I'm Pregnant For Him
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ARIA'S POV
Finally, I had fallen into a trap. I should have heeded Axel's warning. But the whole moment seemed too good for it to be a sham; the few special moments had obliterated all the sufferings I had encountered all these eyes.
And here I am, back to the dungeon. Was it Lyra or Kael? Which of them posed the idea of throwing me into this pit?
Suddenly, something hard, really hard hit my head and I lost it.
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I have been here for approximately two weeks. I was served twice a day, so I had calculated the days each time two meals were brought in. For fourteen days, I have eaten twenty-eight meals in this dungeon.
I was fed against my wish always. Seems like I was still needed alive. I was losing it slowly. My sense of smell was completely gone.
The strong metallic lock jangling made me snap out of my thoughts. It had just been a few minutes ago. I had eaten a meal. What else do they want from me?
"Aria. Are you still alive?" The stranger seemed to distort his voice. I couldn't decipher whose voice it was, but I was in dire need of his help. Regardless of who it was.
He loosed the chain on my wrist, both of them. I fell helplessly to the ground. There wasn't any part of my body I could lift by myself right now. I felt paralyzed.
I couldn't even answer him with a nod, I just stood there; my eyes were widely opened, but they saw nothing but darkness.
He carried me, wrapping me in the warmth of his body. His arms were fully around me. He reminded me of someone I knew, but I couldn't inhale his scent.
Walking out of the dungeon was easy, we were not obstructed by any guards; he must have cleared them all when he was coming.
The breeze that flashed through my whole body made me know we were fully out of the dungeon. Tears drizzled down my cheek as I thought of whom had ordered me to be locked up, and why. I was quite in oblivion.
He placed me gently in the passenger seat of his sleek black car. We rode down the road as I curled there, shivering nervously.
The sudden halt made my heart skip a beat. My heartbeat proliferated as the stranger carried me out, off to his house. Did we spend the night in the car? It was already morning.
What a dinky little home! The house seemed more like a hut, all that modern-style hut. I couldn't utter anything at the moment, so I kept all the questions bothering me within myself.
I had become delirious and couldn't recognize the figure that stood in front of me even though the blur in my eyes had dissipated. It seems I've developed a brain disease - dementia.
He stood up, gazing through the little aluminum window frame. I knew something was going on within him, like he was finding it hard to tell me something.
Finally, I think he had mustered up some courage. "It had been announced. The installment of Kael as the Alpha is imminent." As if a dark power came out with those words, my memories came back, flooding back into my head.
Gosh, I think I was better off without it!
I gawped at him like he was my mate that had rejected me, after deceiving me. "Axel Blackwood." I whispered softly. Tears I couldn't control forced themselves out as I spoke his name.
He prowled around the room.
"Why is Kael still keeping you here? Your time here as hostage has lapsed already." I don't know why I was saying this. I just felt he could tell me what was on his mind.
Like he had been waiting for me to ask him, "Of course I should have gone back to claim my right to the Shadowclaw pack. But even though I'm stuck here, I'm not so blind to the obstacles which those scoundrels hurled upon my return to the pack!" I couldn't digest his words into anything meaningful.
"Those?" I asked uncertainly.
"My brother, James, had ganged up with Kael to make sure I did not come back until he became the Alpha in my place." His face became teary, and I quickly felt sorry for him.
"But if a provoked houseboy cannot match his wicked master's strength, he maims the master's favorite goat!" His gaze bored into mine and I felt nervous.
"I don't know what you're thinking, but I'm not his favorite. He had only used me, you were right earlier." He nodded slowly. I felt a bang in my chest as I had to admit to that.
I managed to maintain a facade of indifference. The memories were coming back in torrents. Fresh. Like it had just happened.
"I know. Try not to clutter your mind with trivia. Especially matters that concern me." I wasn't really worried about him. I was just worried about what might transpire between him and Kael. And how it would affect Kael.
"I have news for you. And I don't know if it would be good or bad for you." I glared at him. My heart skipped a beat.
"Is it good or bad.... for you?" I asked, forcing a smile.
"Bad." My eyeballs felt heavy at the mention of 'bad'. I was so worried.
"Did something bad happen to Kael?" He pulled a wry smile when I asked him.
Without wasting time. Without making me want to know more. Without making me think further about what happened to Kael, he blurted out, "You're pregnant."
I could feel my jaw drop like it was elastic. Axel wasn't a teaser, but this could not possibly be true.
"How... How did you find out?" I asked, my words staggering, but I struggled to push them out.
"When I brought you here last night, you had a high fever. I had to call in a doctor. He felt your pulse and told me you were pregnant."
I had not gathered myself from the shock, I was still assimilating what I had heard when the second bomb came in. "You have to calm down for now to make sure you do not lose your children to miscarriage."
My eyes flew open. "CHILDREN!!!"
"Yes, Aria. You're having twins." Now, I can't really believe him anymore.
"You can't be serious." My heart pounded, and I could hear it by my own self.
But, shouldn't this be good news? If Kael knows I'm pregnant with his baby. No, babies. What would it change?
"I know what you're thinking about. Don't go there at all." He muttered, furrowing his eyebrows.
"What was I thinking?" I asked, meeting his intense gaze.
"Going back to Kael and tell him you're carrying his babies. Don't you think he will pretend to love you again and dump you after he snatches his babies from you?" His voice was harsh. I rubbed my tummy as I thought of protecting my babies from any danger.
I know he had no interest in me, but I think I should at least try for our children. Perhaps he'll rethink and reconsider the rejection. After all, as the father, he does have the right to know about them.
A glimmer of hope rose within me. Axel knew I was nowhere thinking of his advice, "Don't be a fool. Rather than going back to him sheepishly, we can make him crawl back to you. We can make him regret ever rejecting you and come back pleading for your love." His voice seemed more like a whisper, but at least audible enough.
Can I really make Kael forsake Lyra and crawl back to my feet begging for a se
cond chance? I rubbed my tummy once again.
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