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CHAPTER EIGHT.

ROSALIE'S POV.

"Someone should find me the guards I sent into the woods," I shouted randomly, with my heart clenching in pain as I increased the pressure of my weight on Alpha Cosmos's chest.

I was trying everything in my power to revive him, and he was refusing to be revived. Something was wrong with the concoction I made, and I was confused because I used normal ingredients and mixtures.

I had gone to the woods to grab more herbs, but upon returning, I was met with a commotion where everyone was prowling, and the words on their lips were that my patients had been poisoned.

Judging by their suspicious eyes on me, I knew they were all pointing their fingers at me, whereas I was as astonished as they were.

"Anyone?!" I repeated, but just like the first question, no one answered me.

The healers and the guards with some maids were all standing around in the room, glaring at me, and not moving. That was when I realised that no one went to the woods, and tears weighed up in my eyes.

A hand gently grabbed one of my hands that was on Alpha Cosmos, and I traced the hand to him. "Alpha," I called him tearfully and a tear from my eyes dropped on his face.

"R... Rosa." He called with his breath ceasing, and I could feel his heart rising heavily and failing under my palms.

"Alpha, I'm sorry." I cried, "I'm so sorry. This is all my fault." I admitted and bowed my head in shame.

"No, Rosa. I knew I was a dead man, and I know you didn't poison me, so I am at peace with you. I am also glad that you gave me an extra three days to be with my son."

His words were not spoken smoothly, they came out soft, mild and tender, he even had a weak smile on to show his appreciation, but that was not what I wanted, I wanted him alive, I didn't want to be tag a murderer, at least, not of the old alpha's.

"Please, alpha Cosmos, stay with me." I choked on my tears but didn't stop begging, "Please."

He gave me yet another weary smile, "Take care of my son and yourself. I'm just sad I don't live to see my grandpup."

My cries became louder, knowing that he didn't only have a grandpup, but three, and he was unable to meet them because of me, who was trying to protect them away from Jacqueline.

My pain increased, and I felt sorry for the old alpha, for he was dying with the thought that his son had no heir yet.

I fell on my knees beside the bed with my tears falling like a heavy rainfall. I was very hurt, and my throat dried up.

I realised I made a mistake. I should have told the old man about my pups, and he should have been given a chance to die a happy man. He deserved it, "I'm sorry."

"Please Rosa, don't leave Sun. He might get annoying but don't leave him. You are the only one I can trust his safety with, please, don't leave. Don't leave. Don't leave...." He kept on muttering the words, 'Don't leave', til like that, his heavy heart fell, and he became numb, turning old and white.

I couldn't move from where I knelt, and my hands couldn't move away from his chest, just the drops of my bitter tears wetting my clothes with my eyes glued to the corpse without blinking.

On that spot, I became dead to the outside world, the world around me. I didn't know what was happening. I didn't even hear anything.

The thoughts in my head refused to change from the fact that someone prominent just died in my hands.

That was the first of it from the day I became a doctor, I had never lost a patient, and the first one had to be the pack's number one man, the old alpha. Someone who had been given another chance to live.

Just for a minute, I stepped out from the pack house, he got poisoned, and everyone was pointing at me.

Why won't they? I made the herbs myself and had specially fed them to him before I stepped out, and according to the guards guarding the alpha's chamber, no one was allowed in when I left, not even the healers, so where did I wrong?

Where?

I was deeply in reverie when Jacqueline returned with Carl, and since I was dead, I couldn't pick a word from him, but I felt his anger from the floor I was.

I felt his pain, and he angrily threw my hands, which were on the alpha, away, bringing me back from reverie.

"Throw her into the deepest part of the dungeon with no food or water til I'm calm!" Came his command to the guards.

I had not a single strength to argue or defend myself. I was weak, and two guards grabbed roughly to my arms and dragged me away from the floor.

The journey to the dungeon was a rough one. I was thrown in like they were commanded, and the door was shut at me.

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I had lost count of time and was still in the dungeon. No one had ever stopped by to visit me, and that meant that I had not tasted anything for a long time except my tears.

I was lying on the cold floor, and couldn't sleep a wink. I had never suffered that much for a while, and for the time I have spent here, I haven't for once thought about anything apart from the fact that someone died on me.

I forgot that I was a mother.

My heart was in too much pain to think of anything else.

Then, a sound of clinking keys echoed around the dungeon, and the door was opened.

"Rosa!" I heard Carl's voice call and felt myself getting scooped in his arms. "Are you okay?"

I couldn't reply to him, neither could I see him in the darkness of the dungeon. I was weak and dry.

"I'll carry you to the room." He wanted to carry me, but I hesitated, not wanting any more problems for myself.

He noticed my hesitation, "Don't worry, Jacqueline knows about this. I found a way to convince him to release you, you'll just need to avoid him."

'That shouldn't be a problem.' I thought within myself with my pups suddenly crossing my mind. 'I'll just leave the pack.'

Carl carried me to the room which was given to me where I was sleeping while I took care of the diseased people.

I sat down and he brought a tray of food for me, "Eat up."

I hearkened to him and began to eat up like he said. I was too hungry to eat with a spoon since that would slow down the process, I ate with my bare hands, and even with how hungry I was, I was unable to finish up a plate of food.

"Here." He stretched a bottle of water to me and I drank from it. I finished that one and drank another til I was satisfied.

I was done eating and drinking and was so tired. All I needed was a long sleep and a nicely planned escape after waking up.

I relaxed with my back on the bed's headrest, and my eyes closed, but then, I was bound to have no resting place.

The door was flung open, and a cold-looking Jacqueline stepped into the room, wearing a black shirt and black trousers with his hands tucked in his pockets.

Apart from the cold aura he was breathing, his face stood out, and I was reminded that his father died in my hands since he looked exactly like his father.

"I can see you're relaxed, but how dare you, after murdering my father?!"

I was tongue-tied.

"I understand that you hate me for probably the things I did to you in the past, but how dare you punish me this much by murdering my father?!"

I was wrongly accused, and I couldn't take that, "I don't murder your father...."

He cut into my words, "Then who did? Me?" He chuckled coldly and took a step closer to me.

Then his voice changed to a sober one, "Why didn't you just tell me I did an unforgettable thing to you? I would have gently apologised to you. Why did you allow the devil to be dominant and you succour to murder?"

I became mad, "I said I didn't do it! Why don't you open your eyes and see that someone is trying to frame me here?!" I shouted at him.

"How sweet! Now, you can raise your voice at me after rendering me an orphan." He spoke harshly, then chuckled, "You'll pay for this Rosa. Mark my words, you will pay for killing my father."

"Who says I will be here to pay for whatever you're accusing me of? I won't stay here to let myself pay for a crime I didn't commit."

He pulled even closer to me with his lips slowly stretching in a smirk, but his rocky expression wouldn't ease. "Do you think I will give you a chance to run? And oh! Those three pups who were always with you in the human world are cute, don't you think?" He threatened me.

I knew he was indirectly warning me about their lives.

I was annoyed that I raised my hand and slapped him, "You bastard! How dare you threaten me with the lives of your pups?! You want to kill them right? Then do, and let's see if you will be able to have another heir!"

The words had slipped out of my mouth before I realised what I said. No, no!

"M... My pups?"

No! Please, no.