Chapter 56: Chapter 56

Chapter 55

Elena Claw Wolfs ~

“Mom, tell me that he is lying! Tell me that what he is saying isn’t true. I want to know the truth if there’s any in his words!” I shot out at my mother trying not to sound so moved by the words of the lycan.

With all that have been going on since this night, I can’t seem to close my eyes and shut my ears to what everyone is saying because one way or the other, someone has been keeping secrets and lying to me and it all points to my mom but about something such as this, could she have lied to me? No!

“Come on Sofia, tell her! I’m sure that she would love to know and perhaps, know what happened to her birthmother.” “Don’t you think so too?” the lycan said but instead of his voice being annoying, it was all but that.

It was helpful.

My mom was silent as if she was finding her words and I could see it in her eyes. She wanted so badly to hold back but the words of the lycan made her open up.

“He’s…he…he isn’t lying.” She stuttered as she spoke.

I could hear my own heartbeat increase drastically after the silence that followed those words.

“Elena, I’m not your birth mother.” She added walking closer to me but I held my hand out towards her gesturing that she stayed back.

More secrets?

A tear came down my cheeks but instead of wiping it off, I just let it slide down before it fell to the pull of gravity without interruption. Of all the things she had kept away from me, of all the secrets, they were nothing compared to the impact this is having on me.

My legs became weaker and I motioned backwards but before I could even make an attempt to relieve them and fall off balance, Gar held me and turned me in for a warm embrace. I so needed it right now.

I no longer felt safe with this woman, my mother or rather, the woman I thought was my mother anymore. I felt betrayed for some reason. Gar hugged me tenderly but I tightened my grip around him with more teas dripping.

This night is one I will never forget.

“How touching!” the lycan said infuriatingly. “It’s a pity Alessia won’t get to see her beautiful daughter all grown up.”

Alessia! I had heard that name before but where? Of course, during my mom’s…during Sofia’s talk with me about the things she had kept from me. Knowing that she wasn’t my birthmother and she was just letting me know and not because she wanted to but because the lycan brought it up made me calling her ‘mom’ so disgusting in my head.

It was also painful knowing all these years she had made a big fool out of me every time I called her mom.

She didn’t deserve me to call her mom.

Not anymore.

My mind flashed back to the talk with Sofia.

“…You are Elena Claw Wolfs. Daughter of King Leonard Wolfs and Queen Alessia Claw…”

It was now that it dawned on me that Sofia had told me indirectly that she was not my birthmother during our talk in the car before the whole ‘lycan attack’. My birthmother, her name is ‘Alessia Claw Wolfs.

At this point, I didn’t know what to think or even feel and it hurts so bad. I don’t know whether to be glad and happy to have realized who my birthmother is even though it’s just by her name or be sad and pissed to know that I’ve been living with someone else who god-knows-how I ended up with as a mother.

It may be that besides this whole ‘not-being-my-mother’ thing, she could still be keeping even worse secrets.

“Congratulations, somehow, you and Sofia succeeded in defeating my most able pack of lycans. All except one, I see!”

Cassius is back having taken full possession of the mind of their l reader again.

I broke the hug and used my hands to wipe off what remained of the tears on my face at the hearing of that voice.

“I see you’re in pain, Sofia must’ve told you the truth. The one that really hurts, didn’t she?” Cassius continued with a grin. “Lycan, I command you to rip open her chest and take out her heart this very instant!” he added.

What did he mean by that? I looked at Gar. I trusted he would do nothing to hurt me. I trusted he wouldn’t obey the lycan king.

“No!” he roared in an authoritative voice.

“What do you mean, ‘No’? No lycan can stand against me!” Cassius said trying to move but the lycan was still deeply under my spell.

“Well, I’m not a lycan.” Gar replied firm by his words.

Didn’t Ryan mention Cassius as the present king of all lycans? Whether in this world or the other? Why then couldn’t he subject Gar to his will? I didn’t much care because it only proved how strong Gar is and I am glad to have him. I feel safe knowing that I belong to him and he was mine and mine alone.

“I didn’t want to have to do this but you’ve angered me far enough, child.” Cassius said. “Alessia, why don’t you come over and say hi to your daughter? I must say, she’s indeed more beautiful than I imagined her to be.” Cassius said and immediately, my attention went to him.

Cassius was trying to pull some strings using Alessia but what exactly? If what Sofia told me about him is true, then she’s in serious danger but why would she be anywhere close to that demon? The next thing I heard were screams in the leaders head. I must’ve unknowingly casted a mirroring spell on him allowing me to see, hear and somehow, feel whatever Cassius was.

Those screams belonged to a lady. They came from my mother. I couldn’t stand her screams as I suddenly feel bonded to her. I could feel her pains as though they were mine and it was terrifying.

Some lycans were torturing her using knives that bore silver blades and some other piercing tools with which they used on her countless times. They would stab her in so many places in her body and then watch her heal afterwards they will begin all over again.

“Oh right, I forgot! You too busy having fun with some old friends.”

“Alright! Stop! Tell them to stop! Leave her alone! What do you want?” I said confidently.

I had felt enough to know that if he doesn’t make them stop now, something bad could happen to her.

“What do you want?”

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