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Erica:

I wanted someone to pull me out of this hell. I wasn’t ready to lose myself, I wasn’t ready to die, not yet.

My eyes flickered open, and white shining light penetrated my eyes, I was on a soft bed and my body didn’t hurt anymore. I looked around the room, the sun shining from outside the room penetrated the room. I was In the hospital room. I was saved?

My head banged a little as I lay on the bed trying to understand how I had gotten here, the door of the room was pushed open and a man in a white coat walked in, it was the doctor.

“Hello, I’m glad you're awake now.” As he said this he went ahead to touch me on my head, used his light on my eyes, and did some other tests.

“How do you feel?” He asked and I tried to give a smile but I quivered and I broke down.

“I don’t feel so hurt like I did before.” As I said this, I had flashbacks of events that had happened, the pain I felt in my chest, the one in my tummy, the one in my vagina. The baby I felt I was losing.

“I’m glad to hear that. You were brought in by a man yesterday and he brought you here right on time else you’d have lost your babies.” As he said this I gasped, he could see the shock in my eyes.

“Am I pregnant?” My words were shaky and my eyes were filled with shock. I could see that he was surprised to see my reaction, because why wouldn't I know that I was pregnant?

“Yes, you are, You are 2 months gone, and you are carrying twins.” The more he spoke the more I broke down in tears.

“The man and his wife are here. They would love to see you. I will let them in if you allow me.” I wiped my eyes and nodded, I would love to see the people that saved me.

“Please I’d love to see them and get to thank them.” He smiled at me, he was a doctor with a beautiful smile.

Immediately he walked out of the room, a woman walked in.

She looked pretty, she had her brunette hair wrapped in a messy bond.

“Hey.” Her smile was so beautiful and it was like it calmed me for a second but I couldn't stop myself from crying.

“Hey, why are you crying? Please stop, it’s not good for you or your baby.”

“You saved me, you saved me from dying out there in the cold, you saved me from losing my babies.” I felt all the pain in my chest left me as I said this. There was a reason to live.

“I wasn’t the one who saved you. My husband did, I have only arrived here this morning.” I smiled, I cried, I had missed feelings, my emotions were a mess but she pulled me in a hug and I felt myself get calm.

“You smell so good.” I knew she was trying to distract me from crying but how could she make out my scent? I barely had a scent. It was probably my baby’s scent.

“It’s probably the babies.” She shook her head negatively.

“You smell so good. Forget that, can you tell me how you got there, why were you out that late at night?”

There was nothing to hide.

“My husband divorced me, rejected me, and threw me away from the pack house after I caught him sleeping with the lady he called his cousin. He said I was barren, he threw me out because I didn’t give him a child.” I cried so hard. Now I have a child he would accept me.

“I love him so much and now I have his children. I should go back to him. I should tell him that we are having babies soon. He will accept me.” I wanted to climb down from the bed but she pulled me to sit back down.

“No.” I was not understanding why she was not letting me.

“He doesn’t love you, if he can let you go that late at night and hurt you this much then he would hurt even your babies .”

“You don’t know him, he would love his children.”

“Look at me.” She made me stare into her eyes.

“I will not let you go back to someone who did this to you. You deserve better, your children deserve better, and he will do worse to you.” I cried as I stared into her eyes, she was telling me the truth and I knew it, Dante didn’t deserve me or our children.

“Do you understand?” I nodded and she pulled me into a hug.

I watched the door open and an older man walked in, he was probably her husband, I held her tighter, closed my eyes, and cried on her shoulder, I had never cried to someone, I had never felt this comforted before.

No one had ever cared for me this much.

Dante should go to hell with his stupid mistress, I’d move on, I’ll give my children life and I’ll take care of them.

Still entangled in her arms, I let my left hand out and ran it on my tummy and I held it tight.

I will not go back to Dante ever. Even if I work as a maid to take care of my children I will. This was a good thing, a blessing in disguise because Dante didn’t deserve to be a father and he didn’t deserve the love I had given to him all this while.

“What’s that you have tattooed on your hand?” Her husband who stood at her side watching her engulf me in a hug asked.

She pulled away from me “What’s that hunny?” She asked and he pointed at the mark on my wrist.

“I don’t know, I have had it ever since I was found by the lake in Blue Hade's pack.”

“You were found by the lake?” They both questioned in sync and their voice was a bit hitched. Like they knew things about my life that I didn’t know.

“Yes .”

“I was found with a little boat, this mark on my hand was a fresh wound and the blanket in the boat had my name on it.” As I said it they both turned to each other. They gasped and were puzzled.

“Erica?” They both called my name in sync again.

“Yes, my name is Erica,” I replied calmly and they looked at me.

“Did you happen to have a bracelet?”