Chapter 4

AURORA’S POV. 

I batted an eyelid open slowly when I began to take cognizance of my surroundings. 

I looked around, and before I knew it, the unique smell of the hospital rushed past my nostrils and I instantly knew where I was. 

My head banged slightly, and I tried to sit up hoping I could remember what had happened to me and why I was lying in the hospital bed. 

“Oh, you’re awake,” I heard the familiar voice of Nora, and I quickly looked in the direction the voice came from to see Nora rushing towards me. 

“Are you okay?”

“I was worried sick about you.”

“Are you feeling pains anywhere?”

She bombarded me with questions and a light smile crept on my lips. 

It felt nice to see that someone cared about me. 

I slowly shook my head, and she sucked her teeth before looking around like she was in search of something and quickly went to her bag to bring out a notepad. 

“Tell me what happened,” She said, as she stretched forth the notepad to me, wearing a sad smile. 

“What happened? How did everything happen?” She asked, and just like a magic wand was waved over my face, I began to slowly remember things that happened before the accident. 

The confrontation, then the Accident….

I remembered how useless and worthless my so-called husband made me feel in the presence of his mistress…

I quickly opened the notepad and scribbled down something on it, before sliding it to Nora. 

“What did the doctor say happened to me?” That was what I wrote down and she shrugged, meaning she had no idea yet what had happened that day. 

Deep down, I felt broken and stupid. 

I had just encountered an accident and my husband was nowhere near the hospital. It was at that moment I began to retrace my thinking and realized that nobody cared about me, and they wouldn’t be moved a bit if I should die

I was still lost in thoughts when the hospital door opened, and I looked up just to see the doctor flash me a handsome smile. 

“Glad to see you’re awake,” The doctor said and walked up to me with a penlight in his hand as he flashed it on my eyes. 

“How are you doing now?” He asked, and I simply nodded indicating I was okay. 

“The fainting was a main result of Malnutrition,” He said, and I noticed that Nora’s eyes widened. 

“Not to worry, Your baby is fine,” He said, as if he just read my mind.

“Thank you,” I scribbled down on a paper and he smiled the moment he saw it. 

Just as he was checking my vitals, two nurses came into the ward to check on me. 

I quickly wrote down something on the notepad and stretched it to them which they read and sighed deeply. 

“Did my husband come here, probably when I was asleep?” I asked, hoping deep down that I was mistaken. 

“No ma, we did call him but he refused to come,” One of the nurses said, while the second one nodded in support of what she said. 

The doctor sighed when he was done and told me, “You and your baby will be fine, you just need to rest,” And with that, he left the ward alongside the two nurses who had come in to check up on me earlier. 

“Aurora? Malnutrition??” Nora asked as she marched to my bed with confusion written all over her face. 

I sighed deeply and shook my head. I didn’t know what to say to her at that point, or what I could do. 

“Aurora, you are a beautiful girl with a nice heart. You should never let people hurt you because they aren’t worth it.” She said, with an exasperated sigh. 

“Not to talk of a cheating husband who doesn’t care about you at all…If not for anything Aurora, please be strong for your baby,” Nora pleaded and that made me realize how stupid I have been over the years. 

“Yesss…my baby, I must be strong for him or her,” I thought, as I rubbed my hand absentmindedly on my belly. 

Determinedly, I took the notepad from where the nurse kept it and wrote down something before passing it to Nora. 

“I want to leave”

“Leave?” Nora asked, holding the paper in her hand as she narrowed her eyes at me. 

I nodded, and a light smile crept on her lips. 

“You’re sounding brave now,” she said, and I chuckled. 

“Here’s one of the most important things you need to do,” She paused, and the moment she realized that I was following she continued. 

“You have to keep it a secret and tell nobody, not even a single soul,” Nora warned me and I smiled. 

I had thought about this but didn’t dare to do it but now, I would do it for my unborn child. 

I couldn’t bring myself to give birth to my child in an environment like this, at least for the sake of my child. 

I took the notepad from her and wrote it down, “Nobody would notice my absence,” I said and she sighed….

“We’ll move in the night, so we’d avoid the prying eyes of people,” She said, and with that, I flashed her a smile of determination. 

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We had packed a few things that I would need and were ready to move from her house. 

I didn’t step foot to the Alpha’s house when I was discharged, instead, I went straight to Nora’s house to pack a few things that I’ll need to survive in another pack. 

After making sure that nobody saw us, we snuck out of the house and ran towards the forest. I wasn’t scared of Rogue wolves because Nora was a wolf and she could protect me. 

We ran until we got to the boundary of the pack she had made arrangements for me to settle in. 

“It’s time I leave you, and I hope you become a strong lady soon to fight any form of oppression,” She said, and with that, she left a parting kiss on my forehead before leaving. 

I was going to miss her badly. 

This is it, I'm finally going to be free!