Chapter 214: The Omen

Moana

When I woke up, I found myself in a dimly lit hospital room with Edrick sleeping on my lap. I was no longer floating in a void, nor was Michael above me with a knife. Instead, I was safe and sound with my mate by my side.

But nothing felt right. That dream was too vivid to just be a machination of my own anxiety… It felt like an omen. Was Michael coming for me with that knife, or was it really all just a dream made up in my own mind?

Suddenly, Edrick must have sensed that I was awake because he jerked his head up and opened his eyes wide.

“Moana,” he whispered. He lurched forward suddenly, looking relieved, and kissed me deeply. I was comforted, but also taken aback at the same time, and when we pulled apart I gave him a puzzled look.

“What happened?” I asked quietly. My throat felt dry and cracked.

days,” he responded, his own

eyes widen as Edrick spoke. “Edrick, I have to tell

a word out to tell him about my prophetic dream, the room suddenly became rushed with nurses and doctors who began taking my vitals, checking on me, and asking me questions. The room filled with a flurry of activity, and by the time all of the tests were over and they had finished wheeling me around to

to my original room where Edrick was waiting nervously with

you and the baby are perfectly healthy,” the doctor said with a smile. “You can thank your wolf

should she do now?” Edrick asked. I noticed that he was holding my hand tightly, but I didn’t mind one

to stay on bed rest for the next week,” the doctor said as he scribbled furiously on his clipboard. “I’m going to send in a prescription for you for some special vitamins and some medicine to help you sleep if you need it, and I’d like you to come back when the week

for a week! I had a job to do, and I had already

be okay,” Edrick said gently, rubbing my shoulder with a worried yet relieved look in his gray eyes. “It’s just a

is still relatively early on in her pregnancy. At this point, if you don’t dial things back and stop biting off more than you

doctor was right, of course; I didn’t want to put my baby in harm’s way. I would just need to get through the next week and hope that the headmistress wouldn’t fire me for being

of my bed with his hands as he looked at me over the rim of his glasses. “But I sincerely think that you should find a therapist. I don’t know exactly what happened a few weeks ago, although I’ve heard bits and pieces. And I don’t know if that’s the only thing that has happened to you. But it’s a

about women going through postpartum depression, and those stories were bad enough. Postpartum psychosis, on the other hand,

few therapists in mind already.” He looked at me for a moment with pain in his eyes, but there was something else there, too. Fear. Was he afraid that I would

now by Edrick’s promise, nodded and shot me a smile. “I’m going to have you stay the rest of the night to keep an eye on

again, Edrick sighed and ran a hand through his disheveled hair before he turned

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