Stacy's POV
I slowly opened my eyes to notice I didn't know where I was. The room was painted white, and the bright light caused me to wince in pain for a while before I adjusted to the light.
"What happened to me, where am I?" I asked with raised brows. My chest drummed, and I was trying so hard to contain myself when a figure appeared in front of me. She was wearing a nurse's dress.
"Where am I? What happened to me?" I asked, watching how she checked my vitals.
"You're in the hospital..." She expressed, and then proceeded to check my eyes.
"But how did I get here?" I asked again, trying to ransack my brain. The last thing I recalled was me running through the forest, and collapsing to the ground. I didn't know what else to do about everything. My heart drummed and I was looking for a way to understand things.
"You were found unconscious, and that's how you were brought here."
Immediately that happened, I was still worried about the way things were. I recalled everything, and there was only one thing on my mind.
"Was he punished?" I asked, and she immediately frowned. "Who?" She asked with raised brows. There were so many things that were involved. I wanted to know if he was punished for breaching the agreement about us getting married.
"No he wasn't---" she continued, staring at me with a sad look on her face.
"What, why?!" She exclaimed, and there was silence. I didn't even know what was being said anymore. I was confused, and then feeling stressed about it. Why wasn't he punished for whatever was going on. He had disgraced me, he had made me feel ashamed of myself, he had made me felt this way.
"Why wasn't he punished. He disgraced me, he disgraced me, he made me feel---"
There were no words. I didn't know what else was going on. I tried my best to be able to make things work out, but it didn't seem like my brain could analyse it.
"He told everyone that you wanted to get married to him for his status, and that you had no love for him, and you knew you weren't his mate but tried your best to get into the picture in order to get him for yourself. All that was involved as well."
There were no words, there were so many things involved. I immediately tried to sit up, and my eyes widened.
"What?"
She nodded. "He added that you were struck because you were also trying to carry on with the mating ritual, and for some reason, you were affected."
"No! No!" I screamed. I didn't know how else to see this. "They didn't believe him, right? Tell me they didn't believe him .I didn't do anything like that. I wasn't that kind of person, I didn't do that..."
She heaved. "But you were found with the ritual materials. You were found with the things, and now it's not the way you are thinking it."
"How, I wasn't doing the ritual when I left. How did it happen?" I asked with raised brows. I didn't even know how else to make sense of what had been said.
How did I end up this way? Why were things happening this way? I tried my best to understand what was going on, but It didn't seem to matter at this point.
"I need to leave this place. I need to defend myself. How could he do this to me..." I tried to stand up on my feet, but she held me down.
"You can't leave here now. You're really stressed, and you seem like you need more rest, do you understand?"
I shook my head. I wasn't sure rest was what I needed now. The most important thing right now was to ensure that I made sure to clear my name.
"You can't leave ma'am, you have to rest your head. You have to make sure you recover. Or else you're going to faint out of stress again. Do you understand?"
"But I have to ensure that this happens. I have to ensure that I free my name. Please... He lied, please let me go..."
"Yes... Yes I do understand, but then this is what you need to do. Resting is a must, and I can't let you leave please..." She expressed, and for the first time I sighed in defeat. I saw that it was useless to let her go.
It was useless to argue with her at this point in time especially with what was going now.
She stared at me with pity, and then smiled at me. Her mind was really worried about the way things had turned out.
As soon as she walked away from me, I started to sob. I instantly recalled the words of my wolf. She had always been telling me the truth all along, and I didn't listen to her.
My chest ached, but then I didn't want to make it seem like there was anything involved.
"Are you sure that you're good?" She asked with worry.
"I'm not. You were right. Now I'm just stuck here unable to make sense of everything. I feel like everything is overly hard. I should have listened to you, but now I am stuck here with nothing to do. How do you expect me to take it, huh?" I started to sniffle.
The pain of seeing myself being used, being deceived, and being in a situation where I couldn't help myself is something I never wished for myself.
"There's always time to cry, and now is it. Cry all you want, but also remember that you have to make sure you are on the right track. You can't be too hard on yourself," my wolf continued to console me.
At that moment I made a decision. I couldn't stay here, I had to leave this place as soon as possible...