Zoey's POV
I had no idea how long it's been since I passed out but the next moment I open my eyes , I am on the hospital and a lot of machines are beeping around me.
"Tilly?" I asked a little bit scared and my heart hurts when she is not answering me.
"Shhht" someone whispers. "You are fine now."
Fine? I don't want to be fine! I scream in my mind.
I want to save Nana and now I have no chance to do it anymore.
I open my eyes slowly and I blink a few times as there is so much light in the hospital's ward.
"Don't worry" the same voice tells me softly.
"You are in the hospital." and then reality hit me.
I was sent to the hospital?
How the hell am I going to pay for the bills? I can't pay the bills for Nana and now there are other bills to pay?
I am doomed.
I push the hospital sheets and try to get out of the bed, but two arms are keeping me in my place.
"Hey, you are still wounded." the woman says, and I lift my eyes just to see a girl staring at me.
Rose Mayer?
Why is she here? She doesn't know that her brother did all of this to me?
At the mere thought of this, the pain of being hurt by my mate floods over me like a tidal wave, and my heart starts pounding madly.
"Will you calm down , please?" she asks me in a soft voice.
She never hurt me all these years no matter how much the rumors humiliated me, but like her brother, she didn't want to see me and kept avoiding me.
But why the hell is she here?
"I need to go" I tell her and try to find a way to run out from here.
"You need to recover or you will faint again." she tells me and motioned to me to get in the bed, but I shake my head.
"No. I need to be at home." and I am thinking of Nana who must be scared for not being at home until now.
I take Rose's hand and push it away and untie myself from her grip and looking around I see that my clothes are wrapped on a chair in the corner of the ward.
"You scared my brother, '' she says softly, "He brought you here all by himself. I have never seen him so scared since our parents died."
I stop for a second and take a deep breath.
Tristan is scared? Isn't my death exactly what he wants?
He fears something, I presume he's afraid that I'll die too easily.
I have no time to argue with her; now that the original plan has failed, my priority is to return home—Nana needs me.
"You mean since I killed them." and I pull the zip of my jeans and start to wear my t-shirt.
"Did you really kill them?" Rose asks me back and I stop in my tracks.
"Isn't that what everybody says?" I asked her and looked at her calmly for the first time I woke up here.
"I want to hear you say it." and now she is serious. "I only believe you."
My mouth went dry and I turned my face and looked outside.
Shit, it's still raining.
Alright, I don't know why, but this time, I want to believe in the girl before me.
"How could a thirteen year old girl kill the Alpha and the beta pairs?" I ask her.
No sooner had I spoken than I saw her furrowed brows relax, her lips slightly upturned as she asked, "So, what happened that day? Can you tell me everything?"
I averted my gaze and said softly, "Do you believe it? I don't even know what happened myself. It was such a rainy day that I lost any sense of smell and got lost in the forest. Four of them came looking for me. But when I saw them, they were dead! That's all. But I've been a murderer ever since."
Also since then, I have been humiliated by her dear brother who would not reject me or accept me.
He fucked my entire existence. He made me live like a rogue and made the pack hate me. He did this to me the moment he believed the Reynolds family, when they called me a criminal.
I could never find my second chance, yet he can brazenly post a notice seeking a surrogate mother.
All those cruel humiliations of his are still ringing in my ears, and now Rose tells me that I made her brother worried?
No. He doesn't care about me. I won't fall for it again.
I gently brushed aside Rose's hand, looking earnestly at her as I added, "Rosie, thank you for being willing to listen to me. I really have to go. I'm not like you; I have someone to take care of."
Having said that, I picked up the clothes from the corner and left the hospital room without looking back.
Zoey's POVEarly the next morning.I open my eyes slowly and I literally melt when I feel two arms hugging me and a warm forehead resting on mine.This is what makes me continue to move forward.The fact that in this cruel world someone still cares about me.I smile and kiss Nana's temple as I leave her arms.She was waiting for me in the living room when I got back yesterday, and my emotions, which had calmed down, broke down the moment I saw her, and tears came to my eyes.She asked me again and again if I am fine, what really happened but I continued to cry as for the first time since my life went upside down I collapsed.Just like that, she held me all night long on our little sofa in the living room.I take a thick blanket and wrap it around my Nana so she will not suffer from the cold and I move in the kitchen where I start to prepare breakfast.Tea and toast with jam and peanut butter. That's all we've got for today as I didn't find anything to work during the last week.I need
Tristan 's POV"Alpha, you... the person you sent yesterday has already left."I knew it. I shouldn't have listened to Viggo, rushing to the hospital first thing in the morning without even having breakfast, making it seem as if I cared about her.I quickly clarified, "No, I'm not here for her. My sister Rosie wasn't home early this morning, and I came to see if she was here."The nurse then had a realization and said, "I see, we haven't seen her this morning; maybe you could give her a call.""Right," I said and turned to leave when a voice stopped me."Alpha," I turned to see it was the doctor who treated her yesterday.What does he want? He doesn't think I'm here to check on Zoey, does he?The doctor smiled and said, "Alpha, Zoey still owes our hospital a significant debt. She just left yesterday, and we..."I was confused and asked, "Debt? Didn't I already pay for yesterday's medical expenses?"And even if I hadn't, my meddlesome sister would surely not let it go. How could she ha
