The Alpha's Omega Mate-Chapter 116: Crazy everywhere.

~Dahlia’s POV~

For a whole hour, I sat in complete silence, contemplating everything. For a whole hour, I questioned myself if I was making the right decision. For myself. For Amara. If I wanted to live the next few months of my life occasionally looking behind my shoulder— because I damn right knew that that was exactly what would happen.

Alpha Zarek wouldn’t simply let me go freely.

Neither would Beta Orion.

Then there was Alpha Kai who claims to know something about me that I don’t. Something that deep down I wanted to know, but after everything that’s happened to me these past few months, I’ve come to realize that it’s far better to remain curious than to die trying to find things that weren’t looking for you.

I’ve been alive for twenty-four years now. And in none of those years have my past come looking for me.

If it wasn’t looking for me, I wouldn’t look for it.

"Dahlia, are you trying to look through those walls?" Dr Ava’s voice suddenly brought me out of my reverie and I looked up to see her already looking at me, watching me... almost pitifully.

She sighed. "There’s nothing beyond those walls beside Lady Nyx and her daughter, and they’re stable now according to my colleague, Sammy."

For a minute, I felt a flicker of annoyance burn just beneath the surface of my skin. I was almost pissed that Lady Nyx was that close to my ward. But when the anger wore off, I was left feeling like an idiot. Like a fool for having such thoughts about a nearly murdered mother and daughter.

And do you know what’s worse?

The same woman, even though I sometimes suspect that she was up to no good, had helped me once. That one time where I’d been paraded and nearly beaten to death by Ms Jennifer and her cohorts.

Sighing, I wiped my face and shook my head, ridding myself of the nonsensical thoughts swirling around my mind. I asked; "What about Zorina?"

"Who is Zorina?" Dr Ava asked in confusion.

At the sharp tone of her voice, Grandmama Lupe who had been busy looking through a picture book, glanced up at us, her brows just as furrowed as her granddaughter’s.

Now, I was the one to be confused. My eyes narrowed as I stared straight at Dr Ava, half expecting her to break into a smile or tell me that she was kidding, but a minute passed. And two. She didn’t.

Instead, she was staring.

A feeling akin to dread crept up my skin when I stared into her serious eyes, and my breath hitched when it dawned on me that she wasn’t joking. She wasn’t about to scream; "Take a joke!"

This was real. She indeed does not know who Zorina is.

"Dahlia, you’re confusing me. Who the hell is Zorina?" Dr Ava said slowly, almost as if she were speaking to a child, and I shook my head in disbelief, my throat working as I tried to get the words out.

"Zorina isn’t your colleague?" I asked, and when she shook her head, I continued; "The day I woke up after you know, the suicide attempt that I do not remember, a doctor cared for me. And she said her name was Zorina."

Now, Dr Ava looked like she was seeing a ghost. "No one with that name works here." She muttered, and probably thinking that I got the name wrong, she added, "can you describe her?"

"Yes." I answered quickly— too quickly. Then began to recount everything I could remember about the strange doctor who gave me the creeps.

However, I couldn’t help but notice the way Dr Ava kept gasping in shock the more I explained everything that happened that day, and her stone cold expression along with the tinge of confusion I saw swirling in her eyes gave away everything that I needed to know:

Dr Zorina does not work here.

She doesn’t know who she is.

And now, I couldn’t help but think that she’d been here to tamper with my medical records— or with me.

I froze.

"Dahlia, do you still not remember what events led to you falling off the fortress?" Dr Ava asked suddenly and when I shook my head, a panicked voice from the other end of the room, one I knew was Grandmama Lupe’s snapped;

"We need to get you out of here!"

"All these are not coincidences." Dr Ava supplied, not even looking at me. "She was tampered with. And now, we do not have much time, I’ll have started the rites to have her memories cleansed."

"Oh yes, but not today! That takes several hours minimum... moreover since they’ve tried so many tactics, I think there’s something she may know and they..."

"Do not want her to remember." Dr Ava gasped with wide eyes. "Mama, I think they’ve been trying to get her killed for so long."

