Chapter 0147
Camilla's eyes shifted to the baby girl in the nurse's arms as she placed her down in her bassinet.
Camilla's chest tightened as she looked down at her own daughter; the one she had yet to name because no name seemed good enough for her babies.
"I just got a call that the Alpha is here and requesting to speak to me," she said. "I'm sure it has something to do with his child and the Luna." Camilla saw the remorse on the nurse's face as she walked towards the door. "Will you be alright here?" "Yes," Camilla was quick to respond.
The nurse nodded thoughtfully and then left the room, leaving Camilla alone with the babies.
Camilla stood there for a moment, staring down at her own babies. She had an idea about trading her babies with one of the others, though she knew it would put another baby at risk, her only priority was saving the children.
This was such a terrible idea, she thought to herself.
She needed to do what she could to protect her babies. This was what the Moon Goddess wanted. This was what her dream was about. Camilla walked over to baby Silver and smiled thoughtfully at the baby before she looked at her own daughter. They were just similar enough to pull this off. Camilla brought her baby to her lips, kissing her soft cheek.
"I love you so much. When it is safe, I'll find you again. Until then, live a good life," she whispered, hugging her daughter close to her.
She placed her baby in the same bassinet as baby Silver and then scooped Silver into her arms.
"I'm so sorry," she whispered to this new baby.
Camilla looked down at her baby boy with a heavy heart.
If there were any boys born, she would have done the same. But there wasn't, which meant she needed to find another way to save her son.
With one final look at her daughter, she left the infirmary with the babies. Kyle was still in her room when she returned.
"What happened?" He asked frowning, standing from her bed and the look of concern etched in his worn eyes.
Camilla burst into tears, not believing what she had just done but knowing deep in her gut that she did the right thing. At least for her daughter she did. For this new baby, Silver, not so much and the guilt was eating away at her chest. "I did something awful," she croaked. "But I didn't know what else to do.
He wrapped his arms around his mate.
"Tell me, what it is?"
"I switched the babies. This isn't our daughter," she whimpered. "I didn't know what else to do. This baby looked enough like our daughter, so I switched them."
His face had gone pale as he looked down at baby Silver.
He cursed under his breath.
"What are we supposed to do with this baby, Camilla? We can't put her at risk like this," Kyle scolded.
She felt ashamed of herself but the idea of her daughter being safe in the nursery was enough to give her strength.
"We can figure it out as we go. But for right now, our daughter is safe. But we need to figure out what to do with our son," Camilla told him firmly.
His eyes shifted to the baby boy in her arms.
"Why didn't you switch him too?" He asked, his brows furrowed.
"There weren't any boys in the nursery," she answered. "They would have known the babies were switched."
He ran his fingers through his hair, looking frustrated.
"Okay, look. We don't have time for this. They are searching for hospitals, and it won't be long before they find out you had a baby during the full moon," he said, grabbing her bag off the bed and draping it over his shoulder. "We need to leave."
"The nurse in the nursery said the Alpha was already here," Camilla told him gravely.
He groaned but said nothing as he led her out of the hospital room and to the elevator. They didn't bother checking in with the nurses at the front desk, knowing they would only try to stop them from leaving.
Once the elevator neared the bottom floor, Kyle lifted his nose in the air and sniffed.
"The Alpha is here," he confirmed. "He smells angry."
Camilla shook where she stood, and Kyle pulled her into his arms. As they reached the bottom floor, they could hear the Alpha yelling at the nurse and demanding who gave birth at midnight on the night of the full moon. The nurse was shaking as she typed on her computer. Material © NôvelDrama.Org.
This was the moment of truth; the Alpha was about to find out the
truth. Kyle knew that other Alphas around the region were also
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checking in with their pack hospitals as well. There wasn't anywhere they were going to be able to hide especially with the Crown Pack Alpha taking charge of this search.
Kyle managed to get Camilla outside and to his car Tears fell down Camilla's cheeks as she looked back at the hospital where she had left their daughter. She looked down at the stranger's baby and her baby boy who were still cradled in her arms, wrapped in their pink and blue blankets.
"I'm so sorry..." she whispered to them. "I'm so very sorry..."
Kyle drove away from the hospital and neither of them looked back.