The two line
1397 Words
I woke up with the sharp smell of antiseptic burning my nose and slowly pulling me back to life. The white ceiling stared back at me, emotionless, like it watched pain every single day and had become numb to it. Soft beeping filled the room, gentle but annoying, reminding me that I was still breathing, still alive, still forced to face this world.
I tried to move, but a weight held me down.
A tube was attached to my arm, cold liquid dripping into my veins.
For a moment, I didn’t remember collapsing.
Didn’t remember who touched me last.
Didn’t remember who saw me on the floor.
Then everything rushed back, stabbing my chest with reality.
Damon.
Selene.
Pregnancy.
My heart squeezed so tight I thought it would burst.
Elly’s voice came instantly, sharp like claws dragging across my heart.
“I told you to leave him, I told you from the start. Look at where he dragged us “
She wasn’t gentle this time.
She wasn’t soft.
She sounded wounded and furious at once.
And she was right.
“I know.”
My voice cracked like broken glass.
“You have always been right about him.”
A tear slid down the side of my face and disappeared into the pillow.
My voice shook again.
“Maybe it’s time to leave… I can’t… I can’t take this anymore.”
The pain inside didn’t feel like heartbreak alone.
It felt like betrayal, shame, humiliation, and loss mixed into one bitter poison.
Damon allowing another woman to carry what could have been mine?
Allowing her to mock me?
Letting the whole pack whisper about me?
It tore something inside.
It killed the little hope that had been holding on.
Elly’s voice softened, just a little.
“You finally realize”.
She sighed in my soul, like even she was tired of being strong for me.
“So are we going back home?”
Home.
I almost laughed.
A broken, painful laugh that didn’t even escape my lips.
Home died when my mother died.
Home became a battlefield the day my father remarried her sister.
Home was where love turned to cruelty and my tears dried up because crying made them laugh.
“No,” I whispered firmly.
“I can’t go back home.”
I would rather sleep under a bridge than go back to that Luna.
To that woman who looked at me as competition for my father’s love.
To that pack that watched me become unwanted.
Elly went quiet, accepting.
Then I heard footsteps and a gentle voice.
“Hi ma’am, you’re finally awake.”
I turned slightly.
The doctor smiled like he didn’t just see someone whose heart had shattered hours ago.
“Good evening,” I murmured, wiping my cheek.
“How long have I been here?”
“Four hours.”
Four hours unconscious.
For four hours my soul floated somewhere dark and peaceful.
Four hours I wished I had never woke up.
“Who brought me?” I asked quietly.
“A group of your pack members,” he said, checking my chart.
“They said you collapsed.”
Of course.
People who watched.
People who probably whispered.
Poor Luna.
Damon embarrassed her again.
She fainted because of heartbreak.
Or worse,
Selene must be winning.
I swallowed hard, forcing the thought away.
Then the doctor looked at me again with a smile too bright for a hospital room.
“Congratulations.”
I blinked, confused.
My brain froze.
“For what?”
I whispered.
“You’re one month gone.”
I stared at him.
Gone where?
Gone how?
My heart jumped painfully when his words finally registered.
“You’re pregnant.”
Pregnant.
The air left my lungs.
I couldn’t feel my heartbeat.
I couldn’t feel my body.
Pregnant?
My fingers trembled where they rested on the blanket.
I stared at the doctor like he had spoken a different language.
“Preg… what?” I breathed.
He nodded calmly.
“When you arrived, we ran a test before treatment. You’re one month pregnant.”
Silence crashed over me.
Heavy.
Cold.
Wild.
“No…”
My voice shook.
“I can’t be pregnant…”
My chest tightened.
Tears slipped again without permission.
I am pregnant.
With Damon’s child.
The man who ignored our bond.
The man carrying someone else’s child is rumored to be proud.
I pressed a hand to my stomach.
A small life was growing there.
A life conceived out of love, but now surrounded by chaos.
What kind of world am I bringing a child into?
A world where it's father didn’t choose us?
A world where the second woman gloats and mocks?
Elly spoke softly, a different tone now, hopeful.
“Relax, let's think. A life is growing inside us. A seed is inside you”
My heart twisted.
I love children.
I always wanted pups.
But not like this.
Not at the price of my soul.
“What are we thinking?” I whispered-hissed at her, tears falling again.
“This is not sweet news.”
Elly didn’t shrink.
She lifted her head proudly.
“We are wolves, we are mothers, this pup is ours first. No one will take our cub away”
My breath trembled.
My chest hurt.
Pain, fear, hope, anger, everything mixed.
“What is happening to my life?” I whispered again, wiping tears that wouldn’t stop.
Why now?
Why when I finally decided to walk away?
Why when my heart is bleeding?
I hugged myself.
Silence filled the room.
Then the doctor cleared his throat.
“We will need to watch your stress level. It affects the baby.”
Baby.
The word echoed and crushed me again.
He smiled gently and stepped out.
The door clicked shut.
And I was alone.
Alone with a heartbeat that wasn’t only mine anymore.
My fingers dug into the blanket.
My breathing shook.
Everything inside me screamed.
I wasn’t ready.
But life didn’t care.
My vision blurred.
I pressed my palm on my belly again, a life.
My life.
Our life.
The door stayed closed.
Nobody came in.
Just silence, and the soft beeping of the machine beside me.
I wiped my eyes again and tried to sit up slowly.
Then I heard movement outside the ward, faint, very faint.
Normal ears wouldn’t have heard it, but my wolf blood sharpened mine.
Footsteps.
Whispering.
A voice I would recognize even in death.
Selene.
“…so she fainted? Did she… die?” she asked in a low tone, curiosity mixed with annoyance, not concern.
I clenched my jaw.
She wasn’t checking on me.
She was checking if fate had cleared her path.
Another whisper, the nurse replying softly,
“No, Luna… she is stable.”
Luna.
They already address her like that.
My title was slipping from my hands while I lay here.
Selene hissed quietly.
“Hmph. Tell me when she leaves this hospital. I don’t want her causing drama tomorrow.”
Tomorrow.
My birthday.
She didn’t even want me alive enough to see it without problems.
Their footsteps faded, and the hall grew silent again.
But my heart wasn’t silent.
It roared.
Not in sadness this time, in fire.
Elly snapped inside me,
“If she wanted us dead, she would not get her wish”
I placed my hand gently over my stomach, trembling.
There’s a life inside me.
A life Selene doesn’t know about.
A life I must protect with my last breath.
Fear washed over me, but behind it, something else rose slowly…
Strength. Determination.
Maybe the Moon Goddess didn’t curse me.
Maybe she armed me.
I whispered under my breath, voice weak but full of promise:
“I don’t care how hurt I am.
I will not break here.
Not again.
Not for anyone.”
The monitor beside me beeped slower, steadying with my heartbeat.
I took a shaky breath.
I didn’t know what tomorrow would bring.
I didn’t know how I would survive Damon, or Selene, or the entire pack once they found out.
But tonight…
Tonight I knew one thing clearly:
I am not alone anymore.
And for the first time in days, I closed my eyes, not from pain, but from purpose.
And as I drifted, a single thought echoed through me like an oath carved in stone:
They will not break me….and they will never touch my child.
- Writer
