Reborn for revenge: the betrayed Luna is back

Lyla's pov

I sat in the sterile exam room, my fingers twisting the hem of my shirt as I waited. The door opened and the doctor, who happened to be my childhood friend, entered, a slight smile on her face.

"Lyla," she began, her voice gentle,

"I have some news for you. Your test results are out, and they're positive. You're pregnant." She adjusted her hair before sitting down with me, her smile growing like wildfire.

For a moment, the world seemed to stop. My breath caught in my throat, my eyes widening in disbelief.

"Are... are you sure?" I whispered, my voice barely above a whisper.

She nodded, her smile growing. "Yes, I'm sure. Congratulations."

A tidal wave of emotion washed over me. Joy erupted from my body, bringing with it a burst of laughter that swiftly melted into tears. After years of disappointment, calendars marked with hopeful dates. After tears of procedures and treatments - it was happening. Finally!

My hands flew to my mouth, then to my still-flat stomach. A mix of disbelief and excitement crashed over me. After so long, could this really be happening?

As the doctor continued speaking, outlining the next steps and early pregnancy care, I found myself nodding automatically, only half-listening to what she was saying. My mind raced ahead - telling my husband, Alpha Jason, calling my best friend Lucia, I was so excited, I couldn't wait to get home.

Jason and I had been married for years without any children, this was definitely going to make his day. I was sure it would.

I drove off from the hospital and headed straight to Alpha Jason's chamber, I couldn't help but reminisce on the doctor's words.

"We did it, Jason." I whispered, a tremendous smile spreading on my lips. I couldn't wait to tell Jason and I certainly couldn't wait to make his day.

I got to his door and just as I was about to knock, I heard a loud moan from his room and I immediately stayed still, trying to figure out what it was.

"Uurrr," I heard a groan. It sounded like Jason. Was he hurt? I glued my ears to the door. I don't know why I was hesitant to open the door and get in. I sure didn't want to disrespect the alpha.

"Uuuu Rrrr, yes. Alpha Jason, drill into me like my whole life depends on it. Fuck me like your cute little whore." A feminine voice whispered from the room, the voice was very familiar. It was Lucia's voice, Jason's sister.

My best friend.

"Get down and suck my dick, wait. Kiss me!" Jason commanded with a moan.

I stood still, my legs wobbling as I listened to my husband fuck his sister, Lucia. Lucia and I had been friends long before she introduced me to Jason as her brother and I believed her.

He never objected to anything she did in the pack, I was his wife, yet Lucia was always the first to be informed of the activities of the pack; the pack I handed over to him out of love, but I didn't care since she was my best friend. I wasn't interested in ruling the kingdom anyways.

With shaky hands, I opened the door and walked in. Freezing at the sight before me, Jason and Lucia intertwined in the bed, completely naked.

"Jason?" My eyes were cloudy with tears, this can't be happening! Jason? How?! Air left my lungs in a rush, as if I had been punched in my gut.

I watched him tear himself away from Lucia, it was like he had seen a ghost.

"Lyla?" He called out, trying to reach me. I stepped backwards out of fear as I blinked away the tears that were building in my eyes, but it didn't go.

"What the hell is going on here?" I fumed, taking another glance at Lucia.

"Lucia... are you this shameless, having sex with your own blood brother?" My voice trembled. She just sat there, looking at me as though I was crazy.

"My brother?" She smirked.

"Are you always this dumb Lyla?" She continued, laughing mischievously and that made me feel like I was actually dumb.

I looked at my man, his face crumpling in fury. I used to joke about how ugly he looked when angry, but right now, it was no joke. He looked hideous.

"You shut up for a second, Lyla. Just shut up!" He yelled all of a sudden and that startled me.

"Calm down alpha Jason," Lucia said, standing up to rub his back. He actually calmed down.

"You should be more concerned about yourself, Lyla. After shamelessly betraying your pack, you dare claim innocent?"

"What are you talking about?" I asked, my brow raised. The feeling of frustration coursed through my veins.

"...here she goes, trying to play dumb as usual." Lucia added, flipping her dark brown hair backwards. It was as if she owned the world.

"You think no one will find out about your affair with Alpha Lorenzo? I thought you were a saint Lyla, when you're just a pretentious bastard!"

"The video is out Lyla, confess now and we'll minimize your punishment." Lucia said mockingly, I hated the way she kept interrupting me with silly one-line sentences. I hated her guts!

