Aurora
I collapse to my knees the minute I get outside Zuriel's compound. I dig my teeth into my lips to stop me from sobbing.
I don't want to sob over that useless man. I can't.
I pick myself up, walking towards the highway. I have nowhere else to go other than my home, and I shudder at the thought of how they'll take me in.
Zuriel was right when he said he had married me just to save my father shame. My father is a very influential Gamma in our pack, and is highly respected. It would be disastrous if he still had a wolfless nobody in his house.
I heave a sigh of panic, and worry. What should I even do now?
There's no place I can sleep for the night, and I'm not so sure of how my family will take me in.
"Should I go back maybe?" I ask myself.
"No. I should probably go somewhere else."
But where?
The thoughts of my unborn child cross my mind, and I unconsciously hold my stomach.
"I will have to do it for my baby. Nothing else."
Mustering the courage, and dignity I have left, I decide I'll go back to my father's house.
...
"And what are you doing here?" My father doesn't even give me a welcoming greeting, he just sits down, looking all displeased at my arrival.
Is he really my father?
I shake my head, "Good evening father," I bow my head slightly.
"What do you want?" He asks coldly, not looking in my direction.
"I just wanted to tell you that.." I pause, cringing at my words, "I'm now a divorcee."
Silence falls upon the room. Father and Mother exchange glances, then look back at me.
"A divorcee? You divorced your husband for what reason?" He arches his brow.
"He was cheating on me," I reply, my words swallowed up in the threatening sobs wanting to attack me again.
"Really Aurora? What kind of flimsy excuse is that? Of course he can't be with someone wolfless, he would definitely need outside company," Mother barks at me.
My mouth falls open at her words.
"Mother?" I turn to her, gaping in disbelief.
"Don't mother me," she sneers, "You are literally the first daughter of this family, we have done everything we can for you! This is how you repay us?"
The tears that I have been fighting come clinging to my eyes again.
"Mother.. he.."
"That's enough. We're going to beg him tomorrow to take you back. I can't go about with everyone knowing that I have a divorcee for a daughter."
Words can't express how shaken I am at their bluntness. They literally don't care about me. They just want me out of their lives without a second thought.
"Do you really hate me this much?" I ask, my chest feeling heavy with each passing second.
"It would have been a different story if you at least had a wolf, even if it was a dying one," Father grumbles, holding his head.
"What do you even mean by that? I'm not some kind of worthless trash! I'm your daughter!" I fire at them, feeling the rage that built up all the way from Zuriel's house flooding out in the room.
"I wonder if you're my daughter most times," mother palms her face, "No one in my family history has ever been wolfless, neither has your father's. I don't know where this is coming from, and it pains me to think that you're my child."
Mother's words crushes me to the bone. The world crumbles, and falls on me, rooting me deeper in the sand I so badly want to get away from.
It pains get to think I'm her child? Oh really?
"Listen Aurora. We will go back to his place tomorrow, and beg him. For now, just go and sleep," father orders.
"No!" I snap.
He pauses, looking at me, his brows shooting up, and his eyes widening.
"Did you just say no to me?" He stands up, towering over my petite figure.
I don't know what I feel or why I feel this way, but a sudden rush of adrenaline pumps up in my veins.
"I said no! I have a child in me, and I won't raise it with that monster!" I rise to my feet, standing my ground before my father's gigantic frame.
"Did you just say you're pregnant?" Mother gasps, jumping out of the couch.
I ignore her question, still staring at my father, enjoying how his pupils dilate in shock.
"There's an eighty percent chance that child will have a wolf!" Mother shrieks in excitement, clutching father's hand.
Father steps back, probably still processing my words.
Finally.. I can see a glimmer of hope. Maybe he'll accept me because of his grandchild. Everything will be fine and back to normal—
"Terminate it."
My heart wrenches out blood into my lungs.
"Excuse me?" I blink.
"You're going to terminate that baby Aurora. If you don't want to, I'll do it myself."
"What are you saying? The child might have a wolf."
Father shakes his head, "I have some pills for that. Take it, eliminate that child, and we'll move on."
I shake my head, "No way. I'm not aborting this baby!"
"Then it's either you abort this baby, or you cease to be my daughter."
A gasp escapes my lips. I stare at my father, mortified.
This was the same man who would tell me how much he'd love his first grandchild to be from me, and that he'd cherish that child so much the other grandchildren would be jealous.
"You can't be serious, Father," I try to laugh, but a whimper leaves my lips instead.
"Do I look like I'm joking to you?" Father narrows his flaming red eyes, staring deep at me with disdain.
"But.." Mother tries to speak, but Father hushes her.
"Choose now. The baby or us."
I stand there at a loss of words and what to do.
If I choose them, of course they'd send me back to that hideous man. If I choose my baby, Father will disown me.
I hold my stomach, feeling warmth rush to my heart at the thought of the sweet innocent being that is developing in me.
I look up to meet my father's eyes, "I choose my baby. You both never loved me anyway."
"Then as of today, you cease to be my daughter. I never knew you."
I swallow his words with difficulty, pushing back the tears.
"I will make you eat your words, just you wait for my return," I laugh loud and long, like some psychopath who just murdered someone, and thought it was funny.
"Tsk, like you'll be able to pick your miserable self from anywhere," he scoffs.
"Goodbye."