༺ I HAVE TO LEAVE....

~ Aurora ~

I couldn't stop the scream that pierced through my lungs out of my lips.

“Aurora…” Mindy called and I saw her moving closer with a sympathetic look.

“No!” I screamed, “No, don't you dare come close to me! No! You are lying! You are all liars!! You are all fucking liars. My baby is safe, nothing is wrong with my baby.”

“Aurora, I'm sorry….”

But I didn't let her finish as I kept shouting and hugging myself. I was shaking frantically, my heart was thudding wildly against my chest and streams of tears were pouring down my cheeks as I took in her words, as the words rang over and over in my head.

It cannot be. They were lying, because it cannot be. She has to be lying. This cannot happen to me, this should not have happened to me.

I screamed, until my throat became painfully sore, until all I could feel was ache. It felt like I was desperately trying to drown out the news with my screams, but that was a futile attempt because no matter how hard I tried or how loud I shouted, the words were still dancing around in my head.

Your baby is gone.

“Aurora…” a deep male voice called, cutting through my screams and making it halt against my will, “please calm down and pull yourself together. Trust me, I am very sorry about this but you are going to harm yourself and….”

“Leave me alone,” I whisper weakly, losing every strength I had, “don't talk to me. Please just get out and leave me alone. Please get out and leave me be.”

Zephyr hesitated and stepped closer but his brother, Ryder held his arm and shook his head in warning.

“We need to give her some space and time to process this.”

Process what?

What exactly was there to process?

“Take good care of her Mindy,” Zephyr murmured, throwing me a sad glance, “and if she needs anything please, find a way to reach out to me.”

I wish they could stop talking like I wasn't in the room- but I also didn't want them talking to me.

Mindy said something which I didn't hear, and the three of them left, banging the door behind them.

The moment the door closed, a whoosh of breath left me - I hadn't realised how tensely I had been holding myself until they left. Also, the simmering rage in my head disappeared and in its place was just the hollow sadness I felt- yes those ones were from me quite alright.

I kept staring at the door, as if I was expecting someone to open it, laugh and tell me that all this was a prank. Hoping, wishing that some sort of miracle could emerge from them. A miracle that would pull me back to the life I had just a day before.

But no matter how hard I stared at the door — and I stared really hard, there was nothing coming to save me.

Even I was smart enough to recognise reality no matter how harsh it is.

I hiccuped and shifted on the king sized bed I was in, turning around to face the other wall, away from the door and quiet hot tears streamed down my face.

What exactly have I done to deserve this?

I've lived right. I've done nothing but be good-even in tough situations.

Why would the goddess allow me to be subjected to this level of cruelty?

What have I done to deserve this?

When my parents died, Cage was literally the only one I had, my only sanity. And I had loved him more than life itself. He loved me too. Though not as much or as intensely as I did, he loved me. I felt it in the way he touched me, in the way he spoke to me. He had cared for me even before we found out we were fated mates, and had cared more after that night of the full moon.

And I really believed that it would remain so.

When exactly did things change?

When exactly did I lose the love of my life? When and what happened to lead to this?

I shuddered as the image of his cold eyes flashed through my mind. That wasn't the Cage I knew.

But even with everything that happened, I had made myself hold onto the knowledge that all wasn't lost. I had held onto the knowledge that after everything, I had my baby.

Yet, as if what happened wasn't enough, fate decided to snatch that away from me too.

Another shudder wrecked my body, as a fresh sting of pain sliced through my heart like the edge of a sharp sword.

“Aurora…” a voice cut through my thoughts and sobs and I shut my eyes tight hoping it would go away and leave me alone.

I had completely forgotten that someone was still in the room with me.

Why can't she just leave me alone?

“I know how you must be feeling right now, and I'm not even going to tell you to pull yourself together. Grieve all you want, but don't ever feel like this is the end of the world. No matter what, you still have….”

“You need to leave me alone,” I interrupted. I couldn't allow her to finish because every word out of her mouth was just like adding fuel to the fire, and it wasn't a pleasant outcome.

“Aurora…”

“Please…please just leave me alone. That's all I want, that's all I ask for. Please just leave me alone.”

The last word was a sob and I shut my eyes as more tears flowed.

Luckily she didn't press or argue nor did she try to offer any stupid words of condolences. I heard her move around the room before opening and closing the door.

How could she stand there and tell me she knows how I feel?

No she does not!

I sat up, darting my face with my palm to dry it a little while looking around the room.

I had no idea how to feel asides the sadness and the anger that was starting to creep in. I had no idea what was next for me, what to do. But one thing was sure- I'm not going to stay here, I can't.

Here, in the hands of the brothers who stories of their evil and ruthlessness spread through the whole country.

I'm their mate?

I almost laugh at the absurdity of the situation.

Sure, moon goddess. Break my heart, take my baby away and give me three demons in return.

Nice bargain but I'm not fucking interested.

Mated to the three rogue kings? Not one but three of them? Ridiculous.

No way will I allow myself to be subjected that way to a man ever in my life again.

Never ever again will I give my love, and even body only to be used, abused and discarded.

Never again will I be any mother fucker's fool.

My baby….

I winced and got out of the bed hurriedly.

I have to get the fuck out of here.

But where do I go?

I have no idea but I can be anywhere but here.

Not with these men.

I opened the door and stepped outside, walking firmly even though my knees were shaking.

What if they find me and kill or punish me for trying to escape?

It was already a little dark outside and there was no one in the yard so I increased my pace, sprinting towards the gate.

A sigh of relief left my lips when I got to the gate with no restrictions and placed my hand on the handle.

“Where on earth do you think you are going?”