CHAPTER EIGHT - MISCARRIAGE

More words? Sarah didn't know how to respond and so chose not to say anything, she felt Lorenzo swallowing before she gingerly released her wrists and stepped away from him.

Sarah made a show of rubbing them, even though the alpha hadn't hurt her at all.

Instead the omega seemed to have inflicted most of the damage on both of them. A few of her nails were broken and her fists were bruised from the few angry punches she had managed to land against his hard body.

Sarah turned around to face her husband and was shocked to see that he was bleeding.

He had scratches on his hands and face, including a deep, angry-looking one on his neck. He also had bite marks on his muscled forearms, and a darkening bruise on his jaw.

Lorenzo saw her eyes land on the bruise and ruefully rubbed at it.

"You pack a mean punch," lorenzo said sheepishly, before looking down at Sarah’s hands and swearing softly in italian.

"You've hurt yourself."

She lifted one and grimaced at the bruises and broken nails.

Sarah snatched her hand from Alpha's, she was not sure what this weird act was about and definitely did not trust it.

Lorenzo eyes darkened at her mistrustful glare, and she shoved her hands into her pockets.

Sarah pushed her way past lorenzo before heading toward the staircase.

"Sarah ..." Lorenzo called her

she stopped but didn't turn around.

"I really am sorry about what I said. It wasn't true." She knew Lorenzo’s apology was insincere.

While Lorenzo hadn't ever said so, Sarah knew that he blamed the omega for the baby they had lost early on in their marriage. The fact that Sarah hadn't conceived since had merely cemented his low opinion of her

"I'm going to bed," she whispered, ignoring the apology and still not looking at him.

"Yes…." Lorenzo walked away heading towards the balcony while she climbed the stairs heading to her room still burying her hands in her trouser pockets.

Lorenzo looked back ,Sarah was intensely aware of his eyes boring into her back as she walked away from the alpha, and held her head up as she ascended the stairs to the second floor.

Lorenzo snatched up his phone to dial a saved number. "Mr Malik?"

"I assume you located your omega." His father-in-law's patronizing tone was likely directed at both him and Sarah , but lorenzo found himself feeling defensive only for Sarah .

"I did. Wanted you to know so you wouldn't worry."

"I wasn't worried. Sarah has always done as she's told and obviously you need to figure that out. Give her clear direction. Set your expectations. That way you won't be looking for her or have any other issues with your omega."

Anger warred with shame as Lorenzo sought an appropriate response, managing not to point out Mr Malik own spouse had defied him in the end.

Leaving her only daughter with him to deal alone.

Sarah made her way to one of the luxurious guest rooms in the house and tears welled in her eyes, Lorenzo"s cruel words had struck a nerve.

Sarah had lost the baby after just five months of marriage and three months of pregnancy, and Sarah had always felt that the miscarriage was her fault.

When she had discovered that she was pregnant, she had wished the child away ,her relationship with her husband had been so cold that she had been unable to fathom bringing a child into such a loveless environment.

Worse, after she had lost the baby, she had been ashamed to admit that relief was mingled with the heartbreak, she had hated herself for that, she had felt that there was something wrong with her for wishing her own child out of existence, because omegas are known to be nurturing and fiercely protective of their children, she in those months after the miscarriage had thought that maybe she never deserved that child.

Sarah had never shared what she had felt with Lorenzo or anyone, and they had mourned the tiny life's passing separately, never talking about it. Now she suspected Lorenzo had known all along, and that it had increased the alpha's contempt for her.

Despite her extreme depression after the miscarriage, she had worked through it on his own. Luke and Elisa hadn't even known about her pregnancy.

Sarah had felt so terrible about her own reaction to the baby that she had never told them, feeling that her behavior had been indefensible.

But tonight, Lorenzo’s cruel taunts had quite simply sent Sarah over the edge.

She sighed, trying to shake herself out of her maudlin mood, and after a quick shower, she fell into bed wearing only the T-shirt and panties that she had quickly grabbed from her chest of drawers in the master suite.

Despite the drama of the day, she fell asleep almost immediately. Sarah didn't know how long he had been asleep before she heard the quiet knock on the door, she immediately awoke with shock and sat up, pushing her tangled hair out of her face.