[Xavier’s POV]“How is Layla doing now?” I asked as Kyle opened the door and came in.“You know how she does whenever she sees her period, your highness,” he responded.I heaved a deep sigh. “Kyle, you know I don’t care about whether we have kids or not, right? I mean, I want children, yes, but Layla is my only priority. I just wish there was something I could do to make her feel better,” I said.“I understand. I think she wouldn’t have been feeling this terrible if she hadn’t gotten pregnant before,” Kyle said.“Yeah... and it’s my fault that she lost that pregnancy,” I said.“No. It was Roman and...”“Enough of apportioning blames to others already. If I had trusted her, all this wouldn’t have happened. No! If I had had common sense and not caused harm to a pregnant woman whether she was carrying my child or not, all this wouldn’t have happened. I’m scared... so scared,” I said to him.“The Alpha doesn’t get scared,” Kyle stated.I snickered. “Since when did you place me in the leag

[Xavier’s POV]Being in the Palace around her was getting too tiring, and I just needed somewhere else to be at that point. I needed to think things through and just see if I could go back to being my normal self which was happy before the whole child issue began.So, I raced on all fours, breezing through the woods without stopping till I got to my favourite spot back when I was little. No one could find me there, and it was a place I went to whenever I needed to be alone with my thoughts.I arrived there, and transformed back into my human form, then gasped for breath, relaxing a bit. It was a serene environment deep in the woods which I had come across about a decade and a half ago.The land was dry with no sign of life, save for a large tree which had been alive for decades, centuries even. I didn’t know how, but somehow, it wasn’t dead even though no one was looking after it, and I remember being fascinated by it the first time I ever came across this place when I had gotten lost

[Xavier’s POV]I buttoned up my robe, and gave a satisfactory smile as I looked at my reflection in the mirror. A pup was going to be cleansed today after its birth a week ago. It was a ceremony we hosted for every new-born pup, and there were several events that were done on that special day. There was the naming of the pup, presenting it to the Moon Goddess in the temple, bathing of the pup by the Luna or any female elder or the wife of an elder, and so on.I hadn’t even bothered to inform Layla about the event because I was sure it would trigger her and she might start crying or something. It was for this reason I decided to go alone with Kyle and some of the other guards.“The Luna won’t be happy if she finds out there was a pup cleansing ceremony and you didn’t tell her,” Kyle said as soon as I stepped out.“I’m sure she will understand that I hid it from her for her own good,” I said, heading over to the room where Jeffrey had been placed.His aged father stood up to say his gre

[Xavier’s POV]The next morning, I mumbled something inaudible as the rays from the sun hit my eyes. My lashes fluttered and I opened my eyes to a new day and yawned tiredly, rubbing my eyes with a blank expression to make out why I was in bed by that time when the sun was already fully out, and wondered if Layla was feeling better now.My arm felt stiff and I rolled over to the side to see her still sleeping with her head on my arm as she curled up to a ball. A smile crept up to my face and I made to remove the hair which was covering her face.Wait a minute! Layla’s hair wasn’t black. It was golden blonde, and it was straight, not wavy. The only person who matched the person lying next to me was... was... Oh no!I blinked my eyes rapidly and looked around the room. This wasn’t any room in the Palace. The pictures on the wall were different, same as the paintings, the curtains... everything, virtually everything.“This is a dream,” I muttered to myself. “This can’t be true,” I said,

[Layla’s POV]For some reason, the Alpha had been super nice and caring towards me ever since that incident, not that he hadn’t always been caring, but there was just something different in the way he showed his care these days, but that wasn’t even what bothered me.What bothered me the most was the fact that he kept on apologising, and it had almost been three weeks since the incident occurred. I kept telling him it was okay, but he was sorry that he hadn’t come home that day. He kept saying he had made a grave mistake and that he was sorry, but I didn’t understand what he was so sorry for and I didn’t ask him about it.Things were going really great these days, and he was taking the childbirth thing really seriously and made sure I took all the drugs given to me by Jeffrey’s father. I didn’t want to say something or do anything that would ruin it. When he was ready, he would tell me what was eating him up so badly.“Greetings, love of my life,” I greeted him as I made my way to sit