I was eight months pregnant when my husband, Beta Ethan, finally made time to accompany me to the hospital for a prenatal checkup for the first time. But the moment we stepped into the hospital, his phone started vibrating urgently. The caller's name flashed by for just an instant, but Ethan, who was usually so calm and composed, panicked immediately. "Honey, emergency alert—Rogues have invaded the pack again. I need to handle it... I'm sorry..." He was extremely anxious, his tone carrying the commanding force of someone in authority who wouldn't take no for an answer. After a hasty apology, he left. As I stared at the back of his SUV speeding away, my nails had already crumpled the prenatal examination form in my hand. I hailed a cab with my swollen belly and quickly said: "Driver, follow that car." Ha, Rogues invading the pack? What a ridiculous lie. My father was the Alpha and hadn't received any notification. What urgent matter could a Beta like him possibly need to handle? I was going to see for myself which "superior" was so eager to "give him orders."
The moment I said the word "affair," the driver hit the gas and caught up with Ethan. I didn't know who Ethan was going to meet, but my gut instinct made me uneasy. What I didn't expect was that after turning corner after corner, the car finally stopped at the entrance to the pack's newly developed villa district. I let out a long sigh of relief. At least it wasn't some hotel. This place was a residential area the pack had allocated to high-ranking officials. Ethan had been assigned a villa here too. Before my first pregnancy, I'd lived here briefly for a few months. The neighbors were all very kind. But now, seeing luxury cars gathered at our doorway from a distance, with decorations and lights everywhere, I was puzzled. Was today some important occasion? Just as I was about to go in and see, I was stopped by the guard: "Pack high-level residential area. No entry without an invitation." I was stunned, then smiled and explained, "I'm the wife of Beta Ethan, who just went in." To my surprise, the guard looked at me with utter contempt. "Beta Ethan's wife is Ms. Vivian. Who are you? You should at least do your research before impersonating someone." In that instant, my entire body went rigid and I froze in place. Vivian—that nanny Ethan had hired for me... Coming back to my senses and ignoring the guard's attempts to stop me, I rushed to the villa entrance with my swollen belly. I saw the hall filled with well-dressed elites and dignitaries, their laughter filling the air. Ethan's mother Layla, who usually kept to herself and avoided social gatherings, was now unusually mingling and networking. And my husband Ethan was holding a child and bottle-feeding him for the first time ever, smiling happily at the petite woman beside him. That woman was Vivian... In an instant, it felt like a large hand was squeezing my heart, making it hard to breathe. Tears fell uncontrollably. When I was pregnant with my first child, Ethan had arranged a nanny for me. That was Vivian, who was still an Omega at the time. Later, after I gave birth, Ethan used his authority to change Vivian from an Omega into a regular wolf, saying it was to thank her for her service. After that, Vivian didn't want to be a nanny anymore, so I found her many good job opportunities and even frequently had Ethan bring her supplements. But I never imagined that Ethan would have an affair with her and set her up in this house. This villa was the marital home he had carefully prepared for me after he was promoted to Beta. It was just far from the hospital, so when I got pregnant, Ethan was so worried about me that he bought a new house near the central hospital and we moved out. Who would have thought it would become their "proper" marital home? And they even had a child... When Ethan moved another woman and child into this villa, did he even remember that he became Beta entirely thanks to my father's support? Ethan and I were fated mates. We got married not long after we started dating. He was just a regular wolf back then. It was I who begged my father, Alpha James, to help him rise step by step to become the Beta of Riverbend Pack. At the party, people were already flattering Ethan. "Congratulations, Beta Ethan! You have such a virtuous wife, and now your son is one year old. Your life is truly perfect!" "Oh my, Vivian is so lucky to have found someone like Ethan who dotes on his wife so much. I'm so jealous!" Someone nearby patted Layla's hand and said. Layla's eyes gleamed with satisfaction as she looked at Vivian, boasting: "It's my Ethan who's lucky to have married such a wonderful wife like Vivian." After she finished speaking, Ethan didn't avoid the crowd as he leaned in intimately to whisper something in Vivian's ear. Vivian smiled shyly, then raised her glass to everyone: "I was afraid of affecting Ethan's reputation in the pack, so I didn't publicly announce our marriage. Please don't hold it against us." "Today is our child's first birthday party. Thank you all for coming." Seeing that Vivian had saved face for everyone, people smiled and complimented her. "How could we hold it against you? We still owe you a 'congratulations on your wedding.'" "I say, since it's such a special day, why don't you two be bride and groom again and share a kiss!" Ethan's subordinates joined in the cheering, and the atmosphere of the banquet reached a climax. Vivian immediately retreated shyly, but Ethan wrapped his arm around her waist. Just as he was about to kiss her, his gaze suddenly met mine at the doorway. The man abruptly pushed away the woman in his arms, startling Vivian so much that she crashed into a nearby table. "Amelia..." Wiping away the tears from my eyes with one hand, I stepped forward quickly with my swollen belly and raised my hand to deliver a slap. "Smack!" The crisp sound of the slap rang through the air, shocking the entire hall into dead silence. "Ethan!" Vivian's eyes rolled back as she lunged at Ethan, hysterically berating me: "Amelia! How dare you—!" "Smack—!" Another slap. Half of Vivian's face instantly swelled up red as she staggered back into Ethan's arms, sobbing pitifully. I shook my numb palm. "Ame..." Ethan immediately reacted and shouted at me. "Ethan—!" But my voice was even louder. I turned my head and stared at him with cold eyes. "This is the 'emergency Rogue invasion' you needed to handle?!"
