Pregnant In Vain For A Cold Alpha

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My husband Leon is the Alpha heir of Stonehowl Pack.

While I was in labor, he was on a private island with his mistress Aisling.

On the third day, he finally came home to see the baby.

The kid's pretty tough. By the way, I heard you were in so much pain during delivery you almost had a miscarriage?

"That's because Aisling and I specifically chose the time you were giving birth to have sex."

I stared at him in disbelief as he continued.

"Don't be mad. The baby was born healthy, wasn't he? Aisling won't change the fact that you're my wife."

Watching his retreating figure, I didn't cry or make a scene.

I'd already received fifty-two million dollars in compensation.

I could divorce him with peace of mind now.

Leon pushed his phone toward me with a restrained smile.

The photo on the screen captured my shocked expression from moments ago when I'd heard how he nearly caused my miscarriage during delivery.

My swollen eyes and sallow face were magnified countless times in the landscape orientation.

I instinctively reached to grab his phone and delete the photo.

He easily dodged away.

"I finally got that candid shot. I told her I'd capture your expression when you heard this news."

"She's been sulking for three days since you gave birth to a son and won't let me touch her. No choice but to use you to cheer her up."

His smug expression was like a knife slowly stripping away my dignity.

He talked about his affair so casually, like he was planning what to eat tomorrow. Like he'd never loved me at all.

Leon and I were fated mates. We fell for each other at first sight and quickly fell in love.

On our wedding day, he told all the guests he would only love me for the rest of his life.

Until Aisling became his new secretary. Then he became madly infatuated with her and began betraying me again and again.

The man who said he'd only love me for life ultimately broke his vows.

A chime sounded. His special notification tone.

Aisling saw me and looked horrified.

"Why does Clara look so awful? Women really do get ugly after having babies. I never want to have children!"

"I'm ordering you to always use protection with me from now on! I refuse to let my body go to hell and look all haggard!"

His eyes crinkled with amusement. Gone was the anger he'd shown the first time he heard Aisling taunt that I was too plain to deserve him.

"Of course. Clara's job is having babies. As my mistress, you just need to keep me satisfied."

"Not mad anymore, right? Practice that position from last time more. In a bit, wash up and put on that transparent lingerie and wait for me!"

The voice message ended.

He turned off his phone, savoring the moment.

Seeing my reddening eyes, he chuckled and pinched my cheek.

"It is a bit loose. All right, it's not the first time you've heard me flirt with her. Why be upset? She's just a diversion. Once the novelty wears off, I'll replace her. We have a child now. No one can shake your position. Look on the bright side."

With that, he put his hands in his pockets and left casually.

He made it sound easy, but over these two years, his "novelty" never seemed to run out.

The position no one could shake was an identity anyone could provoke.

Ten minutes later, my phone showed a charge notification from the pharmacy.

The purchased items were three boxes of strawberry-flavored ultra-thin condoms.

Immediately after, he sent me a message.

"The pharmacy account is almost empty. We've been using a lot of condoms lately. Remember to add more funds."

Looking at this nearly provocative message.

I no longer felt the anger and impulse that made me storm his affair scene with righteous fury the first time I received a contraceptive purchase notification.

I simply ordered five more boxes to Aisling's address.

Half an hour later, my account received two million dollars as a "reward."

The total was now exactly fifty-two million.

I calmly took a screenshot of the transfer records and sent it to Leon's father, Alpha James.

"That's enough money. Please process my divorce and find a witch to break the mate bond between Leon and me."

The first time I received Leon's "compensation" transfer was the first time I experienced his infidelity.

I was three months pregnant then. Leon said he was busy with work and told me to do my prenatal checkup and go home alone.

On my way home alone, I was attacked by Rogues. My body and mind suddenly transmitted immense pain.

By the time Leon heard the news and rushed to find me, the Rogues had left. They'd beaten me until I didn't have a single patch of unmarked skin, and I'd lost the baby.

My first child was lost because of Leon's infidelity.