"You two must be out of your minds! What stupid video is she talking about Jason?" I turned to him but he said nothing. My heart was breaking, hot tears streamed down my cheeks.

"Is this how you want to repay me Jason, I took you into my home, gave you my pack and you dare cheat on me so shamelessly? Worse still, you try to accuse me of betraying my pack?! How pathetic can you be?!" I said, my voice low and raw with emotions l

"Accuse you?" His face, a mix of shock and excitement as he reached out for his phone.

"Is this not you Lyla? Deny it!" He said seriously. I slowly stared at the screen. Surprisingly, it was a sex tape of Alpha Lorenzo and I. How is that possible? I had never seen Alpha Lorenzo since my last birthday celebration when we invited him to the pack.

And I certainly never had anything to do with him, I barely saw him in the ceremony. How the hell am I in this video completely naked and in his arms?! As I watched in awe, Jason received a text message from an unknown number, it read,

"The video has been sent out, it was edited by our top graphic designers, no one will ever find out." My eyes widened as I read it out loud.

Jason was shocked, he immediately withdrew his phone from my face.

"So you framed me up, Jason? So you planned this?" I choked out, gasps escaping with every word I said. I was in so much pain, my heart was bleeding. All I did was love him, how could he do this to me? Tears wailed down my cheeks, slightly drenching the pregnancy test results that were in my hand.

Jason's confidence facade flickered for a moment, I watched him as the realization dawned on him - he was caught. For a moment, silence reigned over him. Then surprisingly, a slow smile spread across his face. He stood up from the bed, all pretense of innocence evaporating.

"Now...now that you've found out, you should as well know about this too." He continued, adjusting himself before he glanced at Lucia and she smiled.

"Lucia is not my sister, she's my lover." He ran his hands through her hair before gently kissing her lips.

"The moment we heard about your late father's wish of making you Luna after his death, we kick started our first mission. Make Lucia your friend, then she'll introduce me to you as her brother and I'll make you fall in love with me." He smiled sarcastically.

"You're so naive and dumb Lyla, how can someone like you rule over a pack?" Lucia spat on my face, hearing those words from her tore my heart into a million pieces, she was my friend.

My best friend.

"Have you ever thought of your father's death? How did a strong man suddenly become sick and die within three days?" He turned to Lucia and they both laughed.

"You see, Lyla..." he continued when we heard a knock on the door.

Lyla's pov

"Who's that?!" Jason yelled, his face void of emotions.

"It's Beta Derek." Jason smiled before telling him to come in.

"You're right on time, Derek. Tell Lyla here what you did to her father" Jason continued, a soft smile playing on his lips. I took turns to look at Jason and Derek, completely scared of what Derek's next words will be.

Derek looked a little uneasy as he stared at Jason, surprised at his last statement.

"You can tell her." Jason wiggled his hands in the air, his face stoic.

"The deed has already been done, she knows everything" Jason smirked. The calm-looking Derek immediately changed his form, laughing mischievously as he turned to me.

"Should I start from when I first poisoned him or when I strangled him with my bare hands because he was taking too long to die?" Derek laughed mockingly and Lucia joined him.

How could they be this heartless! Derek reported to the elder's of the park that my father died of a heart attack and no one queried him as he was the head beta and the most trusted servant of the Shadow pack, unknown to everyone that he killed him?

I fell flat to the ground, hot tears streaming down my cheeks like a volcano eruption. These were the people I called family. How far does the betrayal even cut, who else was involved in this?! With so much rage in my heart, I held Derek by the collar of his shirt, my eyes were blood red with veins popping out of my head.

"I'll make you pay for this, Derek!" I cleaned the mucus that was sliming down from my nose.

"I'll make all of you pay for everything you did to me, you watch out!" I cried out, my fist clenched but they weren't threatened. It was like a giant being threatened by a toddler. They were giants and I was the toddler.

"You should be more concerned with yourself than these empty threats Lyla. You will be dead by the time the moon falls tomorrow." Jason laughed, he grabbed the glass of water on the table, sipped it and continued.

"The guards will be here in 3, 2,..." before Jason finished counting, some palace betas stormed his chambers. They were there to arrest me.

They dragged me to counsel like a common criminal and Jason did nothing to stop them. He watched in uttermost satisfaction. The videos were everywhere and I had no proof. It was just me and my unborn baby against the pack.

While they dragged me away, my pregnancy test results fell from my hand and it was immediately trampled upon by the agitating crowd and I couldn't reach for it.

