Chapter Five

Laina

I didn't remember leaving the room, I didn't even remember who untied me or walking through the corridors.

I didn't remember the faces of the men surrounding me, everything felt distant.

Like I was watching someone else's life from somewhere far away.

There was blood on my wedding dress, too much blood and I kept staring at it.

The white fabric stained red.

A wedding dress that had been meant for a celebration, a happy day now looked like a reminder of everything that had happened.

Oliver was dead and my father was dead too, Trey was alive and he was the one that killed them in cold blood right in front of me 

A woman I didn't recognize helped me into another room, she didn't speak much she simply placed clean clothes on the bed and told me to change which I did, I didn't argue or ask her anything really, someone cleaned the blood from my skin as another one took my wedding dress away.

I sat there like a doll while they moved around me catering to my every move, turning when they said turn, when they finally left, I climbed into the bed and curled onto my side and stared at the wall.

There was a guard outside the door, I could hear his footsteps every few minutes.

I wasn't being treated like a guest, I knew I was a prisoner here but I really didn't care, nothing seemed important anymore not even the fact that Trey was alive and back. 

My mind kept replaying the sound of bones breaking, the sight of Oliver falling, my father's body hitting the floor, the blood, so much blood. 

I closed my eyes finally letting the tears fall down, I heard the door open and I could hear the footsteps walking towards me, I knew who it was before I could say anything. 

"Laina." he said my name but I said nothing, even my mate was not excited to sense his presence, Trey waited but I still said nothing, I had nothing to say to him. 

He walked closer and I could feel his presence behind me.

"You need to eat Laina."

I didn't respond.

"I don't know what you are trying to do but you are not going to starve yourself."

He moved around the bed until he was standing in front of me and I finally looked at him, his face was unreadable.

"You need to eat something."

I looked away again, 

"If I have to force it down your throat, I will."

I tried to open my mouth and say something but I couldn't, nothing really came out, his jaw tightened.

"You think ignoring me is going to change anything? You are going to do as I say Laina"

I stared through him and something changed in his expression, maybe he finally realized I wasn't refusing to answer him, I simply couldn't, I had nothing to say to him and didn't know how to even say anything to him. 

He sat on the edge of the bed and for several seconds, neither of us spoke.

Then his hand moved and his fingers touched my arm and I flinched so violently that my entire body jerked away from him.

Trey immediately froze and his hand dropped, I pulled my knees toward my chest my heart was racing.

He stared at me in silence, and for ten first time I saw something unfamiliar in his eyes, not anger or hatred, something closer to realization.

He slowly stood up "If you don't want me in here" His voice was quieter "I will send someone else."

I didn't respond, he started walking towards the door, his hand hand reached for the handle and that's when I remembered something I had forgotten in the chaos, something that suddenly mattered more than everything else.

"Trey." i managed to say and he stopped,

It was the first word I had spoken since leaving that room, he slow he turned around but I couldn't look at him.

My voice was barely a whisper.

"What about my baby?"

He went completely still at the mention of the word baby and for several seconds, he didn't move, then his expression changed.

"What did you just say?"

I swallowed "Is she okay, my baby?"

His face went blank like he had not heard me

"Your baby?"

I finally looked at him.

"Naya." 

And suddenly, for the first time since he had returned, Trey looked genuinely shocked.

"You have a baby?"