Shattered Bonds

ASHINA'S POV
My eyes snapped open as I suddenly saw myself in a dimly lit room. It looked like those surrounding me didn't want me to know who they were.
I tried to get up but my hands and legs were chained to the bed and I could barely breathe. I was about to scream when someone turned on the switch.

As my eyes landed on the pack's physician, I knew I was in a hospital room. What could have brought me here again? I asked myself but there were some piercing and accusing gazes from some other directions as well.
The room was eerily silent and the gazes from the different people in this room read volumes. I tried to ask what's going on, but somehow I felt they were waiting to lash out at me once I asked, hence I stuttered.

I began to hear someone stifling tears and sobbing gently, which caught my attention. My wolf detected the familiarity with the person concerned and when I raised my head, I saw my sister right at a corner, shedding tears as her head rested on her arms which rested on her knees.

What could be going on?
The pack physician failed to say a word about what was happening, as his expression was confusing and then I saw my maids close to me, their heads bowed and waiting for orders to execute.
"You all can sit," I ordered but they didn't obey. I ignored it and beckoned to the pack physician to come over but he refused, almost shedding tears as well.
I could sense doom in his eyes. What had happened to the pack? What happened to me? Why was I chained to the bed?
The last scene that came to my head was when I was given a drink after which I passed out. Was the drink poisoned? It never could be. I trusted Meera with every fibre of my being and it would be a wound reopened if I accused her of poisoning me.
I finally mustered enough courage to ask them what was going on.

"Can someone speak to me?" I asked. My voice sounding a bit weak nonetheless, but it echoed in the room.
My maids shivered a little bit and some of them refrained from shedding tears. I concluded that someone must have died. Or the half wolf half demon beings must have torn the flesh of Lobo's wolves apart.
"Someone should say something!" I slightly screamed as every sob I was hearing died down.

Then, slowly, someone turned his back to face me. He had been here since I woke up but I didn't notice. He had had his back turned against me, and now that he's turning back, my gaze connected with his...Lobo.
His eyes were red and puffy like someone who had been crying for the past few weeks. If Lobo could be this saddened, then something grievous must have happened.
I didn't bother waiting for an answer when I began crying alongside with them, since we were all meant to cry and ensure our eyes are red from it.

Since my sister was here, Lobo was here, my maids were here, the pack physician was here, I quickly noticed the absence of Zeeb as my mind raced with terror.
I tried to get off the chains around my hands. Oh. Not chains. Water was being transmitted to my body. Why? Did I donate blood to anyone for healing recently?
Had I been unconscious for a long time?

I asked for the umpteenth time, "what's wrong" and suddenly Lobo growled, his wolf snarling like though it would morph and tear me to pieces immediately.
Meera quickly got up and held him back as the pack physician moved closer to where I was.

I was beginning to understand. Lobo was indeed against me, but what could I have done wrong to deserve his anger? What could make him so angry, and also lead me to the hospital, and also make others beside me cry?
I was growing frustrated with the number of questions popping up in my mind yet no one to answer any of his questions.
The pack physician placed a finger on his lips, indicating that I seal my lips. I remained quiet but Lobo wanted to badly hurt me as his wolf was growing more impatient.
One of the maids leaned in closer as she saw now as the best opportunity to tell me what was going on.

"You lost your pregnancy." She said as my eyes bulged, my heart pounding hard in my chest. My head felt empty and I couldn't say a word as the shock was too much to absorb.
I held her firmly until I found my voice. It came out weakly as I spoke, "lost? Lost what?"

I now understood what could break Lobo to that extent of his eyes being red and puffy. My heart shattered into a million pieces as I troubled the maid to give me details of how it all happened.
I also troubled the pack physician to show me the test results. He handed over to me and eventually took it from me, holding it up with his hands so I'd check them, since my hands were chained and he didn't remember that initially.
I was shocked to see the test results which confirmed that I had successfully lost my pregnancy. The kid that Lobo was waiting for like though his life depended on it. His life did, actually.
"You were trying to fight with a stronger wolf when you were defeated and the child was kicked multiple times, resulting into fatal injury." She whispered but I didn't believe any of those words. It could have been made up by Lobo.
Though he's sad, but I wouldn't base my judgment on looks.
I wanted to cry out and express the pain I was feeling in my heart when Lobo released himself from the grip of those that held him back earlier.
He growled and suddenly made towards me, anger visible in his moves.
He suddenly lost control and morphed into his wolf in this room, almost destroying the ceilings as he snarled and ran towards me.
I tried to get off from the bed but I was chained. My eyes bulged as his wolf closed the gap between us. My heart raced with each thud his wolf made to come tear my flesh apart, as my breaths came in ragged gasps.