It wasn’t a nice feeling.
It also kind of hurt to know he could turn his back on his own child, just because he had another on the way with Carina.
But what could she do about it? Nothing was what.
And he had just relinquished all his rights over to her.
That had been something she had wanted anyway.
So, she guessed it was all working out as she had hoped that it would.
Just kind of really surprised her was all.
Is this legal and valid? she finally asked Gretta after staring at it for a long moment.
That is Alpha Parker of the Lustrous Moons email and pack logo as well.
Do you recognise it? Bella nodded I do, though it surprises me that he would do this, just let go and not want anything to do with his own pup.
Mm, it is a bit odd, but not so odd that Ive not seen it before.
Sometimes Bella, an Alpha, only cares about himself and his Goddess Gifted mates pups.
You yourself should know this, I think.
She nodded, she did know that, she had been nothing to her father at all, even though he had claimed her as his kin, likely only done so, so that if a situation arose where he needed to mate one of his children off, she could be it.
Then he’d just rejected their kin bond the moment she’d been sold off to Parker.
She felt a well of pain inside her chest at not being wanted by anyone.
She was alone in this world, and it was just going to be her, Freya and their pup and that was it from now on.
Her pup was going to be just like her, unloved and unwanted by its father.
She did hope that she could raise him or her well, that a mothers love would be enough.
She was, however, disappointed in Parkers reaction to the news, and to state he’d never wanted a pup with her.
Then what was all the asking about? She could only put it down to that he had Carina now, and their bond was true, and he loved her, unlike the indifference he’d held towards Bella.
He wanted his new Luna to be happy, unlike her inside his pack who he’d never cared about.
She now understood.
Parker
He couldn’t believe what Carina had done, barely 10 days after he’d taken Belladonnas picture down from his company page, he hadnt yet announced that they were getting divorced, and Carina had pictures of him and her in the socialite pages of the local newspaper.
There was even a quote from her I love Parker so very much, and our wedding will be big and lavish.
It was a photo of them together.
She’d been all pressed up against him, her lips had been on his, taken inside the packhouse, he’d not even known someone had taken a photo of them.
He’d retracted it as quickly as he could.
But it was too late.
He’d not known about it until it was too late, it had taken all of an hour from that photo of them being released to the human world, for him to start taking hits.
Called an adulterer, because there was no divorce seen from his wife Belladonna.
His PR team were fielding calls all over the place, and were at this time stating no comment because he had no idea how to deal with it.
Carina and her father both knew that he was going to wait a year before announcing her as his wife, so there was a gap between her and Belladonna.
The mere mention of his former Mates name had started an argument with Carina.
She’d yelled at him about not wanting to hear that she wolfs name.
That she’d told him this already, it was a common courtesy not to say it.
Yelled about why did he have to go and bring her up.
Why couldn’t he just smile for the humans and state I love Carina, and shell be getting the biggest and most lavish wedding there is.
Then, the following day, there were questions raised about where Belladonna was could find her.
What had happened to her? Had Parker, sent her away to take up with his mistress, a 20 year old model.
Then more articles had come out and about Carina in not such a good light.
They’d dug into her; she was from a well-to-do family, but only completed year 12, and had not gone on to university. She was called a gold digger for attaching herself to a married man 23 years older than she was.
To which she herself had told them she was a model for Lustre Inc.
That had blown things out of proportions even more, and his stocks were taking a hit because they had actually found out she wasn’t a model with his company.
Until after she’d been found out to be in a relationship with him.
One of them had stated Parker Hartley’s gold-digging mistress, made a model by her sugar daddy, after ousting his loyal wife of eight years, a Dr of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
Where is Belladonna Harrington? He was sitting in his boardroom fuming, he was now a sugar daddy as well as an adulterer.
His company shares were dropping drastically, and there was nothing he could do about it.
He had to respond to the press, it was all he could bloody do, put out a blanket statement via his PR team, because he wasn’t going out there to listen to all the rude and crude things that were being stated about himself, he’d likely lose his temper and roll his Alpha Aura at them all, and that would out the Wolfen Kind to them.
That statement read simply, that he and Belladonna were divorced.
It had been done quietly because there was no animosity to it.
That she had simply taken a job in another state and moved herself away.
That he hadnt kept track of his ex wife, because why would he? That the divorce was finalised, and they were officially over before he’d started seeing Carina.
They didn’t much care for that statement either, because no one could find the divorce papers, or Belladonna herself, to confirm this, and they wantedher opinion on this; there were comments about what she had gotten in the divorce.
Others commented that there was no way a man as wealthy as he was, hadnt wound up in court even if there was a prenup.
Bella should have gotten part of his estate or a large monetary sum from him, the press would have been all over that, went on about it was a lie, that he’d shipped her off out of the country, and they were back to targeting him.
It was not helping at all with the stocks; he was furiously mad at Carina for releasing their photos to the press, and he knew it was her because he hadn’t bloody approved it.
He wouldn’t have, not for a solid 12 months, and she knew that.
He had one investor pull out of the company altogether, was a family man and prided himself on working with only good standing men himself.
His Wolfen allies had all been informed and understood, weren’t yanking themselves from his company, or alliance deals, so he wasn’t taking as big a hit as he’d expected to, but still it was enough to cause share prices to fall.
He’d had no choice but to pull Carina in for her first photoshoot with Lustre Inc.and she was not at all ready to be out there as a model either.
She might be blonde and pretty, but there was more to modelling than a pretty face.
She didnt understand how to pose, and didnt like the products she was advertising, didnt like being told what to do by the human director of the photo shoot, The woman was a bloody nightmare for his photographers and employees, and she got Photographed several times yelling at the advertising staff, the promotions staff, the actual photographers and the other model who was actually doing her job and knew how to do it.
Was in Carinas opinion showing her up, so had yelled at her about it, and those photos had leaked to the press as well.
Nothing, it seemed, was going right with his life at all at the moment, and he just wanted to rip his hair out.
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