ALPHA SIN

ARTEMISIA

“No…” I cried as the woman flashed me a wicked smile. A veil of some sort concealed her face, but I could see her pearly white teeth as she grinned.

“Please, spare the child!”

“Too late, darling.” She cackled. And tossed the infant wrapped in a swaddle in the air.

My heartbeat faltered. I was certain it did as I jetted forwards to catch the child as it descended.

But I wasn’t fast enough.

I believed I could have met up, but something happened along the way, which made it seem almost impossible.

“I—I…”

“I told you.” The woman said. She tilted her head whilst I snatched the swaddle on the cool grass.Content property of NôvelDra/ma.Org.

The child wasn’t in it. My baby wasn’t in it!

“W-what did you do?” I gazed at her. My eyes widened with each word I made, and my throat constricted.

“I did what should have been done.” The woman said and yanked me away from the ground.

She closed her hands around my neck before I could make meaning of what was happening.

“Now, it’s your turn to be extinguished.” She whispered in my ear.

“N-No!”

I jerked awake.

Sweat dribbled down my creased forehead and my eyes darted around the room.

Then it stayed on two pairs of dark eyes.

I shrieked before I could help myself and landed on the floor with my backside.

“What the hell?!” Sin yelled, climbing down from the bed.

“Sin?!” I asked with wide eyes as I attempted to stand to my feet.

He helped me up, and I grimaced, rubbing my sore backside.

For a moment, I thought he was the woman who had not only haunted me in my dreams, but had also come to haunt me in real life.

It had been two days since I lost my baby, and it had become even worse. I could barely close my eyes without seeing the woman or hearing the horrid cry of a baby.

I had tried my very best to avert the nightmare, but it kept coming back stronger.

“It’s just a nightmare.” Sin mumbled.

I hoisted my head as I heard his voice. I nodded and sighed.

Indeed, it was. But it felt real, seeing as I had lost my child.

“You need to go back to sleep.”

I slapped his hands that were coming toward me and glared.

I turned my back to him and brought up the duvet to my cheeks.

Furthermore, I hadn’t forgiven him for what happened. Likewise, I was told it wasn’t his fault and that I should stop trying to kill him.

I stopped, but I still blamed him. I lost everything because of him, whilst Emma had hers and could still gloat about it.

The doubt I had about Emma being pregnant disappeared when I noticed her tiny baby bump.

And she never ceased to rub the fact that I was pregnant no more on my face with the little chance she had. And it pissed me off each time.

“I just want you to be okay.” Sin said.

“I am okay.” I almost snapped at him. I let out a deep breath before turning to face him.

A deep frown etched on his face, “I see I am not forgiven yet?”

“And don’t expect to be for now.” I retorted. “If you hadn’t been selfish looking out only for yourself, we wouldn’t be this way.”

“But,”

“Please, spare me the sermon. I am exhausted and need some rest.” I cut him off.

“Very well.” Sin said. He didn’t try to talk to me again, but I realized he stood from the bed soon after I snapped at him.

Was I too cruel?

Maybe. He hadn’t planned the invasion, but I was making it look as though he had, and I didn’t think I could change whatever belief I had in my head.

“If you need anything, I will be around. Just holler my name.”

“Where are you going?” I said rather upset. “Do you want to go to Emma?”

I shouldn’t have said that, but I could not help myself.

“Artemisia…” Sin narrowed his eyes at me and for a brief second, I thought he was going to snap, but he said nothing.

He packed up what he wanted and stormed out of the room.

I let out a groan and shoved my hands through my hair before plopping back on the bed.

My eyes went to the ceiling, and for a brief second, I thought about running to meet him wherever he was and staying in the room.

The thought of sleeping alone in the room and having the same nightmare over again appalled me.

But I believed getting my mind off things would do me a lot of good.

So I thought of the happy moment I had before everything spiralled out of control.

Soon enough, I become weary, and my eyes shut on their own.

********

“Hey, b*tch.” Emma greeted me.

The urge to yank her back by her hair filled me, but I resisted it and I dug my nails into my palm.

I could kill her.

I was certain of that. But I didn’t want to. The guilt of doing something awful to her would haunt me forever, and I didn’t want to feel that way.

I turned away from her after sizing her up, but I didn’t think she was ready to leave me just yet.

“I am talking to you b*tch.” Emma began. She gripped my hand and pulled me back. “How does it feel not being pregnant again? You know, I haven’t lost a child before, and I am wondering if it makes one feel…”

I didn’t let her finish her sentences. I couldn’t let her.

Heck, the blow I landed on her cheek was unexpected as I hadn’t planned it, but Emma blabbing on and on about my lost baby got on my nerves more than her annoying self.

Again, she deserved it.

“Insult me all you want, but never say something awful to a child who could have been the ruler of this kingdom!”

“B*tch!” Emma gasped. Her hand was on her right cheek where I slapped her, and she stormed toward me.

“A stupid fetus that didn’t wait for it to be born? I would say the child is so lucky. I mean, who wants a stupid witch for a mother?!”

“Emma…” I said in a low voice. I didn’t want to hit her again, but as she kept coming at me, I didn’t think she could escape it.

“Yeah? You’ll hit me again?” She yelled. “F*cking do what you are best at, whore!”

“Cut the crap out!”