I was scared when I woke up in an environment I couldn't understand. I looked through the window, and it was morning despite the sun shining.
The window curtains were blue, the door curtain, and the bedsheet I was lying on were all blue.
I looked up to see a pack of used Drip. "Who must have consumed this?" I asked myself.
The ceiling fan was gradually rotating, so I couldn't feel the breeze much. No one was around and I couldn't hear by noise.
I tried to catch up with what must have happened before I heard the voice of a small baby in the distance.
"Oh. You are awake already, good to know that."
I was facing the wall when I heard that male voice. I turned around and saw a very tall man.
He is in a lab coat, and two nurses are behind him. One was carrying a file. She opened it and handed over a paper to him
"Are you a medical doctor?" I asked, trying to sit up.
He nodded his head and asked me to lie down for a check. When they were done with the checks, they asked me not to stand up yet
"You were brought here yesterday evening and almost passed out. His name is Allen, he is your brother I guess."
One of the nurses said. That got me to start recalling what had happened to me. I was looking at them confused.
Lucky beat me up because of Nelly, my best friend who is now his new mate.
Nelly has been my good friend since childhood. We grew up and went to school together.
When I got married to Lucky after much pressure from him, begging me daily for marriage, I brought Nelly to live with us in the pack
She has been in a different pack doing stressful jobs to make ends meet.
"Are you alright? You are not talking. What is wrong with you?"
I had to realize that I was with some people when the question came from Doctor Devis.
He had earlier introduced himself and I couldn't have forgotten the name easily.
"Doctor, please, thank you for saving my life. I appreciate." He smiled at me while the nurses nodded their heads.
He looked at the paper he was holding and looked at me twice. My heart started panting.
Who knows what the problem could be?
My ears were itching to hear what he wanted to say. He opened his mouth but wasn't talking.
"What is the problem with me? Please talk to me, doctor."
I asked looking at them nurses if they could say something since the doctor wasn't ready to speak
"How long have you been married?"
"In three months, I will be three years old. Does it have anything to do with the situation I found myself in?"
I got to ask, worried over his silence. He knows my husband and Allen, my brother. Though I haven't been to his clinic, he knows I am married to Alpha Lucky.
"Congratulations, you are three months gone. I am happy for you. Your pregnancy is long-awaited."
The doctor said as he kept smiling. Full of joy and happiness. The door opened, and a lady carrying a tray came in.
"Good morning everyone. Mrs. Lisa, here is your breakfast."
She dropped all on the table and left.
The doctor and nurses left the room and asked me to have my breakfast, and they would come back for my medication.
I stood up and approached the bathroom so that I could brush my teeth and take my bath. I remembered I don't have any other clothes to change into.
I returned to the room and sat on the chair. To see what was kept for me for breakfast, I set a small bag under the table.
That was my backpack, I opened it and saw some clothes. It showed that Allen must have visited very early to check on me but I was still sleeping.
Possibly he must send someone because I can remember he had a function to attend.
I returned to the bathroom, brushed my teeth, and took my bath.
My cream, clothes, and a few other things were in the back. Allen did well to package them.
The joy Nelly had when Lucky was beating me up was well noticed.
She has been happy the way she seduced my husband and took him from me. Each time I wish to speak with Lucky, she asks him what the barren woman is doing with him
I felt humiliated and dehumanized before then. Most times, Allen will not talk. As the better of the pack and my brother, I was expecting him to shun Nelly anytime she insults me.
Rather than confronting her, he will only ask me to take things easy, as if I had wanted to fight anyone.
I opened the food and it was rice, well prepared. I couldn't finish my meal when I knocked on the door.
"Come in, the door is open."
I shouted at the top of my voice so that the person could hear me well.
The door opened and she greeted me to which I responded.
Looking at her, she is different from the other nurses who came with the doctor earlier
"Who are you if I may ask?"
"I am Nurse Bella, I just changed from the one on night duty. I am here to nurse and take care of you."
