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Does she still stay and fight or does she heed the words of Adaline and just leave Tatum’s life?

She heaves a deep sigh but her heart aches from a deeper pain and she calls to Adaline who is almost at the door.

“Mother,” Leila says in a sullen tone, her blue eyes full of mixed. emotions of sadness and pain, a sliver of hope flickering in them.

“What if you’re wrong? What if this Tatum is like th original Tatum, willing to sacrifice his mate for the woman he loves? I’m still here even if Carmela has returned, it has to mean something.”

Adaline scoffs ever so softly and bites down on her lower lip and she gazes at Leila with an icy edge to her eyes.

“It does mean something, you are carrying his heir and as for my Tatum, he died of a broken heart because of that decision, that will- not be my son’s fate,” Adaline replies in a cold whispery tone before she leaves the room, slamming the door gently.

Leila wails as the door closes, like it jammed against her heart and the flood gates break, pouring tears from her eyes like a torrent, her pain is palpable, her anguish gut wrenching, her despair frightening and she collapses to the floor and clutches her chest, physically trying to reach for her heart to see if she can soothe it, if she can quell the immense pain battering it mercilessly.

She loves Tatum, she really loves him and she doesn’t want to let him go.

Later that evening, Leila makes her way down the stairs to make preparations for dinner. Tatum never showed after he left, he spent all that time with Carmela, his fated mate.

Is this bond as Adaline described, something she can really fight

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against?

Adaline’s love story was quite epic, nothing like she shares with Tatum and even that could not defy the mate bond.

Is it not better for her to allow Tatum to experience this love of a mate?

Is she not being selfish to her own wolf by ignoring her message to find their real mate and get his mark so they can be together again, all because she wants to be with Tatum?

She halts halfway down the stairs, hearing Adaline and Carmela’s voices–coming from the living room and she cannot help but eavesdrop.

“You are taking this too far mother, pick out a wedding dress when Tatum hasn’t even proposed to me?” Carmela says, chuckling lightly.

“He will, soon. So we have to be ready when he does, we cannot waste even a second to have the wedding after that,” Adaline’s tone is firm. “But why the rush, I would like to enjoy my fiancee period for a while.” “Don’t be a fool,” Adaline reprimands Carmela in a fierce tone. “You must be Luna before Leila puts to bed, otherwise her child will be eligible to become the next Alpha of this pack. They may both be my blood but I would rather have the son of the phoenix Luna rule this pack than that of a woman with no wolf.”

Leila gasps, clutching her hand over her mouth. Adaline lied to her. It was never her intention to see her child become the next Alpha.