CHAPTER 1: DESPERATION

DANIELA POV

I jolted my eyes open, disturbed by the voices in the background. The pain in my lower body was excruciating, but the commotion made it impossible to rest. Suddenly, I heard the newborns crying on their small beds beside me, and all the pain vanished. I sat up alert on the hospital bed.

"Who are you? W-what are you doing?" I was flabbergasted by the sight of two masculine men, each bending closer to one of the twins.

"I am talking to you! What do you think you are doing?" My heart started to throb in my chest, and my voice grew louder. The sweat that had reduced after my struggle to push the babies returned, worry evident all over my face as the two men ignored me completely.

One of them took one of the babies, and that was enough for me. I got up from the bed despite the pain. 'Our pups!' my wolf shouted inside me, whimpering and making it hard for me to stay calm.

"Put him down! Why are you taking him?" I shouted, fear and confusion overwhelming me as I grasped the bed’s pillar for support.

"It’s the order from the Alpha, ma’am." My hands shook, my knees became wobbly, and sweat increased on my forehead.

"N-no! Y-you can’t take them from me!" I cried out, rushing toward the man who had just entered the room. It was none other than the Alpha’s beta. But why were they taking the pups away? They had just been born, for crying out loud!

"You want to go against the Alpha’s order? Remember, he is the father despite being the Alpha." I bit my lower lip as tears rushed down my cheeks. What kind of man was he? I had just given birth, and he wanted to take the babies away? And how did he know I had given birth?

"W-what about me?" I asked nervously as the other man also took the other pup, ignoring the real question I wanted to ask.

"Alpha Alexander told us to take the pups and that you will be paid for giving birth to them." My heart stopped, my body went numb, and my face turned pale. I knew his parents couldn’t stand my presence. No one could because I was the worthless Omega of their damn pack. I knew he had another woman his parents wanted him to mark as his mate because she was beautiful and a daughter of an Alpha. While me? I was a nobody, an omega who had a one-night stand with the Alpha at a club, and him f*cking me that day was a mistake. But still, I was the mother of the twins. He couldn’t separate me from them. They were too young. And again, they were the only friends I had for the nine months growing in my womb.

"P-please, don’t take them away from me." I cried out, landing on the ground with my knees, ready to beg Alpha Alexander’s beta.

"You should be lucky that the soon-to-be Luna didn’t kill you when she learned you were carrying the Alpha’s kids." More tears rushed down my face as I dropped my head to the floor in embarrassment. I was just trying to experience what other girls felt in their final years when having s*x. I didn’t know it would lead to this. But whatever had happened had happened. Let bygones be bygones.

No, I wouldn’t let them take my kids away.

"T-they are not his kids!" I blurted out without a second thought as the two men were already at the door, ready to leave. I knew they were just waiting for Beta Lucas’ instructions.

"Omega," Beta Lucas’ face was already blue with rage to hear that, "who doesn’t know that the kids belong to the Alpha?" He growled, and my heart, which was pounding in my chest, stopped.

"Do you know the crime of lying?" I nodded my head vigorously in fear that I was about to paint the Alpha as a liar.

"Where are the kids?" I heard a voice from outside the room, and I curled myself into a ball, pleading to the goddess to make me disappear. She was here! The soon-to-be Luna was here!

"Lady Laura." I could hear Beta Lucas call in acknowledgement, and I froze. Something popped into my mind with the thought that I would never see my kids again, which left me unable to stop fighting for them. I faced her.

"L-Lady Laura. Y-you can’t do..."

Smack! Smack! Smack! Three slaps that I didn’t expect landed across my face, blinding my vision.

"How dare you spout nonsense to me after what you did? Are you out of your mind, omega?" She had to finish with the word "Omega" to put me in my rightful place.

"B-but you can’t take the kids away from me. I am their mother."

"Hahaha!" My statement that I had courageously brought out made her laugh hard, and I could see a tear drop from her eyes.

"Now listen carefully to me, you prostitute!" I couldn’t look at her anymore, so I dropped my eyes, feeling ashamed to be called that in front of my kids even though they were young.

"You were just a vessel. I am their real mother now!" I felt pain cover my heart as if a silver needle had been squeezed through my chest to my heart.

"And thank you so much for giving birth to twins because from now on, I will be the mother of twins." I jolted my head and faced her, but she had already turned to face the beta and the two men.

"You can go. I need to talk to this homewrecker first." With her permission, they were already moving out of the room when the realization that all of this was serious and that I wasn’t dreaming dawned on me.

"N-no! Y-you can’t take them away from me. They are my children. I just gave birth to them and I still feel the pain. Please don’t do this to me." I cried louder than before, crawling and landing at Laura’s feet.

"I am a woman like you. Please don’t do this."

"When you shamelessly undressed yourself for a man that didn’t belong to you, did you think of that?" She moved back, causing me to hit the floor. 'I didn’t know he was the Alpha. And you are not even his mate,' my wolf jumped, wanting me to release her. But I didn’t, I couldn’t, especially not now that I was in so much pain.

"Stay away from the packhouse, and if I ever see your face again, I will make you regret being born to see me." She spat on my face, then rushed out of the room, leaving me crawling behind her.

"P-please.! Don’t take them away from me! After all the months of struggling to survive with them in my womb, why now?" I cried, but no one was there to listen to me. I was all by myself. I had just given birth, but now, I was all by myself.

I wished my parents were alive.