Alpha Your Warrior Ex-Wife is Back (by Aurora Starling) novel Chapter 53

Chapter 53

Gideon’s POV

The hospital faintly smelled of Iron and antiseptic herbs, a scent that was a symbol of this place, it won’t go even if there were flowers in the vases everywhere. I never liked this smell, it was of weakness and also healing which was too slow.

I looked around the other patients and their air was filled with suffering.

As I pushed open the heavy door to Raven’s room, the sound of hushed breathing greeted me. My gaze fell immediately on her.

There she laid on the bed, her body was covered with a blanket, I was able to see her head, her chest was slowly rising and falling and her breathing was shallow. Her hair which was once full of life now laid across the pillow like spilled ink, dull and limp.

The sight made me feel like a punch in the gut, just like the first time I saw her unconscious. My warrior heart felt like it was falling apart. A not so familiar weakness was digging its claws into me.

But I wasn’t the only one here.

I exhaled as I saw Ivan sitting beside her, his hand resting on the edge of the bed protectively, the children still clinged onto Raven like she would vanish if they let her go. His strong frame looked on their side, his dark gaze fixed on her, I saw fury in his eyes but beneath it was concern.

When he saw me step inside, he rose. The chair scraped very loud against the food, the stillness of

the room vanished.

He looked at me with a hardened face, his jaw clenched angrily, the air in the room grew heavier and was charged as if a storm was about to break.

Before I could feel anything else I felt a strong punch on my cheek, I was pushed back by it. Daphne

let out a gasp.

“You.” His voice was sharp and cold.

Before I could open my mouth, Ivan’s words came crashing down on me.

“Is this how you treat my Warrior, Alpha Gideon?” Prince Ivan sneered, this voice was full of rage, his hands curled into fist. “My precious warrior lies here poisoned in your house, under your protection, and that sweet little girl Nova has cried herself to sleep against her mother’s chest while you sit on your damned throne doing what?!”

His punch didn’t hurt me much but his words definitely did.

I stood there speechless, I wanted to talk but no words came out of my mouth because my guilt made

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them stop. Because I knew he wasn’t wrong.

I had indeed failed.

Ivan stepped closer and looked at me coldly. “Do you understand what it felt like?” He demanded an answer, his voice strained with anger “For a child to see her mother collapse? To hear the child scream for her mother, helpless? And where were you, Alpha?” His lips turned into a sneer as he spit out those words like a poison. “Were you busy with barking orders? Are you too blind to see betrayal walking in your halls?”

Each word was like a stab of a blade. I stood silently, my shoulders tense. I felt my wolf was raging inside, torn between shame and instincts to fight due to being challenged.

Alpha Ivan is not my enemy. She is part of his pack. His fury was born out of care, she was one the strongest warriors afterall. But I saw something else when he looked at her with an emotion I could quite name it.

Before I opened my mouth to speak, Daphne’s voice cut in with a sickly sweet tone in the middle of

the war.

“Stop right there Alpha Ivan,” She stepped in the middle of Ivan and me. Her eyes were gentle but I saw the mask of fake sympathy. “Alpha Gideon has done everything in his power to-”