They talked for a few hours before I couldn’t watch anymore, I thought she actually had contact with this mate, yet they never physically touched, it was all through glass. I put another one in, and it was labeled 46/patient zero.
I watched as my mate labored, screaming and crying not understanding what was going on, not understanding what the huge swelling bump attached to her was actually a baby. All she understood was that she was in pain. Estella told her it was a gift from her mate. Yet all she did was scream while Estella told her to breathe and offered her no other relief. I was horrified she was just a child, a child having a child. I skipped a few hours only to stop again, she is still in labor. This time she was begging them to kill her and banging on the glass.
A woman walks in after a few minutes of me watching her scream and beg to make the pain stop. The woman walks in with a cattle prod electrocuting her telling her to stop whining and banging on the glass before suddenly loud music comes on, so loud my mates dropped to the ground in fetal position screaming through her pain while covering her ears from the loud music.
I skip another
3 hours when I see people rushing into her room before five men hold her down, blood coating the floor and her round stomach moving violently.
She was screaming and crying. I watched horrified as they cut the baby from her with no sedatives, no pain relief just cut her stomach open and reached in pulling the baby free, my mate seeing the baby seems confused like she didn’t understand how the baby got in her before suddenly holding her arms out wanting the child. They refused her and sedated her.
My mate passes out and they walk out taking the baby. She slowly healed and eventually she woke up looking around the room confused, she touched her belly before looking in the mirror and I saw her wolf come forward punching and headbutting the glass. Screaming for her pup.
I skip hours of her hitting and kicking the glass, her entire body bloody from hitting the glass when eventually the door opens, and Estella walks in with the baby bundled up. My mate freezes before sniffing the air. Estella gives her the baby and my mate sits down with the baby on the bed. Estella watches the baby in my mate’s arm that seems to settle before lifting her shirt and putting my mate’s boob in the baby’s mouth.
My mates look up with tears running down her cheeks before looking at the baby in her arms while she feeds it.
Once she finished feeding her she then curled up with the baby in her arms falling asleep. Estella leaves the room.
“Ryker?” My father says walking into the lab making me jump, I didn’t even hear him come in too absorbed in what I was watching. I look up staring at him. My back cracked loudly from the movement, and I felt stiff and my body ached all over. Brax left a while ago, unable to hear our mate’s screams, unable to watch the things she suffered through.
“Son it’s time to go home, you have been here for more than 24 hours staring at that screen,” my father says. It’s been 24 hours?
“Son?” He says again touching my shoulder.
“You should go home to your mate. Tyson keeps sedating her but she has been asking when you will return.” Just at the mention of her, I remember my mate despite watching her on a screen for hours, the fact that she was at home, alive, despite everything she endured, broke me.
Something snapping and breaking painfully within me. Everything I did to her, hit me like a ton of bricks and suddenly I couldn’t breathe, I broke down. I don’t even remember the last time I cried but I know I was young. I didn’t even cry when I killed Danika, but knowing what she endured by my hands and by them suddenly crushed me.
I broke down, coming apart at the seams and I grabbed him, hugging him. I just wanted him to take it away. Take away the pain like he did when I was a boy, making everything alright because I couldn’t fix this, I couldn’t save her from them, couldn’t save her from me.
“I know son, I know.” he says, hugging me tightly while I drenched him with my pathetic crying. I must have looked so weak, but I didn’t care, I just couldn’t stop.
I don’t know how long I was sobbing like a baby, but eventually, the tears stopped, and I pulled away suddenly embarrassed. My father grabs my face, sensing my embarrassment. Jacob in the cells behind me averted his gaze, but I knew he had seen what was on the screen, knew he felt bad for me forcing him to chain her up in the cells back home.
“Everyone breaks, but now you need to go home and be there for your mate”
“But how? How do I tell her Lucy is dead, that her child is dead? And how do I face her after what I have done?”
“Trust in the mate bond, Tyson said she is becoming restless, she is scared, Ryker. She has no wolf and no connection to anything and right now her only connection is sitting here, in front of a screen, when you should be at home with her,” he says.
“I haven’t finished them,” I tell him.
“Take them and watch them another time if you need to, but it’s time to go home,” he tells me. I nod getting up. I jam everything in the box.
“What about him?” My father asks glaring at the vile man in the cell. I look at Jacob.
“Keep him alive” he nods.
“You’re not going to kill him?” My father asks, shocked.
“No, but I know Amanda will,” I tell him, and he nods. My stomach growls hungrily.
“Damien is upstairs waiting for you, make sure you get something to eat, and I will go get Jacob and Mathias something, Drake should be back soon. He can take over here till you figure out what you want to do” my father tells me. I nod, tucking the box under my arm and walking toward the stairs. My eyes felt like sandpaper as I climbed the stairs.
Walking outside I see Damian leaning on his mustang, a smoke between his fingers. He passes me the packet and I take one out lighting it. “You okay?” He asks, taking the box from me and placing it on the back seat. I say nothing and just hop in his car.
We drove in silence for a bit before stopping at McDonald’s only to then jump back on the road. I eventually fell asleep and woke to Damien shaking my shoulder.
“
C ome on
Alpha, we are home,” he says, and I stretch lifting my head from the window. I saw that it was early afternoon, I couldn’t believe we had been gone for two days. It was supposed to be there and back. I didn’t expect we would find so much and now I was drained. I just wanted to go to bed and curl up and sleep, forgetting what I saw on the DVDs. Hopping out of the car. I see the front door open, and Lily comes out racing to Damien and chucking herself at him. He laughs at her actions which reminded me I needed to tell him I saw his mother in some of the videos.
“Argh, I missed you,” Damien tells her, kissing her head. She sniffs him before pulling back a glare on her face.
“Have you been smoking?” She says stepping away from him.
“No aunt Lil, I was smoking in his car,” I told her, and I saw Damien give me a relieved look. She would eat him alive if she knew not only was he smoking, but he also smoked an entire pack on the way home.
“You wouldn’t be covering for him?” She asks, eyeing me and him suspiciously. I pull my packet from my pocket showing her, “See all me,” I tell her, and she looks at me before nodding then giving her husband the stink eye, he was definitely in for it when she got him alone.
“Where is my mate?” I ask her and she turns walking over and gives me a hug.
“Inside with the kids, she asked about you a couple of times, wanting to know where you went. Tyson has been giving her those sedatives.”
“Has she put up a fight over them?” Lily shakes her head.
“No, she likes the boys, and she can be a little strange around the kids sometimes, she is always watching them curiously, it is making Layla a bit on edge,” Lily tells me.
“She won’t hurt them; she means them no harm,” I tell her.
“I know that, she has been playing with them on the swings. I think they are still out the back,” Lily says.
“Want to meet this sister of yours?” I asked Damien who was quietly listening.
“Yes, I’ve always wanted a sister, funny how things turn out,” he says to himself. We follow Lily inside and I see Tyson sitting on the couch. He comes over to me.
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