Chapter 76: WOULD IT ALL BE OVER?

Alpha Dylan's POV

Ellen was my happiness.

It was not that I had not been happy before I had met her. But since the moment that she had come into life, she had become my sole happiness.

Whenever I saw her every morning, an inexplicable joy filled my heart. And whenever she smiled at me, I felt like my heart would burst open. And when I had known that she would soon be mine, forever, I had been happier than a well fed puppy.

But now, every of those single feeling of joy has turned sour.

The weight of her revelation had left a rather bitter taste on my tongue.

The doctor's last sentence danced around inside of my head

"Mr Dylan, you are upsetting my patient, I would have to ask you to leave the room," he had said.

I stared at Ellen.

Her crying face tugged at my empathy, but the pain of what she had just done overrode it.

I could not shake off the dirty feeling of betrayal. It has a bad taste that lingered on my tongue, in my mind and in my heart.

My mate's decadent revelation threatened to scatter our bond to an irreparable state and I was left with a question on everything that had happened to us so far.

I totally needed the space to think and to process everything. I need to dwell on all these away from her. I needed to untangle the web of emotions that was wanting to suffocate me as my heart carried the weight of her violent deception.

"I will need time to think and to process this, everything that you have said to me."

I studied her one last time before I turned to leave.

"Dylan?" She called my name in an uncertain whisper. I halted in my whir but refused to look at her.

I did not want to feel pity for her.

Her tears were doing that to me though I knew that I had to confront the glaring truth of my mate being pregnant with another man's child, leaving me with a green hat.

The pain still seared my soul, its intensity threatening to consume me.

I couldn't face Ellen right now.

I needed solitude.

"Please don't go," she pleaded. I did not want to, but I knew that I had to do it. And so I closed my ears to her plea and walked out on her, leaving her behind with her lies.

My footsteps echoed behind me as I walked down the sterile corridor but I paid no heed to it for it was not my attention at the moment.

Every step that I took in the opposite direction took me further away from the life that we had spent three whole weeks building together.

My mind was still in a state of shock from what had just happened.

Many questions came to my head, quick and unanswered. My mind filled with anxiety as I wondered what would become of the both of us and our future. The lights which illuminated the hospital seemed to mock me as it stretched over into my mind, allowing me to reflect on the current shambles of my life.

Why on earth had my mate kept this secret away from me?

Why on earth was she pregnant with her twin sister's mate child?

Who on earth was Alpha Sebastian to her? What was their connection? And was the child truly his?

Was that why he had come?

What would become of the both of us and our relationship?

Would our bond survive her decadent revelation?

What will become of our upcoming wedding?

Would it all be over?

I did not know the answers to that at the moment. It was only time that could tell for now.

A lot of possibilities and impossibilities ran through my hazy mind.

I reached the elevator and pressed the button to take me to the ground floor from the third floor. I rode alone in the machine, my head hot and totally scattered.

I stepped out of the machine at my destination and walked to the car park where my automobile was sitting quietly as I had earlier asked Drake to return to the Palace since we had visitors.

I opened the car door and lowered myself into the seat. I stamped the steering wheel with my palm, creating a horn noise.

I was tired of everything.

I started the ignition and drove back to the palace with my mind away from the road more than once. It was a good thing that I did not cause any accidents in my distracted state.

I parked my automobile and stepped out of the car with calculated ease. I shut the door and the car itself and stopped to stare at the entire palace.

The people were in a festive mood and the palace itself had been decorated over the days for the big day which should have been tomorrow.

Should have been?

Was I not going to marry her? I questioned myself. Well, I could, but not with another man's child growing inside of her.

I began to walk towards the palace and to the throne room. I needed to see those three visitors.

They were still there when I arrived. And I knew that Martha and Drake must have withheld the hospital information from them as part of my behavior at the hospital. I had acted like it was their fault that Ellen had fainted and was at the hospital.

"Where's my sister?" Zedd said in a demanding voice, coming up to me. He looked like he would grab my neck and kill me if I said that something had happened to her.

But, that I did not pay attention to. What I paid attention to was the fact that with him up so close and personal I could see the striking resemblance between him and Ellen.

How on earth had I not seen that before when they had first come? I guessed that it was because I was invested in being worried for Ellen.

That betrayal!

"Won't you tell us why we were held in your palace in your absence, unable to go anywhere?!" Alpha Sebastian said behind him. I turned to look at the arrogant man.

Every single word that my mate had said to me in the hospital, every single word that had spelled her decadent revelation echoed greatly inside my head and my far from peaceful mind.

I could tear them apart in anger, transfer transgressions.

"Alpha Sebastian," I said, looking straight at him with a fully murderous gaze. I struggled to contain my angry wolf inside of me as I stared at them.

He was her twin sister's mate.

He was still the father of her child.

No wonder he had come into my palace with such unwavering confidence. It was no wonder that he had thought it alright to be so rude to me, so angry and condescending.

It was because what I wanted to have should have been his, though it should have been mine.

My heart swirled with so many emotions.

There was the heart wrenching pain and the damaging hurt. And the anger and rage at their alliance. Then there was the disappointment at my mate for trying to baby trap me.

And we had been so good together!

I remembered the foot of her body in my arms, our matching energies, the way she made me so happy, eager for her, wanting more.

I thought she had been happy too, with everything?

I wondered if everything had been a lie, like her. I wondered if she had been secretly pining for her useless arrogant baby daddy.

How could she?

How could she have done this to us?

Perhaps I should ask Sebastian, perhaps he would have better answers to everything that was going on at this point.

All the anger had disappeared and left in its place a growing curiosity and a bigger disappointment.

"Why is my mate pregnant for you?" I asked them in a resigned voice.