Chapter 4 I won't fall for it again.

Zoey's POV

I had no idea how long it's been since I passed out but the next moment I open my eyes , I am on the hospital and a lot of machines are beeping around me.

"Tilly?" I asked a little bit scared and my heart hurts when she is not answering me.

"Shhht" someone whispers. "You are fine now."

Fine? I don't want to be fine! I scream in my mind.

I want to save Nana and now I have no chance to do it anymore.

I open my eyes slowly and I blink a few times as there is so much light in the hospital's ward.

"Don't worry" the same voice tells me softly.

"You are in the hospital." and then reality hit me.

I was sent to the hospital?

How the hell am I going to pay for the bills? I can't pay the bills for Nana and now there are other bills to pay?

I am doomed.

I push the hospital sheets and try to get out of the bed, but two arms are keeping me in my place.

"Hey, you are still wounded." the woman says, and I lift my eyes just to see a girl staring at me.

Rose Mayer?

Why is she here? She doesn't know that her brother did all of this to me?

At the mere thought of this, the pain of being hurt by my mate floods over me like a tidal wave, and my heart starts pounding madly.

"Will you calm down , please?" she asks me in a soft voice.

She never hurt me all these years no matter how much the rumors humiliated me, but like her brother, she didn't want to see me and kept avoiding me.

But why the hell is she here?

"I need to go" I tell her and try to find a way to run out from here.

"You need to recover or you will faint again." she tells me and motioned to me to get in the bed, but I shake my head.

"No. I need to be at home." and I am thinking of Nana who must be scared for not being at home until now.

I take Rose's hand and push it away and untie myself from her grip and looking around I see that my clothes are wrapped on a chair in the corner of the ward.

"You scared my brother, '' she says softly, "He brought you here all by himself. I have never seen him so scared since our parents died."

I stop for a second and take a deep breath.

Tristan is scared? Isn't my death exactly what he wants?

He fears something, I presume he's afraid that I'll die too easily.

I have no time to argue with her; now that the original plan has failed, my priority is to return home—Nana needs me.

"You mean since I killed them." and I pull the zip of my jeans and start to wear my t-shirt.

"Did you really kill them?" Rose asks me back and I stop in my tracks.

"Isn't that what everybody says?" I asked her and looked at her calmly for the first time I woke up here.

"I want to hear you say it." and now she is serious. "I only believe you."

My mouth went dry and I turned my face and looked outside.

Shit, it's still raining.

Alright, I don't know why, but this time, I want to believe in the girl before me.

"How could a thirteen year old girl kill the Alpha and the beta pairs?" I ask her.

No sooner had I spoken than I saw her furrowed brows relax, her lips slightly upturned as she asked, "So, what happened that day? Can you tell me everything?"

I averted my gaze and said softly, "Do you believe it? I don't even know what happened myself. It was such a rainy day that I lost any sense of smell and got lost in the forest. Four of them came looking for me. But when I saw them, they were dead! That's all. But I've been a murderer ever since."

Also since then, I have been humiliated by her dear brother who would not reject me or accept me.

He fucked my entire existence. He made me live like a rogue and made the pack hate me. He did this to me the moment he believed the Reynolds family, when they called me a criminal.

I could never find my second chance, yet he can brazenly post a notice seeking a surrogate mother.

All those cruel humiliations of his are still ringing in my ears, and now Rose tells me that I made her brother worried?

No. He doesn't care about me. I won't fall for it again.

I gently brushed aside Rose's hand, looking earnestly at her as I added, "Rosie, thank you for being willing to listen to me. I really have to go. I'm not like you; I have someone to take care of."

Having said that, I picked up the clothes from the corner and left the hospital room without looking back.