Helanie:
"Ugh!" A hopeless groan escaped my lips as I tried to move. But every inch of my body was so sore that I could barely move a muscle.
I had not been in a war, but why did it feel like I had fought in one for hours without a break? Even raising my neck seed impossible. I knew I had been sleeping or had passed out. So while I forced my eyelids to open, I focused on the main question.
"Where am I?"
I could barely get a word out of my mouth as my throat started to itch. I coughed and then struggled to lift my hand. I could only raise it until I placed it on my stomach. This is where I was feeling most of the pain.
"Uggghhh!" I groaned again, staring upward, but all I could see was darkness. Not entirely. Light was able to seep in through the smallest cracks of the cover. That’s when I began to rember where I could be and how I ended up here.
"The well." Panic took hold of when I rembered the last ti I was on my feet. I was near the well. I had co here to help Emt out, but soone pushed in instead.
"Soone pushed ," I repeated my thoughts to confirm I rembered exactly what had happened.
"But who—and how will I get out?" I let out a whimper when I couldn’t raise my head completely.
’We will have to get up and help ourselves out.’ I was so frightened and sick that, when hearing Cora, I almost panicked before calming myself down at the fact that it wasn’t soone else, but my wolf speaking to .
’I am so glad you are here with —wait, how are you here with ? Isn’t it that wolves go silent when a woman is pregnant?’ I asked, worried about what was going on.
’ being here should be the answer to that question,’ she uttered softly, but in a broken voice.
And that’s when my body started to shake as I realized sothing was wet between my legs. I had not peed myself.
I knew that much. So what was wet between my legs?
’Helanie, maybe it was not ant to be,’ Cora said gently, and as soon as she did, I started screaming at the top of my lungs.
"No. You’re lying. This cannot happen. I just got the good news. I was going to be a mother—no!" I laid there crying for hours while Cora tried her best to comfort .
It was like stepping into a pit of fire. I was stuck in a well of sorrows.
After many hours passed, I had to calm down. My throat had gone dry. It was so odd that I didn’t have anyone else to comfort . I had to calm myself down.
’This water is a healer, isn’t that what Emt told us? If we can drink it, we will heal, and then we’ll be able to climb the walls,’ Cora insisted that I get up. Only if I got up would I be able to get out. As for Cora, we had just lost our baby, so she wasn’t in her full power yet.
I nodded my head through tears and ran my hand under . That was when another shock struck .
"This is a dry well," I spoke out loud, and my voice echoed through.
’Cora, there is no water in this well. What are we going to do now?’ I grew anxious, but that’s when I knew I had to get up no matter what.
I put my hands down and forced my body up, only for my bones to crack and my body to land on my back again.
"Ugh!" I let out a scream of agony and then closed my eyes while tears ran down my cheeks. Why did this happen to ? Who could have followed to kill ? After so long, my life was finally on track, but soone couldn’t stand to see happy.
While I stayed on the cold, dry ground, I watched the light through the cracks. I rembered seeing this well before. It wasn’t in real life, but in a dream once.
I rembered that dream so clearly.
That’s when I heard so noise, and my eyes opened again. This ti, there was no darkness, but a face I had longed to see. Even though it hadn’t been that long.
Norman had his hands on the cover as he pushed it away. It reminded of that dream I once had. I thought Norman was the one who had thrown in the well and locked in.
"Helanie!" he scread—panic was clear in his voice.
"Helanie, I’m here," he said again. "Kaye, lower down."
I watched him wrap a rope around his waist and get lowered down. The closer he got, the clearer his face beca and the faster the tears fell from my eyes.
I watched him reach the bottom and stare at . I could tell the realization had hit him that I had lost our baby.
"Norman." I instantly broke down while he carefully knelt beside to help up. My body felt like jelly; my neck would have hung low if he hadn’t held so gently. He made sure my head rested on his chest and his arm supported my neck.
"We lost our baby," I cried before he could be pulled up.
"Shhh, you’re okay. That’s all we should focus on right now," his voice cracked, and I knew he was suffering too.
But I was slowly starting to lose myself again. I wanted to scream and cry, but he kept in his arms as his brothers pulled us up—all the way up. I heard his heartbeat and sobbed against his chest.
Finally, once we were out, Kaye stepped back with wide eyes, clearly in shock, while Maximus put his jacket over my body.
"I know. Just don’t say anything right now," Norman looked at Kaye and warned him from showing a big reaction.
I didn’t need anything else to make cry more. The pain was already enough to remind of what I had lost.
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