Freya
"I am sorry to say this but you can't bear a child again because your womb has been greatly damaged" My lips parted in shock as his words echoed through my mind.
Time slowed down and it felt like the whole room was spinning with the doctor's words fading in the background. No, it had to be that my hearing was impaired or maybe this was a nightmare.
The pack's doctor snapped me out of my thoughts. "Luna Freya, are you even listening?"
Staring deep into her eyes, the reality of what was happening weighed in on me, causing dread to settle at the pit of my stomach as tears rushed into my eyes and my hands flew over my mouth.
"No!" A scream tore from my lips.
Today was the day that I was supposed to be discharged from the hospital and I came to ask her to know when I could start trying for a child again because, for the fourth time, my baby died in my womb- A stillborn.
I wiped off my tears with the back of my hands, shaking my head slowly. "Five years of trying for a child and you are telling me this? How can you be so heartless? I eat healthy, take a lot of water and my health is my priority..."
She cut in, speaking softly. "Freya"
"Dr Ann, you can't do this to me. If I don't give the pack an heir soon, then I will be kicked out of the pack house and someone else is going to take my place" I said hurriedly.
My head shook and my lips trembled. "Please, I am sure that there is a mistake somewhere, my womb can't be damaged. I don't want another woman to take my place so please can you re-diagnose?"
Dr Ann heaved an exasperated sigh, reaching her hands for mine as tears pressed at the back of my eyelids. "Let us drop the formalities now and considering how you are my friend, I need to talk to you"
She squeezed my hands gently. "Freya, if I don't tell you the truth then no one else is going to. Can you please glance behind you and tell me what you see"
With a trembling head, I glanced behind me and darted my eyes back to her. "No one"
As soon as I uttered those words, my heart sank into my stomach and the tears that glinted in my eyes cascaded down my cheeks.
"No one, Freya. You are trying so hard to give an heir to the same pack that doesn't care about you. Ever since you have been admitted into the hospital, no one visited you, no one bothered to ask about your health. Not even your parents and siblings. You are losing yourself for the same people that don't give a damn about you"
My heart ached. It ached so bad that it felt like it might stop at any moment.
Wiping off my tears with the back of my hands, I swallowed the heavy lump that lodged beneath my throat. "Even if the whole world hates me, at least my husband, Tyson does and......." My words trailed because deep down, I knew that all my words were nothing but lies.
The idea of Tyson loving me was nothing but a facade.
Being the Lycan princess, one would think that my life was perfect but it was far from that. Unlike other Lycans, I was powerless, weak, useless, and was no different from a human which caused me to be despised by many including my father who would always stare at me in disappointment.
He was so disappointed in me that he hardly showed me off and concealed my identity.
At first, my mum was the one who would always protect me from the harsh and condescending words of my father but ever since she died, my life went from worse to worse and it was finally thrown into total disarray when my father took another wife a few years after my mum's death.
Ever since my father married my stepmother, I was pushed aside, and neglected, and every passing day, I would see my father choose his stepdaughter, Ariel over me because she was everything that he wanted me to be.
Everything that belonged to me, including my inheritance was given to my evil step-sister who would always taunt me alongside my stepmother.
When my father was sick of seeing me around, he forced me into a contract marriage that I objected to at first but on seeing that the marriage was with my long-time crush, Alpha Tyson, I consented to it, thinking that he was going to change my life for the better and give me the love that soul yearned for.
But, I had no idea that was the beginning of my misery.
Tyson at first pretended to be in love with me, causing me to hand over the only inheritance that my mother and late grandparents had left for me. He didn't allow me to work and would blatantly tell me that my duty was to serve him and remain as his Luna.
Despite the way he acted harshly towards me, subjecting me to years of emotional abuse and mistreatment, I always tried to assure myself that he loved me and that was why he treated me that way.
But now, glancing behind me and seeing that no one was there. I...
I jumped to my feet, smoothening my hair and my hand. "Tyson isn't here because he is on a business trip. He loves me and that is all that matters..." My words trailed as I avoided the gaze of Ann who stared at me pathetically.