Ethan was instantly speechless. He opened his mouth but couldn't say anything. Many of Ethan's subordinates and their families in the room were completely stunned and confused. As the atmosphere froze, a baby's cry suddenly startled everyone back to their senses. Layla hurriedly took the child to soothe him, then immediately turned and cursed at me: "Amelia! You crazy woman, you're divorced already—how dare you still come here and pester my son! Have some shame and get out, or when you offend some important person, you'll regret it!" One of Ethan's subordinate's wives also immediately shouted: "I mean, even if you're Beta Ethan's ex-wife, you can't just assault people. Seriously, this is an attack on a Beta!" Learning my identity, the hall exploded into chaos. People clamored about locking me up and teaching me a lesson. I frowned and grabbed Ethan's collar, about to ask how I, his perfectly legal wife, had suddenly become his ex-wife. But Vivian shrank into Ethan's arms first, looking at me with tears in her eyes: "Amelia... Ethan has already broken the mate bond with you. Why are you still clinging to us..." Tears streamed down her face: "It's all my fault. I'll give Ethan back to you, okay..." After she finished speaking, Ethan's expression changed drastically. He suppressed his anger and scolded me: "Amelia! I've told you I won't get back together with you! Stop harassing us!" "Get out before I lose my patience! I don't have time to deal with you!" As he spoke, Ethan waved his hand, and several guards rushed over to forcibly remove me. As I struggled, I stumbled and bumped into Layla. But the moment I caught a clear glimpse of the baby's face in her arms, my entire body was struck as if by lightning! Because the baby Layla was holding, supposedly Vivian's child, was actually Joe—the child I had labored for seven hours to bring into this world during my first pregnancy! But my child had supposedly died three months ago, and Ethan had personally cremated him— Ethan... My breathing caught, and intense pain surged in my eyes. That bastard Ethan! He had actually faked our child's death to deceive me, just so he could give the baby to Vivian to raise! "Give me my child back! He's my Joe!" My teeth ground together audibly. I snatched the baby from the blanket, pushed Layla aside, and gently soothed the crying infant, tears streaming down my face in heartbreak. But Vivian suddenly panicked. She rushed over crying, trying to snatch the child away. Her voice choked and trembling: "Amelia, he's not your child!" "I know Joe died and you were traumatized and went crazy. Even after the divorce, you insisted on clinging to Ethan to have another baby..." "I pitied you for losing your child and gave in to you everywhere, but you can't steal my child!" "Please, I'm begging you, leave our family alone... I can reject Ethan, just please give me back my child!" Hearing this, Ethan's expression contorted in pain. He gripped Vivian's shoulders tightly and said firmly: "Vivian, I won't allow it!" "Don't even think about rejecting me. No one can tear our family of three apart." "And what about me?!" I roared, interrupting them. Watching the two of them reluctantly expressing their devotion to each other, if I weren't the one with the mate bond to Ethan, I would've thought they were the married couple who had established a mate bond. I pointed at my heavy pregnant belly and said to him word by word: "Ethan, I'm still carrying your child. You're having an affair right in front of me and making me out to be your ex-wife. Aren't you disgusting?!" His Adam's apple bobbed and his eyes avoided mine. But Vivian's tears suddenly fell even harder, as if she'd suffered the greatest injustice. She turned to the guests and sobbed: "I'm sorry, everyone. Amelia is Ethan's ex-wife. She went crazy after losing her child during a difficult delivery." "Later she kept pestering Ethan to have a child with her. When he refused, she found many homeless men and thugs... to get pregnant..." "Ethan took care of her out of consideration for their past, but she's trying to force Ethan to acknowledge this bastard child and... and threatening us to divorce..." These words instantly ignited the fury of everyone present. The wealthy ladies immediately shouted with contempt: "That crazy bitch has it all! Someone! Get this shrew out of here now!" Gently soothing the child in my arms, I snorted coldly and suddenly laughed in anger. I grew up abroad and was only brought back to the pack by my father when I was older, so very few people in the pack knew or recognized me. Very few knew that Alpha James even had a daughter. When Ethan and I got married, he didn't want to make a big deal of it, afraid people would say he only got promoted because of my father, so we chose to keep the marriage secret. But I never expected that all of this would result in me, the Alpha's daughter and the Beta's wife, being called a crazy woman and a whore. Looking at Vivian, my eyes turned cold as ice: "Who's the whore pretending to be pure? Vivian, don't you know? Need me to remind you how much I paid you per month when you were a nanny?" "Who took my thirty million and knelt in front of me begging for a good job? Wasn't that you?" "What, does Ethan not pay you enough as his mistress? So now you're trying to take my place directly?" "You're a mistress who insists on playing the wife—doesn't your face hurt?" Before I could finish, despite my pregnant belly, I was suddenly shoved and stumbled.
