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Leila feels like her heart is being plunged into by a jagged edge spear, hearing the cold, emotionless way Tatum refers to her as a criminal.

Does he really believe that she killed the witch?

She heard him clearly pronounce death on her from Carmela’s mind link but seeing him so determined, leading the charge to bring her to supposed justice, it hits her with an immense amount of pain.

It’s a pain she cannot describe, it’s raw, primal, like it is clawing at her heart and ripping it apart into a million pieces.

She gets off Kelvin’s back, barely able to stand on her feet but she manages, her blue sombre eyes coated with tears as they stare straight into Tatum’s cold

grey eyes.

“A criminal, is that what you really think of me? You think my punishment is death, that I deserve to die?” Leila asks in a sullen tone, her heart racing hard, her chest rising and falling slowly.

Tatum sneers at her and replies in a spine chilling tone. “Yes, you ordered for the pack witch to be killed. Death is the only penalty.”

A sharp intense pain slices through Leila’s heart and she staggers backward, lucky to have Kelvin who had shifted back to his human form support her.

Leila doesn’t want to believe it still, she doesn’t want to believe Tatum believes that. He is not in his right senses, there is no way he is himself and saying those words to her.

“What about our child, your heir? Killing me would mean its death too, is that what you want?” Leila asks in terrible desperation, tears falling down her cheeks, her heart battered with pain and bitterness, her hand placed on her

stomach.

Tatum hesitates to reply, his eyes dart around him, looking at the pack. members with him before they settle on Carmela who is beside him and then back to Leila.

“The penalty of your crime is death,” Tatum replies coldly. “Now turn yourself in

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peacefully or I can have my warriora take you in violently, the choice is yours.”

Leila’s heart throbs with an intense ache and she purnen her lips tightly, feeling. her heart shatter from his words, doing nothing to stop the tears spilling from

her eyes.

“You are not in your right mind, even if you hate me, even if you think I deserve. to din

the Tatum I know will never take another innocent life, not to talk of his own child…Carmela has bewitched your

“Don’t say her

name. Tum growls at Lolla and the coldness in his eyes turn

into warmth as he curls his hands around Carmela’s waist and pulls her closer to him, planting a soft kiss on her forehead.

He turns to Leila and the iciness in his eyes return.

“I

ve never been more in my senses. How can I be sure the child in your womb is even mine?” Tatum says, glancing at Kelvin.

“No one has bewitched me, I have only found my mate and she completes me. On the first day of the werewolf games, I made a promise to you, to never let you go. Well, let everyone present bear witness because I take back my promise, a murderer does not deserve to be my Luna.”

A sharp pang grips Leila’s heart, squeezing and crushing it but a wry smile is what adorns her lips as she finally sees the truth for herself.

Tatum is in his right senses, he has just chosen Carmela over her and their

child.

She never thought she could ever feel hatred towards the menacing looking man in front of her but that is all she feels right now.

She wants to tell him that he has been deceived, that she is his rightful mate, that she is the phoenix Luna, the child of prophecy, the one determined to bring long lasting peace and prosperity to the pack but her pain is too much, her rage unhinged.

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“I do not deserve to be your Luna and you- you do not deserve to be my Alpha. You are unworthy of my love and every sacrifice I have made for you, every

suffering i endured because I loved you.

“I loved you even when I thought my mate would be out there, you claimed me and gave me false hope when you knew I wasn’t yours to claim and now

because you’ve found your mate, you turn your back on me and go back on your promise.

“Goodbye Alpha Tatum, I reject you as my Alpha and my mate,” Leila de ‘ares. In a venomous tone and she quickly grabs Kelvin’s arms, jumping off the cliff.