For ten nights I was locked in the dungeon, the same place they locked high ranking murderers and thieves with no food and water. I cried till there were no more tears to spill, I feared gravely, not even for me but for my child.

All my efforts to prove my innocence fell to the ground. I tried running away several times but there was no escaping for me. Jason made sure of that. He instructed over fifteen guards to watch me and they made sure that I didn't see the light of day, talk more of having a chance to run away.

My stomach was hurting really badly, I had not had any good meal since I was apprehended. All these were Jason's doing.

Everything began to make sense to me, my father's death and how I met Jason, even the time he convinced me to hand over my pack to me.

On the night that my father had died, he was with beta Derek when I went to visit him.

He seemed like he wanted to tell me something but Derek immediately interrupted him, saying that he was too weak to talk and that the doctor said he should rest.

I noticed an unusual expression on Derek's face but I read no meaning to it.

The moment I opened the door to leave, I bumped into Jason. It was as though he was eavesdropping on our conversation.

He shoved my suspicions away with claims that he had come to escort me to my chamber. I looked at his hand and noticed something in it, a small bottle. It was like a concoction but I paid no attention to it.

How was I so careless!

The day for my hearing came and all the elders assembled in the palace court. Jason spoke first, expressing his grief after he saw the video of his wife with another man in bed.

"I never thought she could betray me like this." He said, his eyes red, but it was all fake.

Everybody in the court attested to watching the video.

"She's a shameless whore and we need to put her in her place so others will learn." Someone echoed from the crowd.

Other witnesses spoke, and they all spoke in favor of Jason while Lucia just sat down crying. But it was all fake.

No one dared to confront Alpha Lorenzo about this, everyone dreaded him. The only person who knew the undoctored truth of what happened on my birthday celebration when I went to greet Alpha Lorenzo, was my personal maid, Hannah. So when she was called out to tell her own part of the story, I felt a little relieved. At least someone will be on my side.

"I was with Luna for a while when she suddenly departed from me and went into the guest room where Alpha Lorenzo stayed." Hannah's confession stabbed me even harder.

"That's a lie Hannah, even you?!" I choked out, I couldn't stand Hannah's betrayal. She had been my maid since I was twelve, how could she?

"Jason is a traitor! He framed me up! He's not who you think he is! He killed..." Derek landed two heavy slaps on my face and I immediately fainted. I was already too weak, everything was happening too fast and there was no one to save me, even the moon goddess had forsaken me.

The punishment for my offense was death by hanging and from the way the court hearing went, I definitely was going to die by moon fall tomorrow, just as Alpha Jason had said it.

I was taken back to the dungeon while they waited to kill me.

It was time for me to go, I could feel it. For a moment I thought to tell Jason of my pregnancy, but of what use would it be? After all, he was after my life.

There was no strength left in me again, at this point, dying was not just the best option for me but the only option. Even if they spared me, I would still be a laughing stock in the pack.

The next day, the guards took me to the park's graveyard where I'll be hanged to die a painful death.

They tied my hands and my neck with a big rope, connecting the rope to the top tree branch, as they waited for the final command from Alpha Jason to release the rope.

"Release!" Jason commanded with no mercy and they let go of the rope. I struggled to breath but there was no escaping from these gigantic ropes wrapped round my neck.

Oh! Lyla! So this is the end? I prayed that the moon goddess would find me worthy of another life and I swear, I'll make them pay!

All of them!

My body slowly gave in to the strength of the rope and gradually, darkness erupted me and I gave up the ghost.

*******

The next day, Lucia had stepped out of the house to do her morning ritual as usual when she found a roughly tossed envelope on the floor.

She anxiously opened it, it was Lyla's pregnancy test results.

"Lyla was pregnant?" She screamed, using her right hand, she covered her mouth.

The feeling of guilt washed over her for a moment but she shook it off.

Her parents told her about the story behind her birth, how her mother's life was constantly threatened before they finally killed her, so knowing that she had just done the same thing to this poor child, made her feel guilty.

With the test results in her hands, she hurriedly went to the graveyard where Lyla was killed but couldn't find her body.

Fear gripped over her as she quickly ran to inform alpha Jason.

"I'm just coming from the graveyard Jason, Lyla's body is nowhere to be found!" She Explained, her voice raspy and breathy.

"That's impossible!" Jason groaned angrily, he told her that he wanted to see things for himself, so they quickly went back, with alpha Jason in the front.

They both got there but still couldn't find her body. He immediately informed the guards and they searched everywhere but still couldn't find her.

