SWNOVELS Chapter 6: Where is my pup?
Nathan was looking at the sleeping figure of Ethlyn and recalling her betrayal. At first, he was mad at her for doing this to him, but in all these years, he felt that Ethlyn had lost a lot more things than anyone could. First, her Luna's position; second, her pack; third, her respect; fourth, her twin’s pups; and then fifth, her wolf. He couldnt help but feel pity for her.
He sat beside her and spoke, “Wake up, Ethlyn. You're sleeping like Aurora even after waking from Coma."
"What are you doing here?” He heard Reva asking him angrily.
“I learned from your father that she is out of the Coma. That's why I thought to check on her.” Nathan replied while Reva kept glaring at him. “Stop giving me that look, Reva. It's not that your sister is in this condition because of me.”
"Only if you wouldn't have kicked her out of the pack.” Reva snared.
“I had sent the search team for her when I realized that I shouldn't have done that to her; I mean, at least not in her pregnancy state when she couldn't shift and could easily become anyone's victim.” Reva wanted to open her mouth and blame him for sending the search team hours late, but then she kept her mouth shut because she knew it was easy to blame than to stand in that person's shoes and understand his shoes. That was the reason her parents were not mad at Nathan.
Both families were close, that's why her parents considered him as their son, and she considered Nathan a big brother until he put her father in a cell and kicked her sister out. That was a different thing that he tried to undo everything that he did after he calmed down but... but the damage had already been done.
Nathan recalled how he fumed in anger and ran all across the forest in his wolf in the rain.
He ran for god knows how long in the rain, his wolf howled in pain, and finally, he got tired from running. Because of his thick fur, he wasn't feeling cold even after staying in the rain for that long. That was when the realization hit like a train, reminding him what if she wouldn't have reached her lover's place?
What if she would be still in the rain?
He immediately mind-linked his Beta to send a search team for Ethlyn in the range of the next fifteen-twenty kilometers.
Because of heavy rain, the scent of Ethlyn and her footmarks were hard to find, but they sensed that she had fallen from the mountain. It took a couple of days to find Ethlyn's body which was heavily injured, and she was barely breathing.
FLASHBACK
“Doctor, how's Ethlyn?” Christian, who was released from the cell on the same night, asked the pack doctor.
"One of her pups is dead. Everyone thought she was pregnant with only one pup, but another one was hidden behind the first one, and sadly, the boy is no more,” She responded, to which Christian gasped, and Abigail, Ethlyn's mother, ignored that part. She was more worried for her daughter than the pup, who was the reason because of why Ethlyn was in this state.
"And the condition of the other pup, i.e, the girl, is not great as well because of pre-matured delivery. She is not able to breathe on her own.” The doctor told them about the other pup.
“I'm here to know about my daughter's health. Not about the pups whose mere existence is a curse for my daughter.” Abigail said in irritation. Christian glared at her.
"Okay. Ethlyn’s condition is not great itself. Her head is badly injured, and the worst part is that her wolf is not able to heal her, nor can we sense her.” The doctor responded. “I'm not sure, but I think her wolf sacrificed her life to save one of her pups.”
“Nol!” Abigail gasped, placing her hand on her mouth and shaking her head, not able to believe
that his daughter's wolf sacrificed her wolf to save someone who had no existence in anyone's life.
Hell, she would never look at that brat's face for this.
“By then, she can recover at normal speed?” Christian asked.
“To be honest, I don't know the answer to your question because she needs treatment from a neurologist, not some normal doctor like us.”
Christian nodded his head, not knowing what to say about that part. A part of negative him was saying that his daughter couldn't leave the bed ever in her life because rarely any werewolves think of becoming neurologists by studying for hours instead of doing something else.
A week had passed since that day, and there was a change in the health of Ethlyn, while her daughter had started showing positive responses by staying under observation at the hospital. “Did you hear that?” Abigail asked, entering the room while Ethlyn was sleeping in her deep sleep. “What is it, Abby?”
“The doctor just informed me that I can take my granddaughter home in a day or two.” Abigail fumed in anger. “I'm telling this, Christ. I'm not taking that curse to my home who ate my daughter's happiness, and when she was not done with it, she ate her brother as well.”
