Elizabeth's POV
St. John's Hospital,
West Coast County.
I felt like I was swimming in a limbo. There Was no power in any of my limbs. Where was I ?
I slowly opened my eyes. Everywhere looked white and there was a beeping sound as if I was in a hospital?
That word brought me wide awake. Hospital? What was I doing here? I was supposed to be meeting with Sally today and I was about getting ready so why am I here?
I tried talking but my voice came out in a croak.
"Ma - Ma- ma…." That was the sound that came out when I tried to call out for Maggie. She should be somewhere around isn't it?
"Oh my goodness, Luna? Are you awake?
I saw Maggie's face looking down on me from above.
I nodded my head fearing to make that croaky sound again.
"Oh my baby, I was so scared." Maggie said.
I held onto my neck, looking around. "What do you need, Luna? Water? "
I nodded my head vigorously. She quickly went to the side table and poured a glass of water for me. Adjusting the hospital bed, she held the cup to my lips like a baby while supporting my head.
After the drink ,I felt better and rested my head back on the pillows. I was wearing a hospital gown. I looked down at my stockinged feet and up at Maggie as she was fidgeting around me.
"What happened to me, Maggie? Why am I in the hospital ?"
Maggie looked at me with a small smile.
"Don't worry my child, let me get the doctor."
She walked briskly to the door before I could ask her further questions.
What was really going on and how long have I been here?
Within a few seconds, Maggie came back with a doctor.
Wait a minute ,I recognized that face. I squinted my eyes as he drew closer. Tyler? The good Samaritan?
"Hi Elizabeth, nice to see you again." Tyler greeted with his ever-ready smile.
"Hey, it seems so. What is wrong with me and how long have I been here?" I asked Tyler.
"All in good time Elizabeth, let me first of all check your vitals. How are you feeling right now? Any pain?" Dr Tyler asked.
" Now please move your fingers for me Elizabeth, the right hand." He continued.
I did what he said and he jotted it down.
"Now move your right leg." I moved my leg and again he noted everything and kept the file aside, moving to sit on a chair by the bed.
" Now Elizabeth, I have some news for you." Tyler said with a smile.
"Good or bad?" I asked in apprehension. Was I seriously sick?
"Very good news." He said after a long pause.
"Go ahead and tell me." I replied with an audible sigh of relief. Thank the goddess, I was not seriously sick or anything. Otherwise Tyler won't be smiling.
"You are healthy and nothing is wrong with you. You were just hydrated and tired, that's why you fainted." Tyler continued.
"And there is another good news, you are two months pregnant, with quadruplets.
Tyler finally dropped the bombshell that changed my life forever.
"What ? With quadruplets?" I exclaimed in shock.Oh goddess, what is this again? Pregnant with not one but four?
"Luna, I am so happy , you are going to be a mother…"
I glared daggers at Maggie's excited chatter. She kept quiet immediately.
"I take it Elizabeth, that this was not the good news you were expecting?" Tyler asked, raising his handsome brows.
In a flat tone, I replied, "No!"
Last month, I would have been on top of the world but not today. What do I do with four children all at once? On my own?
Sebastian, what have you done to us? How do I cope with this on my own? Couldn't you have been more patient and trusted in the goddess? Look at what she has bestowed on us. Four pups, all at once.
I placed my hands gingerly on my still flat abdomen.
"Children!" I talked to the pups as if they were present right there.
"What have you done? Why have you decided to come to me at such a time? What should I do? Where do we go from here"
I wept silently inside while fat tears rolled down from my eyes to my cheeks. For the first time in my life, I felt afraid. Afraid for the new lives growing in me, for the pain of betrayal and rejection from my family and fated mate.
I was in pain, so much that I began to feel a change come over me. I was angry at the world, at everything! What have I done to deserve all of these things happening to me? Why me?
While I was weeping, Dr Tyler had sat calmly without saying a word as if he understood what I was going through.
"Calm down Elizabeth, crying is not good for you. You have to be strong and I can feel and know that you are a strong lady. You need the strength for the five of you for the next seven months." Tyler encouraged wondering which bastard had broken the heart of this beautiful girl.
Wishing things had been different and he had gotten to her first before the despicable man who had done this to her.
"And if you wish Elizabeth, I will be there to help you all the way. For now, have a rest and send for the vitamins you would be needing for the next one month before I sign your discharge papers."
He stood up and made to leave. I grabbed his hand , having known exactly what he had been thinking.
"Thanks, Tyler for everything."
I looked at his blue eyes and knew that this human was a dependable one, just like my Uncle Charles. I wished I was human at that very moment and could live a carefree life .
However, it was not possible, I am a werewolf and an omega, one with special abilities. Even my fated mate had abandoned me because he could not cope with my abilities, talk less of a human.
I watched Tyler move gracefully away with his white coat fitting him to a perfect T. I closed my eyes and recoiled inside of me.
Just then, I heard the doors open. It was my aunt and uncle and another person.
"Elizabeth! Thank God child , you are alright. You gave us such a scare." Aunt Fiona gathered me into her loving arms to which I went willingly.
"Aunt, I am scared , so scared" I cried
" Oh I see, the doctor gave you the good news. Are you not happy my dear?" Aunt Fiona asked, wiping my tears, which refused to stop falling like a cascade.
"How can I be happy Aunt? I am alone, how can I raise four pups on my own? How can I do that?" I continued crying bitterly.
Sally who had been a silent onlooker all this while spoke up.
"I am here Bestie, I will help you." She came forward and embraced me tightly.
Grateful that she was here, I turned to her and bawled my eyes out.
"Oh Sally, I am so glad you are here. I have so much to tell you."
"Sure you do, and you owe me an explanation for two years ago too."
I smiled through my tears because I felt a little bit whole again with my best friend around. The future did not look so bleak anymore.
Maggie, who had been scared of my glare, moved forward and touched my cheek.
" You are my strong Luna, aren't you?"
"Don't ever call me that again, Maggie," I told her and stood up from the bed on wobbly feet and moved to the windows that looked down at the city.
There were lights everywhere and the small city below was bubbling with life and activity.
Something ,the hope I have been holding out that someday, somehow, my family and my mate would come find me, suddenly, died inside of me… I was an abandoned Omega, unwanted by no one.
"From now on, I am just Elizabeth. Luna Elizabeth Mason Knowles is dead."
I turned and faced my worried little family, who looked worried to death about me.
"Yes, I am just Elizabeth, daughter of no one and mate of no one".
Unknown to Elizabeth, as she spoke , she looked different in the eyes of her family.
Her eyes, which had become dull since she came back, began to emit a silver light , her red hair sparkling.
Sally and Uncle Charles, the only humans in the room, thought she looked like a pagan goddess while Fiona and Maggie understood the changes and gave a smile of victory: their girl was back again, the daughter of the moon goddess had returned and there was no turning back….