Chapter 146 CHAPTER 146
Michael's POV
Our voices must have alerted Alpha Raymond because the door handle turned and he stood in the doorway, looking like he had seen his worst nightmare come true.
“What…why are you here?” he asked.
My grip around her arm loosened. She smiled. “Is this the scandal you've been hiding, Alpha Raymond?” She asked, glancing briefly at the woman on the bed who had remained fixed despite all the commotion.
“Get out!” He yelled, stepping in.
I held her. “Not with what she knows.”
She pulled herself from my grip. “You are just as dirty as everyone,” she spat out. “You told the whole world she's dead while she's hiding here. Right under our noses. Why?” Her eyes flickered between Alpha Raymond and I.
She laughed gently.
“Does Evelyn Moon know that the same woman her family has been dragged for murdering is right here? I guess not.” She moved closer to the bed. “I don't care about Evelyn Moon or whatsoever secrets you wish to keep. All I want is one thing Alpha Raymond. You'll make sure I become your son's wife.”
My jaw tightened.
“Or Viktor Calderon gets this fantastic news and I trust he'll do justice with it.”
The anger in Alpha Raymond’s eyes softened into something else. Something like understanding.
“You are a very persistent person, Rosaleen,” he said. “You know a lot of the secrets we keep, and becoming part of us is the only way we can proceed.”
I looked at the woman on the bed, logging out of their conversation. She didn't look at us. Her eyes remained fixed on the book in front of her. I traced the outline of her face with my eyes and I could see the resemblance we shared.
She wasn't like anything I had expected.
I moved closer and she raised her head to look at me. I froze. She didn't smile but I saw recognition in her eyes.
Someone opened the door suddenly and hurried in. It was a security personnel. He headed for Rosaleen.
“We received information of a security breach,” he said, panting and I knew he'd fled up the stairs when he heard the room that was breached.
Alpha Raymond raised up his hand. “She's with me.”
I spun around. I'd been lost in their conversation for a while. When did she become part of us?
“She should be arrested,” I said, moving away.
“Michael…”
I stopped.
The voice was soft, gentle and almost unsure.
“Michael.” She repeated and there was more certainty in her voice. I turned slowly until our eyes met. I didn't remember much about her face or her anymore. But I saw that warmth in her eyes as though it was that morning when she walked me to the door as I left for school.
“Mum?”
“Where is my baby?” She cried out.
Alpha Raymond dismissed the security man. I wanted Rosaleen gone too but he was bent on letting her stay.
“My baby,” she repeated.
Alpha Raymond walked close to her and tried to calm her down. I watched. He rang for a nurse who arrived in seconds, holding a tray of syringes.
“She'll be right here,” he said, not moving too close to her.
The nurse drew out some substance in the syringe and walked carefully towards her. I was irritated by how they treated her like a monster.
“What is that?” I asked.
“A sedative, sir,” she replied.
“Why? All she asked for is her baby. Why are you trying to sedate her?”
The nurse looked at Alpha Raymond and stammered. “I… she…”
“Not anymore,” I said. “You can't keep sedating her like she's a monster.”
Alpha Raymond didn't utter a word. Perhaps I had never seen him so broken before. Perhaps it was an act.
“Yes sir,” the nurse said, retreating.
She was still fidgeting. Her hands were trembling and she was biting her nails. I looked at Alpha Raymond.
“Let's talk outside.”
Rosaleen looked up. “Without you,” I added.
We stepped out of the room and walked quirky and slowly down the corridor.
“She can't stay there forever,” I said, breaking the silence. “He can't harm her, can he?”
He missed a step. “I can handle Calderon. But she… she has become a danger to herself.”
“It has to be controlled by something,” I said. I weighed the thought at the back of my mind. Maybe it was time we showed her that her daughter was alive. “Anna,” I said. “Maybe she should see her.”
“How do we manage to keep the news within? We cannot explain her sudden reappearance now,” he said.
“Well figure it out,” I said.
I wasn't sure I could trust Anna. I didn't trust Rosaleen but she had found out the truth. She was definitely going to inform Anna. We could just let her see her child.
“You don't understand,” he said. “She can't.”
I stopped. “What are you not telling me, Alpha Raymond?”
“She's gone rogue,” he said. “She's not in control.” He looked at me. “You are the only one she has recognized in years. She called your name. She doesn't recognise the rest of us. That's why we keep her heavily sedated."
I looked back at the door in the distance.
“She's a monster now,” he said.
I thought of what Anna Trent had told me the previous evening. She said my mum had asked her for a favour before she died. And she said part of her fox was still in her. Could she be rogue because part of her was missing?
“Anna Trent told me something -”
We were interrupted by a loud scream and crashing sounds. The noise was coming from Philly's room. We turned and fled towards the room as a team of nurses and security fled towards her room in the opposite direction.
My heart pounded in my chest. Rosaleen had been in the room with her. Alone. And I had stopped the nurse from sedating her.
I feared that the worst had happened.