Chapter 125: They Took My Womb!!
Elián;
"Please open your eyes. You’ve been sleeping for a long time... Mom says you’re okay, but I’m starting to get worried." Koda’s voice slips through a dark void, and I take a deep breath as it suddenly feels like I’ve been brought back to life.
"Does it hurt?" He speaks again, and confusion hugs me.
Does what hurt? Did something happen to me??
I struggle to pull my eyes open, and as my eyelids peel back, I whine at the sunlight.
"Elián!?" Koda’s excited voice calls, and I feel the bed dip beside me, and he sits there.
"You’re finally awake." He says, and I take a hand up to my head.
"God, I feel numb," I mumble as I try to sit up, but he quickly grabs my shoulders to stop me.
I stare up at him with confused eyes, but he simply pushes me back into the bed.
"You just got operated on. You shouldn’t sit up." He says, and a metal gong gets struck in my head.
I stare at him in silence first as my brain scrambles to be sure I’m not mixing up the meaning of what he just said.
Operated on!?
By who!?
Why!??
I try to sit up again as panic surges through me, but he grabs my shoulders and pins me down again.
"Win, I just told you that you need to lie down." He says, and I gulp.
"Why... why was I operated on??" I question in painfully obvious fear, and he takes a deep breath.
"You have been bleeding internally for a while now. You passed out because of it last night..." He explains, and I blink at him in silence.
Who the fuck said I had internal bleeding!?
"I didn’t have internal bleeding! I’ve been perfectly fine all along. Who lied to you!?" I demand in horror as my thoughts start spiralling.
Fuck! What if Alpha Liandria sent someone here to lie to them, and then they operated on me and took out my womb!??
I won’t be able to have babies!!!
I quickly fling the blanket off me, and to my horror, there’s a patch of bandage of some kind stuck to my side.
Blood drains from my face as I stare at it, and my heart starts pounding as I take my hands to my stomach.
"Elián, what are you...?" Koda begins, but I ignore him as I desperately begin to feel about my stomach.
I don’t know what I’m looking for, but I keep searching anyway.
Pressing and probing different parts of my stomach.
"Elián, what are you doing??" Koda questions, but I ignore him as my search becomes more frantic.
"Elián, what are you searching for? You’ll tear your stitches!" Koda scolds as he snatches my hands, and tears rush to my eyes as I tear my hands away from his grip.
"How could you let someone operate on me!?" I scold as tears start pouring.
I can’t find it! I can’t feel anything! I don’t know what to search for, but I can’t seem to feel it. Don’t women know where their womb is?
Is the womb something I can feel like this? Is it really gone??
"Elián, you had internal bleeding..." Koda begins, but I cut him off.
"So!? That’s where blood is meant to be. Inside!" I scold, and he blinks at me in shock as tears stream down my face.
I watch worry flood his but I look away from him, and back at my stomach.
"They tricked you..." I croak, and there’s silence.
"Alpha Liandria trucked you and sent someone to operate on me..." I add with sobs, threatening to steal my voice.
"Now I don’t have my womb anymore... I’m not going to be able to have babies anymore..." I break down, and I can’t stop the wail that follows.
"I won’t be able to have babies anymore!!" I cry harder as my hands fall from my stomach.
I pause when I realise Koda hasn’t said or done anything, and I look up at him.
He’s staring at me with his mouth agape, and I sniffle as I stare at him.
He’s not going to say anything? Didn’t he want to have a baby with me? They’ve ruined that dream for us, and He’s just gawking at me??
My thoughts are cut off when he suddenly scoots closer to me and pulls me to himself in a hug.
I stay frozen in his embrace as he kisses and cradles my head, and fresh tears build in my eyes.
"You scared me..." He mutters, and my brows crease.
"No one stole your womb. My mother alone operated on you." He adds, and my heart skips a beat.
What??
"The alcohol I carelessly let you drink last night must have clashed with the injury in your system and triggered something." He explains further, and I freeze as I try to make sense of everything.
