Ran Away Pregnant Came Back Alpha Heiress (Amelia and Damien) novel Chapter 363

Chapter 363

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Chapter 363

Claire’s POV

Watching Sienna’s sentencing live on my home television, I cursed as the sentence was given.

I didn’t particularly care about Sienna or her life, but her being in prison made things more difficult for me. I had one less minion at my disposal, someone to manipulate into doing what I wanted. With Ethan no longer answering my calls, and Victoria too busy having my brother’s babies, my allies were few and far between.

Perhaps Ethan had been right when he said from now on, I had to do my own dirty work.

Without anyone to rely on, I was truly on my own.

My position on the pack council did offer me some protection, but even that could only take me so far. Eventually, if Damien or Jake found any real proof of the things I had done, no position in the pack would save me from their wrath.

Even now, I knew I was being watched. The magnifying glass was on me, with everyone waiting for me to screw up. I was good at putting on a show for them, but I knew it was only a matter of time before I was on the chopping block myself.

If I didn’t want to end up like Sienna or my brother, I had to do something to continue to protect myself and my reputation as well as to continue to hold onto the power that I had.

On the screen, the camera zoomed in to show Sienna’s face. Her eyes were downcast, and she wore a stricken expression. Did she doubt it would come to this? Did she not understand how lucky she was that she got to keep her life when a punishment of death would have been much more fitting?

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Sienna had always been too spoiled. Perhaps, even now, she expected her brother to stand up in the galley and try to negotiate for her freedom.

He wasn’t going to save you, Sienna. Just as no one was going to save me.

From now on, we were each responsible for our own destinies.

Ethan might be exiled, Sienna might be locked in prison with the key thrown away, but the same would not happen to me.

I would find a way to thrive. I would accept nothing less.

Amelia’s POV

Damien and Jake left early in the day to attend to some pack matters. While I didn’t know the nature of the situation, and neither seemed willing to share with me what they were about, I was still pleased the two had found some common ground to hopefully build a friendship upon.

They were both so dear to me, my brother and my mate, so I wanted them to get along. As I had no intention of Josing either from my life, it would be easier for me if they could stand in the same room as one another at times.

Now, though, I was sitting with Mom in the living room. Dad had taken the girls out for breakfast, giving Mom and me some time to talk. There was much to say to each other. I had so many questions, both light-hearted and heavier.

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The chief among them wasn’t so bright.

“I grew up alone in the human realm,” I said. “I thought I was human, even when I woke up in the hospital. I

had no idea that I have a wolf.”

“I understand that must have been a shock,” Mom said sadly, her eyes downcast. We were sitting very near to one another on the couch, mere centimeters apart. Yet those centimeters felt as wide as a canyon and neither of us dared to cross over it.

“It was,” I said. “Not an unpleasant one, though.” A wolf of my own meant that I would be both more durable, with the improved healing, but also more accepted by the pack.

In reality, perhaps things had changed in the past six years that I didn’t know about, but for me, it was only recently that the pack had snickered behind my back and sometimes to my face.

A human Luna? How distasteful…

Someone so weak should never be held in such high regard.

What is Alpha Damien thinking, finding love with someone so inferior in every way?

Damien didn’t listen to those whispers, and I had tried to take heart against them, finding comfort and love with my husband.

But I still heard them. And it still hurt.

Perhaps with a wolf of my own, I had finally earned their respect.

Yet, some bitterness lingered about that. I was the same person I had always been, whether I had a wolf or not. That they couldn’t accept me as a human, but would as a werewolf, was somewhat infuriating.

With so many other things to think about though, I was able to push those thoughts away.

“I just want to know…” I said, then paused. This might be the most difficult question I would ever ask anyone in my entire life, yet it was so important. “Why didn’t you want me?”

My voice didn’t crack, but just barely. Only through my extreme force of will did I keep my voice mostly steady, only trembling a little, at the edge.

Mom’s face crumpled in an instant, with tears forming in her eyes. “Oh, Amelia. I would have wanted you. I would have loved you from the start, just as I do now, had I been given the chance. But I was denied that chance.”

“What do you mean?” I asked.

The tears fell from her eyes one by one. “You were switched with Sienna at birth. I had no idea that Sienna wasn’t my true child and that my true child was lost to me. Whoever took you abandoned you in the human realm. It was only much later, after you arrived here, that we were able to make the connections and learn what really happened.”

Switched… at birth?

Gods, I couldn’t imagine anything so painful. Yet, as much as this moment hurt, the raw emotion on clear display on my mother’s face, it also healed the small, wounded child inside of me.

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For my entire childhood, I’d wanted a mother’s love above all else, and agonized about why I hadn’t been good enough for her to want to keep me.

Now, I knew the truth, and it cured me.

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