Chapter 2

Sabrina's POV

It was a hotel. I remembered getting here last night even though I was under the influence of alcohol.

Swiftly, I put myself together and left the hotel after I helped myself to the hangover juice and food I saw on my side of the bed. After all that sex and pounding, I was incredibly hungry, but why did the stranger disappear before I woke up?

It didn't take very long for me to return home. As I walked into the mansion, everything came flooding back in my memories, causing me to stagger backwards as each memory hit me like bullets to the chest.

Marcus cheated on me with Laura! I clenched my fists in anger, letting my nails dig in and draw out blood. I was enraged.

I walked in to see them having breakfast, as if nothing had happened. Marcus and my step mother. Laura was not in sight. The servants had cleared the house, and it was as good as new, as if nothing happened the night before. I hated it.

I had barely made it to the dinning before Marcus locked eyes with mine and I watched his eyes go from surprise to anger.

“Where have you been? Where are you coming from?” He barked loudly.

My eyes widened in shock. I looked around, my eyes searching the room for someone else, because it couldn't be me that Marcus was talking to.

“What? Seriously? Are you seriously asking me that?” I asked, my voice wavering, completely dumbfounded.

“I was worried sick about you!”

He replied, raising his voice at me.

“You didn't return home last night! Do you know what you put us through?” He continued to bark.

Was I dreaming, or was this man yelling at me like he didn't cheat on me? Was he not worried about how I would feel? Did he even want my forgiveness? Anger rose, my blood boiled and Iet it out.

“You cheated on me, okay! Let's talk about that! What the hell, Marcus? And you're so shameless to say you were worried about me?” I lashed out in bitterness as I shook my head, feeling my eyes brim with tears.

“Look, it's not what you think–”

“And now you want to make me look dumb? I saw you on top of her! I can't believe that you would..do that to me..”

Then I trailed off in a shaky voice after cutting him off, as visualizing it made the tears drop.

Just then, Laura walked in, her lips curled up on a sinister grin as she walked to Marcus and planted a kiss on his lips.

I felt my next words hang in my throat. I suddenly felt dizzy after seeing them kiss, like the room was spinning. My stomach churned, a wave of nausea threatening to come out of me.

The shock hit me right at my heart. It was already so bad that they did it behind my back but now they didn't bother hiding it?

“No, no. I can't take this…” Even words were heavy to say.

Instinctively, I began to search for a wall to rest my hands for support as I was staggering, my vision getting blurry due to tears.

Marcus finally stood up from his seat and walked up to me with a hostile glare on his face.

“You know what? I'm tired. I'm tired of everything. I'm tired of walking on eggshells around you and pretending. Yes, I'm done with you and I've been cheating on you for six months now. Laura? She's the best thing that ever happened to me since I met you. You're just a rigid, unrelenting vessel and it's irritating!”

Venom after venom, hitting me like I was at the forefront of a war. His last words echoed over and over again in my head, like a timeless loop, messing with my reasoning.

“B-but why?” I muttered shakily from the wall I leaned onto, as it was the only thing I could manage to say.

“No one wants a barren Luna. Take a good look at yourself. You've been married to Marcus and there's been nothing to show for it all these years, so why won't I step in to help him?” My step sister answered, watching me, her grin widening.

“Did you just call me barren?” Just like that, I felt the words echo repeated and it reminded me of difficult times. I couldn't get pregnant and the doctors had no solution. She knew first-hand about my struggles, yet she stood in front of me to insult me?

“You heard me right.” She replied as she stalked towards me menacingly. I took two steps back, scared and weak.

“We are pregnant! I'm pregnant for him, Sabrina. Get that into your thick skull and suck it up!”

I could barely register her words before she proceeded to humiliate me even more.

I wanted to scream and shout, but my voice failed me. It had weakened to whispers sometime between the previous night and that moment.

“Oh, and have this.” Laura added, placing a brown document in between my hands and stepping back.

“Don't be shy. Open it up and read it.” She replied mockingly. God, I hated her. All these years, she took me for a fool.

I had no choice but to open it up because I was equally inquisitive, and my eyes saw red upon reading the contents. It was a divorce document.

The papers hit me like a physical blow. I could barely calm my beating heart. I glanced at my husband and saw nothing but disdain in his eyes.

“What is this? What is this? Marcus? What is this!” My face contorted with rage at the audacity.

“Lower your voice when you talk to me! Sign the divorce papers!”

His voice was the loudest, louder than the loudest drums and it echoed through the room, a sharp contrast from his usual gentle tone. He looked at me like he hated me.

“I don't want you anymore and I reject you as my wife and Luna.”

That was the last straw that broke the camel's back. I refused to believe that it was all real, that this was my new reality. All my walls came crashing down, and my wobbly legs gave way. I crashed to the floor, sobbing in a pool of my own tears

“You can't do this to me! You can't!”

I screamed, using the last energy left in me.

“The pack, the elders, you think they'll just let you—”

“They know about this. Now get your things and get the fuck out of here after signing, make it quick. I don't want to see you again. I'm sorry it had to be this way, but I'm not sorry.” He replied after he cut me short.

“I'll get back at you for this, I promise.” I screamed angrily.

Laura walked to his side and enveloped his lips with hers again. While I watched, she broke out and a smug grin was on her face as she stared back at me. I couldn't take it.

The weight of the world eventually came crashing down and suffocated me.

That's it. Laura threw a pen at me and I simply took it, then signed on the divorce paper. Standing up and watching as they threw my things out, it dawned on me that I was officially divorced. Officially stripped off of my Luna position. Officially alone with no family. I wouldn't go back due to the circumstances of getting married to Marcus.

I wiped my tears, packed up my things myself and eventually made myself disappear from that building, vowing to never set my eyes on it again. It was once my home, now I was a stranger.

I drove away into nothingness for hours until I winded up in another pack. Suicide was all I could think about and it was a struggle to not crash my car into a ditch.

I eventually navigated my way around the pack and started a new life.

……

It's been three months now.

I held the doctor's report in my hands, stupefied beyond measure. There was no way the room wasn't in a continuous spin that made me dizzy and caused a defect in my hearing.

I sat opposite the doctor in her office that day to get a clear diagnosis on the headaches, mood swings and nausea amongst other things that I've been experiencing recently.

“Is this…is this real?” I questioned as my eyes darted from the papers to the doctor over and over, refusing to believe what I was seeing.

“I'm pregnant…with twins?” My voice cut as I leaned on to the last hope I had left in me. Maybe she would tell me I was just dreaming.

I was in a mix of emotions, unsure of what to feel. A couple of months ago I was called barren and now I was possibly pregnant, and by a stranger I barely knew? Marcus denied me for weeks on end so the supposed father was clear.

“Yes Miss Sprouse. You're five weeks gone.”

Somebody wake me up.