After the meal, she gave me some medications and handed over the test results to me
"You can go now. You are discharged, someone paid your bill." She said
I took my backpack and left immediately. At the pack's gate was Allen. He took my bag and the test result.
"Wow, my sister is pregnant."
I didn't care about his shout but went straight to my room.
I remembered the nurse asked me to use hot water and press the injured part when I got home.
I rushed to the kitchen, boiled water, and did as she said.
A few minutes after I returned to my room, Lucky opened my door without a knock.
"Follow me now. Your return has created more problems." He ordered.
I got to the sitting room, and everyone was there.
"Yes Alpha, I saw her poisoning the cup Nelly uses to take tea for the good of the baby in her stomach." Echun the house help said pointing at me
"So you want to poison my baby, the hair?" Alpha asked with a hot slap on my face that landed me on the couch.
I was surprised by what was going on. He couldn't allow me to talk. I tried to run away but the warriors blocked my way. That even put me in more trouble.
I locked on Allen, and he removed his face. I knelt and begged my husband to speak but he refused.
My face was already hurting me. I didn't know what to do.
"To prove your innocence, you must drink from that same cup." Lucky ordered.
I knew I was innocent, I didn't poison any cup while I was in the kitchen.
I asked Allen, my brother, to beg Lucky for me. He told me that his hands are tired.
He begged me to drink from the same cup I was accused of poisoning. The warriors had blocked the doors.
Lucky, who wasn't around when I came back, flew from where he was in a meeting a few minutes later to execute his order on me.
I cried over and over but no one was ready to hear me out. I was given a few seconds by Lucky to drink from the cup, or he would order the warriors to kill me.
I drank from the cup, fell on the floor, and passed out.
It was like a dream where I was going around the environment I found myself in.
Everyone was avoiding me. Some were distancing themselves when I was coming closer.
I climbed the trees, got some fruits but didn't take them.
A very strange sun was flashing in my eyes steadily like a flash of a headlamp.
The queen I saw was in a white gown. She was putting on a golden crown.
She raised my hand and asked me to proceed to do more. According to her, it is not yet my time and she wouldn't want me to be that way.
In a few minutes, I noticed I had a strong feeling. Feeling I haven't felt before. I gradually woke up.
I got confused about where I was. No one was around. It was in a bush and a very lonely place.
I suspect the queen was the moon goddess. I had enough strength immediately she touched me
I was still confused as to why I should be lonely in an environment I woke up in.
I sat down to see if I could understand the place but I wasn't getting it. A few wolves were going to farm in a human form.
I observed them where I was sitting, but they did not see me.
I stood up after I watched them pass. About seven of them lined up talking to each other.
I wasn't feeling hungry, nor did I have anything to eat. Yet to know where I am and the reason I am where I am
I started moving around the place. A strange land and in a bush.
I met a hunter in the bush who asked me my name I was looking at him confused
He asked me to hold on that he will be back soon.
There was a fire he lit up. Stayed back to avoid the fire getting close to me
In a while, he brought me water to wash my face and hands which I did
I touched his gun, raised it up but he collected it from me
"Take this and eat from me. It is a bush meat, well prepared. I killed it this morning." He said as he handed me a plate of bush meat.
I collected it but was reluctant to eat it. I asked him to hold off that I eat later.
He brought a roasted yam from his hot pot and served it to me, but I still didn't want to take it.
"Why are you isolating me as if you do not know who I am?" He asked, frowning at her face.
"What is your name, and where exactly are we?" I asked.
He smiled at me and told me he had been kind to me and wouldn't want to see me being angry for any reason, but he had a question.
"I know for a few months we met, we communicated well whenever I came here to hunt for animals around this Forest."
"Is it that during the period I was away, you lost your memory?"
His explanation and questions got me worried. He must have known me, which is why he was friendly with me.
To get the information I wanted, I had to play along. I have to pretend and follow up on him.
"Yes, I fell sick and lost my memory of the period you were not around. You stayed for too long without coming. I need your help."
Hearing from me, he dropped the food he was eating, washed his hands, and asked me to come closer.
