Shock and Accusations

Ember's POV

"Oh my goodness! Oh my god!" Ellie screamed in pain as I walked closer to her. She was bleeding and I tried to help her up. Wow, I didn't know that she was not feeling too well.

"Don't touch me! Get away from me!" She screamed and I rolled my eyes. She was allowing her sentiment to cloud her sense of reasoning. What was wrong with her?

"You should let me help you up. You can barely walk."

"And whose fault is that?!" Her eyes narrowed at me accusingly and I rolled my eyes. Of course, she was going to make it look like I was the one behind her predicament. If karma was a bitch.

I ignored her and grabbed her hand, but she slapped my hands away and I rolled my eyes again and pulled her even harder. It became a tussle between both of us and I was annoyed at the way she was behaving. "Are you deliberately being stupid right now? You can see that you are in a mess." I snapped.

I didn't have the time for the exaggerated pain she was claiming to experience. She let out a piercing scream and I raised my hand to slap her arm,that would calm her down.

Suddenly the door bursts open and a few pack members rush in.

Immediately, Ellie collapsed to the ground, and began to wail, pointing an accusing finger at me. "I don't know what I did to her! She pushed me down" she clutched her stomach while writhing in pain.

I rolled my eyes at her antics, surely they weren't going to believe this nonsense.

"Is this true, Luna Ember?" Dave, the head warrior, inquired as his eyes rested on my arms which were midway in the air. I could see the judgment in his eyes.

My eyes strayed to the other people who were present and saw that their gazes week was also filled with animosity and that made me even grow more annoyed.

"What the hell are you saying?"

"She pushed me, told me that no one would believe that she did it. She had been threatening me all these while and I've done nothing but accept it. Today she discovered that I was not feeling too well and pushed me. She threatened to cause me to have a forceful abortion."

Oh my goodness! This lady was a fucking liar. She flipped the script and was painting me as the villain.

"That is not true. You were the one who attacked me first. You were the one who..."

"Luna Ember. Is this true? She's accusing you of pushing her." I heard Dave say.

My gaze fastened on the lying bitch.

"Of course not, I don't know what she's saying."

I get cut short immediately. " What is happening here?" Roland thunders and the pack members give way. His nose twitched and his eyes narrowed in the direction of the blood.

He was fully charged, his shoulders coiled like a mamba waiting for the perfect opportunity to strike. His gaze flickered to mine and I saw fury and indignation in them. "What is happening here?" He growls loudly and the wall shakes, his words bouncing off them.

Ellie feeds into this energy by releasing a loud cry of pain, cutting his attention away from me. " She wanted to cause me to lose my baby. She has been unhappy since I set foot into this pack. I don't know what I did to her. She pushed me down when I tried to stop her, she pushed me." She pointed a finger at me like a toddler would when he was having a spat with his age group.

Roland goes towards her, picks her up and carries her away, not before pushing me with great force.

I stumbled and fell against my butt as he walked out with her in his arms. Fucking hell, I groaned inwardly when my ankles twisted.

Xander stood, watching me with a fierce look. He didn't even move a muscle and I watched in horror as he stared at me with utter disgust in his eyes. My head spun with shock.

His eyes narrowed at me, I couldn't even guess what was going on in his mind, he was probably thinking of various ways to hurt me. It was annoying that he didn't care to trust me. I didn't understand how someone could refuse to read between the lines.

"I thought you were not violent. I mean, I've been hearing people say that you are becoming a thorn and I wanted it to be that they were lying but now I can see that they were indeed right." He said, then shook his head in a reprimanding manner. "What do you intend to gain from bullying her? It's not her fault that she's pregnant."

I stared at him open mouthed. In all our years of being together, he had never spoken to me in this manner but here he was making me feel worthless and I didn't even know what I could do to correct the impression.

"Are you serious, Xander? You'll choose to believe her over me who you have known for the longest of times? this is ridiculous." I gasped. This was utterly shocking. I'd never seen anything like this before. Who would have thought that...

He shot me a blank stare and I stared at him as though I was in a trance. I would never have expected that he'd do something like this. What the hell?

"Aren't you going to help me up? My ankle is twisted." I informed him. He could say that he didn't see my leg.

"I don't care about that either."

He breezed past me and I called him when he got to the doorway. "Where are you going?"

He stopped for a minute before looking back and shooting me blank stares.

"Well, I have more pressing... Ah, priority to look out for."

The insult hung heavily in the air and my jaw dropped even lower.