That night, he transferred all his assets to me and knelt before me, begging for another chance.

I didn't take it. I just told him:

"From now on, transfer me two million dollars every time you wrong me. When it reaches fifty-two million, I'll leave you completely!"

He thought I was joking out of spite.

I never told him that Alpha James had asked me not to divorce before Leon did.

Back when Leon married me, he'd paid off tens of millions in gambling debts for my dying, gambling-addicted father.

Alpha James said that when I paid back the debt money, he'd agree to our divorce.

I knew he wasn't deliberately making things difficult or demanding repayment.

It was because I was Leon's fated mate. Leon maintaining his marriage with his fated mate would consolidate his position as Alpha heir.

After the first child's accidental miscarriage, when I found out I was pregnant again, I was devastated.

I didn't want this child born into a broken family, a family where the father only cheated with mistresses.

But Leon suddenly returned to family life, caring for me attentively like during our courtship, saying he wanted a family.

Until my fifth month of pregnancy, while Leon was giving me a massage at home, Aisling suddenly showed up in the pouring rain.

Drenched, Aisling wore only a dress. Her curvy figure was perfectly displayed by the dress clinging to her body.

Aisling clung to the villa's doorframe, looking pitiful, saying she missed Leon and accusing him of abandoning her.

Leon's Adam's apple bobbed. He told me, "I'll go talk to her. I'll be right back."

But Leon never came back that night.

After that, naturally, the two of them returned to their old ways and continued their affair.

A message notification pulled me from my memories.

Alpha James sent me a draft of the electronic divorce agreement.

I breathed a sigh of relief.

During my hospital nights, I'd felt physical and emotional pain again, knowing Leon was having sex with Aisling.

The pain made me clutch my pillow, cold sweat breaking out on my forehead. I could only hope in my heart that Alpha James would quickly find a witch to break the mate bond between Leon and me.

On discharge day, Leon came to pick us up.

The nurse held the baby and a pile of infant supplies in the back seat.

I sat in the passenger seat I hadn't occupied in a long time.

The seat was adjusted wide. When I reached to touch the knob, I pulled out a pair of torn pearl lace panties.

"Aisling's too wild. She wants to try it everywhere."

He raised an eyebrow at me.

Expecting to see the uncontrolled madness in my eyes.

But I just released my grip expressionlessly, leaving the thing where it was.

He froze for a moment, then sneered.

"Your composure is pretty good lately. You've become much more generous too. Good thing you sent those five extra boxes of condoms last time, or with how clingy she is, we wouldn't have had enough."

"If you'd been this sensible earlier, we might've had a second child by now."

I didn't respond, just closed my eyes to rest.

After a while, that familiar ringtone sounded. I had an ominous feeling.

Sure enough, he hit the brakes and stopped the car on a shortcut road.

"You guys wait here. Aisling's not feeling well. I'm taking her to the hospital first. I'll come back for you soon."

He opened the car door and dumped everything by the roadside, pulling me out in two or three moves.

With a whoosh, the car sped away.

Meeting the nurse's confused and angry expression, I pointed to the car turning the corner behind us.

"Take that one. My father-in-law's car."

She looked at me in surprise. I smiled.

A year ago when he abandoned me halfway, I'd believed his words to wait. I'd encountered several drunk werewolves who beat people.

In the end, those drunk werewolf thugs injured me. When I was sent to the hospital, he complained that I was inflexible and that the police call had disturbed him while he was comforting Aisling.

After that, I avoided riding in his car whenever possible.

Even when I did, I had to be prepared to be abandoned at any moment.

I'd grown used to these accidents.

That evening, Leon came back panting after returning to the original route and not finding us.

"Why didn't you tell me you got a cab? I went back to look for you for ages."

"I sent you a message. You didn't see it."

He flared up immediately.

"Don't you know how to call? I thought something happened to you."

I paused, then quickly recovered.

"Didn't you say not to disturb you when you're with Aisling?"

At my last prenatal checkup, the baby was misdiagnosed with Down syndrome.

