After I Amazed the World the Cold Alpha Regretted

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.

leaving me too

of my eyes as I stared at the bright, blinding light above my

so distant, just like everything

moment, I was transported back to a time when my world had been so different-back to when Leo and I were

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

so young, so

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

remembered the playful smile on his lips as he held

had asked, pretending

away, but my heart had pounded in my chest as I watched

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

front of everyone, he dropped to one knee, the

loved than I had

was, lying alone in a hospital bed, my body broken,

anymore, and

way, we had

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

time, I'll never

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

the heart of a battlefield, werewolves clashed with rogue forces in

of paws, and the air was thick with growls,