"Ugh..." The agony in my belly could not make me run away from a complaint. The more I tried to endure it, the more pain I received.At this point, I felt like the baby inside my belly was being ripped apart and taken from the outside. Frederick beside me continued to help wipe away my cold sweat with the cloth in his hand. He held on to me as if trying to strengthen me.Perhaps in his mind, this is what would have happened if I had been stubborn and refused to be taken to doctor Celine office earlier."Isabelle, I think I should bring doctor Celine here to examine you," he said. Without saying anything else to me, he left in a hurry./blam!/As the door closed, I instantly found the silence in this room so eerie. His presence had undoubtedly made me forget about Matthias. So when he left, my thoughts returned to Matthias who was like poison in my brain."Ha ..." I let out a long, tired breath. "Is it because of my baby? That I can't stop thinking about him? Is it because I'm so cowar
"Doctor Celine ... What about my baby?" The first thing I asked was not about what energy had just entered my body just now. Instead, I was more worried about what was causing the intense pain I felt in my belly earlier."Your baby is almost in danger, Your Majesty. It's all thanks to you always ignoring my words and pushing yourself continuously," she said, still standing beside me. "Your baby has a very weak heartbeat. And if it wasn't for my energy injection, he would most likely have died.""No way ..." I said softly. Right now, my chest ached after being told what I had done to my baby."When an Omega is pregnant, her energy is channelled entirely into her baby," she continued. "But in your current state, you don't even have energy for yourself. That's what makes your baby so weak. In fact at this rate, you could miscarry at any time."I couldn't reply to her words and could only stare guiltily. I looked up at the ceiling of the room with a wide-eyed stare. I couldn't imagine tha
"It seems that you and Isabelle are indeed hiding something from me, Frederick." Matthias replied. The uncomfortable gesture he made indicated his deepening suspicion of us.I, who was close beside him, felt alarmed to death. I wanted to prevent Frederick from saying anything more in front of Matthias, but what if that made him even more suspicious of us?It felt like I was trapped in a thorny bush that entangled my steps, and had nowhere to go."What are you hiding from me that you can bring Estella's name here?" he continued. Matthias had now risen from his seat, and was walking slowly towards where his friend was."Just what are you hiding from me, Frederick? Is it something so big that you dare to challenge your own friend?" he asked persistently. He didn't let Frederick out of the corner of his eye, nor did Frederick.They exchanged cold expressions as if one of them blinked, they would lose."Then you, what are you doing here?" Frederick asked back, not answering Matthias' quest
"Please don't meet me again, Matthias." After saying that, I asked Frederick to take me away from here.Once again, Matthias seemed very insistent on holding my hand and even wanted to pull me from Frederick's arms. Of course I didn't let that happen. I pushed his body roughly as I refused his request with my scarred face.I stared at him like I was disgusted by this whole charade.Matthias, how can you be this gentle with me when you never thought of me yourself? You are the one who has forgotten that night, and you are the one who has trapped me in this unwanted pregnancy.Yet now, you act as if you are the victim. And what's even sadder is myself. I still can't get over my feelings despite Matthias always playing with my heart.___________"Are you alright?" Frederick came to me with a change of clothes that he had just bought at the market.We were currently in the centre of the city, an elite inn reserved only for the Alpha nobility. Frederick was able to secure a room on the hig
"Forget Matthias and accept me as your Alpha, Isabelle." His voice touched something deep in my heart. It was like a poem written from the strands of love.His face reminded me of the many Alphas who had rejected me in the past. How this was the first time an Alpha came and loved me first. And Frederick looked at me longingly. As if I was a very special Omega in his heart.And it was as if he had forgotten that I was an Omega slave and trash who had already slept with another Alpha. Frederick makes me feel special. He made me forget my true identity.And yet, still. At the stab of his gaze that was so warm, I could only see Matthias in my eyes."Can you just for one day—no, one second, just one second forget Matthias and look at me, Isabelle?" he asked so softly. It was as if the weight of the whole world was clasped on his shoulders. "Matthias is an Alpha who will never make you happy. Instead, he'll only think of you as a puppet. Because there is only Estella in his heart."His cold
"Are Frederick's sex skills so bad that you're running away from him like this?" he chirped in a playful manner.Then I threw him the glass I was sipping from because I was annoyed by his words."Don't talk rubbish," I said irritably. "He's not an Alpha bastard like you. Whatever Frederick does, at least he's better than the four of you."Arthur jokingly giggled because he had managed to annoy me. Then he quipped again which once again made my blood rise to a fever pitch."The four of you?" he said. "Isn't it just the three of us? Since Matthias never touched you, he's not part of the mate contract. Unless ... Unless he has slept with you without our knowledge."My eyes widened as I heard him provoke me again. "I know you talk like that just to make me angry. So, congratulations. You've succeeded in doing so.""Hahahaha!" his laughter made me feel even more annoyed. He seemed to really enjoy the agonised expression I made after he deliberately nudged the secret I was harbouring."So?
"He threatened to hurt you if I didn't marry Anastasia," he said.For me, his words were like making half my world fall apart. All kinds of bad premonitions as well as the picture of Arthur's personality in my mind that I had already scribbled, turned into a confusing grey pseudo.As soon as I learnt what made Arthur reject me in favour of marrying Anastasia, my heart turned to mush.So, all this time Arthur was protecting me?"You're not lying, are you?" I said in disbelief. He only glanced at me briefly before throwing his gaze back to the front, as if he could already guess what I was going to say after this."Whether you believe me or not is up to you," he said with a long sigh. "One thing's for sure, I didn't want it to come to this. And you should be careful with Gabriel, Isabelle. He's not just any Alpha. You may not know that he's—"/Knock. Knock. Knock./We both simultaneously turned our heads to the door of this room which was shaking thanks to someone rudely knocking on it.
"William. Let her go. You have no right to accuse her when we haven't got any evidence here." Matthias interrupted us after the medics had taken Arthur from this place.He blocked William who was locking my movement with his hand. And from his gaze alone I could see the seriousness he had. His hands pulled my body roughly to get me out of William's grasp.Which made William furious with his casual attitude."Wow. Since when do you care about other people?" he sneered. "I didn't know you cared so much about Isabelle. Ah, don’t tell me. You are the one who kill Arthur and throw it to Isabelle?""William!" I snapped at him for talking out of turn. "You know I hate it when you bring other people into my business. If you want to accuse me, just accuse me! Don't bring anyone else!"He looked at me very sharply. His alpha aura was so arrogant that it smelled rotten to my nose. His gaze squinted at me in disgust as his sharp smile showed abuse."I hope you didn't really kill Arthur, Isabelle,