Chapter 2 Three Years Of Lies

~Jessa's POV~

Solane gasped.

“That was too harsh, Kaelen." She muttered, smoothing her rumpled skirt.

Kaelen glanced at her then back at me and stepped a bit closer.

“We have been feeding you all this while, with contraceptives, poor human mate."

I widened my eyes in shock and parted my lips to speak, but no words came out.

I looked at Kaelen squarely in the face, and he nodded slightly to back up what he said earlier.

His face was void of emotions. He was uttering every word like he had planned it all along.

No single show of remorse.

“The drugs, the medications, the herbs." I finally muttered in dismay.

He has been behind my childlessness for three whole years and watched his mother curse me over it and even lock me up as a punishment for not providing an heir for the Alpha.

He has been the one behind it all along.

The tea he made sure I took every night before going to bed and assured me it would aid in my conception and was from the best hospitals in the state.

The one who sometimes fed me with so much care and concern, while rocking my back as I gulped it down.

They were all a lie.

“And Solane.” He chuckled dryly.

"She isn't my cousin. She is my lover. She has been my lover before you.”

"Kaelen." Solane called again. Her voice was filled with so much emotion.

He turned to Solane and raised a finger, signalling her to shut her mouth.

“You don't expect me to allow you to have my child, Jessa.

You weigh so much. You are just too fat. You aren't fit for a wife.” He said the words that I dreaded the most.

“Take a look at Solane.” He pointed at her, like he was presenting a prized trophy.

"She is the perfect size for a wife, Jessa. You can take your clumsy self elsewhere."

I shook my head widely.

It's been the tea all this while. I clearly remembered him saying the tea will make me gain a little bit of weight, but he cared less as long as it would make me gain.

"T–the tea," I stumbled over the words.

"It was the tea," my voice cracked.

"Yeah, the tea. But you have been so dumb to realise that.” He let out the words raw.

My lips trembled for a second before I pressed them together.

“You knew the tea was going to make me look like this?” I spread my hands in the air, accessing my oversized self.

I was a complete opposite of whom I was when I got married to Kaelen.

I was pretty slim, slimmer than what I look like now.

I was one-third of my current self, but right now.

I was a total stranger to my own body.

“Whatever you think it is, that is exactly the truth."

"I'm not part of the plan, Jessa," Solane voiced, her gaze fixed on the floor.

I ignored her.

"You have been behind my predicament, Kaelen?” I gritted my teeth. And brought down my hands to my side.

"I promise you, Jess, I wasn't–"

“Just shut the fuck up, Solane!" I cut in harshly.

Solane faced me on the floor and snapped into mine.

Kaelen jerked from his seat, shocked by my sudden outburst.

Solanes' eyes widened. She fixed her gaze on me. Her face filled with rage and anger.

From the look on her face, you can tell she wanted to give me a real hard slap only on my face or even a terrible kick on my body.

“How sad; I didn't find out all along." I laughed croakily, my voice hoarse from sobbing.

“You both will pay for all you did.” I said sternly and walked towards Solane.

She stumbled backwards, her eyes searching mine.

Kaelen was surprised too. He stared at me like I had suddenly gone insane.

I marched to the side of the desk and pointed straight to Kaelen's face.

“You won't get away with this. I promise you."

Kaelen burst into laughter.

“You joke a lot, Jess. Any wrong move, I won't hesitate to hang your mother till she breathes her last.”

I felt a jolt of fear shoot up my spine.

"You won't dare, Kaelen.” I laughed, but it came out more like a sob.

I was trying to steer his mind away from Mother.

The poor woman didn't approve of the union, so she doesn't deserve to suffer for what she knows nothing about.

I didn't know what pushed me to it, but I raised my hands over his face and let them land with force.

The slap came quickly. And I could see his cheek flush red as his head snapped to the other side of the room.

Solane let out a light scream, her hands over her mouth.

“You can't just ruin me this way, Kaelen; it's been three years, three whole years.” I choked, tears already streaming down my face.

I wanted to say more words, but my emotions didn't let me. I let the tears fall freely.

I rose to fame three years ago; I gave up my scholarship after I won the best artist in the whole of Harlem city.

Kaelen suggested I decline the scholarship so I could focus on giving birth.

Like he said, humans and wolves aren't the same.

Humans require a lot of rest to be able to carry the wolf's pup.

My blurry vision snapped at me in the mirror. And I looked disgustingly terrible, just like he said.

I weigh twice or even thrice what I weighed when I married him.

But he always encouraged me; he loved my new look whenever I complained about it. Saying he doesn't mind as long as the tea will make me conceive.

I tucked my black hair behind my ear.

“You are just a beast, Kaelen. And you know what?” I breathed heavily.

"Let's end this; let's end this marriage.”

Kaelen looked down at me with lazy amusement and scoffed.

“Not like someone else is going to take you in. You look like a plus-size pig, Jessa, and I advise you hold on to your marriage as it is.”