It was then that it dawned on him that there was trouble on the mountain!

Alpha Lorenzo's pov

The wind picked up its pace, no longer playful but urgent, as if it was trying to outrun the sun. I sat graciously on the oversized wingback armchair just beside my reading table, a family heirloom that had witnessed generations of quiet moments.

As I flipped the pages of the book that I was reading, Kaira, one of my favorite mistresses, walked in.

"My king, I came to..." she uttered out loud but I immediately interrupted her.

"I want to be left alone, Kiara, as you can see I'm busy reading" I said coldly, I didn't even bother looking at her face.

My wolf could sense her face flicker with raw emotions as she stared at me, it was obvious that she was surprised.

"Your book is upside down, which makes it obvious that you're not reading." She said, shrugging her shoulders as she looked away. It was like she was a new wife that had just been ignored by her husband and that completely irritated me.

"The only reason you're still standing here and not dead is because you fucked me well last night. If you dare abuse that privilege by questioning my decisions, I'll make sure that today is the last day you will see the sun." I said authoritatively and that startled her.

"I'm sorry alpha Lorenzo," she bowed to me and hurriedly left the room.

I turned to my newspaper and indeed, it was upside down as Kiara had said. It's true that I had the newspaper in my hands but my attention was on something else.

It was on someone else.

That good for nothing alpha Jason.

News had just reached me that he had spread rumors about me having an affair with his wife.

How dare he?! How dare that shameless weak alpha use my name in his shenanigan?! Even the strongest of alphas dared not mention my name, but he had the guts to make a fake video of me.

As I sat in the library with furrowed brows, waiting patiently for beta Denver to return with news of his investigation, rage surged through my veins.

The moon goddess had better save him because if Denver confirms that the rumor was true, I'll definitely pluck out his eyes from its socket and feed them to him before chopping off his body like meat for pepper soup.

Denver opened the door and walked in, his face was masked with rage and my wolf immediately detected that there was trouble.

"Greetings alpha Lorenzo," he said hastily, bowing to me but I wasn't in the mood for any pleasantries. The only news I wanted was that Jason has finally fallen into my trap.

"Save your greetings for your pregnant wife Denver, what did you discover?!" I was too impatient for his pleasantries. I have had a beef with alpha Jason for what his father did to my parents many years ago but I had no proof hence I couldn't formally deal with him.

But if I confirm that this was true, it'll definitely mean that my revenge was closer than I thought. And I promise him, my vengeance shall be swift

"It has been confirmed, there has been a video flying around the shadow pack. You were seen making out with Luna Lyla." He explained, reaching out for his phone to show me the video but I immediately rebuked him.

"Take the abomination off my face, Denver!" I spat on his face and he immediately removed the phone and tossed it back in his pocket.

I can never have anything to do with Lyla, aside from the fact that she wasn't as curvy as I love my girls, she was also too naive and weak.

someone that can't even defend herself in a battle, a weak daughter of a strong man! For the first time, the saying 'a lion doesn't beget a goat' didn't prove to be true.

Even if I was drunk or she was offered to me as a slave I still won't accept her. She was useless that before my sight.

Someone that gave out her inheritance to an omega because of love? Definitely not my kind of person.

With Denver's testimony I already knew that my day was marked for greatness. They say that revenge was better when served cold, but mine will be served hot and it will be the BEST!

If everything goes as planned for me, it just means that Jason is in trouble! I'll make him pay dearly for everything his parents did to mine - for every pain my parents went through in his fathers hands

I'll make him beg for my mercy and I won't show it to him, I'll make him bleed and there won't be anyone for him to turn to.

"... I carried out further investigation and found out that alpha Jason was never in love with Luna Lyla, he actually framed her up in order to eliminate her and get her out the way. News has it that she'll be killed by moon fall tomorrow in accordance with their pack's rule" Denver continued, his brow suddenly raised, it was like he just remembered something.

" It means you and Luna Lyla now have a common enemy, we could use her to our advantage in making alpha Jason pay for everything he did to your parents!" He said, snapping his finger.

Beta Denver has always been a smart fellow but this idea? It was out of this world!

"You're right Denver, we could help save her and use her to our advantage." I concurred, a brutal smile playing on my lips, it was a smile of revenge.

Immediately after her court case, my men stumped the shadow pack, disguised as women. After Lyla was hanged to death for a crime she didn't commit, my men let her lose and brought her body to the pack where my pack's best doctors will treat her.

So while the shadow pack was looking for her body, she was here with me.