I was so scared I could barely walk. When I called him, Aisling switched to video mode.

She wore a tight nurse costume, laughing seductively.

"Leon says if you're sick, get treatment. Calling him won't help."

"We're role-playing. We don't have time for you."

"He also said to stop using these excuses to find him. If you like hearing sounds so much, he'll record one for you as a prenatal lullaby."

Shortly after she hung up, Leon sent me a message.

"Text me if you need anything. If I don't reply, I'm with someone else. Stop calling to interrupt us."

He froze for a moment, looking somewhat satisfied.

"You finally listened. Good, worth praising. But I really didn't know about Kael that time. I wouldn't have let her talk nonsense otherwise."

He pulled out two necklaces from his pocket.

One pure gold necklace for our son Kael.

Unfortunately, Kael cried the moment Leon touched him, as if thoroughly disgusted.

Rebuffed, Leon gave me the other necklace with crushed diamonds.

"Here, I was with Aisling at an auction yesterday and saw this necklace. Should look good on you."

It was true he'd gotten it at the auction.

But I'd seen on Aisling's social media yesterday that this was a free add-on gift with that two-million-dollar pink diamond. It wasn't worth much at all.

As he spoke, he moved to put the necklace around my neck.

I flinched and dodged.

He frowned, displeasure in his eyes.

"What's that supposed to mean? I praise you twice and you're already playing hard to get?"

A trace of mockery rose in my heart.

He always thought he could appease me with his occasional gestures.

"You misunderstood. I've always been allergic to this material."

His expression stiffened.

He seemed to have forgotten how he once spent tens of millions just to create a non-allergenic gold diamond ring for me.

Back when I most hoped he'd change his heart, I accepted whatever he gave me, even if I was allergic, even if it was uncomfortable.

As long as he showed me a pleasant face, I absolutely wouldn't reject him.

For that bit of lingering love, I made myself a complete mess.

In the end, the result was what it was.

After that day, he seemed to find a suitable excuse and stopped visiting us.

I was happy with the peace, focusing on recovery, postpartum rehabilitation, and playing with the baby.

But on social media, I could often see him riding the Ferris wheel with Aisling today.

Tomorrow shooting a commercial with her.

Cooking for her in the morning, accompanying her to trendy restaurants in the afternoon.

Sometimes there were even rich, exciting nightlife activities in the early morning hours.

People in the pack all said this was the mistress who'd stayed with him the longest.

They all speculated when he'd kick me, his devoted wife, out for her.

Actually, from my fifth month of pregnancy until before delivery, I'd mentioned divorce countless times, breaking the mate bond countless times.

But Leon refused. He didn't want to give up his happy family.

If he'd really agree, I wouldn't be opposed to being kicked out.

The day before receiving the divorce decree was Kael's Sip-and-See Party.

Leon showed up with Aisling in a high-profile entrance.

He even arranged her seat next to his. The hostess's position.

He played with Kael for a long time.

Aisling leaned in, looking at the baby with him.

"Hello, I'm your mother."

At those words, everyone's expression changed.

But before anyone could speak, Leon smiled at me.

"Forgot to tell you, Aisling prepared a recognition gift. She'll be Kael's godmother from now on."

Aisling put a gold bracelet on his hand.

Smiling brightly at me.

"From now on, Clara and I will take care of the baby together."

Hearing her provocative statement, I smiled faintly and took Kael from their hands.

"Perfect timing. A few days ago I met a witch who said Kael might face misfortune soon and needs a godmother to share his burden."

"Aisling really is a great philanthropist, solving so many problems for me. I'll accept the gift. Thank you."

Both their faces instantly turned ugly.

Aisling's eyes reddened, her voice choked.

"It's okay. Being able to do something for Leon's child is my good fortune. Sharing his misfortune is nothing. I'd even be willing to die."

"Someone who carries misfortune like me should leave early, so I don't spread bad luck to everyone."

She spoke while looking at Leon pitifully and taking her bag to leave.

Leon looked at me with displeasure, preparing to chase after her.

