Also... Sorry for the incorrect name at first which someone pointed out. So much going back and forth... So little time... Everything was switched to correctly say 'Rafe' my bad and thank you!!

I had been bombarded by people. I knew none of it made sense, the people around me weren't people I would have seen together. It was a mix of people from my old pack and some that I'd met here. There was one that I'd met here that had really been wearing down on me though.

Everyone was telling me how worthless I was, how there was no way I would every amount to anything. It seemed odd considering most of them had never even said one word to me before.

They weren't wasting their time though, every time I turned around there was another one.

Just when I'd thought I had finally escaped was when the big one hit me.

I was running away, looking back to make sure that no one was following me. When I turned back around, I skidded to a halt.

There she was, we were face to face once again after all this time.

Aphrodite was looking at me, he head tilted to the side with a wicked smile on her face. She was holding a little bundle of fabric. I wasn't sure what it was until I saw a small hand stick out.

She looked down at the bundle in her arms and cooed, putting a perfectly manicured finger up to the little hand. It gripped her finger and I could hear a little laughing coo in response.

Aphrodite's dark eyes flashed back up to me.

"I tried to tell you from the start that there was no room for you here, but you just wouldn't listen."

She took a few more steps, moving closer to me.

"I knew you wouldn't amount to anything, you were dragging the pack down. We would have been at the mercy of everyone around us and you know where that would have landed this pack. We would have been dead in weeks.

"I'm just glad that Rafe wised up finally before the worst happened. I would say that I'm sorry, but I'm really not. I enjoyed every minute of it. Now I have your title, your mate..."

She paused and moved until she was directly in front of me and I could look down at the bundle in her arms.

"And your baby. I just hope he isn't defected like you are," she sneered.

I looked down at my stomach, where the small bump had been forming, there was nothing. Aphrodite's head tipped back and she laughed.

"No!" I reached out toward the bundle, but in a flash, Aphrodite was gone. I looked up seeing her several yards away. I started to run toward her, but the more I ran the further away she seemed to get. I pushed myself to go faster and someone else appeared next to her, it took me a moment to realize it was Rafe.

"I never should have wasted my time with you. All you did was drag me down. I almost sacrificed all my people for you, for someone I'd just met. I should have known the moment that bond was gone, it was a sign to get out while I could."

Rafe turned toward Aphrodite and kissed her head as he looked down at the little bundle of fabric in her arms. His eyes lit up they all turned around to leave.

I kept pushing myself harder and harder, but it was no use. I didn't have my speed anymore and I wasn't sure having it would even help.

"I should have known from the beginning that you were the true Luna for this pack Aphrodite. I never should have questioned it."

Just like that, they were gone. Rafe, my Rafe, was gone. He'd run off with our baby, filling my place with Aprodite.

It was the one thing I had feared, and now it had happened. He realized that he needed an actual Luna and I couldn't supply him with that. He'd chosen her over me and I was left feeling empty.

I collapsed to the ground, my lungs burning with the effort of running after her, after them. My legs felt like jello. I curled up into a ball on the ground and I started to cry.

My baby. She'd taken my baby away from me. She'd taken everything away from me, my entire life. I'd fought for that man, I'd killed to protect him and he'd walked away with her, taking our child with him.

Would he grow up thinking that Aphrodite was his mother, or would they at least tell him about me? Would they at least let me see him?

Him. I realized then that it wasn't just a baby, it was a him. I'd had a boy, a son. I'd looked into his little green eyes, if even for a moment, and then he'd been ripped away from me.

The crushing pain raked through my body and I felt like I was going to fall to pieces with the massive void left in me.

I was nothing, just an empty shell of the person I'd once been. I'd left my family behind in search of something better and I'd ended up far worse. The pain of loneliness was nothing compared to the pain of having everything, and then having it ripped away.

Sobs shook my body as I lay on the ground, and whispers of the people from earlier were around me. Pathetic, useless, monster, good for nothing, they all echoed in my head and around me as I lay on the ground.

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I was jolted awake. My hand immediately went to my stomach and I felt the bump.

The TV ahead was off and the room was silent. I sighed and felt my body relax. It had only been a dream. Everything was fine, or as fine as it had been before I fell asleep. Aphrodite wasn't the Luna, she didn't have my mate, and she most definitely didn't have my baby boy.

Boy?

I wondered if that part of the dream had been true. Was I having a boy? I knew if I was, Rafe would be thrilled. He'd be thrilled with anything because it was our baby, but I knew he was hoping it was a boy. I smiled slightly at the thought and turned slightly and stopped.

Aphrodite was sitting at the other end of the couch, her dark eyes staring at me intently, her head tipped to the side ever so slightly. She looked almost just as she had in the dream, except she wasn't holding a little bundle of blankets.

If I had anything to do or say about it, she never would. She would not go near me or my baby ever.

"What do you want?" I asked with a snarl.

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