Chapter 4: Hiding Up The Sleeves

Eloise’s POV

I could smell the strong fragrance of drugs in my nostrils. I haven’t used such senses for a while… 

Metals clanking everywhere and the rustling of leaves sent chills down my spine. Perhaps, am I awake again? In the ground where I was thrown away by Master Giovanni and Hannah? Am I… 

With the heaviness I was feeling, I forced my eyes to open. However, it was only that time that my gaze landed on white concrete, plain, and clean. I sure know this is not my room at all.

My head spun all around the chamber only to see that this looked like a hospital. The ambiance says otherwise. And the flowers on the bedside with the fruit basket proved my assumptions. How did I come in here? I am sure the Master would never bother wasting money on me anyway. I am sure he would just let me die without him spending a single penny for me.

My eyes fell on my hands and saw how all my cuts were already healing. The wounds that I have had from the last fight were nothing but scars now. The bruises have disappeared already and I’ve got my fair skin back. How many days have I been sleeping? If that is the case then… there must have been a person who made sure I would be safe.

The man that had saved me… I wonder where he is.

My stomach was already rumbling and I did not feel the need to eat fruits at all. I do not want to be a bother to medical workers so I stood up from my seat, grabbed the fluid attached to my body, and started walking.

I opened the door and was met by an empty hallway. Why am I expecting that there would be several people in here?

I passed by some empty rooms and immediately realized that maybe, it was just me on this floor. Alone, just like how everything started. 

Going in further, I saw a closed door and took a small peak only to realize that there was food inside. To my excitement, I tried searching in my pockets for a key only to touch a paper. 

I pulled it out and saw how it looked like a baby fetus in a mother’s womb. I stared at it blankly as I realized that the name written below the photograph was no other than Eloise Uriel Cromwell, me.

Am I… pregnant? Did the deed with the alpha have some results? I am sure it wouldn’t. We used every contraceptive we could ever have, there was no way for him and me to have a baby…

I was feeling nauseated by the news when I heard a woman crying in tears in a tone of gladness. “I am with a child?!” It was a very familiar voice that every single pain I had had in my life was already rushing back to me.

“You are going to be a father now, Cedrick!” It was Hannah. Happily announces her pregnancy with the alpha who probably went with her to check if the pregnancy was true. 

Suddenly, I am broken into pieces again. It could have been me, right? There is a chance, right? 

It is true that an omega and an alpha can never be together but it could have been me… with him, happily talking about my plans for this thing. But right now? I feel like I am just nothing. 

The door to the room opened and the physician saw me. Her eyes lighted in gladness as she called for me. “Oh? Are you awake already and walking? That is not good for the baby,” she said.

I had enough time to fly away from the scene but Hannah, considering how she is very glad, started acting strangely and asked me to go inside. “Hey! Why are you so shy? You’re not the only one pregnant anyway.” She said with her voice showing how much she is very delighted by the news.

I turned around, I had no choice. Her face turned sour and it looked like she just saw some ghost.

The alpha stared at me coldly and plainly as he tried to decipher the news. “Whose child is that?” Cedrick asked with his eyes piercing my stomach.

It seems like he already knew the answer but could not bring himself to absorb the truth. “I am asking you, whose baby are you carrying?” 

Tears moistened around the corners of my eyes as I tried to gather myself together. I still cannot forget how he just watched me slowly get killed by Hannah and her father. I still cannot forget his face as he looked at me while he was kissing Hannah in front of me. I still couldn’t get it all out of my head… I can’t seem to forgive him.

Just looking at them happily receiving the news makes me feel the need to puke. 

“Abort the child, right now,” Hannah ordered, which made me feel like I was being thrown into a pit of fire.

“What?!” I exclaimed. That is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. 

“You cannot keep that. Cedrick could only have one legitimate child in one Luna, have you lost your mind?!” Hannah rushed into me, grabbed both my shoulders, and dug her nails deeper into my skin. The way she looked at me with those angry eyes as she growled, showing her wolf, was enough to make me feel scared.

“It was a mistake having that night with you. Stop ridiculing yourself and I won’t acknowledge the child. Nobody should know that I have fucked around with an omega.” He affirmed as he massaged his temple, stressed about the revelation.

“What is it with omegas that you hate me so much…” I laughed wryly. I removed his hands from my shoulders as I tried to ask him what it is that I lack that he cannot bring himself to like me, to love me.

“What is it with me that you would rather ask me to kill an innocent child than make it up with me?”

My gaze met his blank stares, depicting he does not feel anything for me. Not even sympathy. 

Am I making myself a laughingstock? 

Tears rolled down my chin. What did I do to deserve this?