Alpha James looked at him with sharp eyes.

"Today is your son's Sip-and-See Party. In front of so many people, you're chasing after a mistress? Where does that put your family?"

He paused, about to speak.

I smiled at Alpha James.

"Let him go. Kael is today's main character."

He paused and sighed.

"Get lost. If you bring these shameful things here again, don't bother coming home!"

Leon's gaze was probing, as if trying to see in my eyes the same entanglement and bitterness that used to reassure him.

But I had none.

I withdrew my gaze.

This Sip-and-See Party wasn't too dignified, but fortunately Kael was still young and wouldn't feel hurt.

I wasn't hurt either. Tomorrow I'd receive the divorce decree. Alpha James also said a witch could help break the mate bond tomorrow. After that, everything would be over.

Alpha James brought us to the old mansion to spend one last night with him.

Kael fell asleep on the sofa. Alpha James went to get a handmade cotton blanket for him.

Suddenly, the mansion's front door banged open.

Leon stormed in furiously, carrying Aisling.

"Clara! I really underestimated you. Where's that bracelet? Give it back now. Do you know Aisling had a mysterious headache this afternoon and got into a car accident on the way to the hospital?"

"I thought it was too coincidental at first, until I met a witch and learned you tampered with the bracelet and cursed her! How can you be so vicious?"

I sneered.

"Just some offhand remarks to provoke you. You actually believed them? Where's this witch who so conveniently let you meet them? Ask them which witch I hired to curse Aisling."

He was speechless, about to speak.

Aisling sobbed and walked over to Kael.

"It's okay, maybe it really is my poor health and I just happened to encounter these things. I just want my gold bracelet back."

I stepped to block her.

"I'll return the bracelet tomorrow. Kael is already asleep. Please leave now."

Leon glared at me.

"Why can't you give it now? What else do you need it for?"

I frowned, about to speak, when Leon instantly picked up the sleeping child.

"What are you doing! Don't touch him!"

Aisling grabbed Kael's arm and forcibly removed the bracelet.

"Clara, this is for your own good. No matter how much you hate me, you can't use the child. You used the gold bracelet I gave the baby to curse me. What if... what if the curse backfires on the child? What will you do then?"

"Better to take it off now."

Kael was hurt and his crying made my heart clench.

I rushed forward and slapped her to the ground.

"What nonsense are you talking! I told you there's nothing. Don't you dare touch my child!"

She looked at Leon tearfully.

The next second, his eyes reddened. He pushed me down hard and casually tossed the baby onto the sofa.

He helped Aisling up tenderly.

"We're reducing your and Kael's karma, and look at you acting crazy!"

He used too much force. My lower back hit the corner of the coffee table, and excruciating pain spread throughout my body.

But what chilled my heart more was how callous he was toward his own flesh and blood.

Alpha James, who'd rushed over at the sound, helped me up.

He picked up Kael, whose face was red from crying.

He slapped Leon across the face.

"You animal! Abusing your own son for a mistress!"

"You'll regret this one day! Get out! Get out of my sight!"

"She started it..."

Leon's originally dark gaze suddenly froze.

He paused.

"What do you mean, what 'last'..."

But before he could finish, Aisling collapsed on the ground and fainted.

He instantly panicked and quickly picked her up.

But as he was leaving, he suddenly looked back at me.

Unease flashed in his eyes.

"I'll come back for the bracelet tomorrow. Don't try anything!"

Alpha James slammed the door shut.

Early the next morning, the butler brought back the freshly stamped divorce decree.

The witch also severed the mate bond between Leon and me.

I didn't disturb Alpha James.

I placed the divorce decree under the gold bracelet, put it in the large box that once held the ring Leon gave me years ago.

I set it in a prominent position on the coffee table.

Looking at Kael in his swaddling clothes, my tone was more relaxed than ever before.

"Baby, let's start a new life together."

He suddenly broke into a smile, his eyes curved like crescent moons.

In his innocent, unknowing laughter, we boarded the plane to a new world.