Lily's p o v

"I have good news for us, Lily." My mate called from the hallway and I stepped out of the dinning room to meet him. He hands me an envelope and I read the letter out of it. After doing so I looked up at him.

"IVF?" I asked and he nodded with an assuring smile on his face.

After three years of marriage, I still couldn’t get pregnant. It had been rough as every attempt to give him an heir proved abortive.

Being childless was a very difficult situation to find yourself in in this pack and now he presented a solution from the doctor. The only solution.

But I was about to find out that rather than being a solution to our childlessness, it was going to be the worst decision I ever made.....

When I was seven months pregnant, I overheard a conversation between my mate, Joe and his best friend, Zack. “You deliberately fed Lily contraceptive pills for three years, just to make her feel that she was infertile and then took the opportunity to force her to do IVF, just to transplant Lindsay’s eggs into her body. Your trick is too cruel man. You are a legend!. I'll give you that!"

Joe didn’t care, he shrugged his shoulders while saying, “After ten months of pregnancy, not only will her figure be out of shape, but she will also have to endure the tenth level of pain during childbirth. I can’t bear to let Lindsay suffer like this.”

Lindsey? So he was doing this just so Lindsey could be perfect for him while I suffered?

“Aren’t you afraid that Lily will collapse after discovering the truth? After all, no one wants to raise a child for others! What’s more, the child she gave birth to after months of pregnancy is someone else’s child.” Zack looked at Joe teasingly.

"How could she know when she's so stupid? Besides, even if she knew, what would happen? She's already seven months pregnant, would she abort the baby? Look at her now, she's as fat as a pig, who else would want her except me?" He ended with a tricky laugh and each sound pierced my heart like a needle.

"Yes, everyone knows how much Lily likes you. God damnit, she'd cut her toes off for you!" He sounded disgusted. "she's been sticking to you like a dog-skin plaster all these years, who knows she also wouldn't mind carrying you and Lindsey's child for you."

"Don't go there!" Joe cracked with laughter.

"But I'm quite curious about what it's like to be a pregnant woman." Zack said as he had an evil look on his face then raised his eyebrow at Joe. Joe then showed a hint of disgust in his eyes. He said, "She's as fat as a pig, I can't even get interested just looking at her, let alone that kind of thing, I'd rather watch a porn movie than look at her belly that's like a watermelon, it makes me sick."

"Since you're not interested, let me try it next time! I really want to try what it's like to be a pregnant woman." Zack offered excitedly. After Zack finished speaking obscenely, the two people in the room laughed and every laugh was like a knife stabbing into my heart.

Because of the test tube, I had taken countless hormone drugs and countless injections in the past two years and my body had become bloated and out of shape. After I became pregnant, Joe was always worried that I was not getting enough nutrition, so he asked me to take a lot of supplements every day, which led to the fetus being too large. My belly was covered with ugly stretch marks in five months. I used to think that he felt sorry for my efforts, and cared about the combination of him and Lindsay in my belly.

I clenched my palms tightly and cold sweat kept coming out of my back, I felt my wolf rising inside me and wagging its tail in unrest and hate.

I almost ran away from this suffocating house. When they were gone, all I could think of was their mocking laughter.

After calming down, I took out my mobile phone without hesitation and called the hospital's appointment number. "Hello, I want to make an appointment for abortion." I said firmly.

Without wasting time, I rushed to the hospital overnight. I was afraid that I would go crazy if I stayed for a second longer. The doctor on duty at the hospital looked at my huge belly and checked with me again and again. "You are already close to eight months, are you sure you want to abort it now? Where is the father of the child?"

"Dead." Since Joe was looking forward to this child so much, I would prepare a big gift for him. The doctor looked at my despairing eyes and didn't ask any more questions.

He quickly prescribed medicine for me and handed me the appointment form. "Take the medicine and come to the hospital for surgery after three days. Remember, this is strictly confidential."

"You don't need to worry. I know what I paid so much for." I returned home tiredly with the appointment form.

But once I stopped at the door, I found that the password lock at home kept showing an incorrect password. When did it get changed?

Just as I was about to make a call, the door suddenly opened and Lindsay came out in a thin night dress looking sexier than I have ever even looked in my own house.

