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My Alpha husband had no idea that I was the only woman in the world who could give his cursed
bloodline a child.
He forced me to abort my baby for the pregnant Omega he kept outside the Pack.
But the pack doctor had told me the truth.
Damian Ashford’s bloodline was cursed. He could not father children at all.
If I had not been blessed by the Moon Goddess, even I would never have been able to conceive his
child.
The day of my prenatal checkup, I caught him changing my eight-month maternity care plan into a
forced abortion order with a sterilization curse attached.
I was about to question him when he spoke first, his voice disturbingly calm.
“There’s no mistake. The timing is perfect, actually. There’s something I need to tell you.”
“I’ve been keeping a young Omega outside the Pack. Isabelle is very obedient. She doesn’t fight you for status, and she never makes trouble for you.”
“But she is pregnant with my pup now. I can’t let my child be born without the recognition of an Imprint. I have to give him a place the Moon Goddess will acknowledge.”
I went rigid on the pack doctor’s stone examination table. My voice shook so hard I barely
recognized it.
“Damian Ashford, are you planning to sever our Imprint and complete the ceremony with her
instead?”
He wiped the Moonbloom oil from my belly with warm water and smiled.
“What are you talking about? The night I Imprinted you, I swore that my Luna would only ever be you. Besides, your parents are already dead. If I severed the Imprint, where would you even go?”
“I only want you to adopt Isabelle’s child. I’m asking you to abort your own pup because I’m afraid you’ll favor your own blood later and mistreat the child Isabelle and I have together.”
He calmly held out a silver pen. In front of me lay the surgical consent form prepared by the pack
doctor.
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“Be good and sign it. You will always be the Luna of the Ashford Pack. No one will ever take your
place.”
I looked at him for a long time. Then I turned and limped into the operating room.
“Damian, I hope you never, ever regret what you decided today.”
He did not know that in this world, I was the only one who could give his cursed bloodline a living
heir.
When I opened my eyes again, three days had already passed.
The first thing I heard was the pack doctor’s voice.
“Mr. Ashford, you took far too great a risk this time. It was already dangerous enough to force an abortion on an eight-month pup, but you also insisted on adding a sterilization curse at the same
time.”
Damian sounded completely unconcerned.
“I promised Isabelle that I would only have her child in this life. The safest way was to curse Selena so she could never conceive again.”
His gaze swept over and met mine.
There was not the slightest hint of panic on his face. He simply tucked the blanket around me, looking almost helpless.
“I had no choice. Isabelle said we could only adopt her child if the woman could no longer get pregnant. Since you were already having the abortion, I had the doctor add the curse. It saved you from going into surgery twice.”
When he saw tears spill from the corners of my eyes, he wiped them away gently. His tone even
carried a trace of teasing.
“It’s fine. You’ll still have a child to raise later.”
My whole body trembled. I used every ounce of strength I had to raise my hand and strike him.
My chest hurt as if it were being torn open.
“Damian Ashford, you are not human.”
My hand only brushed his cheek. It did not even leave a red mark.
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A petite figure suddenly rushed over with a scream and slapped me hard across the face.
I fell back onto the bed. The oxygen tube slipped loose, and I gasped in humiliation.
When I looked up, a young Omega stood in front of Damian with tears in her eyes, shielding him with her body as she shouted at me.
“How could you hit him? Do you know he stood outside this room for three whole days for you? If I hadn’t brought him hot soup every day, he would have collapsed!”
“And since when is an Alpha your punching bag?”
She was Isabelle.
The moment Damian looked at her, heartache flashed in his eyes.
I had seen that look before.
He had looked at me that way when I drank poisoned wine meant for him at a rival pack’s banquet and lost our first pup.
He had looked at me that way ten years ago, when a silver crossbow bolt pinned his right arm and debt-collecting Rogues threatened to cut off his hand. I had knelt until my forehead bled and pawned my mother’s Moonstone to buy back his life.
I had done so much for him.
In the end, all of it was worth less than a single tear from another woman.
My heart felt as if a dull knife were being driven into it again and again.
I propped myself up and watched them hold each other. A mocking smile pulled at my lips.
“So should I thank him? Should I thank him for aborting my full-term pup for you, secretly cursing me sterile, nearly killing me, and still being gracious enough to wait outside the ward for me to wake up?”
Isabelle Thorne’s tears fell like broken beads. She glared at me with stubborn, wounded eyes.
“Fine, it’s all my fault, isn’t it? I hurt you. I’ll make it up to you, okay?”
As if she had truly lost her mind, she shoved Damian aside, grabbed a pair of silver scissors from the doctor’s desk, and stabbed them toward her own stomach.
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“I’ll cut out my baby and my womb right now to apologize to you. Is that enough?”
Damian caught her and held her tightly. His hand closed around the scissor blade, and blood poured
between his fingers.
He looked up at me, his eyes cold.
“Selena, are you satisfied now?”
Then he lifted Isabelle into his arms and walked away without looking back.
“It seems I’ve been too soft on you. I made you think you could do whatever you wanted. Since you refuse to behave, you can suffer for a while.”
I watched his back disappear and laughed through my tears.
The man who had once sworn to cherish me forever and never let me suffer had died somewhere
along the way.
The Pack Leader’s guards dragged me out of the bed and threw me from the ward with blank faces.
“From today on, everything the Pack Leader gave you is revoked. If you wish to keep staying in this
ward-”
I smiled bitterly and turned away.
“No need. Damian Ashford and everything that belongs to him can stay far away from me.”
My wallet and phone were taken too, because Damian had paid for them.
Penniless, I stood on the forest path outside the pack manor and tried to flag down a car.
Every time a kind driver stopped, Damian’s guards stepped forward and said, “If you are not afraid of offending the Pack Leader of the Ashford Pack, then let her get in.”
The drivers could only shake their heads apologetically and drive away.
One guard said coldly, “The Pack Leader asked me to pass on a message. This is what happens when you oppose him. If you apologize to Miss Isabelle and agree to take care of her throughout her pregnancy, he will allow me to drive you back to the manor.”
I ignored him and walked down the mountain step by step.
Blood ran down my thighs and dripped onto the fallen leaves, drawing the curious eyes of several
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crows.
But I was already numb.
One step.
Then another.
Only after night fell did I reach the old cabin at the foot of the mountain, the first home Damian and I had built together.
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