Chapter 29
Eloise:
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The air in my room felt suffocating.
It just felt tight, tighter than it ever did since I moved here, since Ivana had asked me to stay in this room rather than their Infirmary,
rather than me being able to go to my room.
I had been in this space for hours, if not longer, staring at the same walls, hearing the same silence pressing in around me. Isla was
with the nurses, and for the first time since she had been born, I had no one to hold onto, nothing to occupy my thoughts except for the
mess I had found myself in.
And no matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t help but find myself getting lost in my thoughts. Thoughts that I did not want to have right
now. Thoughts that I knew that I did not need.
I needed to leave. Just for a little while. I just needed to walk around for a bit. All I needed was
going to be somewhat more relieved. At least
hoped.
bit
of air. I
could get that then I was
I ran a hand through my hair, debating whether or not stepping outside would be a mistake. Dominic hadn’t said I couldn’t leave my
room. But he also hadn’t made it seem like I was free to roam, either. Actually, he was not the main problem. It was the eyes that had
kept studying me, everyone’s expression on me, everyone who looked at me as if they were waiting for the opportunity to pounce on
me, as if I was some kind of prey that they wanted nothing more than to devour.
Still, I needed air. Just a moment to myself. I needed to find it in myself to leave this room. Locking myself here was not going to be
the option.
I took a step toward the door, my hand barely brushing the handle when it swung open without warning.
Dominic.
He walked in like he owned the space, his presence consuming every inch of the room in seconds.
I let out a sharp breath, my patience already wearing thin. “Do you ever knock? Do you even know what respecting privacy means?”
He smirked, his emerald eyes flashing with amusement. “It’s not like I was going to see anything I haven’t seen before.”
Heat rushed to my face, but anger replaced it just as quickly. “That doesn’t mean you can just barge in whenever you want.”
“You look like you were going out.” He said, raising an eyebrow at me.
“was going to walk around. I needed to get some air.” I muttered, and he hummed in response.
He leaned against the doorway as his gaze swept over me. “Come with me.”
I folded my arms over my chest. “Why?”
His eyes darkened slightly, his smirk fading. “Because I need to talk to you, and I don’t want to do it in here. I figure, since you were
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“I was simply caught up with one person, and she was the one who chose to press on me.”
“I know, and that is why me being with you is going to prevent any unnecessary incidents.”
I hesitated, trying to read his expression. He wasn’t demanding, but there was a firm finality in his tone. Something about it made me
uneasy, but also…curious.
With a sigh, I walked past him, feeling his presence at my back as we stepped into the dimly lit hallway.
Neither of us spoke as we made our way through the pack house, the silence between us charged with unspoken words. It wasn’t until
we reached the garden, where the air was cooler, where the moon cast a silver glow Over the path, that Dominic finally broke the quiet.
“What were you planning to do?” he asked.
I frowned, glancing at him. “What do you mean?”
“When you found out you were pregnant,” he clarified, his voice low. “What was your plan?
while, but I am curious about what you aimed to do.”
I swallowed, gripping my arms tightly. “I didn’t have one. I didn’t think of a plan.”
Dominic scoffed. “Of course, you didn’t.”
I turned to him, narrowing my eyes. “What the hell is that supposed to mean?”
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You
were
already away from the pack for a
།
His gaze locked onto mine, hard and unwavering. “It means that you weren’t thinking, Eloise. You were carrying my child, and instead
of coming to me, you ran.” uran.”
For a moment, I studied his expression, debating on whether or not he was being serious. But when I saw his tight jaw, when I saw his
anger, when I read his tone, I realized that he was actually being serious.
His jaw ticked. “You ran with no plan, knowing damn well you wouldn’t be able to protect yourself, let alone her.”
Anger flared inside me, but before I could snap back, Dominic took a step closer.
“I don’t care if you hate me,” he said, his voice dropping to a near growl, “I don’t care if you never wanted me to know. But the fact that
you were willing to risk yourself, to risk her, just to keep me out of the picture…” He exhaled sharply, his fists clenching at his sides.
“That’s why I was angry. That’s why I couldn’t find it in myself to accept you as a person when you came back to the pack. I couldn’t
respect you the same way that I did before.”
“Respect goes a long way, Dominic. You chose to break that respect when you played me like some kind of fool.” I said, and he
hummed in response.
“That still does not give you the right to run away with my daughter as if I was nothing in her life. As if I would have been nothing in her
life.”
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“You’re being too confident by thinking. That tells me that you don’t know much about me, at least not as much as you think you do.”
He said, looking away from me.
I opened my mouth, wanting to argue, to tell him he had no right to be mad when he was the one who had thrown me aside first.
But I couldn’t.
Because, deep down, I knew there was truth in his words.
I had been reckless.
ཅན དེ སྐྲག པ 1|:ཀ ཅད པའི ་ས
I had been desperate.
And I hadn’t thought about what would happen if something went wrong.
A
Dominic watched me closely, as if waiting for me to fight back. When I didn’t, he took another step, his voice softening just slightly.
“You’re not invincible, Eloise. And you sure as hell aren’t strong enough to keep fighting on
Our
I bristled at that, my defenses rising.
been doing just fine without you.”
Dominic arched a brow. “Fine? You almost died.”
His words stung, but I refused to let them sink in.
He sighed, raking a hand through his hair before shaking his head. “Whether you like it or not, you need to learn how to defend
yourself. And I’m going to be the one to train you.”
I blinked. “Excuse me?”
“You heard me,” he said, his tone leaving no room for argument. “If you’re going to stay here, if you’re going to be Isla’s mother, then
you need to be strong enough to protect her. To protect yourself.”
I scoffed. “And you think you’re the best person to teach me?”
His smirk returned, a dark glint in his eyes. “I know I am. I don’t need to think about it,”
I stared at him, trying to find some way to refuse, some way to push him away again.
But I knew, deep down, that he was right.
And that scared me more than anything.