Lily's p o v

"Lyndsey... You're here?" I whispered as she held the door open for me to walk in.

"There was a terrible pipe connection issue in my apartment. The entire place was flooded so Joe offered for me to move in for the mean time."

"Oh." I murmured with a small nodding of my head.

"He changed the password to my birthday because he was afraid that I would not remember it. You won't mind, right?"

So the password was her birthdate? Nothing else could be used?

My eyes fell on Lindsey's fallen shoulder straps. There was a clear mark on her chest and my suspicious sense kicked in instantly.

"Lily is the most considerate wife in the world. How could she mind!" I heard from inside. Joe was sitting on the sofa, his pants wrinkled and his clothes not sitting entirely well on his body as if he had worn them in a hurry.

He got up to high me but my suspicion couldn't help but get heightened. "You went out so late without telling me. You are pregnant now. What should I do if something happens to you?" I felt cold inside when I saw Joe's affectionate look. On the surface, he was caring for me, but secretly he was having an affair with his first love in my home. He even changed his password for fear that I would come back suddenly and catch them.

I didn't bother with him too much and went upstairs directly. Joe, who never liked to drink milk, suddenly poured me a glass of milk at night. "You are in the third trimester of pregnancy now. You should pay more attention to supplementing protein and calcium." He started saying upon seeing the hesitation in my expression.

My eyes darkened when I looked at the milk Joe handed over. 'Something is off about this.' my wolf whispered.

"I don't want it." I said.

Joe appeared embarrassed when I refused, but he still coaxed me patiently. "I am doing this for your and the child's good. Be good and listen."

After that, he held the glass or my lips that I had to dork my head back to avoid it. I grab the cup from him and meet his gaze.

He wants me to drink it, fine. What's the worst that could happen anyway?

After drinking the sweet and fishy milk, I retired to my room, excusing the both of them.

But in a trance, I begin to feel drowsy. I told myself I was tired from the journey anyway.

I reached for my bag to take out the prescription but somehow, my vision began to blur. I couldn't keep my eyes open any more.

When I woke up the next day, I felt so much pain that I could hardly get up.

When I did, I walked downstairs each step feeling like I was lifting two bags of cement after the other down each step.

"Joe!" I called but my voice echoed back to me.

I reached the TV screen to see a tape on it and on it was Joe's handwriting. "I saw you were tired so I didn't beat to wake you. I'm out to a pack meeting and I'll be back soon."

I threw the paper into the bin and walked towards the flower vase as fast as I could.

There I secretly kept a camera which I could watch the feed from my phone.

Now that I was alone, I connected the camera to my phone and fast-forwarded from when I walked up the stairs after drinking the milk.

A sense of shame tugged at my heart as I watched Joe and Lyndsey kissing and making out on the sofa. After I fell asleep, Joe and Lindsay kissed all the way from the door and rolled to my side.

They kissed all the way upstairs and I switched to the camera in my room. There I saw them walking in to meet my sleeping body on the bed.

"Joe. you don't know how uncomfortable I feel when I see you with this woman every day." Lindsay said seemingly disturbed and Joe sneered at me like some disgusting refuse dump.

"How can this fat woman compare with you? I am with her just for the child. If I didn't want you to suffer, how could I marry her? Compared with you, she isn't even close to you in beauty or shape."

Lyindsay suddenly looked at me with interest. "Are you sure you gave her enough sleeping pills?" She asked as she began to strip off my clothes and my brows furrowed. "What if she finds out the truth after she gives birth? It's better for us to keep some evidence against her."

Joe seemed to agree with Lindsay's words and helped her to take off my clothes until I was completely naked. Then the two dragged me to a stool and sat me with my legs spread and facing the bed. Tears began to pour from my eyes as I watched with shame and disgust.

Joe took a mobile phone and kept taking pictures of me, while Lindsay kept changing my position. After taking enough pictures, the two began to move recklessly towards me, who was sleeping. I watched the scenes on the phone with tears stinging my eyes and my heart snapping in pain. I turned off the phone and swallowed the medicine prescribed by the doctor without hesitation.

"What are you taking?" I suddenly heard Joe's voice as he stood by the door with his eyes on my phone.

Lily's p o v

"It's just an ordinary calcium tablet." I said, tried my best to stay calm and scroll away from the video I had watched.

