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Noah “Pregnancy should be your first goal.”Anna Stone yells the words from the door as she walks into Noah’s apartment.He almost sneers the moment she slows her steps to take in the room as if it were beneath her.“Mmm…”She mouths distastefully before moving to the counter, picking the last apple in the basket and biting into it.“Your place looks like shit, Noah.”Her gaze sweeps over the empty liquor bottles scattered across the kitchen island, the couch and the floor. Disgust settled in her eyes the more she took in the view.“You are aware it's three p.m., right? You are still in your pyjamas with sleep in your eyes.”It was always amusing that while he, an adopted dominant omega of the Stone house, was never allowed past the foyer of the main house growing up, yet Anna and her guards could walk into his place whenever they pleased.“So what?”He muttered.He hadn’t wanted to open his mouth this early in the day, particularly because he could still smell the cloud of alcohol a
"So you caved?"Dr Nicole asks as she changes the bandages on my neck in my bedroom.Her voice sounds too cheerful for someone peeling off gauze. "I prefer the term strategic retreat."I mutter.My gaze turns to the door, where two of Niklaus’s men stand to watch for ‘potential flirting’, of which offering hydration is one of them, as exhibited by their disapproval when I offered water to the nurse Dr Nicole sent in her place yesterday.I guess that’s considered foreplay in his world."You are healing well. Tomorrow I will bring some alpha pheromone samples with me. Ideally, being pregnant, the only scent you should pick up is that of your baby’s father, but the test is important nonetheless.”She says as she pulls off her gloves and steps back from my frame."Sounds-"Before I can answer, the bell rings."You have guests?""I do not. Rather, the only ones who would come to see me would have called first.”I mutter with a frown.As far as everyone knows, I should still be at the hosp
“You're twisting this.”I answer, and in response, he chuckles darkly.The mood in the room seems to shift, his free hand reaches out to cup my jaw with his thumb pressing just hard enough to tilt my face up.“So… you wouldn’t want to fuck her?”"What?""Wrong answer, Lucien."My real answer is 'if she would have me. Sure, we'd have some shit to work out, but with a beta, I’m sure we'd live a quiet life together, and she is almost as gorgeous as Niklaus.’"But the answer that leaves my lips is:"No. I mean, my answer is ‘no’ Niklaus. I wouldn’t want to f-fuck her."Shit, did I stammer?"Hah!"The scornful laugh leaves his lips as though he could see the truth."Lucien..."My name is uttered with a smile, but there is no warmth in it."Lucien, Lucien, Lucien..."He calls my name repeatedly, as if I were a petulant child."I didn't fuck you enough, did I?"“What? I said ‘no’, I answered ‘no’! I don’t want to fuck her; I'm married to you.”I defend, but his rich laughter drowns my voice
The next morning smells like weak hospital coffee and delightful hospital banter.“I can't believe he let you stay.”Nicole finally says in the awkward silence that had filled the morning consultation session.“Ugh, don’t say it like that.”I groan.“You make it sound as if I have to ask his permission for basic health care.”“Don’t you?”Nicole, the doctor answers with a shrug. The other nurse snorts as she fluffs my pillow with unnecessary finesse.“But still, I never thought a ‘Heinrich’ would ever marry a beta. I mean… he’s an asshole.”“Professional assessment?”I ask.“A clinical one.” She replies.“I mean, he is less of an ass than his family, they are downright cruel, him, on the other hand, his cruelty lies in ‘indifference’.”“Isn't that the worst of them?”“Yeah… but, I didn’t expect much from him, so I always thought he was the kindest one. Do you know that he first spoke to me ten years ago? Guess what he asked?”“What?”“‘Why aren’t you attending the gatherings anymore
The pen clicks in Niklaus’s hand.Although the lawyers are present for the contract signing, Niklaus has yet to give his lawyer a chance to review the documents I present.“In the event of the child’s trait not considered ‘a Heinrich’ standard, a trust fund shall be established immediately with independent trustees.”His fingers still as he reads out the words ever so slowly.“Lucien…”He calls my name as if it were a warning.“I just want to protect my child from your entire family. Based on the party you took me to, and the fact that I still haven't met them, I doubt they will look upon me with favour.”“Our child.”He says, and I frown.“That’s what I said.”“You said ‘my child.’”“Did I? Oh well.”At my words, a dry scoff leaves his lips.“In the case of Lucien Sinclair’s death…”Niklaus reads the next line aloud as if he found it amusing.“The child remains under Owen- hah, Owen your former chief? You will give our child away to-”“If you don’t want them at the time, then isn’t i
The ER smells sterile, sharp and familiar.Why the hell do I always end up in the hospital?My mind swirls, from one panic-attached thought to another, until finally, finally, I notice it.The flimsy trail that my anger made me blind to. The real and unabashed reality.I can’t win; I can never win against Niklaus.So why… why would I risk the life growing inside of me to fight him?Marrying him means living in fear of reliving my mother’s life. One day, he will bring a child into the house, one he has fathered during his rut, in the name of ‘only a dominant omega is able to handle him during said time’. Of course, after last ni-, was it even last night? How many days did he spend fucking me?There is no calendar in the room, but I know it was not one.Hah… I actually can't handle his rut. The fact that I'm here, at the hospital, proves that.What other truths do I have to swallow now? Oh, right…that we are married… that killing my child’s father is no more merciful than preventing a







