MANIPULATION AND THE TRUTH (3)

"Leane..." The name escaped Cane's lips. He didn't think he would ever see her again.

For a moment, he was startled. He even forgot the fact that everything he was seeing right now was not real. That the woman before his eyes was not his real destined mate.

The look in her eyes. The way she bit her lip, how she tried not to cry and also how she didn't even try to reach him like the other two impostors he had met, making everything about her felt surreal.

Instead, Leane was trying to get away from him, she kept her distance from him. Her arms wrapped around her belly protectively and when Cane looked down he saw her pregnant belly, just like how the last time he saw her.

She was as pregnant as her last moment before they slashed her stomach opened and took their son out of her.

This sight, this memory, were still be his worse nightmare until now after the death of his daughters and Iris's depression.