Why My Mate Cries
Chapter 61

ALIYAH’S POV

I snapped my eyes open, feeling the cold sweat forming on my forehead. Blinking slowly, a soft gasp escaped my lips. The searing pain in my head was evident, making me unable to think clearly. It was as if my mind was haywire, and all I could do was look around the room I was in.

That was when I realized I was lying on the cold, dusty floor. My heart pounded fast the moment my eyes darted to the familiar tiny window where I used to put my white daisy. I sucked in a breath, tried to rise a bit using my shaking body, and as my eyes surveyed the room, I figured out I was inside the old attic… the familiar old attic that used to be my cage at home.

“No… no…” I began shaking my head. “This can’t be possible… why am I here?”

My chest tightened as I became fully awake, recalling what had occurred before I got here.

The witch… the witch attacked my pack mates… she hurt Reid with a silver bullet, and abducted me afterward. Fear leaped in my throat as I remembered my husband, who went unconscious right after the witch attacked him. The dread twisted in my gut, thinking that something bad might have happened to him after that encounter.

With that, tears pooled in my eyes. If something happened to Reid, I wouldn’t be able to forgive myself. He was the only person I had… I’d die if he died…

Terror stabbed me when the door slammed open. Eyes widening, I looked up at the familiar brute face of my brother, Shawn, who was grinning from ear to ear. I could hardly believe that he was the one behind this mess. He teamed up with that rogue witch to hurt my pack mates!

“How could you do this to me?! What did I do wrong to you!?” I screamed at the top of my lungs as I looked at him angrily.

I was so furious that I could feel the wrath running through my veins. Shawn tilted his head to the side, standing proudly in front of me, as if he was seemingly telling me that I was no match for him; that he could do more than f**k my life if he wished so; and that I was under his mercy.

“What’s wrong with taking you home, wench? Tell me.” He crouched in front of me and pushed my forehead using his index finger. “Do you think just because you married the Alpha of that f*****g Jewel Pack, you’d be able to escape your family? I’m sorry to burst your bubble, but you’re mine, mutt.”

“You’re too much, Shawn!” I scowled at him.

He licked his lower l*p and smirked. “Yeah, maybe a little too much, but your mate deserved his death anyway.”

His statement broke my heart into a million pieces. My body felt numb, and the only sensation I could muster was utter horror. I sobbed aloud at the thought that Reid had died because the witch had taken advantage of his weakness to knock him down. It felt like a huge piece of me was being ripped apart.

“You’re lying!” I yelled straight at his face, crying. “He can’t be…” I shook my head. Clutching my chest, I gasped. “He can’t be dead…”

“Samarra used a silver bullet and buried it in his body. No werewolf can survive that, wench.” He laughed devilishly and stroked my hair. “Anyway, I’m not sorry for your loss.”

“You’re evil! How can you do this to your own sister?! I just wanted to live!” I gasped and couldn’t say anything else because the pain in my chest was getting worse.

Reid… I would never believe that he died just like that. He was stronger than Shawn, I was sure of that. He couldn’t let himself die… He couldn’t…

Shawn shot me a dark stare. I screamed in pain when he forcibly pulled my hair. His eyes were widening in anger as he looked at me, and it made my scalp prickle. I tried to remove his hand from my head, but the more I tried to do so, the tighter his hand gripped me.

“You should blame yourself for why it happened. You’re so stupid for not hiding better, mutt,” he remarked in his dangerous voice. “Don’t ever think of escaping again. I’m going to kill your baby if you don’t listen to me. Do you get it?!”

I whimpered. My lips quivered as I clasped my hands together. I did not know how he found out that I was pregnant, but his threat made me so weak. I couldn’t let him hurt my baby…

“Please, I’m begging you, Shawn… I’m still your sister no matter what happens… For my baby’s sake, please don’t hurt me…” I pleaded.

He laughed, as if I had thrown him a greatest joke. He then finally let go of me, and I used that opportunity to crawl away from him. I held my abdomen and eyed him carefully.

Still laughing, he stood up and shook his head.

“You see, a wench like you doesn’t deserve to have a child. You’re worthless, Aliyah. The same goes to your filthy child,” he said ruthlessly.

I covered my mouth with my own hands, trying to suppress the loud whimpers that were about to escape my throat. My brother’s words were too much to handle. They were like knives that continuously cut me through the bones… and at the same time, my heart yearned for Reid, my mate.

It seemed like fate only made me feel a single fleeting happiness. Just when I thought that I could already move on from the traumatic past I lived through… just when I thought that I had already started a new life with a new home—the Jewel Pack—and with the man I was mated with who gave me the priceless gift, which was the baby in my womb, the Moon Goddess slapped me with the reality that I could never be happy.

It was like I never deserved to be… and she only made me live with it temporarily.

She only made me feel loved temporarily.

And now she is taking everything back…

She took Reid away from me…

“Once you’re done mourning, go downstairs and cook us food,” he commanded. “By the way, dad missed you so much that he prepared his long strap for whipping. He’s going to come up here anytime, so you better embrace yourself.”

After saying those words, Shawn left the attic.

My chest moved up and down as I sobbed loudly, thinking about what happened to Reid and what awaited me now that I was back in hell…