88. You're all that I have

[Layla’s POV]

The sound of the knock came again and again as I slowly opened my eyes to a new day.

My body ached and I felt sore all over as I yawned and rubbed my eyes tiredly. I had cried myself to sleep last night, and not once had the Alpha come to check up on me. He was tired of my tantrums, I got it.

Gazing at my sad reflection in the small mirror next to my bed, I heaved a sigh. Perhaps, it was time I came to terms with the fact that happiness wasn’t in the list of ingredients I had been created with, and just stop focusing so greatly on having a child and being a burden to everyone around me who I could tell were already tired of my whining.

Knock! Knock!

“Who is there?” I asked in a faint voice.

“It’s me, your highness,” Michaela responded.

I was so torn apart that I couldn’t even figure out that she had been the one there.

“Go away,” I said, closing my eyes as though I would rather fall into another deep slumber yet again.

After the cleansing ceremony yesterday, I had just r