When Jasmine returned to her bedroom she felt the chill and sudden overwhelming feeling of loneliness.
She gently clutched her tummy at the memories she had had carrying her baby.
A baby girl.
She would have had a baby girl.
She shakily walked down the bed and sat down.
She picked up a pair of knitted overalls Nanny Nia had made for the baby and fingered it.
For the child that never came.
She wanted to hate him.
Hate everyone.
She was grinding her teeth so hard that she felt it would break into pieces.
She needed to get out of this place.
She didn’t belong here and she wasn’t going to stay here.
Once she found a way to get out.
She heard a soft knock at her door.
She felt her entire being go still.
"Come in." She said very quietly.
She prayed it wasn’t Xaden.
Or worse Anna who she knew would only come to gloat.
The door opened and it was neither.
It was Loren, Marro and Kire.
She gasped in delight.
It was the first time she had smiled since she woke up.
Kire came running up to her.
She expected him to pounce on her, but for some reason or the other he simply slowed down when he came close to her bed.
He seemed to know that she was still unwell and was treating her with ease.
"You’re a very smart boy." She said as she rubbed his fur.
He looked at her his eyes affectionate as he whimpered.
And then Marro came up to her very slowly.
She was delighted to know that he had made it back to the pack.
That Kire had obeyed her and taken Marro back to the pack.
She was glad that he was safe.
"Hello Marro." She said with a faint smile. "It’s good to see you well."
He looked very neat.
Not like the last time she had seen him.
He wore clean clothes unlike his torn and dirty clothes she had met him in.
And his then ruffled hair filled with grass was now well combed.
He looked like a well fed and clean boy.
She was delighted about.
"Jasmine." He said, his eyes bright. "I was worried about you. I wanted to go back for you. But Kire refused."
"Hey." Jasmine said as she gently rubbed his hair. "It’s good you didn’t. We’re here together aren’t we? We’re safe. I would never have forgiven myself if anything happened to you."
He looked down on his shoes. "I’m sorry about what happened to you Jasmine."
She felt a sting and managed to hold a smile.
She said nothing in relation to what he was talking about.
"How do you like this pack?" She asked. "Is everyone nice to you?"
He nodded. "They are. But I still miss my family."
She then remembered that he had been through worse than she had.
He had lost his mother, father and brother in a gruesome massacre.
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