Chapter 121: Chapter 121

KAIST:

My eyes darted back and forth to my father’s attacker and to Lady Livia. The woman who was about to attack my father looked exactly like Lady Livia except for the color of her eyes!

“I-It can’t be,” I heard my father say softly as he approached us. He had a dazed look in his face signaling that he had taken some illegal medicines again.

I may have taken illicit drugs myself with what I was seeing…

“Your highness,” Lady Livia said, recovering a bit from the shock and crouching at the ground.

My father went straight towards Lady Livia and me. He went to his knees and tilted Livia’s face, paying no attention to the woman who had just threatened to kill him.

“Who are you,” he asked Lady Livia in a weak voice. I used this opportunity to yank my father away towards my back, while his assassin seemed petrified as well.

“She’s Count Jeteris’ daughter,” I told my father, “Now tell me. Who is this woman, and why are you letting her threaten you?”

There was absolute silence.

“Who are you? What is a Blasted One like you doing in the king’s bedroom,” I shouted at the vampire who looked like the lady she just strangled when I got no answer.

My father held a hand against my shoulder.

“Don’t shout, Kaist. Don’t shout at her…”

Blast it, my father was still seemingly dazed in a near coma.

“Don’t shout, Kaist. She is your mother,” he said once more.

I look back at the lady who was still towering over us. Tears were trickling down her eyes like waterfalls.

“Kaist… and Livia… You are Livia,” she whispered.

I clutched Lady Livia away as she took a step towards us. She can’t be my mother… My mother has been long dead! She died the day I was born!

“Kaist, show the child to me,” she said in an old, earthy voice as she took another step towards us. “Show me my little girl…”

I found myself speaking in behalf of the lady in my arms who was too cold from fright. “She is not your girl. She is the count’s daughter!”

“Nineteen years ago, I bore a child on my womb. He was a healthy, young boy. His father took him and raised him as his son – a prince,” she began to say.

“I had a hard labor. My heart stopped right after I gave birth to my son, and Maurus gave my lifeless body to his assistant to bury in secret…”

“That’s not true! Claude says he had a way to make you live! He said he can perform a miracle,” the father said from my back.

I can feel my father’s shaking form behind me, his bony hands clutching my shoulder.

“Claude Jeteris tore my body open, Maurus… He did so to extract the spirit stone from me, but I see he fulfilled your wishes. He created a miracle, alright,” the woman whispered.

“Livia, come to me… I am your mother,” the vampire said, opening her arms at Lady Livia.

I looked down at Livia in my hands. She was still shaking, but she was still able to utter some words.

“M-My mother?”

“Yes. You are Kaist’s twin sister, the baby that was still inside me when I died…”

“I… I have a mother… and a brother?”

The woman before us nodded.

I could feel Lady Livia’s body softening towards the woman’s call. She almost went over to her, but I kept her securely under my arms.

“Lady Livia, they could be lying to us! Do you not see it? My father is unwell, and this woman here… She’s a vampire! She could just be playing a trick on us.”

“S-She isn’t Prince Kaist… Count Jeteris wasn’t my father… How else can he abuse me if he really was my flesh and blood,” she said, quivering. “Besides, did you not hear what she said?... She had a spirit stone, and like her, I have one too….”

As soon as she said this, she transformed into a half wolf in my arms, and on her forehead, I saw a pink jewel-like stone glow at the top of her wolf’s head.

I let go of her immediately, backing in a corner.

“That’s not true,” I shouted. “I… We can’t be siblings!”

Lady Livia cannot possibly be my sister, and that woman cannot be my mother… I don’t have a spirit stone just like them!

“That’s not true, Kaist,” the vampire said quietly before me as if she read what was exactly on my mind. “You were also born as a Shadow wolf… You have two wolves within you. You have a spirit stone too, just like us…”

I can’t believe the amount of lies I was hearing! She cannot be saying the truth. I am not a Shadow Rune wolf. I am the alpha’s son from the White Fang Pack… I am the prince of Talandor!

I must have blacked out, for the next thing I knew, I was already in a lush valley in the Animal Spirit World.

I was in a daze. One minute, I was stopping an attack against Lady Livia… The next thing I knew, I was being told that I was a Shadow wolf, and that I had a sister all along!

‘Quit lying to yourself, Kaist… Haven’t you known of my existence this entire time,’ a sinister voice said somewhere.

I looked around, and almost immediately, I saw him step out of the shadows – a wolf with a brownish-yellow pelt. On his head was a bejeweled stone that shone fiercely like the sun.

‘Who are you,’ I shouted. ‘Who the hell are you?’

I looked for my wolf, Cruz, but he was nowhere in sight.

‘Don’t come looking for him. He won’t rescue you today… “

He took another step closer to me. “It’s time you face the truth, Kaist!’

Before I could speak with the hazy confusions inside my own mind, I hear a gruff voice calling me.

“Kaist, son, wake up! Kaist!”

I opened my eyes to see my father looking more deranged than ever.

“W-What happened,” I mumbled. I ran a hand against my cheek, and they were wet. I must have been crying…

“Kaist, he had taken them… He had taken them!”

I looked around me, and I saw no signs of that woman whom my father said was my mother or of Lady Livia.

Did I only dream that they were there and that I heard what I just heard?...

My father’s apprehensive words brought me back to reality. “Your mother and sister – he took them! The vampire took them!”