Chapter 53

Crystal's pov

I woke up in pain and slowly opened my eyes but had to blink my eyes because of the lights. After a minute or so my eyes became normal so I looked around only to realise that once again I am in the hospital.

Seems like the hospital is my second home. After every few days I end up in hospital. Pst.

I looked beside me to see that Dante was sleeping nearby. I smiled at him but frowned when I recalled last night incidents of me getting kidnapped, Martin's betrayal, him telling me about my pregnancy, me running away from their cage and then getting shot by someone, on my stomach.

I widened my eyes in fear when I realised that I was shot on my stomach.

Shit. What about my baby.

"D-Dante" I called his name but he wasn't listening.

"Dante" This time I called his name a little loudly to which he finally woke up.

At first he looked a little confused but soon his eyes widened in happiness.

"Crystal, thank goodness you woke up" He yelled in happiness and hugged me quickly but carefully.

"Thank god. You scared me, Crystal" He said in a cracked voice to which I hugged him back.

"Dante.. I'm fine now" I said softly.

Dante broke the hug and kissed my forehead with tears in his eyes. He wiped his tears and smiled at me.

"I should call the doctor" He said and started to leave but I stopped him.

"Dante wait" He stopped in the middle and rushed towards me.

"What happened Crystal? Are you okay?" He asked and palmed my face lovingly.

"I'm fine Dante but I don't know about our baby. Is our baby fine?" I asked looking at him with hopeful eyes.

Hearing my question, his eyes widened in disbelief as if he wasn't expecting this.

Oh yes. He doesn't know about the baby yet.

"Dante I'm pregnant" I said with a small smile.

"Y-you.." He stammered looking at me with a helpless expression.

"Yes Dante I'm pregnant. We are going to be parents. Martin told me yesterday" I said with tears to which he closed his eyes in disbelief.

"Dante, yesterday I was shot on my stomach. Please tell me that our baby is fine" I asked touching his arms softly to which Dante looked at me with pain in his eyes.

"D-Dante please tell me that our baby is fine. You're scaring me" I said in a low voice and tried to get up but Dante pushed me back in my previous position.

"Crystal" He sighed heavily before looking at me.

"Crystal, please don't stress yourself. You need rest. I'll go and call the doctor" Dante said sadly to which I shook my head.

"No, no, no. First tell me that our baby is ok" I said and started to cry.

"Please Dante" I cried to which Dante cupped my cheeks and breathed heavily.

"Cr- Crystal, w-we lost our baby" Dante said looking directly in my eyes.

Freeze.

Everything around me stopped the minute Dante gave me this bad news. I looked at him with complete shock.

"Nooo" I cried shaking my head, hoping for him to say that he was joking but who I was kidding.

"No. You are lying. You are lying to me" I cried and once again tried to get up from the bed but Dante stopped me.

"Crystal please calm down. I have already lost my baby. Now I can't lose you too. Please" Dante said in a cracked voice and hugged me.

"O-our b-baby" I whispered and broke down in tears.

"D-Dante, our baby was innocent in all this stuff. Our baby was innocent" I cried in his arms.

"Their hatred towards me costs me my unborn child, Dante" I cried.

"How can someone be so heartless, Dante? How?" I cried again.

I kept on crying in Dante's arms whereas he kept consoling me. Somewhere I know that he is hurt too and he too needs consoling but today I couldn't do that. Today I felt like being a little selfish towards myself. Today I felt like crying my heart out so I did that. I just cried and cried.

"Stop Crystal. Now stop crying. You're my brave girl, right?" Dante chirped breaking the hug and cupping my face.

"Crystal I know that whatever happened yesterday was tragic and no matter what we do, we can't undo the past because that how life is" Dante sighed and sat beside me.

"I know it's hard for you. And trust me it's hard for me too to accept this bitter truth but we have to Crystal" He said wiping my tears.

"Crystal we have to accept the fact t-that we lost our unborn baby even if we don't want to" Dante said hugging me.

"Trust me Crystal, the minute I got to know that you were pregnant and we lost our first baby I felt like dying that moment. I felt like a loser who couldn't save his baby" Dante said to which I shook my head.

"No, that wasn't your fault Dante" I said hugging him tightly.

"Crystal belive me I'm also hurt from that news b-but the thing is that I can't lose you too. I have already lost our baby but now I can't lose you too. Yesterday seeing you in blood was a nightmare for me" He said and sniffed a little.

My heart broke when I realised that he is crying too. I patted his back softly.

