Chapter 71: AND THE WORLD CAME CRASHING DOWN

Ellen Evans POV

The room spun before my eyes. I was pregnant?

When? How? Where? Why? But Dylan and I had only been together for approximately three weeks. He had only touched me thrice in this time frame, once on our mating night and two in the palace here.

It was all unprotected sex and I do not clearly remember if he had finished inside of me.

If he had not, the child could not be his, unless... I let the thought trail away, dread washing over me.

"Oh my!" Dylan said excitedly at the words. "Ellen, we are expecting!" He exclaimed as he shook me in his joy. I was still as a statue as my mind ran through many possibilities based on my one night with Sebastian. "How far along is she, doctor?" He finally asked the question that I dreaded to ask because if I knew...

"Oh, she is about five weeks pregnant, over a month," he told my mate.

And the world came crashing down.

The words echoed in my mind like a cruel joke because I knew instantly who the father was.

Besides me, Dylan had stopped ululating and turned to stare at me. Our gazes locked on each other. I saw the shock and confusion in his orbs.

"Five weeks? How on earth is that possible?" He asked me. "We have only been together for three weeks, Ellen. So tell me?" He pleaded. His voice cracked with emotions, sadness, disappointment, pain. It was something that I had never wished to hear and it hurt me too, my heart breaking into various pieces.

I hesitated to speak as guilt consumed me. I had kept my past a secret, buried away in the deepest corners. I had hidden the truth about Sebastian from Dylan because I thought that it would not matter.

But it was back now, again, to haunt me like before. Sebastian had left his seed in me from that one night of unprotected sex.

I had been stupid.

How could I have listened to my evil twin sister and climbed into his bed? How could I have been tricked by her only for her to deny me? How could I have sacrificed my future for that? How had I believed her?

Now I was pregnant with the child of my sister's mate, Sebastian.

And my mate had also found out about it.

"I...I do not know," I stammered as hot tears streamed down my cheeks.

"What do you mean by you do not know?" He asked me with narrowed eyes. "Ellen, we have been together for three weeks and you have never mentioned that you were pregnant, for another man!" He snapped at me as I wept more aggressively. "Look at me and speak to me!" He snapped in that domineering voice that I had always seen him use on his subordinates at the palace.

I whimpered in fear as I shook my head at his reaffirmation , something I already knew. I was unable to look into his eyes. "I do not know Dylan. I swear it. I am only finding out about this pregnancy now," I clarified.

He took a step back, his hand releasing mine. "Who is the father of the bastard?" He asked me. I looked up then to stare at him. His eyes were filled with rage. I could not bring myself to answer his question so we stared at each other only.

The silence was deafening.

"Answer me now Ellen!" He roared impatiently at me. I could not bring myself to speak the truth. The secret that I had kept hidden for so long threatened to destroy everything between us, my one little clandestine affair that I thought was in the past.

How could this be happening on my wedding eve?

And there was too much to find out, too much to discover, too much to completely ruin me.

"I asked you a question Ellen, who is that bastard's father?!" He bellowed. I shivered as fear travelled down my spine.

"It is the man who came for me, Alpha Sebastian," I pushed out of my mouth.
He paced up and down the hospital room for a while, saying nothing.

"Dylan, I-"

"Who is he to you? Why do you have his child?" He asked me.

"It- it was a mistake Dylan. It was-"

"I asked again, who he is to you Ellen, answer me!"

I knew that I had to tell him the truth, but the words refused to leave my lips, heavy in my mouth and bitter against my tongue. The fear of losing Dylan paralyzed me completely.

"Ellen?" He demanded impatiently. I gave up.

"He is my twin sister's mate."

The tension in the room thickened by another five inches, suffocating, nearly displacing oxygen.

"You are pregnant for your sister's mate? Your twin sister?" He asked me in utter disbelief.

"Dylan, I can explain," I began to say but he cut me off.

"I honestly do not know what I should say to you."

"Please Dylan, you have to understand me," I begged.

"No, Ellen, I do not want to understand you. You lied to me that you had no parents and no siblings. You lied to me about that thing that you are carrying. You have been lying to me from the start. How can I trust you now? Who knows how many other things that you have been lying to me about!" He said.

My breath hitched and I struggled to breath. But I still said," It- it's not t- true. D-Dylan please, I- I," I stammered.

"You what?" He bellowed.

"I am sorry to interrupt, but mayhap this discussion can come up later. My patient is in obvious distress Alpha Dylan. You both can talk about this later when emotions are not running so high and she is in stable conditions," Doctor Thompson interrupted the both of us. Dylan turned to look at the doctor.

"No, no, I need those answers now," he refused.

"Mr Dylan, you are upsetting my patient, I would have to ask you to leave the room," Doctor Thompson said to him. My mate stared at the doctor for a moment and then back to me again. We locked gazes in silence. And as the silence between us grew between us, his expression hardened.

"I will need time to think," he finally said to me, "and to process this, everything that you have said to me." I nodded as my heart shattered into a million pieces.

As Dylan turned to leave, I called out to him. "Dylan?" He paused but did not turn to me, standing with his back to me. "Please don't go," I whispered to him in a shaky voice.

But then, he ignored me and walked out of the hospital room, leaving me alone with my shattered dreams and the exposed secrets that I knew would certainly destroy our future.

I watched as my mate left me behind in the hospital room, closing the door behind him.

My life that had been filled with hope ever since I met him now felt cold and quite empty. The pain gnawed at my heart as my breath came in harsh gasps. I was hyperventilating.

The doctor was by my side in a blink, pressing the emergency bell above my bed. The nurse flooded into the room to assist as they attended to me.

Tears streamed down my face in my peril as I realized the magnitude of my mistakes. How could I have kept my past a secret from my mate? I should have told him. My mind wandered to our daunting future. Would Dylan ever forgive me? Would our bond survive this revelation?

The doctor's gentle voice broke into my inner lamentation. "It is time for you to rest Ellen. We will take care of you." I nodded as drowsiness clouded my mind. They must have sedated me, I realized.

As I drifted off to sleep, I knew that my world would never be the same with or without my mate.