Zoey's POVEven if my heart hurts like hell I forced myself to act as if nothing happened."Rosie is a beautiful grown up woman now" Nana says coming into the kitchen , where I prepare the lunch for us. A simple boiled pasta with tomato juice, but at least we won't starve. I really need to get out of this pack and find a job."I wonder how Tristan is." Nana says again and I stop from mixing the pasta and look at her.He is a jerk, that's what came directly into my mind, but I suppress that impulse and smiling at Nana, I say, "He is very busy ,Nana. I suppose that the Alpha ‘s duties are way too difficult."But Nana waves her hand in the air, suggesting that that's bullshit."I don't know why he changed so much. I raised him to be a brave young man and yet he became arrogant. I failed as his nanny."No, Nana. He is cruel. You don't become cruel in an instant. That evil was placed in his heart from the beginning, waiting for him to let it out.But I can't tell her that, so I place the p
Zoey's POV"The lightning?" Nana asks and looks at me in horror as she just figured it out that yesterday I faced Tristan and that's why I was looking like crap."Zoey, look at me" she said in a commanding voice, even though her voice was calm and full of love, I knew that she won't let me escape without being sincere with her."Did I say the lightning?" I asked back, trying to change the subject but she stared at me with that serious face , giving me no chance to escape."What is going on between you and Tristan Mayer, Zoey. And I want the truth." she says visibly affected.What truth ,Nana? You already know what is going on between us. You have a sixth sense. I was never able to hide anything from you."Zoey Carter! Do you recognize me as your godmother?" Nana says almost growling at me."Tell me the truth!" and my poor Nana starts to shiver.Oh my goddess, I am going to put her in a grave sooner at this pace!"Nana, please, calm down" I say with teary eyes."I am sorry, I didn't in
I went to the pack's shop where I bought something new to wear. I am going to do as Nana said but I don't want to make her more sad than I already did because of my scoundrel mate.So I have no other option but to listen to her.Sincerely, I have no idea why Tristan asked me to come to the packhouse.Maybe he wants to punish me for telling Nicholas and Mason that we are mates, but difficult times call for extraordinary solutions.The only goal in this life is to save Nana. Nothing else counts.Now that she doesn't want to leave the Crescent Moon Pack, I need to follow her wish and make Tristan come around so he could choose me as his surrogate."Tilly!" I growl at my wolf. "Stop wagging your fucking tail! I can sense your stupid happiness. This is not going to end well.""It doesn't matter," Tilly tells me with a sick excitement. "At least , until the baby appears he will not push us away."And holy shit, I just died!If I will be his surrogate, I hope that he will not force me to sta
I enter Tristan's office and I can cut the tension in the air.He passes me and walks to his desk and I thought that he would take a seat, but he motioned me to come close.Oh goddess, give me strength to survive this day and I promise you that I'll never make such stupid plans again.I had a lot of good intentions ,but this is already too much!Help me goddess, and I will be your most submissive child you ever seen."You know that I don't like to repeat myself!" Tristan says in a commanding voice, that makes my heart skip a beat. If he wouldn't be so arrogant and cruel he would be so damned perfect, but he is a jerk.I am watching him directly into his eyes and while I am coming in his direction I answer back, "And until now, Alpha Mayer, you should know that I hate being forced."I take a seat on the visitor chair , right in front of him.I have no idea why he asked me to come here, but I am a little bit nervous.Not as nervous as I was when I left the house, because now I am more c
Tristan Mayer's POV"Do it, man!" Viggo growls in my mind, making me lose my focus.Since I started to flirt with the idea of making Zoey my surrogate he's acting like a desperate. How the hell am I going to handle this mess?It's been only one day since she made that grand entrance in my office, ruining my inner balance and here I am today waiting for her.This is not right at all. This is why I commanded her to stay away from me."Inner balance my ass!" I hear Viggo mocking me."You are like a walking dead for years, feeling nothing. Your so-called inner balance is something so damned discompassionately macabre, as if you are leading the pack without the slightest regard for our pack members' lives. Firstly, remember why the hell we need a pup." and I would want to contradict him, but here he is right.Everyone who knows me is describing me as a cruel and arrogant Alpha.So what? I have a history able to justify my actions.I lost everything in this life and I was forced to become a
Zoey’s POV.“Zoey?” Nana mindlinks me “Are you awake?” she asks me.I just stared at the ceiling .I didn't sleep at all last night. How was I supposed to do it after everything that happened recently?Last evening I ran out of the packhouse as if its walls were infected with leprosy, I would have done anything to teleport myself as far as possible from Tristan Mayer and his pack but as I was leaving the area a loud growl echoed from behind.Mason!I turned around and faced him, coming in my direction in military steps, ready to knock me down. I am so sick of him. In the last few years he acted like a stalker, and I feel his eyes checking on me wherever I go. He gives me a bad feeling and makes me feel insecure wherever he is around. I know that he hates me. I know that it was his father who found me in the woods with my dead family. Whatever is related to the Reynolds family gives me an unpleasant vibe.“What the hell do you want, Mason?” I asked him full of rage. He looks like crap