I went closer to him, he held me, and told me he would help me to heal
"But you are still very strong as usual, you only have one problem which is memory loss."
"From your earliest explanation, you ran out of the pack following an external attack. You have a baby girl and you have been away for almost a year now. You were lost."
I carefully listened to him. I was confused about what was going on but I knew he was ready to guide me through.
He took me to the bank of the river close to the forest where he told me we usually stay.
He told me I am good at swimming and he made efforts to ensure I do not drown whenever I go deep.
"You know you have some stubbornness in you, I handle you with care and caution to avoid you being drowned following your reckless swimming."
"Did I tell you where I am from, the pack that was attacked?" I asked.
You didn't buy I made my personal inquiry, you are a Luna of that pack. The reason I treat you with honour and respect.
Being a Luna is a great opportunity among the pack members. I was married to an Alpha, and I decided to live in the forest.
I got more worried but still didn't want him to feel bad for me. I knew I was confused about the environment but I am determined to get to the root of the matter of why I am where I am.
The forest is in two parts, where the garden is very conducive to being. It has some heat, designed for relaxation.
I tried to know why the place is like that. He made me understand it was a pack two years ago but was attacked.
"So why are you here?"
"I was part of the pack, I was the beta of the pack."
"So why did you return?"
"I saw their attack coming, I informed my stubborn Alpha for us to be equipped but he wouldn't listen till their enemies took us unaware." He said.
When I wanted to go further to ask more questions, he told me to halt all I wanted to say.
He took me round the place. Near the river was so calm, the breeze was so chilled that I almost got cold.
He always has his gun for defense in case an animal comes to attack him.
We walked around the place for a long time, and he told me to put my legs in the river, wash my legs, and face.
I did as he directed because I saw myself being very bold to do so. I wasn't sensing any weakness.
After a long walk, I started feeling dizzy and weak. When he noticed, he asked.
"Are you hungry?"
"I wonder why you have yet to eat because I know you are good at consuming food. I also understand that you like food so much."
"Irene, you have to look for a way and eat. You are tired because you haven't yet consumed any food. Inside my hot, your food is there."
He called me Irene and I was surprised. I didn't tell him that, but he called me by that name.
"Why did you call me by that name and who told you it is my name?" I was curious to know.
"A lady who claimed she was your schoolmate called you by that name. She apologized to you for not attending your wedding."
"Where was the lady going?"
"The father owns a livestock farm a few miles away. They were going to check on them, and she saw you with me, but you only smiled at her, never responded to all she said."
I knew that there could be trouble for me if the lady came again to see me.
I needed to stay off where people pass. It has been about a year since she saw me, what will she be thinking?
We agreed to return to his hot so that I could eat. It was obvious that I was weak due to hunger.
"Try to walk fast so you can eat something," Richy said
We got to the hot, and I followed him. It's very cold inside. The plates were open, but the yamss and meat were missing.
I immediately ran out of the place with anger and disappointment. I felt he was fooling me. He must have eaten the food when I went out to urinate
I wasted a little time because I was watching a dancing bed.
I didn't want to see him again but was still hungry and did not have the means of getting what to eat unless he provided it
He came to me and apologized.
"I must confess, that wasn't the first time I experienced what had happened."
I got interested in what he was saying with fear I asked
"Do you have another person with you here? I hope nobody will attack us." I asked in curiosity.
He shook his head in refutation. He made me understand that it was a few dangerous and hungry animals that did that
According to him, they have tried it and he has been killing some of them. The meat in question was one of the animals he killed.
"I have reserved food that they wouldn't be able to get. Follow me so you can eat it."
I followed him back to the heat. He served me the food he had reserved, and I ate satisfactorily.
I got some relief and my strength came back fully.
"You have to help me with something."
"What could that be?"
"I don't want to be seen around at the moment. I would like to come out when people are not moving around." I said
Richy wasn't worried about that; he told me not to be bothered, he would protect me.
I said so because I needed to reflect on what's happening around me and engage in thinking deeply about my body.
