C9 Come Live With Me

Iris pov

After losing consciousness, I fell into a deep trouble dream. Everything about it was so terribly vivid that by the time I woke up, I was shuddering from my head down to my toes, and sweat was dripping all over my body.

Inside my dream, I was strapped tightly on this metallic bed by a bunch of strangers and then stepping out of the darkness in a room that was very lit up by a single light bulb was Shantel

"I told you to leave…"she said in a crisp, heartless voice.

"... I warned you that I wouldn't hesitate in getting my hands dirty if that was what it meant protecting what belongs to me, but you didn't listen…"

Her eyes were over to my rising belly, and immediately, my mind was flooded with all the horrible things that she could be thinking about. I struggled and wrenched against my restraints.

"Please spare my baby!" I cried at the top of my voice so loudly that I thought that I would tear off my own ear drums.

"... The child has done nothing wrong!"

I was crying and begging then she just slapped me across the face with so much force that I was stunned speechless and then looking at my face as he has begun to run down with the bruise that painted my cheeks. she told me that my child's very existence was an offence, an abomination that she had to eradicate from the surface of the Earth.

I finally regained myself and started trying to beg her because there was nothing else that I could do with all the leather straps that were covering my body and holding down. Next, she dragged me on top of a table, and on top of it were different sharp, torture looking devices.

my eyes bulged so much that they were moments away from jumping right out of their sockets when I saw this and she just laughed bitterly at my pa, am very sure that she despised me but I didn't think that she would go this far.

I closed my eyes as she went to work.

my screams became so loud but at some point it just faded into the background and I was disconnected from my body at some point I stop struggling against the restraints I have lost all the strength to do so and just lay there completely life less emotionally and the last thing I remembered was the site of blood everywhere so much blood that I wondered if it was coming from me alone.

This was when I woke up.

Screaming at the top of my voice all of a sudden and my fingers reaching out from my belly protectively expecting the restraints to pull me back but strangely enough my hands were free and so are my legs and all of the injuries that I had sustained or thought that I had for the past couple of minutes were completely gone.

It was indeed just a dream, and my baby and I were safe.

Or maybe it was a little too early to conclude that we were safe. My eyes darted around the unfamiliar White room that I found myself in. The smell of disinfectant and the general look of the room told me that I was in some kind of medical centre.

But how did I get here?

I closed my eyes as I tried to recall everything yes I had a plan to run away and I had already packed up a little that I had for that but as I was going through the woods away from the territory I had been chased viciously by some rogues…then…they destroyed everything I owned…. They spotted me again…I had been crawling away on a dislocated leg.

"What happened next?" I asked myself out loud.

"What happened next was that I found you.."

A strange, deep and unfamiliar voice filtered to my ears but he sounded kind …but so had alpha Kristian when he wanted something from me either ways I looked towards his direction trying to appear to off but from the way he looked at me I knew that he had seen me completely almost as though I had stripped in front of him he could see my insecurities and my fear.

I didn't like that the last thing I needed was another man looking down at me.

"Where am I?" I said avoiding his eyes and trying to show some kind of self Independence by sitting up by myself this quickly fell flat on his face as the moment I tried to turn around and rest on my left leg, it quickly gave up on me and the pain that showed up, almost sent me plummeting to the ground but the man that just spoke to me swept forward in less than a breath catching me and putting me back on the bed.

after he did that for me I felt like quickly digging up a hole and just bearing myself inside how pathetic I was trying to say some kind of confidence and I only ended up embarrassing myself well it wasn't the first time I had humiliated myself so I don't even know why I was making a fuss out of it.

"The doctor told me that you will have to take it easy on this leg for a couple of days. You had it badly dislocated,"

The strange man told me, and I mumbled something in response, not even sure of what I said but feeling far too awkward not to say anything at all.

Just then proper thinking entered my mind and then I realized that I couldn't be sitting around for long because I had to continue my journey and the last thing I was going to do was rely on some kind of man that I didn't even know after what I have been through blindly trusting someone I wasn't going to put myself in the same position again it made me feel so venerable.

