A CHANGE TO STAY STRONG.

A CHANGE TO STAY STRONG.

HAZEL'S POV.

It was a bright morning. My head ached, my body burned, and my heart was already in pieces. I groaned and tried to get up from the bed.

Wait, did I say bed?

I became alerted immediately, and rolled off, ignoring all my pains.

The last thing I remembered was walking through the woods and getting attacked by some beasts and the rest was blurry.

'What happened after that? Was I saved? By who?'

Somehow, I was scared, thinking that I was back in the pack house.

Tears trickled down my cheeks and I cringed. I began to think of the pain I would have to endure again. All over again.

I hugged my body and shook in great pain.

Coldness enveloped me, and I rushed to the wall for comfort. I crouched and cried bitterly.

My breathing began to rag as the door opened.

I immediately took my face between my hands, thinking it would be either Kai or Vera when I knew that they might be around to punish me.

I wanted to question them about what they wanted, but they beat me to it.

"You're awake." The voice was so unfamiliar, yet, it was also familiar.

I raised my head and stared at the stranger in front of me. He was crouching before me.

I wiped my tears to see him. His green eyes pierced mine and I wondered who he was to have eyes so beautiful.

I quickly stared away from him.

"I went to the Dark Bridge Pack to see a friend. When I was returning, I met you already wounded in the woods, and I helped you and brought you to my home. I had no reason to help you, nor did I plan on hurting you. You can stand up, eat, and leave immediately."

I was tongue-tied. 'Did he say that he helped me, saved me from dying? But why?' And the last time I checked, nobody cared about me or my whereabouts in the pack, except if he was not from the pack.

I was sure that if he was, he would have known that people were kind of restricted from interacting too much with me, especially being engaged in a friendly conversation.

"You shouldn't have saved me, the best thing you could ever do is to leave me there to die. You shouldn't have pitied me."

Each word I spoke was accompanied by a sense of tears, and by now, I was sure that my eyes would have been turning black due to excess tears.

He was astonished by my words and he made his astonishment known, "Why will you say that? Everyone deserves to live. Don't tell me that you tried to commit suicide."

I couldn't reply to him, I was seriously crying, and I regretted not thinking about suicide, I should have killed myself before I was found by those wild beasts.

Even the pain I went through during the attack was worse than what I would have gone through if I had wanted to commit suicide.

He slowly stood up to his feet, "You're unbelievable! You intentionally wanted to die! You didn't even consider the lives in you, how stupid were you thinking?!"

He was mad at me.

At first, I didn't think much of what he said, I was just in tears and when I did, it was to gasp, "Do you just say lives in me? What does that mean?"

He glared at me, "Now, you're pretending not to know that you're pregnant. How sweet of you?!"

I got on my feet slowly, my eyes not leaving his, "What?" My voice was weak.

"You have been unconscious for days and my healer came to check on you," He snapped, "You're fucking pregnant!"

He stomped out of the room after his words.

My world came crashing down at that moment.

'Pregnant? Like now? How? Why?' I laughed bitterly, and my hands found their way to my stomach. I could feel the little bump already.

But why will I be pregnant? I only had sex with Kai a few times which I could count, but can that lead to pregnancy?

The few times I was with Kia were dreadful, and I thought that the Moon goddess would be merciful enough to make the sex fruitless.

I slowly fell on the floor and wailed, just when I thought that my suffering would not be any much, the pup had to come into the picture and from the stranger's words, I was sure it was more than one, he had said 'lives' instead of 'life' for singular.

I balled myself up on the floor, I didn't know what to do, but I knew that I could not kill my pups, I just couldn't.

Maybe the Moon goddess gave me another chance to live because of my children.

The door was thrown open, the stranger returned with two maids behind him, "Get up and eat, I won't want to repeat that. If you want to die, you can easily do that when you leave my pack."

His pack?

Is he an alpha, too, like Kai?

My teary face squeezed up in a frown immediately, realizing he was a goat.

All alphas are the same, they only take from the weak people like me, and if the Moon goddess asks me to wish for something at that moment, I will wish for myself to go rogue, so that I will hunt down the alphas.

Nevertheless, I stood up from the floor, now with renewed strength and hatred was beginning to feed on my broken spirit.

I pulled the plate closer and slurped the food in. I was hungry and also angry.

I ate with my eyes on him.

When I was done eating, he spoke up, standing akimbo, "If you have nowhere to go, you can stay in this pack. There are a lot of things you can engage yourself with til your pups come out clean and strong."

My eyes turned rigid, and I clenched my fists, my eyes not leaving his body. "Thanks for your generosity, but no, thank you, I would rather go rogue than stay in your pack."

"No, I won't allow that." He growled.

"Like you're my guidance, move away from the door!"

He refused.

"Let her go."