Chapter 00005

Chapter five

Scarlett's pov

"Is she awake?" I heard a small voice ask as I struggled to open my eyes. The voice sounded vaguely familiar but I just couldn't place it. I felt a poke at my side and my lips parted but no words left my lips.

"Diana come back here," another familiar voice called out. My eyes slowly cracked open and as I tried to rise, I groaned from the sheer pain that shot through me.

I heard a little shriek before there were retreating footsteps.

"She's awake Aunt Nora," the little voice proclaimed and my brows furrowed lightly.

Could it be?

"Alright Diana, out you go. You aren't allowed to disturb the patients," the familiar voice told the child, and after a series of whining the child eventually left the room.

"How are you feeling?" A soft voice asked me, seconds before Nora's familiar face came into my line of sight. I tried to speak but my throat was parched and my lips were cracked and dried, Nora seemed to notice my struggle and she picked up a bottle of water that rested on my side table and slowly brought it up to my lips.

"Easy," she whispered as I greedily gulped down the water until the bottle was empty.

"Nora?" My voice croaked as my brows furrowed and I looked at her while her lips parted in shock.

Was I dead and this was the afterlife? Or was the universe just against me?

The events of the last day came rushing into my mind and I gasped as I stared at Nora with wide eyes. Was everything I experienced...from losing my mate to getting burned at the stake just a bad dream? As much as I wished that were the case it was glaringly obvious that it was not.

"How do you know my name?" She asked slowly.

"How did I end up here?" I inquired ignoring her question.

"Some men brought you back, they said they found you by the shore of the ocean," she informed me skeptically and I slowly nodded.

"What pack is this?" I asked as my heart beat loudly in my chest.

"The Nightshade pack...why?" Nora confirmed my suspicions and my lips parted in shock.

What were the odds that I had landed up in my former pack?

How was this even possible?

"Hey, are you alright?" Nora, Silas' sister...my Silas, or at least before he was mine, asked as she stared at me worriedly. I tried to calm my breathing as I wrapped my head around what was going on.

I struggled to rise but pain shot through me and I collapsed back onto the bed.

"Take it easy for now. You've been unconscious for a whole day and I can only imagine your body hurts and you feel weak," Nora informed me as she began to check my vitals.

"You need as much rest as you can get for now if you want to leave that bed anytime soon," she continued as she completed her check and I merely stared at her.

"Everything seems alright. I'll have a light breakfast sent up for you since you really can't ingest anything heavy for the time being...you are very lucky though," Nora commented as she read some notes from her notepad.

"Why do you say so?" I asked weakly.

"Because when you were brought here you were pale and blue, it was obvious you had been in the water for a long time and you were barely alive... honestly I didn't think you would survive because we battled a fever all night, it only broke this morning," Nora explained and my heart dropped.

At least that explained why I still felt cold despite the layers of blankets wrapped around me.

"Why did those men bring me here? They don't know me and they could have left me to die," I pointed out.

"We aren't exactly the heartless sort in this pack," she informed me.

"Yet you burned your Luna at the stake without finding out if she was guilty," a bitter part within me reminded but I ignored it.

"I'm a lone wolf, a rogue...what do you intend to do with me?" I questioned after a moment.

"That's not for me to decide. That's Alpha Silas' call, whatever he decides to do with you stands," she informed me with a shrug and my heart dropped at the mention of my mate...former mate. My heart still ached as I recalled how he stared back at me as I got burned at those stakes with cold, unfeeling eyes.

"He has been alerted that you are in the pack and a guard has been stationed in front of your room -" she began and a small frown graced my lips.

"So I'm your prisoner now?" I cut her off.

"No but you are a rogue and we let you into our pack. We don't know if you harbour ill intentions and we have to keep an eye on you," Nora explained and although it made perfect sense, it still grated on my nerves.

"When you are feeling much stronger Alpha Silas would be notified and he would come to talk to you by himself, that would determine what happens to you next," she continued as I stared blankly at the wall opposite me. Nora remained silent as she stared at me but I paid her no mind, she would go when she was ready to.

My heart leaped and bled within me at the same time, at the thought of seeing Silas again.

"Can I ask what happened?" She broke into my thoughts.

"How did you end up in the water? There are a few bruises and cuts along your body," she informed me but I remained silent and turned away from her. She sighed as she seemed to get the hint that I wouldn't be telling her anything and she headed to the door.

"If you need anything just let me know." She announced before she closed the door behind her, leaving me with my thoughts. I stared at the familiar walls of the pack clinic and I couldn't help but wonder how my entire world turned upside down in a matter of mere days.