PART- 4

[ Cassandra ]

I woke up on the hospital bed, the sterilized smell of the medicines and beeping sound of machines reached into my ears and I tried to move.

A dull pain aches in my whole body, especially my lower abdomen and as soon as I recalled how I ran after my husband to explain to him that I was innocent, I fell and hit my stomach. I tried telling him about the pregnancy but he ignored my pleas and attended Amelia first.

“Luna, easy. You are still weak and need proper rest.”

I heard Ellie’s soft voice and I turned my head to see my friend. She had a gentle smile on her face.

“My baby?” I dared to ask her with a sinking heart because there’s no way my baby wouldn’t be hurt. I felt the pain.

“You didn’t miscarry, Luna. It’s an alpha’s baby so it survived the fatal blow.” She broke the most relieving news to me.

My eyes moistened.

“But the baby is very weak and it might not survive for long unless Alpha comes here and the baby observes his alpha father’s wolf’s energy since you are wolfless. You have to call the alpha here now. I tried but he said he doesn’t want to be disturbed as-” She paused as she hesitated to complete her sentence.

“It’s okay. For him Amelia is more important. He doesn’t care even if I die.” I smiled weakly and placed my hand on my belly.

“I was afraid when I saw the blood but I don’t understand what really happened to Amelia? She looks fine to me.” Ellie frowned with disappointment.

I remained silent and replayed the incident in my mind. Amelia was cunning and if she found out about my pregnancy, I fear what she might do. I had to protect my baby at any cost.

She was a vicious woman who had played a wicked game. She loved to see me in pain for her sick pleasure.

“Call the alpha, Luna. Baby’s heartbeats are low.” Ellie said and I panicked.

I wasted no time in dialling his number and he picked after a few rings.

“Dominic, please…can you come over here in the emergency ward? I am admitted here.” I said in a low voice.

I heard him exhale deeply. He does it when he’s frustrated.

“Listen, Cassandra. I don’t know what you are trying to prove or do. I really don’t care. I want you to come here and apologize to Amelia for hurting her unnecessarily. She is in pain.” He said coldly.

My heart constricted like someone had stabbed me brutally.

Tears streamed down from my eyes.

“Do you really think I would hurt her? Don’t you want to know what happened to me?” I asked in a cracked tone.

“Listen, Cassandra. I don’t have time for your tantrums. Everyone said that you have been complaining about Amelia being an imposter and only trying to gain my attention. As your alpha, I want you to come here and apologize to her for everything. I think I had made a big mistake when I chose you as my Luna. An insecure person isn’t worthy of the title.” He said in a blank tone and hung up.

I felt my heart sinking to my stomach but I felt a strong urge to go and yell at him and tell him that I had changed myself for him. I did everything in my power to serve as a good Luna even without having a wolf.

“What did he say? Is he coming?” Ellie asked.

It was the last strand of my patience. I broke down and Ellie was quick enough to embrace me.

“I didn’t hurt her but he believed her white lies just because she’s a fated mate. For two tears, he never questioned me or my actions and always said that I would do only good for his pack. She changed everything.” I sobbed.

I had realized how one-sided love hurts when the one you love with everything in you, turns their back and behaves you don’t even exist.

“Calm down, Luna. I will go and find some medicines to help the baby. Please, rest and try talking to him once his anger cools down. I am sure he’ll come to see you. We have seen him. He isn’t bad at heart.” She tried to fill my hopes in me.

I wiped my tears and laid down on the bed. She left the ward to bring medicines for my unborn baby.

It had not been even 24 hours and Amelia succeeded in making my life difficult. I almost lost my baby, my most precious treasure.

Closing my eyes, I thought about the day when Dominic declared that he’d marry me against the wishes of our families and packs. He chose me as his arranged mate and strictly ordered his pack to treat me as Luna must be treated.

He was always kind to me. Everyone accused me and labelled me as a murderer but not him. He never doubted me but today, he easily believed that I spilled some hot water on Amelia.

Suddenly, I heard footsteps outside my ward, they were nurses.

“Did you see how our Alpha rushed his future Luna to the hospital and how he scolded that lying runt. It was worth seeing.” One of them ridiculed me.

It wasn’t new but their next conversation caught my attention.

“Alpha decided to marry her on the next full moon. The wedding will be the grandest. I can’t wait to see our true Luna and Alpha reuniting. Finally, this pack will have a powerful and most beautiful Luna.”

Rest of their words fell deaf ears.

Dominic decided to marry her in the next one week.

It was time for me to take my respectful exit before he’d throw me out.

The door opened and Ellie walked in with the medicine.

“Here, let me inject you and it might help the baby to recover but he’ll still need his father.” She said and injected me.

I closed my eyes and felt the stinging pain.

“Ellie, can you do one last job for me? I want it to be done today before the evening.”

“Yes, Luna.” She agreed.

I took a deep breath and then faced her.

“Ask your lawyer to draw divorce agreement. I am leaving alpha to his fated mate. Please, do it today because I don’t want my baby to suffer another fatal accident. Please, Ellie. I have to do this.”

She looked at me with pain and sympathy but then agreed.

“Give me only two hours and it will be ready but where will you go, Luna?’ She asked with worry.

“I don’t know. I just don’t want to stay here.” I swallowed the lump in my throat.

Later in the evening, I was discharged from the hospital. Dominic didn’t come and I knew he’d never come.

I packed the most necessary stuff, took some cash and my educational certificates. I had trained to be a doctor.

I signed the divorce papers with nothing but emptiness and placed my wedding ring on the top of the folded documents on Dominic’s office desk.

“Goodbye, Dominic. I wish you can finally be reunited with your true love and have a happily ever after.” I said, staring at his portrait.

It was taken during his alpha oath ceremony.

Wiping my tears, I left the packhouse. Nobody noticed or even questioned me because I never really mattered to them.

Once I was out of the pack’s borders, I felt the faint connection disappear.

I was a free woman with a baby growing inside me.