3. An Accident

It had been a week since that dangerous incident happened. We never got to go to the party again.

Ethan lied and told the guests to drink and merry that Alana had to go through some rite of passage that needed only her parents to be there for her and the crowd, unknowingly feasted till dawn while we were in the cold prison without any chance to at least change our clothes.

Alana had started to develop a different illness minus the old one she had and we were struggling to treat.

“God Alana I’m so sorry that I roped you into the middle of this. You honestly don’t deserve this. How do I take good care of you now that we are inside here?” I talked to Alana and I doubted she even heard me with the way she was shivering.

“Mom please you should not worry about me, I can handle myself,” Alana said as she was stuttering.

“My poor child. Desperate times call for desperate measures and I must see what I can do to help you.”

I beckoned one of the guards to come. I prayed to the moon goddess to give me the strength to be able to talk to him for him to agree.

“Come, can you please get me a pack doctor? My daughter is almost on the verge of death.”

“Ma’am orders were given to us by Alpha Ethan not to let anyone here to see you or run errands for you,” the guard said.

“Please. You are a father, put yourself in my shoes. You can tell him that Alana was screaming and fainted, please,” I begged him rigorously.

“Okay ma’am just this one time,” he nodded and agreed for me.

I was happy and I thanked the moon goddess for this victory only to see the guard coming back without any doctor.

“Where’s the doctor? Why can’t I see him with you?”

“I’m sorry ma’am, no doctor is free. They are treating your sister Jasmine that came down with a bad bellyache. No one is free,” the guard said with a tight face.

“Now you will go look for a doctor for me and stop all these rubbish complaints. You forget that I used to feed you well. How is your new Luna treating you? I guess never as good as I did. Humans are so ungrateful.”

“Ma’am please I don’t like all this banter. Luna Jasmine has occupied all the doctors. What more do you want me to say?

"So, after all my contributions here they are now too busy to attend to my child?”

I started to shake the cage of the prison.

“I want to see the doctors! I demand that as the Luna of this pack. After everything this is how you have decided to treat me? I will rain hell if I cannot see the doctor,” I started to threaten and screamed.

“One more noise from you and I will be forced to call Alpha Ethan.”

“Go and call him. Go and call the loser. So now my sister's name is no more Jasmine it’s now Luna Jasmine and with all the plenty of doctors in this pack, how can there not be space for me and my child to be looked after?”

“If my daughter dies, I will burn down this place,”

The guard ignored me and goes back to his duty. Even if I screamed no one could hear me anyways. Then he left his duty post.

He came back with a doctor and I rushed to point at the affected places and the doctor got into work immediately.

Hours later I calmed down. I was worried as my daughter was weak and now crying.

Suddenly Ethan came in and I thanked my stars because I thought he came for our child.

Then I saw that stupid Jasmine behind him.

“What is the problem, my love here,” he said as he pointed at Jasmine “complained that there were not enough doctors taking care of her and that you had snatched up all. Are you treating an elephant or what?”

Jasmine rubbed her belly. “I need like five more doctors honey. My baby needs all the love it can get,” she said to him.

“Ethan you should be ashamed of yourself. Your daughter is sick and this is all you care about?”

“Don’t talk to me about that! Do you not see that she is pregnant with the future alpha of this pack and he needs all the love I can give?”

“So, it’s one is what? The person that gave birth to you is not a lady?” I asked him and then Jasmine interrupted.

“I don’t have time to be exchanging words with you. As you can see, right now you are the least of my problems. I just want the doctor to come with us.”

“He’s not going anywhere. There are hundreds of doctors, go and engage one.”

“Honey, the baby does not like this noisy area, can we go to the reception?” Jasmine said as she cut into our discussion.

“Yes darling, anything you need will be done for you,” Ethan said as he and Jasmine started to play love in front of my prison cell close to where his daughter was sick without saying a word to her.

I felt irritated by this and prayed that if my daughter made it, she would never want to forgive her father.

Then I looked at Jasmine and saw that she was very healthy. So, this ***** lied about a stomach ache because she knew my child was sick and would need some attention. Look at how round her cheeks were.

If there was one thing, I knew Jasmine for, it was pretending like a pro. And my poor daughter was there shaking while she was cornering all the doctors. This made me boil in anger and I lashed out on them.

“You are a very foolish man, Ethan. How could you ask me not to look for a doctor for my child?”

“You’re the one that is foolish can’t you see Jasmine needs it?”

“Look at Jasmine. See how healthy she is looking. Did she tell you the sickness is real? Look!”

Ethan looked at Jasmine to insect her and just then she fell to the floor and clutched her tummy pretending to be in pain.

“Arrh! My belly!” Jasmine screamed.

“My baby, are you okay?” Ethan ignored me and rushed to the floor to hold Jasmine

Just then the healer came from my daughter's prison cell with bad news.

“I’m sorry ma’am.”

“Sorry what?” I asked him with concern in my eyes.

He bent his head.

“Your daughter is unconscious and she may never wake up again because you delayed treating her. I’m so sorry ma’am, my condolences.”

“What does this mean? doctor don’t tell me that— Noooooooooo!!” I fell to my knees and screamed in pain.