Chapter 4 I won't fall for it again.
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Tristan's POV
"Who is his Luna?"
Shit, that's what I needed right now! My little sister on my head.
"Nico!" Rosie shouts at him, but Nico's face changes the moment he sees Rosie.
"See you later." he says and runs away as if he just saw Satan.
What the hell is wrong with him?
I close the door and walk to my seat, but Rose blocks my way.
"Who's you Luna, Tristan? Did you find her and didn't tell me?" she asks me, pissed off.
"Damn it, Rosie!" I growl at her and get out of my car and open the back door again.
I point in Zoey's direction and say, "She is, now are you pleased? Now will you let me take her to the hospital?"
I return to the steering wheel but before I could start the car, Rosie jumps on the back seat, right beside Zoey.
"Get out, Rosie!" I almost commanded her.
The thing is that I am not in the mood to explain myself to anyone. But my sister wouldn't be my sister if she wouldn't defy me.
"I will go with you to the hospital!" she says and stares at Zoey.
I said nothing. Rosie is not going to let me escape that easily I know so it is better to keep my mouth closed in her presence.
"She is beautiful," she whispers. "More beautiful than I remember her."
Of course she is beautiful! Otherwise I wouldn't be attracted to her. Her deep brown eyes are so kind that she almost fooled me with her appearance.
But now my mind is clear again.
So to make my sister shut up I change to topic, "Yet she is a criminal. You shouldn't care about her."
"You shouldn't have said that. How could you hurt your own mate. Don't try to weasel your way out of this I know it must be you..."
Rosie kept killing my brain with her nonsense but I couldn't listen to a word just to shut her up.
As soon as I arrived at the hospital I took Zoey into my arms again and entered with her to the ER, where everyone was staring at me like some kind of ghost.
"What are you waiting for?" I growled, making the doctors and the nurses poop in their pants.
"Help her!"
Everyone knows who Zoey Carter is to me, so they must think that I am the one who almost killed her.
"You know what?" I say and place her in a hospital bed. "Just give her some treatment and send her home."
I'm leaving after the explanation. I can't let people know that I am weak because of my bond mate. This is why I don't want a mate. It torments my spirit.
"Are you coming?" I ask Rosie, while she is staring at Zoey, but she shakes her head.
"No" she whispers. "I will keep an eye on her for you." and her saying that shocks me.
What does she want to do?
My sister always manages to pull off some astonishing feats. At other times, I might indulge her, but not this time.
I turn around and with a serious face I make things clear, using our mindlink so that people around won't find that Zoey is my mate.
"I don't care what you want to do, but Rosie, I don't want her."
"BUT YOU NEED HER!" Rosie says pissed off, "You can't ignore the goddess's desire!"
I knew it. She's been plotting this.
But what did she mean when she said I can't? Why is everyone repeating the same thing again and again?
I can do whatever I want!
I start to walk to the hospital exit door, and mocking my own sister I say, "Just watch me, Rosie! I can and I will!"
No one can force me to accept Zoey Carter.
Feigned love is worse than hatred.
Zoey's POV
I had no idea how long it's been since I passed out but the next moment I open my eyes , I am on the hospital and a lot of machines are beeping around me.
"Tilly?" I asked a little bit scared and my heart hurts when she is not answering me.
"Shhht" someone whispers. "You are fine now."
Fine? I don't want to be fine! I scream in my mind.
I want to save Nana and now I have no chance to do it anymore.
I open my eyes slowly and I blink a few times as there is so much light in the hospital's ward.
"Don't worry" the same voice tells me softly.
"You are in the hospital." and then reality hit me.
I was sent to the hospital?
How the hell am I going to pay for the bills? I can't pay the bills for Nana and now there are other bills to pay?
I am doomed.
I push the hospital sheets and try to get out of the bed, but two arms are keeping me in my place.
"Hey, you are still wounded." the woman says, and I lift my eyes just to see a girl staring at me.
Rose Mayer?
Why is she here? She doesn't know that her brother did all of this to me?
At the mere thought of this, the pain of being hurt by my mate floods over me like a tidal wave, and my heart starts pounding madly.
"Will you calm down , please?" she asks me in a soft voice.
She never hurt me all these years no matter how much the rumors humiliated me, but like her brother, she didn't want to see me and kept avoiding me.
But why the hell is she here?
"I need to go" I tell her and try to find a way to run out from here.
"You need to recover or you will faint again." she tells me and motioned to me to get in the bed, but I shake my head.
"No. I need to be at home." and I am thinking of Nana who must be scared for not being at home until now.
I take Rose's hand and push it away and untie myself from her grip and looking around I see that my clothes are wrapped on a chair in the corner of the ward.
"You scared my brother, '' she says softly, "He brought you here all by himself. I have never seen him so scared since our parents died."
I stop for a second and take a deep breath.
Tristan is scared? Isn't my death exactly what he wants?
He fears something, I presume he's afraid that I'll die too easily.
I have no time to argue with her; now that the original plan has failed, my priority is to return home—Nana needs me.
"You mean since I killed them." and I pull the zip of my jeans and start to wear my t-shirt.
"Did you really kill them?" Rose asks me back and I stop in my tracks.
"Isn't that what everybody says?" I asked her and looked at her calmly for the first time I woke up here.
"I want to hear you say it." and now she is serious. "I only believe you."
My mouth went dry and I turned my face and looked outside.
Shit, it's still raining.
Alright, I don't know why, but this time, I want to believe in the girl before me.
"How could a thirteen year old girl kill the Alpha and the beta pairs?" I ask her.
No sooner had I spoken than I saw her furrowed brows relax, her lips slightly upturned as she asked, "So, what happened that day? Can you tell me everything?"
I averted my gaze and said softly, "Do you believe it? I don't even know what happened myself. It was such a rainy day that I lost any sense of smell and got lost in the forest. Four of them came looking for me. But when I saw them, they were dead! That's all. But I've been a murderer ever since."
Also since then, I have been humiliated by her dear brother who would not reject me or accept me.
He f****d my entire existence. He made me live like a rogue and made the pack hate me. He did this to me the moment he believed the Reynolds family, when they called me a criminal.
I could never find my second chance, yet he can brazenly post a notice seeking a surrogate mother.
All those cruel humiliations of his are still ringing in my ears, and now Rose tells me that I made her brother worried?
No. He doesn't care about me. I won't fall for it again.
I gently brushed aside Rose's hand, looking earnestly at her as I added, "Rosie, thank you for being willing to listen to me. I really have to go. I'm not like you; I have someone to take care of."
Having said that, I picked up the clothes from the corner and left the hospital room without looking back.
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