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Even in their current circumstances, with every breath that he takes, his love for Leila grows deeper, his desire stronger but along with it, a firm hatred for Carmela.

She deceived and manipulated him and his pack members into believing she is the phoenix Luna, robbed him of a childhood he could have spent loving Leila and Leila alone, years taken away from him, away from them, a fucking axe that split their love into two, right down the middle.

Carmela's death will be gruesome and he will make sure it's Leila who delivers the final blow, he will serve Leila Carmela's head on a fucking golden platter and it won't be an act of redemption or absolution on his part because nothing can redeem him or absolve him of the guilt of his actions, it will be because Leila deserves her revenge and he will see to it that she gets it.

Trent is already on his way to the noose to hang, he just doesn't know it yet and after him, his daughter will be next.

A few days later, still in terrible pain, Tatum goes to the old house he used to live with Leila in. It has been his tradition since she left. He'd sit and have drinks and a conversation with the huge portrait of her hanging in their bedroom.

The woman in the picture has been his only companion, his solace when the pain and loneliness took over his heart. Even as he put his plan together, most of the ideas belonged to her, he only just refined them.

"I thought you sealed the place up," Kelvin's voice sounds from behind Tatum in the bedroom where he is staring at Leila's picture. A red off shoulder gown, silver purse clutched in her arms, a sweet, innocent yet seductive smile on her lips with a small shoulder shrug. "She's beautiful isn't she?"

"It's her eyes, something about them, fucking sucks you in in like it wants your very soul and all you want to do is yield to her, just give her the fucking world but that's not what I did, is it?" Tatum says again, not hiding the pain in his voice.

Kelvin looks from Tatum to the portrait but leaves Tatum's question as rhetorical.

"Yeah you messed up, big time but I never would have been able to save her from the cell without the help from you, never would have been able to cure her wolf either," Kelvin replies.

Tatum scoffs, his eyes glistening with pain, his heart heavy with anguish, the sadness in his gaze wanton.

It is his duty to protect Leila, to keep her safe, to make sure she is happy and he failed to do that, everything else that he did was just a piss poor excuse to make up for his original failure. He failed her and there is no glory in anything else, none of it matters.

"She's happy with you, I'm glad," Tatum tries to keep his tone curt but his sadness is louder than his voice.

"Maybe she is but you're not glad or you wouldn't have lured her back, I see your footprints in everything."

Tatum sighs defeatedly, his heart full of sadness. He lured her back, yes, he probably shouldn't have but he could not resist anymore, couldn't wait any longer, he gave them five fucking years.

If only they knew how tough it was for him to be away from Leila all those years, he just didn't know Amara was Kelvin's kid, he always thought she was his.

"Do you know what-" Tatum

hesitates, feeling a pang in his heart

and he turns back to stare at the portrait, fighting back the tears.

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The pain in his heart only grows and the agony makes a mess of him as the anguish cuts him up slowly yet surely.

It was never the plan, the plan was for mother and child to leave and when the time was right, if he got a chance, they would return to him. He thought he made everything safe for her, he really did.

If he feels this much pain over his dead child, How would Leila have felt when it happened, how does she feel right now? No wonder she hates him so much, he deserves it, all of it. A flash of shock runs through Kelvin's eyes but it is quickly gone as realisation hits him.

Leila must have stuck to the story of Amara being his child and Tatum believes her.

"I don't think it's my place," Kelvin replies calmly.

Tatum sighs and turns, puts one hand on Kelvin's shoulder and he smiles at him.

"I'm glad it's you she chose, I know you'll look after her, you're a good man."