"We can't change the past but we can definitely punish the people who ruined our past. I promise that both Martin and Maddison's father will pay for their deeds" He said breaking the hug and looking at me with anger.

"What about Ethan? He was the one who complicated things more. I want him to rott in hell" I said griting my teeth in anger.

"He is already in hell" Dante said to which I frowned.

"He died yesterday" Dante informed me to which I frowned more.

I didn't wanted him to die. I wanted him to be alive to face his punishment. I sighed knowing that I can't do anything about it.

"Dante. I want to ruin Martin" I said to which he nodded.

"Don't worry Crystal. I'll make him regret his deeds. He won't be spared for his crimes" Dante said to which I nodded.

I sighed sadly and looked at my belly with utmost sadness.

I caressed my belly softly and again a tear escaped my eyes.

"Don't cry Crystal. Maybe that was our fate. Maybe our baby would be in some better place" Dante said slowly to which I nodded.

"I'll go and call the doctor, hmm" He said to which I nodded.

Soon I was alone with my thoughts. *Sighs* I will never forgive Martin for his deeds. In his obsession he killed my unborn baby who was at no fault.

But honestly I would never understand that how some people can be so selfish to kill an innocent soul just because their wish didn't get fulfilled.

Yes it's true that I love Dante but it has nothing to do with his money. I don't get it why Martin, Maddison and her fans thinks that Dante's money is the only thing I love about him which is not a truth. I love Dante because of his nature. Because he is loving, caring, affectinative. Even if he wasn't rich, still I would have loved him.

I know I can never make them understand this simple thing and to be honest now I don't want to prove anything to anyone. Let them think whatever they are thinking.

They have already hurt me in different ways. But now I won't let them hurt me.

*Sigh*

Soon Dante and mom came with the doctor who started checking me and asked a few questions. After sometime Doctor left leaving me with mom and Dante.

Mom came to me and hugged me sweetly and cried a little.

"Dante told me" Mom said and broke the hug.

"I'm so sorry for that. Whatever happened yesterday was really sad" Mom said caressing my cheek to which I nodded.

"But don't you worry, Crystal. God is really kind. If today he has given you this pain then tomorrow he will give you hundred reasons to smile. He would never do something without any reason. Just have faith in God, ok" Mom said sweetly to which I nodded.

"Thanks mom" I said and tried to smile back at her but I couldn't.

"It's ok Crystal. Don't force yourself to smile. I know you are in pain and sometimes it's ok to let out your pain in front of others" Mom said to which my eyes filled with tears and I sobbed a little whereas she kept caressing my head.

From the corner of my eyes I saw Dante was standing there too. I pulled him to myself and side hugged him.

And that's how we cried for our innocent baby demise.

Rest in peace my baby.

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Three days later...

After staying in hospital for almost three days, today I'm finally getting discharged. In these three days, everyone tried to cheer me up, specially Dante.

Dante never left my side. He was always there for me and that's the most cutest thing ever.

In these three days a lot of things happened. Like Maddison and her mom tried to shift all the blame on us for Ethan's death and tried to free her father from the prison but Dad and Ashton took care of all of them. He infact asked the officer to investigate Maddison and her mother too because he thought that they might be involved in the crime as well. And guess what? Now both mother and daughter are in prison as well.

So yeah, Kingsley's are finally facing their real karma.

But somehow media got to know about my kidnapping and Ethan's death and since then they aren't stopping.

This incident has became the talk of the town. Everyone is taking too much interest in this case and people on twitter are trying to solve this case as if they are the investigators or some sort of detectives.

Idiots.

And about Martin, he has got the biggest shock of his life.

Basically, his wife was pregnant and she was supposed to give him that surprise on his birthday but after knowing about his deeds, she not just aborted the baby but filed the divorce case against him.

So, Martin killed my unborn baby and his wife aborted his unborn baby.

Not that I'm happy about his child's death but I'm not sad either. He got what he deserved.

My chain of thoughts broke from Dante's voice who gave me a smile.

"Let's go home, Mrs Knight" He said lifting me in his arms gently.

"Let's go Mr knight" I said with a small smile after knowing that this time no one can hurt us anymore. This time our life is going to be perfect without any fear of Maddison and her family, my family, Martin or Ashley. This time we are going to be emotionally strong and would face each and every hurdle of our life.

This time it would be only Crystal, Dante and their love. And this time God will himself protect us.

The End.

Thank you for reading and loving this book. There won't be any epilogue for this book😅 and for that I'm sorry.

But you can read my another book 'Our lost Princess'. I'm sure you guys will love that book.

Thank you and I love you all.