Joe was relieved when he heard me say this and then walked towards the door. "I forgot a document which I was supposed to present at the meeting "

"Oh." I said quietly following him.

I watched Joe's back as he went to his study room leaving his phone on the table. Full of curiosity, I picked it to find that it was loved as usual. I usually didn't go through his phone but at least I knew his password which was our wedding day.

However when I inputted the data is was incorrect. I tried and entered Lindsay's birthday and soon Joe's phone popped up a wallpaper of him and Lindsay hugging and kissing.

His phone was indeed dual-system. I quickly opened Joe's chat software and the top one was Lindsay's avatar and the second one was a group chat between him and his friends.

I opened the group chat and the message I saw made my heart tremble and the phone almost fell to the ground. It was filled with the nude photos that Joe and Lindsay took last night of me. Although, it was set to view once, I could tell from their conversation as they wouldn't stop mentioning it.

"Joe, you are unstoppable! Lily still looks charming!" Zack said.

"You know what, this pregnant woman looks really special, but I don't know how she tastes." Kendel said in a voice note.

"Don't say it, Lily looks like a bitch, she would be the top star in the club." The obscene words of Zack and others made my mind go blank, as if I was a naked beast, being pointed at and humiliated through the screen. I didn't want to read anymore. I returned his phone to where I got it from and drew back sniffing.

"Baby, why do you look so down?" Joe came downstairs holding a brown envelope containing a frame.

"Nothing, just the usual mood swings." I had to lie.

I had already sat back on the sofa. Joe took a blanket to cover me. "The weather is still a little cold, you are still pregnant, you must pay more attention to yourself, okay?" he said lightly. He continued, "It's Lindsay's birthday tonight, I plan to prepare a birthday party for her at home and specially invite a few friends to come home in the evening, you should dress nicely."

When I heard Lindsay's name, I trembled slightly and my expression turned cold. "I want to rest well at home today and don't want to be disturbed," I said with a low voice. Joe's face immediately sank and said,

"Lindsay's birthday only comes once a year. I just feel like doing this for her. Do you really want to use your pregnancy to pressure me? I have been accommodating to you during your pregnancy, but I cannot agree to this. She is looking forward to it."

Even though I haven't said anything yet, Joe couldn't wait to defend the love of his life. I should have known about it long ago.

"Okay." I said quietly.

Love and hate were really obvious. In the end, Joe still invited his friends to come to his house to celebrate Lindsay's birthday.

I stayed up for a long time hearing the music from downstairs. When I decided to go down, I put on the dress Joe had gotten me.

I placed a hand on my tommy, eager to sense any sense of life in me. But since I took that drug earlier, I have been feeling nothing but its usual movement. But it was getting faster and then slower. I wish I didn't have to do this but I have to. I sighed.

As soon as I got downstairs, I felt that everyone's eyes were on me. In a way that I felt teasing. All of them here had seen those pictures that were sent and they were probably imagining me naked right now.

"Lily, we are wearing the same skirt! We are really in sync!" Lindsay came over and took my hand intimately. Only then did I notice that the red skirt on my waist was exactly the same as hers. Was this some sort of game for Joe and others to see who fit more between the two of us? To show our shape differences. They must all be making fun of me now.

"This skirt looks better on you, Lindsay. Lily is fat and out of shape with a big belly now. How can she have half of your charm," said Joe as he came down.

Instantly, I knew he was drunk because he would not have said that in front of me in his clear minded state.

"Joe, you can't say that. In my opinion, your wife looks even more special when she's pregnant!" Zack says and suddenly, I feel his hand around my wrist and he places my palm on his, squeezing.

I tried hard to shake off Zack's hand, but found that he held it tighter and raised his eyebrows at me frivolously. "Is it just me or do I keep finding Lily more and more attractive?"

I casted a stern look at Joe. He had been making these freaky comments about me and my body and now he was saying it to my face. I tried to move away but his grip is suddenly getting tighter

I turned to Joe for help but he looked in my direction nonchalantly.

"My brother finds you attractive. You should be grateful." I gritted my teeth in agony as he said that.

"Joe, I am your wife." I cried and he then slowly stood up from the sofa and moved towards me. Zack is getting even closer to me and I begin to draw back slowly.