The Deal With Her Alpha

Chapter 9

Vivian.

I was worried sick. What had the doctor seen that had caused such a commotion? What was wrong with the baby? Or me possibly.

I wanted to go and look for him and asked him to tell me because curiosity was killing me. I managed to stay in my room for a long time but once it was getting dark, I couldn't wait any longer, so I forced my body to get up, and I made my way to the door. I really had to find out what was happening. After all, it was my baby even though it said on the contract that it was his, I was still the mother and I needed to know what was happening to my baby.

I left the room and started on my way to Axel's room, which was just a few meters from mine and in no time I was in front of the room, but just as I raised my hand to knock, I heard someone make a noise inside, and it was unmistakable what the sound was. He was with someone in there. A woman because of the types of noises that I was hearing.

I should have turned around and walked out immediately, but I stood there for a few minutes longer, listening to the moans and grunts that I started and even making out which one belonged to either of them. I was feeling some type of way and I couldn't understand why I was even feeling anything at all. As the sounds reached my ears, it felt as if my heart was being crushed by something hard and I had to remind myself that I had no right to be feeling how I was feeling about him being with another woman, because there was nothing between us except for the fact that I was nothing but a baby making machine to him and nothing else.

I stayed there for a little longer before I finally had the strength to leave the door and walk back to my room, still hoping and wishing that nothing was wrong with the baby or me. I got to my room and I found it hard to fall asleep no matter how much I tried, but my mind was elsewhere and the only way I could get any sleep was if I found out what the doctor had found out and told Axel. Why had he not even said anything to me? It was very disrespectful to me, but I couldn't say anything because I was accorded no respect at all. I was more like a slave who was pregnant with his child than the mother of his child.

I could not remember when I fell asleep, but as I opened my eyes to the early sunrise and the warmth of something beside me and I looked around the room lazily my heart almost jumped out of my chest when I saw Axel sleeping right beside me, or I thought he was sleeping because immediately I turned to face him fully, he opened his eyes. Our eyes met, and it felt as though everything else disappeared from the surface of the earth, and it was only us that existed in that space and time.

Whether it was the mate bond or just me wanting it, I found myself leaning in, and before I knew what was happening, our lips met and everything became a blur. My head only filled with him and his scent. It happened so fast, the cloth pulling and soon the last thing I remembered was falling into a deep slumber in his arms. I woke up alone and I found myself naked. Where had he disappeared to? Had he just found a way to use me again as he wished? I stood up from the bed and walked to the bathroom to ease myself and when I came out I noticed a piece of paper sticking out from the side of the table and I went to see what it was.

To my surprise, it was a little note from no other person than Axel himself. I felt my heart melting at the fact that he had been thoughtful enough to leave a note for me since I had been sleeping. The note was short and kind of sweet. He said that he had to go somewhere urgently and that I could also leave my room if I wanted to, but only after my checkup with the doctor. He was finally breaking my grounding and I didn't even feel excited about it because it wasn't as if I had any strength to actually leave the room.

My day went the usual way with the maids bringing my food to me and then the doctor came for the checkup, and we went on in our usual silence competition until he finished and left. I hardly remember what happened after that because it seemed like he gave me an injection that was sleep-inducing, and I was slipping in and out of sleep.

On one occasion when I was awake for a few minutes before crashing back into a deep slumber, I felt the room door open and someone walked in. From the smell that filled my nose, I knew it was Axel, and he joined me on the bed. My nights continued to go that way, with Axel coming in every night to sleep and cuddle with me. On some nights he was very caring, and we were intimate, but on some, all he did was hold me tenderly and caress my body. I started noticing that I was sleeping more peacefully, and it was all because of his presence with me every night, even though I started to wish that he would spend the days with me too, but then I knew that that was me asking for too much and I should already be content with the little I was getting at least. Axel, on one night, said that back on that day, he couldn't bring himself to do anything with the lady because he could only think of me. Every night since then, I found myself looking forward to him coming into the room and my heart would expand each time I heard the door creak open at night, and today I found myself blushing just imagining him coming again tonight, and I couldn't help but wonder. Was this the work of my hormones and mate bond, or was I starting to like the man who trapped me here?