Ran Away Pregnant Came Back Alpha Heiress (Amelia and Damien) novel Chapter 175

Chapter 175

Amelia’s POV

My entire body went numb, and I started to tremble as if I was cold. I didn’t feel cold. I didn’t feel anything. How could Damien been the mastermind of this… How could he hate me so much that he would want to kill my baby and me…?

After everything we went through in the capital… He nearly died to save me! Why would he so suddenly turn around and try to kill me now. What had happened? What could have changed to make him possibly hate me this much?

Then, suddenly, I realized what it could have been.

He had felt pressured to choose between Claire and her baby and me. Had I been too hard on him when hoping that he would choose me, and that my baby and I would come first in his life?

Was this how he reacted now?

Had he made his choice and I specifically wasn’t part of that?

At the capital, he had seemed so certain that he was going to pick me. He had even told everyone, with witnesses, that Claire was going to be exiled.

How much he must have changed on the drive home! For him to now want our baby and me to die… it felt like too much.

But what could I do? How could I deny it, especially as Eve explained that the poison could only have been accessed by a few at the top of the Alpha chain. There was no one higher than Damien in that pack, and anyone immediately beneath him wouldn’t have made a move without his say so.

In these moments of realization, my heart sunk low, aching despite the numbness in the rest of my body.

I knew then that I would never be able to trust Damien ever again.

After what he’d done for me at the capital, he must have come to regret it all. He probably wished that I had died, and that he had never taken steps to try to save me. He probably wished he had left me in that dank dungeon, letting whatever fate befell me happen without his interference.

“I’m sorry, Amelia,” Eve told me.

I didn’t know what to say at that point so I just nodded.

She was silent for a few minutes, allowing the news to sit with me. It was uncomfortable, and I hated the quiet. I didn’t want it. I didn’t want to think about what was happening, or how the man I had loved so passionately actually wanted me dead enough to poison me. And my child! Gods, my child…

“Amelia, I’m afraid I must ask you a few more questions about this,” Eve said. “This miracle that saved you… We haven’t been able to discern what it was. By all accounts, you should be dead right now.”

I nodded, too numb to do much else.

“Would you allow us to examine you? To take some blood samples and see what could have happened?”

I continued to nod. It didn’t truly matter to me anymore, but for the sake of my child… To make sure I was alright … Yes, I would do anything.

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If the healers needed to discover why this miracle happened, then that was fine. Honestly, I wouldn’t mind knowing as well. While I felt like perhaps my child was protecting me, I knew typically those things went the other way around.

My daughter was vulnerable right now. I was the one supposed to protect her.

Yet was it possible she was protecting me instead? Could her wolf have been strong enough to do that?

I had to find out.

If I focused on that, maybe if I could think about that instead, then the pain of Damien’s betrayal might not hurt. as badly. Or at least I wouldn’t have as much time to dwell on it.

My trust was shattered though… I looked at Eve and asked, “Where is Jake?”

As if he could sense my need for him, Jake walked through the door at just that moment. When he saw me awake, the tightness in his eyes immediately smoothed out. He rushed to me, taking my hands.

“You are awake, Amelia. Gods, we’ve been so worried.”

“Jake,” I said. Looking at him with watery eyes, the truth of what was happening was hitting me now like a knife to the chest. I went from feeling numb to feeling everything all at once. Gods, I hated it. I’d rather go back to numbness than suffer through this feeling of betrayal.

With tears in my eyes, I asked Jake, “Is it true? Is Damien really do this?”

Jake frowned and squeezed my hands. “I’m sorry Amelia. It really seems that way.”

Jake wouldn’t lie to me. For him to say that, meant that he believed it.

Finally, I allowed my heart to fully break.

Damien’s POV

“I don’t understand,” I said into the receiver of the landline phone. Sitting behind my desk, I was otherwise frozen. Whatever I had been working on was entirely forgotten. The papers on my desk, and emails on my compute

might as well have been gibberish for how much I understood or cared about them in this moment.

This phone call with Dr. Wyatt was all I could focus on now.

“I’m resigning from both the hospital and the pack, Alpha Damien,” Dr. Wyatt said, repeating herself. “You should be receiving my formal written letters tomorrow, but I wanted you to be aware of this as soon as possible. I will not be returning to your pack. And more, I’m appalled by what you’ve done.”

“What?” I asked. “What was I supposed to have done?” This couldn’t have been about my exiling Claire. Dr. Wyatt. never had any love for Claire, and I would have thought she’d approved of my allowing Claire to stay until after the child was born, in case there were any complications.

“Don’t act ignorant now, Alpha. There’s no need.

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“Dr. Wyatt, please. Whatever you think I’ve done…”

“Amelia almost died, but she’s still alive. Does that surprise you? The poison you switched her medicine with wasn’t enough to kill her.”

“P-poison?” What the hell was going on in Jake’s pack! “What poison?!”

Dr. Wyatt scoffed at me. “I’ll include the details in my letter, since you want to play dumb. But we are all aware of

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what you’ve done, Damien. And none of us will let you come near and hurt Amelia ever again.”

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