Chapter 207

Another one? I was too delirious to process the meaning behind his words.

Was I still dreaming? But no, I wasn't. In that instant, I realized I was pregnant with twins.

I hadn't even known.

The thought barely registered before the next wave of pain hit, forcing my body to engage in another round of this torturous process.

I wanted to cry, scream, anything.

body had been wrung dry, every ounce of energy spent, but there was no time to rest.

My vision dimmed, and I drifted in and out of consciousness as the voices around me grew more frantic.

The labor stretched on, and It felt like an eternity before, finally, the second cry pierced the air-a soft, fragile sound that was the most beautiful music I had ever heard.

"It's a boy," the nurse said softly this time, as though speaking too loudly would shatter me completely.

I could only blink up at her in disbelief.

The doctor, seeing the fear and confusion still painted across my pale face, leaned closer.

"The babies are fine," he said with a soft reassurance. "They're just a little thin, but they'll be in the incubator for a week, and after that, they'll be discharged. You've done wonderfully." I wanted to hold them, to see them, but I couldn't even lift my arms.

My body was a shell, hollow and worn out.

everything from me, leaving me too weak

tears came then, streaming silently from the corners of my eyes as

felt so distant, just like everything

back to a time when my world had been so different-back to when Leo and

day, years ago, when he had picked up my corsage at a summer

so young, so

then, and yet, something about his gaze had made me feel

his lips as he held

is this?" he had asked, pretending not to

claim it right away, but my heart had pounded in

after what felt like forever, he came to me, holding that delicate flower as if it were the

dropped to one knee, the corsage

more loved than

I was, lying alone in a hospital

anymore, and Leo

the way, we had lost

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whispered to the memory of that man, the one I had

time, I'll

let go, allowing myself to drift into the comforting darkness that waited for me just beyond the edges of my consciousness Third

battlefield, werewolves clashed with rogue forces

of hundreds of paws, and the air was

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