Alpha’s Pregnant Luna - Chapter 7: Chapter 7

Paula
I grimaced, my head was hammering painfully and I had no idea why it was happening. The only thing I knew was that I was in pain and wanted it to stop.
Slowly, distant voices coat my attention and I realized I was not alone. What was going on?
Groaning in pains, I turned my head to a side hoping to reduce the pain I was in. But it was useless. I discovered something like a cast was wrapped around my neck, it’s refrained me from turning my neck the way I wanted. However, as time passed by the voices I heard became clearer.
“She’s waking up,” I heard a soft and soothing deep male voice I had never heard before.
“Yes,” another calm male voice spoke up.
Where was I? That voice didn’t belong to Alpha Xayden or my father. They sounded strange even their accent was foreign to me. They most certainly were not from our pack.
Groaning, I try to pry my eyes open despite the pounding headache. However my eyelids felt too heavy for me and it was hard to open them.
“Easy, Miss,” the other voice cooed. “You hurt your neck badly, that’s why moving it the way you want would not be possible for a while.”
I hurt my neck? What had happened? I tried to rake through my memory in an attempt to understand what was going on with me. I remember running to ask my parents to save me from that monster. I remember him coming there to meet me and my stepmother denying me in front of him and my father leaving me despite my pleadings and cries.
Alpha Xayden began to take me back, I was shoved into the limo and I recall him saying he was going to have sex with me that night. To me that was torture, I felt beyond horrified, I couldn’t let him brutalize me again like he did every night when I wished I could just die.
I remember his words calling me worthless, I just couldn’t deal with my family’s rejection and all of the hurts I faced so I pretended that I wanted to use the restroom, ran to the forest and arranged dried woods and tied a rope around my neck hoping to die and leave this brutal and hostile world forever.
I really wish I wasn’t born.
The fall! I can remember the rope cutting and me falling to the ground. I was supposed to be dead right? Wait don’t tell me he found me?
No! Please, I begged to whatever goddess cared to listen.
The throbbing in my head increased as I tried to think, making me grimace.
The memories of my last moment flooded back to me; it was as though I could still feel my hair being yanked from my head.
I felt my heart sink at those painful memories. My father turned his back on me when I needed him most; he allowed me to suffer hell in the hands of that beast Xayden. I’d rather die than go back to him.
They were all right; I was worthless.
I felt my tears seep through my eyelashes, rolling from the corners of my eyes, dripping onto where I was lying. Gradually, I regained enough strength to open my eyes, but I had to close them back from the blinding lights.
I looked around again after my eyes had finally adjusted. Everything in the room was sparkling white; the sheets and walls looked pure and stainless.
Maybe I was dead after all; I thought before my eyes landed on the figure of a cold, intimidating male. He looked like a stranger but strangely familiar at the same time…
Wait a sec; the realization hit me like a moving train; he was the same man; I remember his deep blue eyes and soothing voice. His arms wrapped around my body when I fell from the tree.
I thought he was an angel because he looked too good to be confirmed.
I felt such a crazy magnetism towards him for the few seconds I could remember that night, and I still felt it as my eyes trained on his sculptured face.
“You’re…?” I asked, trying to force myself up, but he gently pushed me back to the bed.
“I’m Alpha Frankie, the person who saved you.” he drawled, and I didn’t know if he was serious or joking. “No need to thank me though, how are you feeling?” he sounded cocky, like I asked to be saved.
I wanted to say many things, but the words refused to form; I looked at him before lowering my gaze to my finger, which I entwined and started playing with. I wanted to ask why he decided to allow me to continue suffering or why he felt like he should save me. Now I’m no longer safe, and Alpha Xayden will find me very soon.
“Why didn’t you just leave me to die?” I asked with a sob, and I watched his face morph into confusion. He was probably confused by my utterance.
“Wait, what?”
His expression showed me he wasn’t expecting my comeback at all. I knew he wouldn’t have left someone to die when he could save them, but I wished he had turned a blind eye in my case. I just wished he let me die and I’d be free forever.
“Why would I go into the deepest part of the forest if I wanted to be saved? Why wouldn’t you just let me die? Now he’s going to find me, and he will kill me himself. He’s going to hit me till I feel numb over and over again. Why did you prolong my suffering?” I could feel myself going hysterical as more tears rolled out of my eyes. I was screaming now, but I didn’t care.
“Hey, you have to calm down, or you’ll hurt yourself further,” he tried to coo me with his therapeutic voice, but I was already losing it. I was beyond what he could help; no one could save me from Alpha Xayden. I knew it, and he would know it too.
“Why do you care!?” I tried moving away from him but was too weak, I looked around to see if there was anyone in the room, but it was just the both of us in the big hospital-looking room.
Fear seized me as I remembered the things I went through in the hands of the last male I was with. Maybe this one had come to make me his prisoner and sex slave again. Perhaps this one would hit me with iron or, worse, have fun drinking my blood.
“Why would someone so beautiful and bright want to take her own life? That was what I thought when I saved you.” he gazed at me intently like he was trying to understand something.
I wanted to say something to him, but I could only sob quietly; this was my reality now. Arguing with him won’t solve a thing. I needed to find a way to kill myself properly.
“Is that enough reason to save someone who wants to die?” my voice sounded calmer now.
“Well, I shouldn’t need too much reason to save a life, should I?”
He asked, and I closed my eyes, replaying his words again and again as he called me beautiful and bright. No one had ever called me that in my entire life. I wanted to bask in the euphoria but remembered that he didn’t know me, and those words could be a trap.
“You have a beautiful daughter.” those were the exact words Alpha Xayden said before taking me from my father.
“Which brings me to my next question, why were you trying to kill yourself?” his expression was serious, and it made me look away.
That was the same question; I thought as I tried to blink back the tears threatening to spill. I would never act weak in front of any man again as long as I lived, I promised myself silently.
“And I said again; it’s none of you damn business.” I drew a long breath, hoping he wouldn’t notice the emotions laced in them and shocked at how I replied to him.
A trip to the land of death must have added more guts to my gullet.
“Well, I believe my mate’s business is mine as well, don’t you think?”
It took me about a minute to comprehend what he was saying, and it left my mouth agape, throwing me off guard completely.
Did this drop-dead gorgeous sculpture from the skies just call me his mate, or was I suddenly hearing things?