Ran Away Pregnant Came Back Alpha Heiress (Amelia and Damien) novel Chapter 197

Chapter 197

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Chapter 197

I kept things going as best I could, though, even as a Beta with all of my training and experience, running a pack was a difficult thing. I would have much rather had Damien here to take care of everything. Being the pack Alpha seemed to come so naturally to him.

I’d also rather not feel the guilt inside that came with knowing I paid a part in what he was now suffering through. I’d wanted to save my sister from a life as a rogue, but in doing so, I had condemned my Alpha to mate-sickness.

I could tell myself I didn’t think Claire would actually kill Amelia, but really, didn’t I know the truth all along? She was my sister. Didn’t I know her better than anyone? I knew what she was capable of, and the lengths she would go to, to have what she wanted.

But, maybe it wasn’t too late.

With things taken care of at the office for the moment, I arranged to meet Claire and Victoria at Claire’s house. I found them waiting for me in the living room. Victoria stood up when I came in, seemingly jumpy – maybe feeling as guilty as me – but Claire, heavily pregnant, stayed seated and calm.

“Damien is in bad shape,” I said, getting straight to the point. “We need to come clean about what we’ve done.”

“Absolutely not,” Claire said at once. “It wouldn’t help anyway. Amelia is dead, and having us suffer won’t bring her back.”

“It could help us. I feel so terrible, Claire. I’m making myself sick with what we’ve done,” Victoria said. I was pleased she was taking my side, at least. “And maybe it would help my brother, too. If he knew who was really to blame, perhaps that would shock him from his mate-sickness.”

“We knew this was a possibility from the start,” Claire said. “That’s why you had those tranquilizers, Victoria.”

“He’s my brother,” Victoria pleaded. “I don’t want a wolf for a brother.”

“And he’s our Alpha,” I pressed. “The pack needs him more than it needs us. It’s entirely selfish to let him suffer because of what we are responsible for.”

“So you both want to move forward?” she scoffed. “Even though it would certainly end badly for us?”

“We’ve done a terrible thing,” Victoria said. “We need face the consequences

“Do you know what they would do to us? We’d be cast out. I’m already being threatened with exile, now you want to make things worse?” Claire’s voice was tight and rising in her anger.

I knew even before she continued talking that this was fruitless. She would never surrender, never admit to her faults.

Victoria and I were weighed down by our guilt and our regret, but Claire, it seemed, felt none of it.

“We will not be coming out with the truth,” Claire said, glaring first at Victoria and then at me. “You are both going to stay silent about this.”

“You can’t control that,” I said.

“No,” she admitted. “But I can make things worse for you.” She smiled a little then, maliciously, like she enjoyed threatening us. “If you tell people what we’ve done, I will claim that you are responsible, Ethan, and you forced me to go along with it. I’ll cry and use my baby for sympathy. I’ll make sure you receive the worst punishment. They might even kill you.”

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Because I knew my sister, I knew a threat like this was very real.

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