Chapter 5 Goodbye

Later that evening, I went to the Skye Hotel, and I was directed to the VVIP. Vaelor was already seated, waiting for me. God signs.

I sat across from my husband. Drinks on the table, and I was beginning to think how I'll reject the drinks without being suspicious of the pregnancy.

This is where we had our first date, and memories of that night still remain fresh in my head.

How Vaelor was all over me, being romantic and sweet.

Vaelor took my hands in his, not barely brushing them, but he was actually holding me for the first time since Clara arrived.

“There's something I want to explain about what happened earlier at the hospital—”

The glass door opened. His beta, Steve, came rushing in. He went to his side and whispered something into his ear. The room was quiet, so I heard him talking about Clara being injured, and instantly, my husband's countenance changed.

 I let out a breath—now I don’t have to drink this glass anymore.

“What?” Vaelor shot to his feet. His legs hit the table, and the drinks on it fell to the floor.

Glasses were scattered all over the floor.

He didn't care to look back; he was already at the door.

Watching his back, for the first time, I wondered—if I called out to him, would he turn around?

Would he leave Clara behind, just once, for me?

“Wait…” I tried to reach him, but stepped on broken glass. The sharp glass sliced into my foot.

Pain shot up my leg, and my balance slipped on the spilled drink.

I crashed on the floor.

“Ah—!” A cry escaped my throat.

The world tilted around me.

Vaelor paused at the doorway, looking between Steve and me.

I imagined he would come over and hold me—at least take me to the hospital first.

However, after seconds of calculation, he finally said to his beta.

“Take her to the hospital.”

My vision blurred as I watched Vaelor running down the stairs.

I hear fragments of conversations.

“Give her first aid. I will be there soon.”

Then silence followed.

“Are you okay?” Steve rushed beside me.

I tried to keep my eyes open, but the darkness swallowed me whole.

*******

First, the faint scent of the hospital smell hit my nostril, then it came sharper and stronger, my eyes fluttered open.

I saw the doctor talking to Steve. Panicked shot through me. He shouldn't find out about the pregnancy.

“Good thing you brought her early,” the doctor said. “Her condition could have…”

My throat dried. This is not good.

The ringing of Steve's phone distracted the doctor from speaking further.

“Excuse me,” he picked up the call.

I knew he was talking with Vaelor, but I didn't know what they were discussing.

“On my way, sir,” he dropped the Knight's black master card on the doctor's table. “Discharge her once the treatment is complete.” Without giving me a glance, he dashed out of the room.

I made a low sound as I sat upright on the bed.

“You're awake.” The doctor said, turning her attention to me. “The baby is healthy, and you're fine. But due to your condition, we'll keep you here for 24 hours.” The doctor wrote on a paper.

“Thank you.”

“When is he coming back so I can inform your companion...”

“Please don't tell anyone about the pregnancy.” I protested.

She was silent for a while but agreed.

*******

The following day, I was discharged. As I stood in the corridor, I could hear nurses hushing voices under the curtains.

“I've been smelling love in the air ever since Alpha Vaelor came with his fiancée.” One of the nurses said.

“They've turned room 360 into a romantic world with roses and romantic letters everywhere.” Another answered her.

“Alpha Vaelor hasn't left her side since yesterday.”

“Did you see how he carried her into the hospital? I thought I was watching an opera.”

I could imagine some of them wishing to be Clara.

“Ten years of being in a relationship, yet he treated her like a doll.”

Their words cut deeper than a knife.

While I was dying at the hospital, my husband was playing devoted lover with Clara.

“I heard Clara is carrying his heir. He hired all the best doctors in the pack to attend to her when he brought her.”

I sighed. Feeling a hard pang in my chest. No one will remember me, not even as Vaelor's secret wife.

While I remained as Vaelor's secret wife, he was flaunting Clara to the world.

Immediately I left the hospital, I went straight to the court to pick up the divorce paper.

I'll be leaving Crescent pack tomorrow.

I had set the divorce email to be sent to Valero three days after I must have left the pack.

Vaelor will turn the world upside-down in search of me, but he won't find me, not even my shadow.

Today ends my three-year journey with Vaelor.

DIVORCED.

The word stared back at me from the paper.

Three years of loving Vaelor Knight ended with a single stamp.

Three years of being his secret wife.

Three years of loving him.

I folded the document carefully.

Tomorrow, I will leave Crescent Pack.

And this time, I wouldn't look back.