Into The Rose Garden Fanfiction

Chapter 2

I didn't meet Aelok after that.

Years passed by very quickly and I also adjusted to my surroundings. My little 'stunt' with my hair made my parents' blood pressure 'high'.

The old couple were very kind and somehow never suspected that I was not their real daughter.

Maybe I could compliment my own acting and coping skills. After that tea party I decided to take over the dukedom. There were many times when I had almost forgot about Aelok and Cloff ever existed but even then I was kept updated with news. New investments, their monetary gains and losses.

I was never interested in finance and economics before and it took me a few weeks to actually get a grasp of the situation.

And then one day I heard the story about Aelok's major loss. He didn't ask for my help. At first I was quite confused but then I remembered he knows me as Willhelm, the cousin of Marianne.

It was about a year later I decided to join Cloff's investment, since the day he would be Aelok's mansion was coming nearer and nearer.

I started seeing Cloff more after that. He was pleasantly surprised why an aristocratic lady like me would join in his businesses but everything smoothed over with the help of my Dad.

I soon became an investor. My Amma would have been proud of me if she would have seen me.

And then I heard about the Cloff's husb- that is the death of his pregnant wife.

Although the rumours which I heard were wild there was one thing which was for sure in everyone's mind: it involved an aristocrat.

Aelok suffered more losses, and soon the house was put upto sale.

I won't be lying if I say I didn't try to buy the mansion but Cloff beat me to it.

I think he already suspected what I was about to do because he bought the mansion with double of the money I had originally proposed.

There was nothing more I could to do.

The wheels of fate, once they start, then they refused to budge.

The condition of Aelok with his new owner was never made public so I had to go personally to the now Cloff's mansion.

There even though I used to be received pleasantly, I could sense his damned displeasure. And for some reasons which remains a mystery to me I never saw Aelok.

When the news of Cloff's second child came to my ears I knew I had to act.

It was due to that, when that day, after meeting with Cloff, when I went to see Aelok in the wooden shack, confirmed all the Male Lead's suspicions.

The room was dark and the Aelok was sleeping in the bed, thin and worn out. I almost didn't recognise him after all these years.

His servants came and politely sent me off. After that whatever requests I tried to make with Cloff's were declined completely.

It was after many weeks, when I was in the market, waiting in the carriage, when I saw Aelok, bruised and beaten up, looking at another carriage in front of me.

I knew where he was looking at and I didn't interfere and instead told Helen, my trusted maid to deliver the food pieces to Aelok.
I couldn't risk giving him gold and silver coins in case he got robbed.

Or maybe I had just became too selfish.

I used to send my servants regularly to send food to him. Whether they delivered it or not, I could never confirm.

There were so many things which restricted my movements and the loss of technology was the worst one.

There was no way I could know whether they gave it to the right man except for their words.

Two years passed like that, I knew he was still alive because-ahem, I did read that part.

My servants told they didn't see him anymore and I knew he went back to that mansion.

I knew what I did was stupid but I actually fired one of my maids and told her to take work there.

I knew I could trust her and she kept her word. She wrote letters each day and updated me about Aelok, which wasn't good.

I came to know about his third pregnancy, a healthy child was born.

I had told her, my servant, Annah, to keep trying to help Aelok secretly.

Try to give him a bit more food, I had urged, keep a large amount of painkillers ready on a moment's notice

Fourth pregnancy went by, already exceeding a normal omega's carrying capacity.

And then came the fifth one.

I had instructed her to keep a large bottle of painkillers in a position where Aelok could easily reach.

He had smashed one bottle, as it had in the original timeline but he never saw the one which was kept near him.

In his agony and sorrow, he never saw that large bottle of painkillers that Annah had kept.

All this I came to know very much later.
Much too late.

He had died giving birth.

I never knew he died in the book. The last panel I saw was him screaming during the twin's birth. I never came to know about his demise.

Maybe that was the reason my hand went cold by the time I reached the end of Annah's letter.

....Ma'am, he was raped by the same man on the streets which lead his water to be broke. He gave birth to twins, but suffered high blood loss. The mother could not continue...his burial will be taking place today.

It was at that point of time I understood the comments mentioning about the second timeline.

It was actually the rebirth timeline.

And I don't think I would be a part of it.

I couldn't do anything to change the story even when I tried.

I couldn't change their destiny.

But if there fates are intertwined together then I hope they'll be much happier in their second life.

I then went back to my bed.

In all those years trying to make investments and money and looking for Aelok, I never had time to court. So I remained a spinster. There were so many times Dad mentioned about marriages and engagements but I delayed it all, hoping that I could change something.

The only thing I changed was that he wouldn't be much hungry when he was out in the streets.

It was the first night after transmigrating here that I cried for a long time.

The day after I went to see the tombstone where Aelok laid. I couldn't go into the compound but I could make out Cloff kneeling in front of the tombstone and that was my last time I ever saw him.

That night I went to sleep and the next morning when I woke up, I saw a ceiling fan.

I wasn't alarmed.

I knew I had returned.

I took my phone.

XX/0X/20XX

Not a day had passed since then.

Everything remained the same as they were that night. My laptop was still on my portable desk and phone was still connected to its charger. The e-reader was placed exactly at the same position where I had my food. And the A.C was still on.

But my phone had a new notification.

The volume 2 was out today.