Betrayed Under The Moonlight

Rachel's Pov.

A smile appeared on my face as I heard the nurse's words, "You are pregnant" She said assuring my suspicions. My eyes lit with joy, "A boy or a girl?" I asked as I rubbed my tummy with my palm. "It's too early to know, for now, go and give this joyful news to your mate. Congratulations." The nurse smiled.

It was dark even though the moon was out, and the crickets sang their songs as I ran through the lonely pathway. I was part of the Moongrass Pack, the biggest pack in the east of the continent. The town we resided in was called Hargrove, a town known for its trade, traders bought and sold from morning until midnight. The town was not always like this, years ago the town was overran by vampires that killed and enslaved the people. Until the Moongrass werewolf pack led by the alpha Azriel arrived and fought against the vampires. The battle was fierce and deadly many died on both side, eventually the Moongrass pack came out victorious. And the vampires retreated into the forest to lick their wounds. The pack liberated the people of Hargrove and because of that, the town started to prosper so much that it became the center of trade of the whole world.

All that aside, the leader of the Pack, the Alpha Azriel is my mate and I am about to tell him the good news. I am going to bring his child into the world, the child that will inherit everything he has achieved so far. I walked into our castle with smiles on my face; Azriel was seated by the fire place sharpening one of his many swords. Azriel is very muscular, and has this shiny grey hair, his jaw line gave his handsome face a very sharp feature.

"I have some good news babe" He dropped his sword and turned to me to hear what I had to say.

"I am pregnant with your child"

He got up to his feet, and in a cold tone he said, "What do you mean?" Suddenly a violent wind breezed into the room blowing out the fire in the chimney.

"I will have your baby" I felt sudden dryness in my throat.

"That will not stand" Azriel''s I saw the pain in his eyes as he spoke, "You must leave the pack with this baby of yours." His words pierced through my chest like an arrow, my heart rate increased instantly.

"Wha.. what d… do… yu.. yu.. you… me... me... mean," I stammered

He removed his gaze from me, "The pack is in no position to have an infant or a pregnant woman in it, you will be useless and a weakness to the pack. And if I were to pick between you and the pack I will always chose the Pack"

"I am not a weakness, I swear, I will be strong, I love this Pack I do not want to leave." My eyes was red as I pleaded, tears rolled down my cheek, I knew when the alpha says something, whatever he said was final. If you disobey you will be instantly killed.

"Leave immediately this night, I never want to lay my eyes upon you again"

I fell to my knees, crying, begging, and then our gaze met one last time. That few minutes we looked into each other's eyes. At the moment, time paused, I was drawn back to the time we met each other. Under the oak tree at night, the crescent moon hung in the sky, it watched silently. I was still a teen and an Omega, and Darius was still a Beta then. We went hunting that night for game in a group of ten, he was in my team. I didn't really pay attention to him. Then, because of my mistake I got separated from the group. And a werewolf alone in the forest is an easy target, because the great strength of the werewolves comes from their unity. We never fight alone; we always have our pack watching our backs.

My fear turned to terror when suddenly a vampire attacked me, it moved like the wind and before I knew i could blink I was already pinned to the ground. The vampire wasted no time, he shot out his fangs instantly and was just about to bite through my throat then we heard a howl. He tried to turn to see what the howl was, but before he could turn, a big and majestic white Werewolf pounced on him and tore him apart instantly. I was too stunned to speak or move, my body was still slowly processing what had happened. The white Werewolf then turned back to human, it was Azriel under.

"Are you okay?" He said as he stretched out his to me. I just kept staring at him until he bent over and lifted me to my feet. "Did he give you any scratch?" He asked again.

"No… not really" I said, "thank you."

"Don't mention it, now let's get back to the pack " he replied and started walking, I walked behind him and watched as he moved, he walked with his shoulder high, his movement was so majestic that you would think he owned the world.

"Can I kiss you?" Azriel asked me on our wedding night, a stupid question, I grabbed him, pulled him closer and locked my lips with his, "I love you" he said then he threw me on the bed and made love to me.

Back to the present, we were still looking into each other's eyes. "You have until an hour to leave," Azriel turned away and started to walk to the door. Right there as I knelt, my whole world collapsed, where am I to go all alone with this child inside me, how could the person I love do me so much evil?

"Don't you love me anymore?!" I yelled with the last energy I could muster. He stayed still for a moment, "No," he opened the door and walked out.

I looked up at the ceiling, hoping it could give me some comfort because I cried so much my tear duct couldn't produce any more tears. The time drifted by as I sat, lost and scared. The door opened, I turned to it instantly, praying Azriel came back to tell all this has been a prank and that he was sorry. It wasn't him that walked him, instead it was his best friend and second in command, Elvis. His jaw dropped on seeing me, "You are still here?!" He exclaimed.

I looked at him, I neither had the strength nor the words to reply him, so I just stared blankly at him. "Azriel ordered the pack to kill you if any of them sees you in this town past midnight" as Elvis spoke, I was lost inside my own mind, I didn't even know where I was anymore, at that point I was completely broken. "It is eleven fifty pm, you have to leave now" Elvis walked to me, he tried to help me to my feet but my feet was wobbly, I had no energy to stand. "Let me just die here" I murmured to Elvis. "No, you will survive this, and we will meet again" Elvis lifted me up and put me on his shoulder, "I will get you out of here." Suddenly a bell starts ringing, signifying that the hour and minute hand just hit midnight.

"It will be very difficult for you to leave this town now."