Premature Labor After The Alpha Took My Hospital Bag Chapter 02
“Melinda, there’s no lie you won’t tell to get attention, is there?”
“I checked your prenatal report before I left. The doctor said everything was normal—you’re still half a month from your due date.”
“You’re lying on the floor playing dead because you want to trick me into leaving Alina’s side, don’t you?”
I gasped for air.
“I’m not lying to you.”
“Dennis, my water already broke—the pup will suffocate!”
“We share a fated bond. Can’t you feel my pain?”
Dennis went silent for two seconds, as if trying to sense something.
Then Alina’s faint, pained moan came through, and the connection that had barely formed shattered instantly.
“Alina, is it hurting again? The doctor’s on his way.”
After comforting Alina, his voice turned bone-cold when he addressed me again.
“Melinda, Alina is an orphan. I’m all she has.”
“You have a good family, money, free time—why do you need to compete with a helpless girl?”
“She just borrowed your hospital bag, and you resort to these despicable tactics to force me back.”
“You’re vile.”
My cheek pressed against the freezing floor. Tears and cold sweat splashed onto the back of my hand.
I tore my gaze from the communication crystal and clenched my jaw, dragging myself toward the door.
Glass shards dug into my palms. I couldn’t feel the pain.
There was only one thought left in my mind: get out.
I crawled to the entryway and slammed the glass shard against the door lock with all my strength.
The glass shattered instantly, slicing deep gashes across my hand.
The lock didn’t budge.
Dennis’s voice came again, laced with barely contained fury.
“Melinda! What are you doing!”
“If you damage that door, I’ll make you pay when I get back!”
I rummaged through the shoe cabinet with blood-slicked hands.
I remembered a spare key being kept here.
If I could find that key, I could survive.
I swept everything out of the cabinet onto the floor.
Finally, at the very bottom compartment, my fingers closed around the cold metal key.
Bracing against the wall, I stood on trembling legs and guided the key toward the lock.
It wouldn’t go in.
I leaned close to look.
The keyhole was packed solid with dried glue.
I stared blankly at the sealed lock.
“Don’t waste your energy.”
Dennis’s voice carried a note of satisfaction.
“I know how stubborn you are. I was afraid you’d sneak out and cause trouble for Alina.”
“I sealed the keyhole with glue before I left.”
“Melinda, just be a good girl and apologize. Promise me you won’t bother Alina.”
“Once she’s finished giving birth, I’ll come straight home to be with you.”
My back slid down the door, my body sinking inch by inch.
He’d sealed off my last way out.
He wasn’t afraid I’d cause trouble for Alina. He wanted to strip me of every right to survive.
I tilted my head up and looked at the still-glowing communication crystal.
“Dennis, I’m going to sever our bond.”
Silence from the other end.
Then his voice exploded with rage.
“Melinda, you’re threatening me again!”
“Do you think a mate bond can just be dissolved whenever you feel like it?”
“Is threatening me with this the only thing you know how to do?”
I closed my eyes and stopped responding.
The contractions had nearly robbed me of speech.
I could feel something bearing down.
“Dennis, I don’t want you anymore.”
With those words, I hurled the metal key at the communication crystal with every ounce of strength I had left.
The crystal shattered. The light went dark.
The living room returned to deathly silence.
Lying in a pool of blood, I gulped air in ragged breaths.