"I'm Alpha Derrick, by the way…" he introduced himself before I could explain that I couldn't stay here anymore, and his introduction was what I needed to cement my resolve.Great, another Alpha? The experience for the last will last me a lifetime.

"I'm sorry I can't stay here. How quickly did the doctor say that I will recover?"

"Well, it depends. The bottom line is that you can't really go anywhere like this. Where do you even plan to go?"

He was asking far too many questions. After all, I was nothing more than a stranger to him, so why would he care where I am even heading to?

"I don't mean to be offensive or anything…" I said as I was gradually losing my patience.

".. but it really shouldn't matter to you where I'm heading to,"

He stood up straight looking down at me and I expected him to start insulting me I knew that he was probably the one that had saved me from those rogues that had returned back to hurt me after all in a situation that I have been I wouldn't have been able to protect myself much less the baby which was even why I was having this conversation with him at all.

if not, I wouldn't even see any reason to reply to any of his questions that he kept throwing at me.

"I know that it is none of my business," he said strangely, not sounding angry.

"... But then I can't just look away when a helpless woman is battling to survive by herself, especially with a baby coming,". I felt like something had struck inside of me when he mentioned the baby, and I looked at him with my eyes flaming. If I could stand up on my own two feet right now, I would have done so, looking at him, telling him straight to his face that I didn't need his help.

However, the fact that I couldn't even stand up to say what I wanted was strangely humiliating. How was I supposed to be able to protect my baby?

I looked away from his face as handsome and attractive as it was it didn't hold a candle to Alpha Kristian, I almost felt like slapping myself right across the face when I had that thought this was a man that had basically told me to my face to abort the child that both of us had and now I was thinking about how handsome he was who cares at this point anyways?

What matters now is my baby and nothing else.

And at this point I couldn't even get up to run if I wanted to, and even if I recovered I had nothing on me the little that I had on had been destroyed by those wolves and I have looked through everything there was nothing that was usable anymore not even the box that I had put all of them in.

part of me was dying to try to eat some of the pent-up tension inside of me but I wasn't going to cry in front of a stranger so I kept a straight mask on my face whether I wanted it or not I would have to stay here at least long enough to recover then I would figure out what I'm going to do next.

"So you are saying that you don't mind me staying here?" I asked, still not looking at his face. This entire conversation felt really awkward as I was looking at a wall and having it with him, but he didn't seem to complain, and I felt strangely appreciative and grateful for that.

"What are you saying? I would have been much more troubled if I just let you out into the wild like that…if only you knew what those savages were planning to do to you,"

I shivered as I remember them the memory of their cold dead eyes as I looked back at them in fear and the pleasure that had immediately erupted when they saw how I was looking at them was more than enough to tell me what would have happened if I had just been there unconscious in front of all of them.

"Thank you…" I said after battling with myself and even looking at him when I made my gratitude known.

"I'll be sure to repay you for everything. Don't worry,"

I said to him, meaning every single word.

I had no intention of staying at that moment, and I thought that it would remain that way. While I recovered, I took my drugs, and I did some physical therapy in the hospital for a few days, and then Alpha Derrick made me an offer.

"You should come and live with me, I wouldn't mind having some company, especially from a beautiful lady like yourself,"

He said with a smile that run up all the way to the his ears he was becoming more bold with me everyday and more evidently flirty even though I pretended not to notice which would have still seemed impossible to believe to many that I didn't notice his advances.

Maybe he wasn't even interested in me that way. The last thing I was planning to do was to open myself up to another man so soon after I had been scarred.

Maybe someday I will be open to a new relationship but from the looks of things it was not today or the day after, he didn't seem bothered that the most he could get out of his obvious flirting was me getting flustered.

Maybe because he isn't interested at all.

My inner voice told me one cold night, of course I had the branding of another man in the form of the baby inside of me and I knew that not many men were eager to raise the child of another.

So I just had to heal up…heal and get away from here as far away as possible from my baby's father.