Chapter 5
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Beta Russo's phone rang for the second time for a call from Roscoe. While he was glancing at me, he slid the answer button and released an exasperated sigh before he put his phone up in his ear.
"My eyes are glued on her. I am the fastest in our pack too. There is no way she can escape me, Alpha. So, chill. We'll be back after an hour," Beta Russo assured Roscoe for the second time.
Russo slid the phone back on his jeans and grabbed the bottle of water that I offered to him earlier.
"Elodie Montgomery?" Said the nurse who peeked at the door of the clinic.
"It's me," I said, raising my hand.
She opened the door properly, came out of it, and offered the door for me to get inside for my prenatal check-up.
Beta Russo stood from the bench and stepped closer to me.
"Don't you dare do anything stupid such as trying to escape. You could try, but I promise you, you won't succeed so save yourself from the trouble, okay, Elodie?" Beta Russo whispered that I nodded my head. He popped a sarcastic smile before he let go of my arm, allowing me to follow the nurse inside of the clinic.
My heart twisted and churned the whole time I was inside the clinic and I didn't get to understand everything that my OB-GYN had told me about my pregnancy. All I know is that the baby is healthy and she expects me not to have a hard time during my first trimester.
"I'll see you again on your next appointment," the OB-GYN said at the end of the consultation.
"Y-Yes. I'll see you soon," I mumbled which was a lie and I felt like she knew that I was lying and had something up on my sleeves.
She reached for the telephone on her desk and I already knew that it was Alpha Roscoe whom she'd called. I walked out of her clinic faster.
When I saw Beta Russo pass out on the bench as a result of him drinking water that I spiked and drugged, I walked past him like we were strangers and ran straight out of the hospital.
"And then?" Daisy, my gay closeted friend followed up after I suddenly stopped talking about the day I escaped Alpha Roscoe which happened four years ago.
"And then after walking and running for hours. I finally came across you in the middle of the night while it was raining hard and you mistook me for a white lady," I said chuckling.
Alpha Roscoe failed to find me for four years which made me think that he could never do it and the reason why that traumatic night of my life became a little story that I can look back to now and laugh a little, but then each time I saw someone who have an icy blonde hair, my heart still skips a beat thinking that the formidable and wrathful Alpha and that fated mate of mine had found me.
Daisy poured wine into my glass and encouraged me to drink some more.
"You saved me, Daisy. Seriously, Atasha and I owe this life that we have now because you saved me the night before. If you didn't stop your car and take me in. Roscoe would have found me and I'd be d-dead by now." Feeling that tears would involuntarily fall from my eyes, I looked up to stop it from happening.
"Come here! My God, I am sorry I made you talk about that day. I should have known that it would make you this emotional," he said as he patted my back.
I pulled away from Daisy and sipped on my wine when my eyes landed on my phone and I saw it lighting up.
"s**t!" I cursed loudly and snatched my bag from the table after I saw tons of missed calls and text messages from Atasha's babysitter.
"Elodie girl, what happened?"
"I don't know, but I have to go. The babysitter said Atasha is sick and she had to bring her to the hospital," I mumbled worriedly. I took out my wallet to pay for our meals, but Daisy stopped me and instead, he dropped a couple of hundred dollars before he dragged me out of the restaurant.
Just when I was headed to the help desk, I saw Tiffany, Atasha's babysitter facing back and forth in front of the emergency room.
"What happened to my daughter?" I asked her in the middle of catching my breath.
"Ma'am Elodie, I am sorry. Atasha found a baby bottle that had spoiled milk and then she drank from it. Nothing had really happened yet, but still, I brought her to the emergency room just to be sure," she said.
I sat on the bench. Daisy sits next to me and caresses the small of my back.
"Tiffany did the right thing bringing Atasha to the hospital right away. Nothing will happen to her," Daisy comforted me.
I looked up to him and nodded my head with a hopeful gazes, but I still couldn't bring myself to calm down.
"Ma'am Elodie, if you'll fire me from my job after this, it's fine. I won't take it against you. I am really sorry," Tiffany said to me. I wanted to calm her down too, but when I looked up at her and saw a familiar black card, my mind went blank and I snatched it from her hand.
"Where did you get this card? How long have you been using Roscoe De Loughrey's credit card?" I asked, voice laced and dripping with dread.
"For three days now. You handed it to me last Monday to use to renew Atasha's membership in the play park. You told me to keep it and use it to pay for things that Atasha will need, but you were hangover that time that's why you can't remember, I guess."
I turned to Daisy and gripped his arm.
"I handed the wrong credit card to Tiffany. She's been using Roscoe's credit card to pay for Atasha's stuff." I gulped nervously.
"Daisy, we need to leave this town tonight," I said to him, then my world stopped spinning and I felt a chill down my spine when I felt a familiar presence behind me.
A few steps away from me stood Roscoe De Loughrey sweltering with anger. The day I dreaded has come. Roscoe finally finds me.
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