Chapter 6

Lilian POV:

The world is spinning, everything aches, my entire body is on fire. What is happening right now? My wolf is gone, I'm tied to a hospital bed in the middle of the forest, my mate and pups are missing, there's a dead man beside my bed, and it is snowing in fucking April! All of this snapping my head back and forth is only making my head throb in pain. I looked around and there must have been five or six alphas standing around, talking about something. Some of them looked at me as if I had committed a personal sin against them.

"Look who's awake." My head snapped over to the alpha standing above the dead body. He picked the body up, dragging its mutilated form over to me. Without truly thinking, I looked down at the form of the body being dragged and locked eyes with my chosen mate. I jerked violently away from them. I must have turned green because the next thing that happened was someone shoving my head over the edge of my bed just as I threw up whatever contents I had in my stomach.

Jasper's body was slammed into my view, making me vomit again. Everything was on fire, I tried to reach up for my mate mark on instinct but my hands were still tied. I was trembling in my bed, my eyes flicking over every single person there, all of them strangers. Were they all rogues? If Jasper lost with that one rogue, then where is he? Am I about to become a sexual servant to these beasts?

'Dahlia... please... come back to me... tell me I'm not about to die... Tell me it's a lie... some sick joke... Oh Jasper... Oh Goddess I'm gonna throw up again.'

I leaned farther over the edge, dry heaving as I tried to collect myself. Having Jasper in the edge of my view didn't help one bit. I could hear the wolves in the background snickering at my sickness. Some of them made little pitying comments about getting Jasper out of my view or to stop scaring me. Much to my relief, Jasper's mangled form was dragged away and out of my view.

"I've heard Jasper had an heir, yet when we raided the place, all we found was you. No pups in sight, not even the pups he claims are not his. Well..." The man chuckled. It was a vicious chuckle that made my heart stop, ",Claimed." He crouched and grabbed me by the hair, forcing me to look at him.

"See, Jasper here is dead now. Soon enough, you will be too." I swallowed thickly, not bothering to even try to hide the scent of my fear. I was strong, but not strong enough to take one every alpha here, hell, I wasn't even strong enough to get out of these restraints right now. The mate mark on my throat pulsed angrily as if confirming his words. Without my mate, I was going to die.

"So I'm going to give you a choice. Something tells me you want to live more than you care to admit. If the rumors are true, and the two twin males are indeed not his, I'll let them live. I'll let the little girl live, and I'll let one of my warriors mark you so you can live. Hell, I'll even give you the option of choosing which one to mark. They'll all be more than happy to claim you."

My lips curled in disgust, "Then it's too bad I'll die. Because that heir you're talking about died in childbirth!" I grunted as he slapped me, hard. My vision blurred with the sudden pain and he forced me to look at him again.

"Don't lie to me you little bitch!" He growled, making me raise my neck in submission. "I know that stupid 2 year old is still out there alive and well." I froze suddenly. '2 year old? 2 year old? What? That pup is a newborn... and even if he was talking about Katelyn, she's a year older, and female.' "What the hell are you talking about?!" I snarled, earning myself another slap. "Are you still asleep in there?! If you don't tell the truth about Lydan's location you die, understand?!"

Tears filled my eyes before I could think better of it. Lydan? Jasper chose Lydan? Adorable... he does love me. I looked up at the alpha still holding my hair, I forced my voice down to the calmest it could possibly be. I took a deep breath before speaking. "I swear... I don't know what you're talking about." His claws flew back as if to strike and I shut my eyes tightly, the scent of my fear filling the area.

"Alpha Kian!" A voice called. "Wait she's telling the truth!" I opened my eyes to see my savior, a young warrior woman racing to us from the direction of my pack. She was carying a file folder that looked suspiciously like the ones we stock in the hospital. She quickly handed the alpha, Alpha Kian, the folder. "As soon as she gave birth to Lydan, her pack was attacked by a group of rogues and she hit her head extremely hard. She's been in a coma for the past two years, that's why we found her in the hospital."

'My son is alive? He made it? Jasper made it past that only to die on me two years later? Did my twins make it? It sounded like they did. And my little girl? Also yes, but my wolf is gone now.'

"Wait... what...?" My face must have turned green again because he shoved my head down and let me throw up in the snow again. In case you haven't noticed by now, I had a very weak stomach. I came up and maneuvered my head to wipe the saliva off on the shoulder of my hospital gown. I groaned loudly in confusion and pain, "What the fuck... My son made it... he's alive...? My baby?" I began to cry again.

"Well... well either way! You can't have my baby!"

"Alpha Kian, perhaps it would be best to let her son remain alive. He's innocent in all of this, and she's quite obviously not knowledgeable about what Jasper has done." My eyes locked on the speaking alpha. This one, now that I looked closer, I recognized as Alpha Quin. I swallowed thickly, praying to the moon goddess that my babies would be safe. I looked back at Alpha Kian with eyes full of hope, pain, fear, and desperation. "Please..." I begged. "I-I-I'll never tell Lydan about his father! He'll never know who he is! Please don't take my baby from me..."