My body seemed strange, although I am full of vigour. I am strong but not acquainted with my body. A strange body I must say
It was night already and I had a better place to sleep. Richy told me my place is better than his.
I noticed when I went there with him.
What I do not know is why the Alpha hasn't bothered to look for me. He has a Luna and shouldn't have left his Luna elsewhere.
A year is a long time. My former pack was attacked, and I ran away, according to Richy the hunter.
If the Alpha couldn't find me, I should look for a way to search for him but I couldn't.
Some questions I ask Richy sometimes appear to be very embarrassing. He understands but I shouldn't completely trust him
I saw that I had some predicaments and I shouldn't rely only on Richy to get better
I have to start studying my body and know what I am doing and the best way I can do it.
I need to look for my Alpha. If he is dead I would like to know. If he is alive, I should go on and renew my relationship with him.
I don't know how to locate him and I must say that is where Richy should help.
Nevertheless, why hasn't Richy forced me to look for my Alpha all this time? A year to be precise.
The hunter could have decided to allow me to sort myself. He respects me as a Luna, and that makes him careful about the way he treats me.
I keep having this running stock that I couldn't sleep very well. Begging and waiting for the day to break
I made a decision to give myself time and study my body system. I observed that I move very fast and do things without grudges.
The day had come and I decided to go to the river without informing Richy.
Along the line, I saw some water. I changed my mind not to move to the river. I took my birth and I noticed a relief.
Apart from the water I used in washing my legs and face, water never touched my body since I woke up from where I do not understand.
After taking my bath I decided to look for the hunter for food. He told me I am a stranger wolf and I consume a lot of food.
He had promised to get me some food anytime I wanted to eat. He goes and comes back. He meets many people and supplies bush meat to some restaurants in town.
He requested that I join him but I turned him down to avoid people seeing me
I got to his house, but he wasn't around. I became pained because I needed food
He didn't drop off a message or check on me before going out.
All I wanted was to eat food and go back to my house.
I tried to open his door to get food, but I was scared of the notorious animals attacking me.
No one will save me if they come after me. We live in a deserted pack that is in a large forest that has a river closer to it
The forest and river have different types of wild animals. It is only two of us that I know who live there
I rushed in and took the food from where he keeps the reserves.
I ran like a crowd was after me. I had to run so I could avoid the dangerous animals.
I got to my small house and locked up the place. Panting like a runner far than one thousand miles
He had told me someone greeted me and said we went to the same school.
I must say that I do not know if I actually attended school. Since it appears that I am having a memory loss, I couldn't ascertain if I was in school in the first place, or talk of having a schoolmate.
I feel secure because I have locked my room. Richy must have gone hunting early and decided to go and supply his customers.
I am the only human in the forest. I have not gone to defend myself from external attacks
I got to feed from the food I collected. Enough meat in it. I ate till I got tired of eating.
I washed my hands and wasn't ready to open my door. I needed to rest a little so I decided to rest my head.
I fell asleep in a few minutes.
I saw myself wallowing around. From one part of the place to another.
I noticed I am being chased around by a few individuals who want to kidnap me.
I hid my face as I ran into a tunnel. They crossed the tunnel. I locked through the hole and noticed they had gone far.
I ran back to where I was. Another group came to attack me but the passersby saved me.
They took me to a party with them. I was scared of dancing or participating in whatever they were doing
I approached one of them to take me back home. He refused, insisting that the road was too rough for us to go
There were so many strange faces. I couldn't recognize anyone of them and I didn't want to care about them
"Help me to go home I don't like it here you people brought me," I begged another of them
He was laughing at me, pointing his hand at my face to be careful. I came to realize that he was drunk.
I approached the third person who politely asked me to give him some time.
I saw him waving at me from afar. I was reluctant to go and meet with him
I would rather ask him to come closer, as the exit door is where I am.
He frowned and started shouting at me. With the fear of creating a scene, I decided to follow him.
Stepping into the room was a huge man who raised his hand to cut my head, I shouted and woke up but a hand covered my mouth and face