"Goodness, only the goddess knows how long they’ve been trying!"

The more they talked between themselves, the more afraid I became, and the more my heart grew firm on the idea that I had to leave this place. For good. If not for me, but at least for my innocent daughter who may soon become targeted.

"You still want to leave tonight?" Dr Ava turned to ask me now, but before I could answer her question, the sound of something clattering to the floor had me and the two other women whipping our heads in the direction of the door.

I gasped when I saw Sadie slapping pale fingers against her lips, her eyes gleaming with unshed tears. "You’re leaving?" She asked shakily and I could only nod quietly. 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

"I have to."

"But what about Amara? What about the Alpha?" She cried, and maybe this is the part where y’all witnessing this shittiness called my life would call me a bitch, but her questions made me uncomfortable in a way.

I frowned. "Of course, Amara comes with me. The Alpha has a pack to rule, rather than waste his time on a worthless omega like me!"

"You’re not worthless, you’re a healer!" She shrieked, causing Grandmama Lupe to roll her eyes playfully.

She cocked her wrinkly eyebrows at me. "She thinks you’re a healer?" She asked me with a playful smirk playing across her lips and I nodded frantically before looking away.

"I don’t understand." Now, it was Dr Ava’s turn to look clueless. "Dahlia, you have healing abilities?"

"Yes!" Sadie snapped, sounding so sure that one would think she gave me said abilities herself.

"I don’t know..." I answered slowly, "it comes and goes."

"And you know grandma?" Dr Ava asked as she turned to Grandmama Lupe, but the older lady didn’t say anything. And then suddenly, as if a light switch had been suddenly turned on, she gasped; "That’s why you’ve not been coughing out blood in hours, right? That’s why you suddenly seem so healthy? So well? She healed you?"

I stared between all three women, my heart pounding so frantically against my ribs as I did. I knew deep down that if we continued arguing amongst each other like this that we wouldn’t get anywhere tonight, so I let out a shaky breath, squeezed my eyes shut, and said; "Yes, I healed her. But like I said, it comes and goes. It’s not a very reliable ability."

I had half expected a backlash, I had half expected Dr Ava to be mad at me and at her grandmother for keeping something like that from her, but to my utter shock, she wasn’t. Instead, she walked over, pulling me into a hug.

"Thank you," she croaked out, her body shaking with barely contained gratitude. "Thank you so much. You don’t know what that means to me. And even though a part of me now thinks you’re so valuable in this sector and that it would’ve been great to work with you here, I still think you ought to leave. Tonight. As planned."

"What?" Sadie snarled, now looking more enraged than sad or hurt. "You’d just leave?"

"Sadie, it’s not safe for me here anymore." I explained calmly. I leaned closer to her,trying to hold her hands, but she forcefully shoved me off, going to stand several feet away from me.

Tears streamed down her eyes uncontrollably, and after muttering something along the lines of; "you just used me!" under her breath, she stormed off, sobbing loudly as she ran.

My heart broke. Hell, even my hands shook uncontrollably.

Something about her reaction, about her tears moved something within me, and for the first time, I felt like an ingrate. I felt like a bitch. A big stinky one. And I was irritated that I doubted her a few times.

"She would be fine." Dr Ava suddenly said from beside me, and it wasn’t until I turned to her that I noticed her gently massaging my shoulders.

I sighed. "She was hurt."

"As she should." She agreed in a small voice. "She considered herself your friend, and I’m certain that one of these days, she’ll understand why you had to leave."

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah, give her three days max."

"Or none at all." Grandmama Lupe chirped in, but I was too sad to contemplate the meaning behind her words. I was too hurt to think that it may have been a warning and not an advice.

"Get her daughter. And fast." She said to her granddaughter, her voice sounding suddenly urgent.

Dr Ava instantly did as told and rushed out of the room, and it wasn’t until that moment that I realized that Grandmama Lupe was suddenly acting strangely. She was antsy. She was worried.

And she kept glancing at the door every now and then.

What the hell was she thinking again?