Konstantin: The Heartless Beta novel Chapter 37

Lily

I look down at the two perfect beings I’ve birthed and feel tears running down my face. To think both of them are mine and Konstantin’s… that after all this time…

Did Stefan try to fool me by saying the other was his, or did he not know? I honestly cannot say, but the witch inside says that the blonde woman wants one of them back. Before I knew they were both babies and not one and a demon spawn, I wanted to give it away. Why would I want to keep a manifestation of evil?

But things are different now, and even if my little girl has been injected with whatever Stefan put inside of her, I will still love her fiercely. We’ll take on whatever comes afterwards; I’m sure Konstantin feels the same way.

However, just because my body has healed after all the abuse does not mean that my mind has. Whenever I doze off, I wake up in a cold sweat and imagine myself back on those chains with Stefan using my body. It’s only the scent of Konstantin on me that brings me down, then the faces of my children.

It’s going to take a while for me to get over it or work through it; I know this. But with Konstantin and hopefully the entire pack at my side, I know that I can heal my mind once more.

A knock at the door gets my attention, and when I look up, I see Kai’s mate, Caterina, walk inside. When Nikolai told me about her, I couldn’t believe it. But seeing the powerful Alpha with her made me believe; this dainty, timid woman tamed the man known as The Beast of New York.

Apparently, she went through a lot before Kai found her, but even more when she became his Luna. I’m sure she’ll tell me about it one day, or at least I hope we can become that close.

“Hey,” she says, walking towards me with a slight smile on her face. “How are they? How are you?”

I return her smile and look at the sleeping babies. “I’ve healed, so I’m okay; as for them, they’re fast asleep after their first feed,” I say, then look up at her, noticing the tears well up in her eyes. “Oh! I’m so-”

“No, please don’t let what happened to me rob you of this little bit of happiness. I trust Kai will get our child back; I’m just feeling… bereft, you know?” She says, then looks down at them. “They’re perfect; the new generation of Volkov Wolves have all been born.”

I patted the bed and gestured for her to sit down, and when she did, I placed my hand over her. “You know-”

“Wait!-” She calls out and throws her head backwards, her eyes going white.

“Caterina…?” I call to her, my eyes growing wide at her reaction to me touching her, and when I take my hand away, she jumps up from the bed and doubles over, holding her stomach and dry heaving.

“Are you okay?” I ask.

She looks up at me with tears in her eyes and shakes her head. “You… you went through a lot at the Serpent’s hand. I can’t… can’t believe he did all of that to you!” She says and dry heaves again. “The things he made you do… !”