At that moment, Elizabeth was pacing up and down in Molly’s room.
“Where did Zoey run off to?! She knows that you need food, yet she’s not back despite the sun already setting!”
Molly caressed her belly and turned to the silent Jacob. “It’s fine, Jacob. If hunting wild boars is too hard, I’m fine with mutton…”
“That won’t do! You’re pregnant! She should bring whatever you want to eat!” Elizabeth screeched. “She should have returned a few hours ago! She must have run off somewhere to be a lazy bum or is only going to come back after she fills the stomachs of both her and that brat!”
Her words received no reaction. She followed Molly’s line of sight toward Jacob. He still had not said anything.
He was staring at the forest outside with a scowl.
“Are you worried about Zoey? What’s so good about that wicked woman?”
“I should have insisted on her resting before going. She was weak, and it was already dark outside…”
Elizabeth scoffed and mumbled, “So? She can’t get pregnant. It’d be better if she died. You could then raise your pup with Molly.”
“Mom!” Jacob snapped at Elizabeth. “I told you that my mate is Zoey, regardless of whether you like it or not! My pup will also only accept her as her mother!”
The atmosphere turned awkward.
Elizabeth cowered and said nothing else, since she had never seen Jacob this angry before.
Molly gnashed her teeth and gave Jacob a pitiful look. “Jacob, I’m a little hungry. Could you give me some mushroom soup?”
Jacob picked up the mushroom soup bowl next to him with a dark expression.
The room descended into deafening silence until a patrolman stumbled in.
“Alpha!” he cried out anxiously. “We found tracks of intruders near the wild boar area!
“They didn’t seem hostile, but they took a female werewolf away with them. It was… Zoey.”
Jacob’s hand froze, and the bowl fell on the floor. The mushroom soup spilled all over the place.
“What did you say?!” he roared.
The patrolman did not dare to look into Jacob’s eyes. He shrank back into himself and delivered an even worse piece of news.
“Zoey… seemed dead.”
