The Abandoned Child of Blu Pearl

Chapter 7

Time jump 1 year

“Push Emily! You can do this, push!” Anna says as she is at the foot of my bed waiting to catch my pup. I push with everything I have and that’s when I felt the weight plop out of me. I sit up so I can get a better look, when I hear the cries.

“It’s a boy! Tell Malakai to come quick!” Joseph yells at the guards. Malakai has his block up because he doesn’t want to be bother by such inconveniences as my giving birth to his pup.

“Let me hold him.” I tell Anna, and she smiles and goes to give him to me. Johnathon stops her, “No.” is all he says and she frowns.

“What do you mean no! He’s mine! Give him to me!” I sit up and he shoves me back down, “No! Malakai will be the first to hold him, you will be lucky if he allows you to be around him at all! We have a wetnurse waiting for his call. I got to protest when he walks in. He looks at my state and looks in disgust, “You couldn’t clean her up before I came here, woman?” he yells as Anna, and she backs away.

“I’m sorry, I did not know you would come so soon.” He scoffs and looks at the pup in her arms.

“Give me my son.” He says and my blood boils. I watch him as he smiles at his son and walks out the door.

“I need you to push a little more. We have to deliver the placenta.” Anna tells me.

She stares at me with a knowing look, “I will see what I can do, but right now I need you to help me. If we do not get this out it will be very bad.” She says as she pushes on my stomach.

It’s been a whole day since I gave birth, I have not been able to sleep, with mourning the loss of my son. I feared I would not be able to see him again. As I am tossing and turning I hear the door open and a small whimper. I sit up in my bed as Anna comes around with a blanket in her hands. “How?” I ask and she shakes her head.

“Do not ask questions, just be happy that this is possible.” I nod and smile at her as she hands me my pup.

I take the blanket in my arms and the bond I feel towards my baby boy is immediate. I knew by looking upon his little face that I would do anything to protect him. I would lay down my life for this bundle in my arms. It’s funny how things have played out for me, but this pup is the innocent one in this situation. Hating him would be like hating myself, and I will not do that. I start humming that song Anna always sings around me. He moves ab it in my arms and I smile. I lean in and smell the top of his head; he smells so heavenly. The new baby smell is addicting. I find myself smelling him over and over again. I kiss his tiny hands and he smiles at me, my heart melts. I am in love with him, this little boy has my heart.

I stare down at him wondering what kind of life he will live, when he wakes up and opens his eyes. I gasp, his eyes are blue. No wolfs eyes are blue unless touched by the goddess herself. I smiled widely and sent a silent thank you to the sky. Hours pass by and I am wondering when he will be taken from me again, but nobody ever comes.

Days turn into weeks, weeks turn into months, and months turn into years.

It’s been about 4 years since Roman was born, Malakai comes and takes him every morning for training, but he does come back to me every night. Over the last couple of years, I have learned to keep my head down around Malakai and I stay clear of where he is for the most part. Roman walks around my little room playing dragons and knights, while I fold the laundry. I am allowed to leave now at my own will, after trying to escape twice I had learned my lesson, 7 broken bones and a torture session from the highest bidder, had definitely put me in my place. I’m putting the last of the clothes up when Anna walks in.

“I am sorry little guy but it’s bath time.” I look at her confused and she gives me a curt smile and I know, something is happening that I will not like.

“Aww, but I am pwaying! Pweezzz!” he begs as he looks to me.

“Roman, why don’t you let the dragon rest, and you go fight the big bad sea monster?” he thinks for a moment and then claps his hands.

“You are right mommy! I go fight the ugly sea hag!” he yells as he holds up his plastic sword and runs towards the bathroom. We both giggle as we watch him disappear.

“What is it?” I ask her quickly.

“Malakai is coming to see you. He wants you to be prepared for him for when he arrives. He gave me strict orders to tell you to be clean, and bare.” She rolls her eyes.

“He will be coming shortly, please don’t keep him waiting. He said um..” she trails off and I look at her knowingly. This is not the first time he has come to see me, he sends in a guard to ‘Prepare’ me for him. He wants to be in an out as quickly as possible. I tried to fight the guards once, you can imagine how that ended for me. So now, I have to give in. There is more at stake here than just me. He could take Roman away from me, and I can’t have that. So, I do as he says. He wants another son, one to take over when Roman can’t anymore. After Roman takes his quick bath he tells me he defeated the ugly sea hag and the world is safe, Anna takes him to the bed and reads him a story while I go take a shower. I make sure to scrub every part of me and put on his favorite scent.

I pull on my robe and step out of the bathroom. To my surprise Roman is sound asleep. Anna is flipping through some pages of a book, and she looks up and smiles at me.

“You can do this.”

“I’ll be right back.” I give one last look at Roman and walk out into the hallway.

The guard from that night is by my door, he looks at me and smiles. “Evening Ma’am.” He leads me down the hall.

“I haven’t seen you in a while, I thought something happened to you.” He smiles widely.

“I had some business I needed to attend too, but I assure you, I am not going anywhere.” He touches my arm and a warm feeling travels up into my heart.

The pain has not gone away, it’s a nagging ache that never stops, I have just gotten used to living my life with it. I can feel it when he is with someone else. The pain becomes a fire, and it burns my whole body, my mark starts pulsating and nothing will stop it until he is finished with whoever he is with.

“This is the door.” He stops and opens it. I walk in to Johnathon eagerly awaiting me. I shiver at the thought of him touching me but I have no choice any more.

“I’ll need your robe, I’m sorry.” He says where only I can hear him. I nod my head take a breath and walk into the room.

“I’ve been waiting for my turn, this has been worth the wait.” He says as I descend onto the bed and spread my legs. I turn off all emotion as I feel him placing kisses on my thighs. A numbness takes over and I shut out everything that is happening to me. I’m doing this for Roman, all for him. He can not grow up with only Malakai and his puppets raising him. My pup will not turn out to be one in their pawn.