"What kind of language is this, Abby? What is her mistake in all this thing?” Christian asked in disbelief. “Just like you're worried for your pup being a mother. It was Ethlyn and her wolf's choice to keep their pup as a priority before them.” Christian explained.
“I don't care whether there's her fault or not, but it's final that I'm not keeping her. She will remind me of my daughter's miserable state. That's why I have found a way to get rid of her.”
“Get rid of her?” Christian asked in shock.
"Yes, I have found with Nathan that who is the reason behind our daughter's pregnancy?”
“What? Who is that?"
"Alpha Calvin Haysbert of Blood Moon Pack.” Abigail hissed in anger. “Nathan would have declared war against him, but it's our daughter's mistake to enter his room. That's why we can't do anything about it, and by observing the CCTV video, it looks like Ethlyn wasn't in her sense, and that's why that bastard took advantage of her situation.”
“Now, he will get the result of what he did to our daughter.”
"22?" Christian.
“He has a habit of sleeping with other's daughter; now it's time to taste the result of his own medicine.”
“I don't think that's a good idea,” Christian suggested. “I don't think Ethlyn will like this. I mean, don't you think it should be her decision?”
“She is not awake to take that decision. And I'm taking this decision in her absence, her mother. I don't want to keep that pup. Hell, I don’t even want to look at her. So, since she can't stay with her mother, she will stay with her father.”
“But what if that Alpha rejects her to keep with him or doesn't accept her as his daughter?”
“I don't care. It will be that pup’s destiny, then. I will feel pity for her then.” Abigail started with hatred for her granddaughter. Christian didn't want to support her in her decision, but at the same time, he didn't want to keep his grandaughter in a such atmosphere where she wouldn't be treated right. He left everything at Moon Goddess, who knew what best for her every pup was.
Flashback ends!!
Christian was thinking all this thing by staying out of Ethlyn’s room. It had been five years since that incident. No one knew except him that he had been silently keeping eyes on Calvin to see whether he was taking good care of his granddaughter or not, and he was feeling proud of Abigail's wrong decision, which turned out to be the best for his granddaughter.
He smiled, thinking about Roselet, whom he had met twice as a stranger.
'I don't know what I'm going to tell you about your daughter, Ethlyn.” he thought in his mind. Everyone had lost their hope that she would awake again until they heard the name of the new Neurologist, Laira Wayne, in the Black Council, who also happened to be the youngest Neurologist in the world of werewolves. It was hard to believe that any Rouge could be that educated until they found that she started living in the Black council just because of her mate. She was born and brought up in a pack and human world. Christian didn’t want to leave any tiny hope if it was concerned with Ethlyn’s health.
After two successful surgeons, Liara's treatment showed its effect. Abigail and Christian wanted to personally thank her when Ethlyn woke out of a coma for the first time, but the floor slipped from their feet when they came to know the full name of the Neurologist treating Ethlyn, Laira Daisy Haysbert Wayne.
Abigail suggested quickly shifting Ethlyn from the hospital of the Black council to their own pack’s hospital. She didn’t want Ethlyn’s past to strike her anywhere in her life again, not after when she was finally awake after years, not after when Nathan didn't hold any grudge of whatever happened in the past, and Abigail could picture them together in the future again.
“It seems like she is not going to open her eyes in your presence,” Reva commented, feeling irritated.
“Really? I didn’t know you were going to be the next doctor of the pack.” Nathan spoke sarcastically and stood up on his feet. “Stay here then; I have some other work.”
“I have some other work.” Reva mimicked him after he left. “Dad, why are you standing out? Come in.” She said.
“How could I meet Ethlyn’s eyes if she would wake up after my arrival and ask about her pup? What would I tell her? Christian wondered
"Daddddd,” Reva yelled.
“Dad,” Ethlyn whispered, widening Reva’s eyes, and who quickly looked toward Ethlyn to check whether she really heard her voice. Reva smiled widely when she realized Ethlyn was trying to open her eyes after a sleep of twelve hours again.
“Dad, Ethlyn is looking for you.” Reva cried happily, and hearing it, Christian walked into the room. “If would have known that by sending Alpha Nathan and by shouting DAD, you are going to wake up, then I would have done that long ago.” Reva talked with her sister, who had opened her half eyes by then.
"Where... where is my.. Pup?” Ethlyn asked the first question that Christian was expecting her to ask. #TBC