Ran Away Pregnant Came Back Alpha Heiress (Amelia and Damien) novel Chapter 238

Chapter 238

Jake’s POV

With the Alpha Ball coming up, my family and I- sans Amelia – needed to discuss preparations. This was Amelia’s first cross-pack event that she would be attending since her amnesia, and more importantly, the first time anyone else would be seeing her.

Amelia’s existence was something of a well-kept secret in the pack. I believed that everyone knew who she really was, but they all adjusted quickly, calling her Annette and acting like she had always been there.

There had been a few hiccups in the beginning, but after six years, the whole of the pack was in agreement to protect her. No one even needed to be asked. It was something that just happened, a silent understanding.

Taking Amelia outside of the pack now, and putting her up on display in front of several other pack alphas and other nobles who knew her as Amelia, was a dangerous prospect. I knew we couldn’t hide her forever, and I wanted her and Ian to have a fair chance, but I was second guessing myself now.

“We can’t just take her there unprepared,” Mom said. “I think we need to tell her the truth.”

Telling her the truth was always Mom’s suggestion, even now, six years after she first said it.

“That’s not happening,” I replied. “But I agree she needs some kind of warning. I think we should tell her that Amelia was a person who existed, whom she looks like.”

“That won’t be enough,” Dad said. “People will wonder how she came to be with us. We have to pass her and Amelia off as sisters.”

“She will be upset that we have kept this a secret from her for so long,” Mom said. “She will wonder why we didn’t tell her she had, what, a twin?”

“She doesn’t have to be her twin,” Jak

said. “We can play it however we need to. They might just look similar.”

“She will still have questions,” Dad said, leaning towards Mom’s side this time.

“Then we better have the answers for when she asks,” I replied. “And keep the same story for whoever we are talking to.”

“Except Benedict,” Dad said. “He deserves the truth.”

“We’ve kept this from him, as well,” Mom said.

Dad looked at her. “He will understand when we explain. He knew the danger Amelia faced.”

I checked my watch. Amelia had only just gone to another doctor’s appointment twenty minutes ago, so we still had some time to get our stories straight.

“We have a couple hours to figure this out and clue Sienna in,” I said. “But that’s all the time we have, so we better make our story a good one.’

Amelia’s POV

I’d come to enjoy my visits at the hospital, making fast friends with Healer Eve and Dr. Wyatt. They were both so open and accepting of me, acting like we had always been friends, even though we had only come to know each other over the past six years.

My checkups still happened regularly once per month. They wanted to see how my memory was doing or if there were any changes with my dormant wolf. So far, there was nothing new.

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But the visit was still nice, catching up with them. Today, I was telling them about the many library books I had been reading through, and how I felt like I needed a job or a hobby. When I said that, the two looked at each other, then back to me.

“Maybe you would like to work here,” Eve suggested.

“Oh, I couldn’t possibly,” I said. “What do I know about healing?”

Yet, even as I said the words, I began to wonder if maybe I wasn’t being entirely honest. After all, I didn’t think being a Healer would be all that bad. In fact, there was something… intriguing about it. But the truth remained, Healers needed years of study, and apprenticeships too.

I wasn’t old but I felt too old to start something that monumental. Maybe if I had started training when I was younger. Now, I didn’t know. It just felt insurmountable somehow.

Or maybe I was just looking for excuses. Maybe it was my own fear holding me back.

After six years of not being certain who I was, I still didn’t fully understand my capabilities. My parents nor Jake would tell me the kind of person that I used to be. Every time I brought it up, they found a way to change the subject.

“Just think about it,” Dr. Wyatt said. “It’s never too late to learn… And you might find that you have a natural talent at it.”

It would have been nice if that was true, but at this point, I wasn’t sure there was anything I was good at.

At the end of my exam, I walked out of the room, ready to say goodbye to the two Healers that had become my friends.

Stepping out into the hallway, I stopped. Sitting in a pair of chairs in the hallway was a young child, around 5 or 6, and his mother. I knew, just from glancing that the child was the one who was waiting to see Dr. Wyatt.

There were no outward indications from what I could tell. The child seemed okay, chatting with his mother, but there was something about him… I didn’t know how I could tell. I didn’t have second sight or anything, at least to my knowledge, but there seemed to be a kind of gray aura inside the kid’s chest.

Almost like he had some kind of problem with his lungs.

I turned to Dr. Wyatt. “Can I speak to you privately for a moment?”

She seemed surprised but nodded, “Of course.”

I didn’t lead her far, just a bit further down the hallway, out of immediate earshot of the child. Eve came with us.

“There’s something wrong with that child’s lungs,” I told Dr. Wyatt.

She and Eve were both taken aback. “How do you know that?”

“I can’t really explain,” I said. “Not even to myself. But there’s something about him…”

Eve and Dr. Wyatt looked at each other again.

Eve said, “Annette, I think you should reconsider not training as a Healer. You could be my apprentice, or perhaps Dr. Wyatt’s, since you seem to have an acclimation to children.”

“I don’t know…” I said. “I think it was just an accident…”

“Or it’s a hint of a bigger ability that is hidden under the surface,” Dr. Wyatt said. “To help people, isn’t it worth

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