Ran Away Pregnant Came Back Alpha Heiress (Amelia and Damien) novel Chapter 239

Chapter 239

Amelia’s POV

Nervously, I shuffled on my feet, standing in Jake’s office. Jake had offered for me to sit down, but as no one else was sitting, I felt uncomfortable being the only one and chose to stand.

With this topic, I was too anxious to sit anyway.

Amelia. That name sounded familiar, though it took me a few minutes to place it. Where had I heard it before?

Then, I realized. That day six years ago, when I had gone to the Church of the Moon Goddess, they had been having a funeral. A funeral for Amelia.

Now they were going to tell me about it? Why here? Why now? Why six years later?

What could they possibly have to say about this now that they couldn’t tell me back then?

“If you would sit down,” Jake offered again.

Again, I refused. “Please, just tell me what you need me to know.”

Jake sighed. “We wanted to keep some things about the past hidden from you. With your amnesia, your mind is in a delicate state, and we thought telling you too much too quickly might hurt you in the long run.’

Dad crossed his arms. Mom covered her face with her hands.

“But we are at an impasse now, where it would be crueler for you not to know, especially as we are soon to attend the Alpha Ball. People might say something there, and I would rather you hear it from us than from those that will seem as strangers to you,” Jake said.

I tried to brace myself. “Okay.”

But nothing I could have done would have prepared me for what Jake said next.

“Amelia was our adopted sister, and she died.”

“What?” I gasped. My legs felt weak with shock. Maybe I did need to sit down after all.

Fortunately, Dad noticed right away. Taking me by the arm, he gently led me to the chair and helped lower me down into it. I looked up at him, not understanding, thinking maybe Jake had it wrong or he was playing a mean joke.

Only, I didn’t know Jake to play jokes like that. And as Alpha, he would know all the facts correctly.

“I’m sorry, Annette,” Dad said. “Jake is right. Amelia… died, just before you lost your memory. It, uh… was a different attack than the one that hurt you, but still similar.”

My stomach dropped down to the floorboards. I knew about Amelia, about her funeral, but not that she was my sister. Why hadn’t I been allowed to mourn? They didn’t even give me the chance to remember her!

“Why keep this from me?” I asked him.

Dad helplessly looked to Jake. Jake cleared his throat. “I told you why, Annette. To protect you.’

“Then why tell me now?” I asked. “Why tell me at all?”

“By sheer coincidence, you happen to look similar to Amelia. At the Alpha Ball, people might… confuse you. We

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want you to be prepared.”

Maybe I could believe that, but, “Why would they know Amelia and not me?” Surely if word had spread about Amelia’s death, they wouldn’t be so surprised to see her adopted sister.

I glanced over at Mom and Dad, hoping for answers, but they both avoided my gaze by looking straight at Jake. Jake, it seemed, was the only keyholder for answers.

“For security reasons…” Jake said. “We’ve kept your identity a secret from the rest of the packs. You are very important to us, Annette. And… well, after losing Amelia, we know we made the right choice to hide you.”

They… hid me? Away from the world? Away from everyone?

Was that why there were no pictures of me on the walls? Was I just a shadow in this house, not really ever part of the family? Why had Amelia been allowed, when I had not? Or Sienna? Or Jake?

But then, thinking back, Amelia also had not been included in the family portraits. Over the past six years, Mom especially had worked to make sure I was included now, slowly changing every family photo in the house.

But what about Amelia? Why had she been excluded?

I felt like there was more to the story here, so much more than Jake was telling me.

That he had taken this long to tell me even this much didn’t give me much hope that I would hear the rest of it anytime soon.

I was so annoyed, so frustrated – so hurt – that my family, who was supposed to love me, would keep me in the dark about all this for so long, that I didn’t even want to look at them anymore.

My outrage forced the feeling back into my legs. Quickly, I stood and turned toward the exit.

“Annette, please, hear us out,” Mom said.

“Would you even tell me the rest, if I stayed?” I asked. “Or would you only make up more excuses to keep me in the dark, just to make yourselves feel better!”

I didn’t want to argue, and that meant I couldn’t listen anymore. Everything they were saying had me on edge, making me want to reply with anger.

Rushing out of the room, I hurried toward the stairs. There, I nearly ran into Sienna as she was coming down.

She had just gotten into town yesterday. She’d come home so that she could go to the Alpha Ball with the rest of us, her family.

Did she know too? Had she also been keeping Amelia a secret from me?

“Annette?” Sienna asked, seeing my face.

I ducked away, running past her and to my room. She followed me though, and slipped inside before I could close

the door on her face.

“Go away, Sienna,” I said.

“Yeah, I don’t think so,” Sienna said stubbornly. “Not until you tell me what the heck is going on with you? What has you so upset?”

There was no use lying. I wasn’t the liar in this house. “They told me about Amelia.”

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Sienna seemed taken aback. “They did?”

“Yes. I know all about our adopted sister, and how she apparently looks so much like me. But she’s dead, and everything else! How I’ve been kept in the dark! How everyone has been lying to me!”

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