"Mom found you passed out miles away from our hut. She had to perform the survey to avoid further complications." He concludes, and my mind rushes back to last night.
I remember the goddess, the visions, her words... I remember everything except for how I got out of the trance or how I got back to the village.
Is this what Koda thinks happened? That my drinking caused me to pass out? And what’s all this horse story about, an internal bleeding.
If I had such an issue, wouldn’t I know? Would someone tell me?
He gently pulls away from me, and I stare at him as he cradles my face.
"Were you... truly scared that someone tampered with your womb?" He questions, and I swallow.
I know I’ve always said I don’t want to have anything to do with these Alphas and I would rather die than become a baby pooping machine... but Koda doesn’t make it seem that way.
It’s humiliating to eat back my words, but I guess it doesn’t count if the only person you were mouthing off to... was yourself.
"Elián... be honest with me. Just now... were you that worried because you thought you would no longer be able to have babies?" He pushes further, and I look away from him before nodding.
I hear him exhale in excitement, and he holds my shoulders as he stoops a bit to see my face.
"Why?" He questions, and I steal a glance up at him through the shield my hair had made over my eyes.
The happiness in his golden eyes is like friendly fire. Almost like a campfire fire, I can’t fight the urge to stoke.
"...Because... then we won’t be able to have a baby," I reply, and a smile explodes on his face.
He stares at me like I just told him I would give him all the wealth in the world.
"You mean that!?" He questions, and my face falls into a frown.
"Don’t make me say it twice! If I didn’t mean it, would I say it?" I pour, and he chuckles before pulling me into yet another hug.
"I love you, Elián!" He exclaims, and my heart skips a beat.
Love?
He... loves me??
His embrace tightens, and I groan as his hug squeezes the bandage.
"Not to right." I scold as I lightly slap his hand, and he quickly pulls away from me.
"Oh, sorry..." He says, and I roll my eyes.
He’s this happy because I said I want to have a child with him?? Has he really been craving Fatherhood so bad??
"Let me go call Mom. She said to inform her as soon as you wake up." He says as he hops off the bed, and I nod.
He takes a step away from the bed, but suddenly turns back to me.
He leans closer to me and plants a kiss on my lips.
"It’ll be an honour to have you carrying my child." He says, and I feel a blush colour my cheeks as he turns around and rushes off.
I smile in the privacy of the room, and Elien’s voice rings in my head, startling me.
"Well, that was pathetic."
"Elien!?" I call in shock, his voice replies smugly.
"Speak in your mind! Except you want people to think we’ve run mad." He replies, and I smile.
"I can hear you! How’s that happening?!" I question in excitement, and his monotone voice replies.
"I don’t know. I think the goddess did something. I was going to tell you that I no longer felt a barrier between us, but Alpha kissy face was all over you... And what was all that monkey talk about getting pregnant??" He replies, and my jaw drops.
"Kissy face??"
"What? You don’t like it? It’s okay. I have a ton of other names for him." He replies, and I pout as I have a feeling I won’t like the names he has.
"Alpha SIMPlton, Alpha handsy, Alpha no concept of personal space, Alpha..."
"Elien!"
"What? They’re very fitting names if you ask me..."
"I didn’t ask you. Cut it out. He’s nice, intelligent and caring. You won’t call him names!" I scold, and there’s silence.
"...Elien?" I call in confusion as I wonder why he’s suddenly gone quiet.
"You like him!!" He suddenly screams in my head, and my jaw drops.
I’m about to vehemently deny it with everything inside me, when suddenly the curtain lifts, and Queen Cassia walks in.
"Ah... You’re truly awake. How do you feel?" She questions, and I force a smile as I stare at her.
"This isn’t over," Elien notes in my head, and I grit my teeth.
"Of course it isn’t! If I’m going to constantly hear your voice in my head, you will NOT be a terror to me!"
"We’ll see."