For those that need to be caught up, there has been some pretty bad family drama between the Caivano boys and Belle.
As you all can see from a previous thread, Hunter has taken his chance to sleep with his brother's mate and has gotten her pregnant. Hunter has done this out of pure spite over his brother with little interest in Belle.
There are some key points here as well:
Hunter and Belle were betrothed at an early age, but Hunter had little to no interest in taking responsibility for being her partner.
This led to Belle even forgetting about their arranged mateship to begin with as Hunter made sure he was never around to form a bond in the first place.
Rose ( @withaeris ) started to bring Hayden around the Emerson household, visiting Amelia ( @melynoe ) and from there on, Hayden and Belle had seen each other for the first time and felt that destined pull towards each other.
HOWEVER, Hayden was already betrothed to a noble demoness named Maisilyn at young age of seven.
*Maisilyn feels the pull for him, but Hayden does not feel the same for her.
Hayden has responsibilities with intense pressure from Maisilyn's family to give them their next heir, thus Hayden being too busy to even be around for Belle.
Hayden has also been giving Belle excuses why he can't visit with his family winery and has also used this excuse on Maisilyn when visiting Belle for an x amount of time.
*Being a demon of Greed, Hayden is quite content having two women.
In the meantime, Hunter, who is rather good friends with Maisilyn, had been whispering things to her about Hayden going behind her back with another demoness (Belle).
Being a demoness of Wrath, she might have given Hunter enough intensive to make his move and preyed on Belle's loneliness.
With Belle's season at hand, her and Hunter had coupled a few times with the last fling resulting in pregnancy.
*During their flings, Hunter had encouraged Belle to stop pretending to be claimed by a circle she falsely had been masked by her mother (Amelia had done the same thing with Edeline Marie by request [a glamour of sorts really]).
Hayden had eventually came back around to visit Belle late at night as he usually does to avoid her protective parents.
Hayden takes note of Belle's physical changes, but chooses to ignore them.
Belle tells him of the ordeals that have happened while he was away and was quite understanding at first, but instinct started to kick in and became hostile towards Belle.
*There was an attempt made to lay his mark of claim on her and to abort his problem.
As Belle called for her father ( @rosaceaes ) to come to her rescue, Hayden BOLDLY challenges Aiden, but fails to stand a chance.
Aiden roughly hands Hayden back over to his mother to be dealt with, but Hayden is quick to disappear back to Wrath with Maisilyn who he had quietly slipped away from in her sleep.
Later, Aiden is finally approached by an ancient (Matteo) who has been watching Amelia's family for generations. He never really took much interest until Amelia's children had came to be.
*There had been many offers made in the past, but all were rejected until he made a personal appearance.
Aiden and Matteo come to an agreement, letting the ancient have his daughters as his mates. This also ensures Belle's safety from the rut aggressive Hayden, so Aiden did this for Belle's own good.
Hayden is still trying to track Belle down, wanting to just have a talk, but has ulterior motives.
*And yes, Belle is TERRIFIED of Hayden at this point. Especially after Hunter had opened up about something that had happened in the past between him and his brother.
Meanwhile, Maisilyn could be with child at this point, but it has yet to be known.