn’t stop the anger either. The anger was fueled by my fear however. There were so many things that worried me and it kept getting worse by each second that passed by without Isabella by my side.
“It’s something that our brothers found out after they were released from the dungeons.” Lucy explained after sensing my impatience.
I didn’t understand what this had to do with finding Isabella but the tone of her voice made me listen to her words closely.
“They were handed this from a doctor Isabella was seeing without telling anyone back at home.” Eden informed me as she stepped forward and placed an envelope in my hand. “You might want to take a moment and read through it. We were all surprised when my brother first showed it to us.”
“What is this?” I asked her as I took the envelope from her.
“Take a look; you’ll know when you see it.” James joined in.
I did as he said and ripped the envelope so that I could get the small folded paper inside of it.
It took me a little while to read the content but one thing stood out from everything else.
Pregnant.
In that moment everything in me stopped working. My heart stopped beating, I was no longer breathing and my mind was completely blank.
A few seconds later and then everything in me exploded. My head pounded and my tongue felt heavy in my mouth.
Pregnant?
“She’s pregnant?” I asked hoarsely.
My heart hammered and images of Isabella holding our baby flashed across my mind.
f**k.
Isabella was pregnant? With my baby?
I fell back on the sofa behind me and felt all of the b***d drain from my face.
This was the greatest blessing any man could ask for from his mate and Isabella had given that to me. Yet she wasn’t here to celebrate the news with me. I wanted to hold her in my arms. I wanted to hold our baby and hug him or her, cradle my little prince or princess in my arms and watch them grow to be someone as amazing as their mother.
But all of that would only become possible if I found Isabella and murdered whoever had dared to take her away from me.
now that I knew Isabella was pregnant I was even more anxious than before. Our baby’s life could be in serious danger and I had no idea where they were.
“We need to get the search on.” I shouted out orders to everyone in the room.
Esma brought forward a map and I circled all of the places I’d searched already. We still had a lot of areas to cover and I was scared that I wouldn’t get to her in time.
I needed to find her, my life depended on it…
***ISABELLA***
I couldn’t believe this was happening to me. I couldn’t believe that the woman Hunter had loved so wholeheartedly turned out to be this sick and manipulative person. How did she even plan all of this?
But more than that, how could she do this to someone like Hunter? He worshipped her in the past and she chose to destroy him for it? He loved her so much that when she’d faked her death everything in his life completely fell apart. He lived a horrible life for five years because of her and she didn’t care about that at all. I’d only entered Hunter’s life recently and even then after five years of thinking she was dead he was completely heart-broken. How could someone live with themselves after being so brutal to another person? I expected to see some sort of remorse on her face but there was none of that, instead all she was concerned about was hurting him, she’d centered her whole life on getting revenge for her brother’s death. She practically was living just to see him suffer. It was crazy to think about all of the things she’d confessed to me. It seemed to me like she wouldn’t rest until Hunter was dying from sorrow. I couldn’t just sit back and let all of this happen. I couldn’t let her harm the man that I loved. He was precious to me and just like she lived to destroy his life; I lived to protect it. If I thought I loved Hunter before; now I was more than in love with him, there wasn’t a word to describe what I felt for him after he’d marked me. Any pain brought upon him would be the same as pain directed to me.
My gaze went back to Maggie; she hadn’t left my side since I’d been brought in here. Was this where she’d stayed hidden all of these years? Maggie’s aunt, the one that hated me was also here. Her actions made a lot more sense to me now. There was this other man around as well, it seemed like Maggie and him had some sort of a relationship. It was weird seeing the way they acted around each other; it looked more like a physical relationship more than anything else. I couldn’t understand how she could choose to stay with someone like him when Hunter was the best man any woman could ever hope to have in their life.
How evil was this woman? If she was this horrible then I couldn’t imagine the type of person her brother had to be for Hunter to kill him. I still didn’t believe everything that she’d told me.
There had to be more to the story than Hunter killing an innocent person. I knew him well by now, he would not do that. People saw him as a monster but I never once saw him act like one. Besides, Esma did tell me that Hunter was loved by all in the past. If he was loved by all of the people that knew him, it only meant that he was a very good person. A good person would not kill an innocent man; her brother had to do something horrible for Hunter to kill him. There was no way he would hurt Maggie’s brother unless there was a good reason behind it.
I looked down at my tied hands and suddenly I felt weak. I’d tried to escape multiple times but whatever it was Maggie had used to keep me tied down it was damn powerful. It must have a spell here, she’d confessed to working with witches and that had to be the case here as well.
I moved my head back and felt the need to puke again. Ever since that first day back home I couldn’t stop the constant feeling to throw up. Eventually it did make me start to worry and I’d brought over a doctor in secret the night before my wedding day to run some tests on me. My signs pointed to that of being pregnant and now I was scared that I really was.
If I was pregnant that would change everything. I wouldn’t stand back and let anyone harm my baby that was inside of me which meant that I couldn’t let anyone hurt me. But I still wasn’t sure that I actually really was pregnant and I couldn’t make Maggie believe that I was. If I showed any fear then it would only make her suspicious. If she had an idea that I could be pregnant with Hunter’s baby she would no doubt use it against him. I was sure that she would do something crazy like make him think that he was responsible for his own baby’s death … she was that sick in her head.
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