The alpha I hated

Chapter 25:The unexpected revelation

NOAH'S POV

I stared at Lucien, trying to process what he had just told me. Most of my pack was dead. The creatures were surrounding us. And we were running out of time.

"We need to move now," Alex said, checking his weapons. "Before they decide to attack the house."

"Wait," Maya said, looking at Daisy with concern. "Something's wrong."

I turned to look at Daisy, and my heart stopped. She had gone completely pale, and her breathing was becoming shallow and rapid.

"What's happening to her?" I asked, rushing to her side.

Pyritha's voice came from Daisy's lips, but it sounded weak and strained.

"Something is... changing," she said. "Something I didn't expect."

Daisy's eyes rolled back in her head, and she collapsed onto the bed, unconscious.

"Daisy!" I shouted, shaking her gently. "Daisy, wake up!"

But she didn't respond. Her skin was getting paler by the second, and her pulse was getting weaker.

"Get Dr. Martinez back here," I ordered Elder Sarah. "Now!"

"I'm already here," came a voice from the doorway. Dr. Martinez had heard the commotion and was hurrying into the room with his medical bag.

"What happened?" he asked, immediately checking Daisy's vital signs.

"She just collapsed," I said. "She was talking, and then she just fell unconscious."

Dr. Martinez pulled out his stethoscope and listened to Daisy's heartbeat. His face went from concerned to confused to completely shocked.

"That's impossible," he whispered.

"What's impossible?" I demanded.

"I'm hearing two heartbeats," he said, looking up at me with wide eyes.

"Two heartbeats?" I repeated.

"One strong, one very faint and very fast," he said. "Like..."

He stopped talking and started examining Daisy more carefully, pressing gently on her stomach and checking her pulse in different places.

"Dr. Martinez," I said impatiently. "What is it?"

He looked up at me with an expression I had never seen on his face before. Complete amazement mixed with disbelief.

"Noah," he said slowly, "she's pregnant."

The room went completely silent.

"What did you just say?" I asked, sure I had misheard.

"She's pregnant," he repeated. "About six weeks along, from what I can tell. She's carrying your child."

I felt like the world had stopped spinning. Pregnant. Daisy was pregnant with my baby.

"But that's impossible," Elias said. "She's a hybrid. Everyone knows hybrids can't have children."

"Apparently, everyone is wrong," Dr. Martinez said. "Because she's definitely pregnant."

I sank down into the chair next to the bed, trying to wrap my mind around this news. Daisy was pregnant. We were going to have a baby. In the middle of all this chaos and danger, something wonderful was happening.

But then I realized what this meant for our plan.

"She can't go to the Void Cavern now," I said. "Not if she's carrying my child."

"The pregnancy might be why she collapsed," Dr. Martinez said. "The stress of hosting Pyritha, combined with the physical changes of early pregnancy, might have been too much for her body to handle."

That's when something strange happened.

The white light in Daisy's eyes flickered one more time, and Pyritha's voice came out, but it sounded different. Weaker. More distant.

"The child," she whispered. "The child is... special."

"What do you mean special?" I asked.

"I can feel it," Pyritha said. "Growing inside her. It has power. More power than anything I've ever encountered."

"What kind of power?"

"Pure power," Pyritha said, her voice getting fainter. "The kind that comes from the combination of Alpha and hybrid bloodlines. The kind that can..."

Her voice trailed off, and the white light in Daisy's eyes went out completely.

For a moment, Daisy's eyes were just closed. Normal. Human-looking.

Then they opened, and they were brown again. Her normal, beautiful brown eyes.

"Noah?" she said weakly. "What happened?"

I took her hand and squeezed it gently.

"You're okay," I said. "You're going to be okay."

"I feel different," she said, trying to sit up. "Like something changed inside me."

Dr. Martinez helped her sit up slowly.

"Daisy," he said gently, "I need to tell you something. You're pregnant."

She stared at him for a long moment, then looked at me.

"Pregnant?" she repeated.

"With my child," I said, smiling despite everything that was happening around us.

Tears started forming in Daisy's eyes, but they were happy tears.

"Really?" she whispered.

"Really," I said.

She threw her arms around my neck and hugged me tightly.

"I can't believe it," she said. "After everything that's happened, something good is finally happening."

But then she pulled back and looked around the room with confusion.

"Wait," she said. "Where's Pyritha? I can't hear her voice anymore."

"She's gone," Alex said. "When you collapsed, the white light in your eyes disappeared."

"Gone?" Daisy asked. "But how is that possible?"

Maya walked over to the bed and looked at Daisy carefully.

"I think," she said slowly, "the baby pushed her out."

"The baby?"

"Think about it," Maya said. "You're carrying the child of an Alpha werewolf. And you're a hybrid with vampire and werewolf blood. That combination has never existed before."

"So?"

"So the child you're carrying might have power that even ancient goddesses can't fight against," Alex said.

As if to prove his point, we suddenly heard a strange sound from outside. Not the roaring and screeching we had been hearing from the creatures. Something different.

Something like... whimpering?

I walked to the window and looked out, not believing what I was seeing.

The creatures surrounding our territory were backing away. Not running, exactly, but moving slowly backward, like something was pushing them away from the house.

"What's happening to them?" Elder Sarah asked, joining me at the window.

"They're afraid," Lucien said, his golden eyes wide with amazement. "I can smell their fear from here."

"Afraid of what?"

That's when I felt it. A strange warmth spreading through the air. Not the burning heat that had come from Pyritha, but something gentler. Something protective.

The warmth seemed to be coming from Daisy.

I turned around and saw that she was glowing. "Daisy," I said carefully, "are you doing that?"

She looked down at herself and seemed surprised to see the glow.