"You're the homewrecker destroying my son's family!" Layla's shrill curse came through. My back slammed hard against the wall, and my entire abdomen suddenly cramped with pain. The child in my arms was also snatched away and handed to Vivian. Immediately after, Ethan's subordinates also expressed righteous indignation: "That's right! Everyone here knows Beta Ethan and Vivian are a couple!" "Vivian has been living here for a long time, we all know her! She's always been a homemaker taking care of Ethan's daily life, and she bore him a child!" "And you, a useless ex-wife, only know how to drag Beta Ethan down. You should be the one who's ashamed!" This was clearly the villa my father had assigned to Ethan, yet he let Vivian, a mistress, move in! From what they were saying, shortly after I moved out, Vivian moved in. Ethan was truly shameless! Ethan's subordinates continued talking. "Exactly! Even if you're mentally ill, disturbing the pack's order is still illegal!" "A slut like you, stop pretending to be Beta Ethan's wife and dirtying our eyes. Beta Ethan is too kind-hearted. If it were me, I would have..." Vicious insults echoed around me. And in the midst of this nightmare, I looked pale at the man standing aside, keeping himself completely detached. "Ethan." My voice was weak. "You tell them... how exactly did you get your position as Beta?" Ethan's fingers suddenly clenched. He turned his head and looked at me coldly, a rare trace of hatred appearing in his usually indifferent eyes. I smiled. "You said you didn't want to be just a wolf warrior for the rest of your life. I agreed and begged my father to arrange a higher position for you in the pack." "After we got married, you said your rank was too low and you weren't worthy of me, so I begged my father again." "I begged my father step by step to promote you to the position of Beta, making you the youngest Beta in Riverbend Pack's history. And now this is how you—" "Enough!" Ethan suddenly roared. He strode forward and grabbed my throat, his eyes savage and bloodshot as he shouted at me: "You're lying! Everything I have today, I fought for myself! What does it have to do with a useless person like you?!" My neck hurt terribly. The intense suffocation made my vision go black instantly, and my entire face turned purple from the congested blood. But seeing my conviction, Ethan was suddenly provoked to fury. The subordinates and wealthy ladies seemed to sense something and began whispering among themselves. Seeing this, a dark gleam flashed in Vivian's eyes. Holding the child, she suddenly dropped to her knees before me, crying mournfully: "Amelia, I've tolerated your crazy ramblings on ordinary days." "But on an occasion like today, if you talk nonsense, you'll really ruin Ethan's future!" "I'm begging you, Amelia. I'm kneeling to you. Please stop being crazy! Okay..." She crawled forward a few steps on her knees and grabbed my pant leg. Ethan was shocked. The hand gripping my throat suddenly released, and he crouched down to help her up. But in the next second, Vivian grabbed my leg and threw herself backward. At the same time, she screamed: "Ah—! Amelia, just kick me to death!" Before I could react, in the next instant, Ethan's hysterical slap had already landed hard: "Amelia! You don't know when to stop!" A dull pain shot through my right cheek. I raised my hand to strike back, but Layla suddenly kicked me hard in the lower back. Caught off guard, I was sent flying into a curio cabinet. The moment I staggered and fell, my stomach cramped with bone-piercing pain, and bright red blood flowed from between my legs. In an instant, there was a pool of red beneath me. I sat paralyzed in the pool of blood, my entire body in excruciating pain as if it were falling apart. "My stomach... Ethan... my stomach hurts..." Blood tears flowed from my eyes as I reached out to Ethan for help. But Layla stomped hard on my hand, the pain making it feel like my bones were about to shatter: "Bitch! Stop faking it! My son won't be threatened by you!" Tears blurred my vision. My lips trembled: "Ethan... I'm not faking... hurry... take me to the hospital..." But Ethan didn't even turn back to look at me. He only carefully protected Vivian, his voice cold and heartless: "Enough! Amelia, stop pretending and apologize to Vivian!" "Always using the child as an excuse—do you think I'll believe you?!" As he spoke, Ethan turned back angrily, but when he suddenly caught sight of the blood beneath me, the disgust on his face instantly crumbled, revealing a hint of fear. Ethan knew my identity. He absolutely couldn't stand by and do nothing. Staring hard at Ethan's panicked eyes, I endured the pain that felt like my intestines were being twisted and said through clenched teeth: "Ethan! If anything happens to the child in my belly! You! The biological father!" "Will be the murderer who killed him!" "My father and brother will make you pay with your life! Hurry! Take me to the hospital!"
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