Chapter 266

Gavin’s POV

“Pregnant?” Both Rachel and I said at the same exact time.

“How is that possible?” I asked, my eyes darting to Rachel. “Who had you been with since coming here?”

“Are you serious right now??” She asked, her cheeks flushing. “Do you seriously think I had been with anybody other than you??”

“We didn’t…” I started to say, but she held up her hand, her eyes growing colder.

“You literally woke up naked with me in bed next to you,” she said, cutting me off. “Don’t you remember our time at The Grand Hotel?”

I felt bile rising up in my throat. I was still convinced that Judy was the one I had been with that night, but when I woke up, it was Rachel’s naked body that was beside me, and her marks all over me that branded me for a few days. I was glad that they were finally gone, but now it seems we have an even bigger problem at hand.

“No, even if that’s true, I’m always careful,” I say, refusing to believe that I got Rachel pregnant.

“We were so drunk,” Rachel said. “Neither of us was careful that night, Gavin.”

“From the results, it seems she’s a little over 2 weeks pregnant,” Dr. Peirce continued, her eyes fixed on the file and not at all on our faces.

“See?” Rachel said, a smirk on her face. “That’s the same time as the Grand Casino Hotel.”

“Excuse me for a minute,” I said, turning and walking towards the door.

“Gavin, where do you think you are going?!” Rachel asked, annoyance clear in her tone.

“I need to make a phone call,” I told her over my shoulder without looking back.

Once I was in the hallway, I let out a breath I hadn’t known I was holding. I reached into my pocket and pulled out my phone. I brought up Taylor's contact number and clicked the call button, bringing the phone to my cheek.

“Alpha,” Taylor greeted on the phone; he knew right away that this wasn’t a personal call.

“I need you to find out everything you can about that night at the Grand Casino Hotel,” I ordered.

There was silence on the other end for a moment.

“When you went there for that meeting a few weeks ago?” Taylor asked.

I hadn’t told Taylor the entire story from that evening. I suppose now I should do just that.

“Yes,” I replied. “Something happened that night, and I think it’s coming back around to bite me in the ass.”

“Want to enlighten me and tell me what happened?” He asked. “I need to know what it is I’m looking for.”

“As you know, we had an important meeting with important shareholders, and something happened with our ride, where he needed to leave. I sent out a memo requesting another ride, but I seemed to have misplaced my phone shortly after and didn’t hear anything back from anyone. Rachel and I went to the bar to get a drink, and I got way too drunk off one scotch…”

“One scotch got you drunk?” Taylor asked; I could hear him typing away, so I knew he was taking notes. The typing had stopped for a minute as he asked that question.

“Yes,” I told him. I knew that was weird as well, but I was so wrapped up in what happened the next morning, I hadn’t really thought about the evening as a whole. “The rest of the night was kind of a blur after that. But I remembered Judy being there. I remembered the feel of her body pressed against mine, the sound of her breathy moans… the taste of her—”

“Okay, don’t need that many details,” Taylor interrupted. “Get to the end of it.”

I rolled my eyes.

“I woke up the next morning with Rachel in my bed instead of Judy. We were both naked, and I had hickeys all over my body. She had hickeys all over her as well that I knew were from me. Her perfume was all over the suite, though I could still smell the lingering scent of Judy as well, so I knew she was there.”

“Did you talk to Judy about it?”

“Of course I talked to Judy about it,” I snapped. “She denies being there. I don’t know why she’s denying it, but she’s adamant about keeping it from me. I decided not to push her, and I just walked away.”

“That was stupid,” Taylor muttered as he continued to type on his computer. “What time was the meeting again? 6 pm?”

“Yes.”

“And what time did you get to the bar? I’ll try to get the security footage from that night,” Taylor told me.

I’m not sure why I didn’t think about that sooner.

Running my hands through my hair, I muttered, “We got to the bar a little before 9.”

There was more typing on the other end of the phone.

“Can I ask, suddenly, why you are looking into this?” Taylor asked. “It’s been weeks since the meeting.”

I was quiet for a moment, my eyes drifting back to the hospital room door, a deep-rooted worry festering in the pit of my stomach.

“Because I might have gotten her pregnant.”

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Third Person POV

Rachel sat in the hospital bed, watching as Gavin stormed out of the room. Her chest felt heavy, though at the same time, she was elated. She was pregnant with a baby; this was the perfect opportunity to trap Gavin into mating with her. Once he makes her his Luna, the entire pack will fall at her feet; she will be able to get all the information needed to take over his company once and for all, and then bring it to the ground.

She touched her belly where her future lay.

“Since you are not the mate of the Alpha, the baby will need a paternity test once it’s old enough,” Dr. Pierce continued, making Rachel’s heart thud even faster in her chest. “It’s just for precaution.”

“Of course,” Rachel said; a paternity test was easy to fake; it would be no issue getting fake results.

After a few more words from the doctor, she too left the room soon after. The second Rachel left the room, a slow grin spread across her lips as she grabbed her phone off the table beside the bed. She scrolled through her phone until she found the person she was looking for.

“About time you called me,” he said, his tone low and dangerous, sending a shiver down Rachel’s spine.

“Aw, have you missed me?” Rachel teased.

“You’ve been there for over a month,” he growled. “I expected to hear from you much sooner. Why are you now just contacting me?!”

“Jealousy isn’t a good look on you,” Rachel practically purred. “Didn’t I tell you to trust me?”

“Don’t test me right now,” he seethed. “I need an update on your progress. Are you sticking to the plan?”

“Yes, I’m sticking to the plan. I’m glad to report that I’m in the hospital right now… just found out I’m pregnant.”

“With whose baby?” He asked through his teeth.

“Some humans… just as promised,” Rachel said with a chuckle. “Don’t worry, I won’t let Gavin truly touch me. I’m not his to touch. I only belong to you, My Love.”

“But he thinks it’s his baby?”

“Yes,” she replied. “I made him think it was during a drunken one-night stand, one he barely remembers anything from that night. This is a perfect plan, just like I told you it would be.”

“What will you do with the baby once it’s born?” He asked.

Rachel rolled her eyes.

“I don’t know; maybe give her away for adoption or something. Does it really matter what happens to it? It’ll be half human… that’s practically useless to us. There’s a chance it’ll never get a wolf.”

“True, but right now that baby is the ticket to get into the Landry corporation. If he thinks that baby is his… he’ll think it’s the heir. We need to tread carefully if we want to pull off this mission.”

Rachel grinned, her fingers splaying across her still flat belly. The thought of taking over the Landry Corporation as her in a choke hold and her heart racing with excitement.

“Trust me, love. I know exactly what I’m doing. Gavin might be wary of trusting me right now, but once he comes to terms with the fact that I’m pregnant with his baby, he’ll come around and start accepting me as his chosen mate.”

“You better be right,” he growled. “I’m putting a lot of resources into this.”

Rachel giggles.

“It’ll be over before you know it. Then once I’m done here and Gavin Landry and his company are officially destroyed, I’ll be right back there, warming your bed and being your mate just like we always planned.”

There was silence on the other end before he heaved a sigh.

“Just call me regularly to keep me updated. Don’t keep me waiting again, Lila.”

“Wouldn’t dream of it, Alpha.”