Page 41 of Mate to the Alpha Of All Alphas

"It did. Little Hazel had to be put into deep sleep all the time, and whenever she's awake, she is always in pain. Her mother was right there with her, but I watched her die a little more inside everyday." He paused, "Apart from all that, little Hazel's womb was heavily battered from that ordeal, which shocked the hell out of all the doctors including myself because she was pregnant."

"Wait, first. How is it even possible for an eight-year-old girl to be pregnant? Talk more of being pregnant with a battered womb?" The doctor in Simon forced him to ask.

"It would have been called a medical miracle if it was a good it. It wasn't." He ran an unsteady hand through his hair, "Carol admitted to me that Hazel strangely started seeing her menstruation a week after she started working at the Facility. She told me that while it's strange, it doesn't worry her because she knows that some girls see it earlier than the others."

"I know all that too, but eight years was just too early." Simon shrugged, "Well, either the sperm of that animal, Number 6, is strong ashell or God wanted our experiments to be a success too. Even He must have been very tired of these anima—"

"Oh, shut the fuck up." Hector interrupted, "Never bring God into the sick cause of the Facility ever again."

Simon wanted to mock him for being a religious man now, but the fact that he wanted to survive forced him to bite his lips. "Sorry, sorry. Anyway, you said something else. She had a battered womb but she was pregnant?"

Hector glared at him before looking away. "The child was growing outside her womb."

Simon blinked. That was unexpected. "What!?"

"Even the doctors were shocked too, but that was how it happened."

Okay, a lot of all these are unbelievable. The Facility needs to hear this. Simon thought.

Aloud, he said, "Those animals... Apart from being a freak of nature, their sperms must be quite persistent. A good thing to know. It will work in our favor." He added with a nod of his head, "So, she carried the child to term and give birth to her, but you took the child as yours? Knowing fully well that she belongs to the Facility?"

"Nope." Hector answered simply, "Within two weeks in the hospital, with all those poking and prodding, she had a miscarriage. It was way too much for her. She lost the baby at five weeks."

"What!? That's a lie. Algro, that wolfhunter we put in charge of keeping an eye on her told us that the pregnancy stayed even though Hazel Smith was traumatized. He kept the Facility updated for eleven good years before we stopped hearing from him—"

"I killed Algro a week after I ran away with Hazel." Hector interrupted easily, "That was his second day on the job the Facility gave him. I noticed we had a tail, so I killed him before he spilled the beans about me to the Facility. I was the one that kept feeding the Facility with false informations so that they'll think that their plans are still solid, that everything was alright, so they won't come after Hazel the second time until I'm sure they would be unable to find her. To find us."

"What the fuck!?" Simon glared at his captor.

Hector shrugged unconcerned, "I let y'all believe the child was still alive even after Hazel lost the pregnancy and her womb was battered because of all the damages to that organ, to try and save her. That child was only eight years old. Eight!" He spat the word to his prisoner, "It was too much for her. Too much."

Simon was still trying to wrap his head around the fact that the Facility's child died, that there's no child of changeling blood for the Facility. It was heartbreaking.

"She died, you know." Hector confessed after a long pause. "Hazel, that child, she died."

Simon snorted again. "Now, that's dramatic. That's funny too, considering that I know for sure that she is the woman in that hospital room."

"She died in the hospital three weeks after loosing the baby." Hector continued, "I was starting to suspect we might loose her completely when there was a sudden change in her condition. It worsened. The doctor informed us to prepare for the worst. I thought hard on what to do, knowing fully well that Amelia might die if that Hazel dies."

"So, that very morning I went to my bedroom cupboard and picked up Number 6's blood sample I took some time ago from the lab, because I wanted to work from home then. I put that tube in my pocket before going to the hospital, I had no idea what I was thinking when I decided tobring that with me, but I did anyway. Best decision I ever made." He added, sparing Simon a glance.

"Only to get to the hospital to find Amelia screaming so loud." He went on, "I knew something had gone wrong. I followed the screams only to see Hazel's whole body was covered, including her face. She'd died." He swallowed tightly, "Amelia was crying... pleading... screaming. She begged her child not to go. The pain in her voice... till today, they haunt me."

He rose from the chair then and began pacing, "I was desperate then. I rushed out of there to find a syringe. Luckily, I saw a doctor leaving his office, so I ran into it and took two syringes. Number 6's blood was the only choice I had and I know I had to try it out. So, I did."

Simon's eyes went wide. "Wait. Don't tell me you—"

"Yes, I did. I was hugging her and crying for her not to die, I used my body to cover hers to shield what I wanted to do from other people's eyes. I injected her arm with those two syringes." His pacing increased, "That girl was dead, Simon, but she came back to life."

"What!? That's unbelievable!"

"She did. I found it hard to believe too but it happened. She came back to life!"

"This is a breakthrough..." Something else to tell the Facility. Wow. Just wow.

"Not only that, she started recovering. Every day, she made more progress. Within two more weeks, she was well and okay. But we found out that she suffered dissociative amnesia of that ordeal. It was a blessing."

"What? Wait... Hazel lost her memories of what happened to her in the lab?" Simon asked incredulously.

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