Chapter 9 Ch Nine

• Blaine
• There had been no other option. I couldn't afford to father a bastard.
• The pregnancy had to be gotten rid of.
• I had mentally berated myself for getting drunk and having sex with the Omega without protection.
• My rage had doubled when it occurred to me that she must have taken advantage of my vulnerability on purpose.
• Perhaps, she thought that if she could get pregnant for me, I was going to change my mind and publicly claim her as my mate.
• At that moment, I had despised her.
• How could she have tricked me into believing that she was some sort of innocent soul who didn't care about power?
• She clearly had dreams of becoming Luna and thought that a child was going to make it possible.
• Those had been my thoughts.
• Watching her cower as I expressed my rage had only made me hate her more.
• It had hurt my wolf to see her that way and I hated that another person could influence my feelings so easily
• I was both angry at myself and at her.
• It didn't help that that was the day I had chosen to announce to the Pack that I was making Amanda Eldwyn, my Luna.
• It had occurred to me that the news was going to completely shatter her but I didn't care.
• It wasn't my duty to care about the feelings of a lowly Omega.
• To my annoyance, she hadn't gotten rid of the pregnancy despite how hard I had warned her to.
• At first, I hadn't wanted to involve Elder Eldwyn seeing as it was my mess to deal with.
• I thought it rather immature to run to him anytime I had a problem but soon realized that I needed to talk to someone with more experience.
• Left to me, I would have dragged her ass down to the hospital myself to get rid of the pregnancy but that was only going to cause a scandal.
• No one was supposed to know that I was mated to an Omega, and neither was it supposed to be known that one was carrying my child.
• “You do not need to worry. I am going to handle it. Just focus on the Pack and your new bride,” Eldwyn had assured me when I told him about my troubles.
• Again, I trusted him. He was nothing if not very efficient and intelligent.
• Within a couple of days, Freya had disappeared from the Pack.
• I guess I should have felt relieved but instead, I was bothered.
• Making her disappear altogether wasn’t what I had been expecting Eldwyn to do.
• “She was too far along for an abortion so I merely convinced her to leave,” He explained when I confronted him.
• I nodded in understanding and a part of me was sorely disappointed in her.
• “You convinced her with a rather huge sum, I guess,” I murmured.
• He grinned. “Huge enough to start a new life for herself.”
• “Thank you.”
• ***
• In the first year of my marriage with Amanda, everything was pleasantly normal.
• She wasn't clingy and never said no to me anytime I wanted to sleep with her.
• It was also an added bonus that the members of my Pack all loved and approved of her.
• The only thing missing was an heir.
• I figured it was still too early and decided to be patient until the second year of our marriage.
• “I think we should go see the Pack doctor,” Amanda suggested one evening.
• “The earlier we realise what the problem is, the better for us.”
• “The elders are soon going to be breathing down our necks any moment from now. They are probably wondering if I am barren.”
• Her beautiful blue eyes shimmered with unshed tears and I felt pity for her.
• Personally, I knew that it wasn't any fault of mine that we had no pups yet.
• After all, I impregnated my mate.
• I wondered how devastated she was going to feel if she found out that she was truly barren.
• With a sigh, I joined her on the king-sized bed and draped an arm over her shoulder.
• “I'm certain that there is nothing to worry about. Perhaps, all you have to do is reduce your stress levels. But you insist, we will go and see the Pack doctor.”
• “I am not stressed. I think we should really visit the hospital,” she murmured.
• We visited the hospital the next day and that was when my world came crashing down.
• It turned out that I was the infertile one.
• Doctor Maurice’s eyes betrayed her pity as she handed us our test results and I felt the insane urge to tear her head off her neck.
• The one emotion I hated to arouse in anyone was pity.
• It made me feel less of myself.
• “I can place you on a treatment I’ve been working on for quite some time now. I have not tested it on anyone else but perhaps it might work perfectly on you,” the doctor suggested.
• I scoffed.
• “In other words, you want to use me as some sort of lab rat to see if your treatment is going to work right?”
• Her eyes were immediately filled with fear. “Forgive me. I didn't mean to offend. I was only trying to offer some sort of help.”
• I was going to tell her to shove her help up her ass but Amanda placed a comforting hand on my arm.
• “If it's not going to cause the Alpha any harm, I think we should try it,” she said to the doctor.
• There was one other thing I realized that day. My mate had lied to me about her pregnancy.
• The slut had slept with someone else and had tried to pin the pregnancy on me for her gain.
• For the first time, I felt really proud of myself for not making the mistake of accepting the baby.
• She would have had a great laugh watching me prepare another man’s son to occupy the Alpha seat.
• Another thing I had to worry about was getting treated.
• If I didn't produce an heir soon, the whole of the Pack was going to find out that I was impotent.