Rise Of A Shattered Luna (Natalie) by Kave Derry novel Chapter 190

Chapter 190 Unmasking

Chapter 190 Unmasking

Quincy’s POV

The door creaked open, and Jordan stepped inside.

He looked older than the last time I saw him.

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A fragile warmth washed over me as my mate walked in, his scent easing something in me that hadn’t settled since I was admitted.

“How are you feeling?” His voice was rough, pulling me from the hollow daze of my own thoughts.

I didn’t answer right away.

I looked at the medical report clutched in my trembling hands.

I looked at my mate, the thought of our daughter doing this to me coming back to mind.

“Did Sharon really poison me?” I asked.

My voice was raspy and barely recognizable.

I already knew the answer.

The evidence was undeniable but I needed to hear it from him.

I was Sharon’s mother.

For her, I had committed countless mistakes.

Sharon was our only child, our true blood.

When we were gone, the titles, the wealth… it would all have belonged to her anyway.

‘Why couldn’t she just wait?‘ The question screamed in

my

mind.

Why had she decided to hasten my end with a slow–acting poison, watching me wither day by

day while she played the role of the devoted, dying daughter?

Jordan saw the raw pain and the spiraling despair in my eyes.

His face darkened, as he sat at my bedside, leaning in close.

“I plan to send her abroad,” he said.

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The answer hit me harder than a physical blow.

It was confirmation enough.

He wasn’t denying it.

He was simply trying to manage the fallout.

Tears streamed down my cheeks, soaking into the thin hospital pillow.

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“Why did she turn out this way, Jordan? Have we ever let her go hungry? We even… we even mistreated Natalie for her sake. We gave her everything Natalie ever had and more. What more wasn’t enough for her?”

My heart twisted with a sudden, agonizing pang of regret as Natalie’s face rose in my mind.

Natalie–the girl we had raised and shared our table for eighteen years before the DNA test arrived.

“Jordan, we really made a mistake,” I whispered, the words tasting like ash.

Lately, I couldn’t stop the memories of Natalie from flooding back.

She hadn’t been a talkative child; she was quiet, observant, and possessed a dignity that Sharon could never replicate.

Everything Natalie did was full of genuine gratitude toward the parents who had provided for her.

And Sharon? Ever since we brought her back from the countryside at eighteen, she had been a whirlwind of resentment.

She complained about the food, the clothes, and the social rules.

She looked at us with eyes that demanded repayment for years she had spent elsewhere, as if we owed her the sun and the stars.

Jordan’s expression grew even more grim at my

words.

He looked at the window, his jaw set. “What’s the use of saying this now?”

He was right… It was too late.

“You’re right,” I sobbed. “It’s too late. Natalie is gone. But Jordan… That day at the mall… I saw a woman. She looked so much like her. For a moment, I thought Natalie had come back to life. I thought the Goddess had given me a second chance.”

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Jordan spoke quietly, his eyes fixed on his phone. “Maybe that woman really was her.”

I froze.

The world seemed to stop spinning.

“What do you mean?”

Jordan set his phone aside and leaned in, his voice dropping to a whisper.

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“The Nightfang Pack is in chaos today, Quincy. The High Accord is meeting at this very moment to debate removing Jensen as Alpha. Do you know why? Because a woman named the Keeper met Jensen at the Moonmilk Café. In front of all the elders, Jensen was forced to admit he’d been freeloading off her talent for years. He even admitted that he and Natalie had been lovers.”

“What did you just say?” I was stunned, my mind struggling to process the information. “Isn’t the Keeper actually… Natalie?”

“She should be,” Jordan said, his cold.

gaze

“Not only alive, but back. And her first move was aimed straight at the heart of the Nightfang. If she could turn on Jensen, if you think she’ll spare Sharon? Or us? After the way we treated her, do you think she’s come back for a family reunion?”

My grip on the sheet tightened until my knuckles hurt.

Natalie was alive.

And she was the one who had dismantled Jensen in a single afternoon.

Suddenly, a desperate, frantic energy seized me.

I threw off the hospital blanket, my weak legs swinging over the side of the bed as I tried to stand.

“If the Keeper really is our Natalie,” I cried, my voice cracking, “then even if I have to crawl to her on my knees through the streets of Nightfang Pack, I’ll do it! I’ll beg for her forgiveness! I’ll tell her I was wrong!”

Jordan caught my shoulders, his strength pinning me back to the mattress.

He sighed, a sound of profound exhaustion.

“What’s the point of going to her now, Quincy? Look at yourself. You’re a shell. And Natalie… if she is the Keeper, she isn’t a child anymore. The priority is sending Sharon abroad. We need to

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clear the board. As long as she’s around, I can’t feel at ease in my own home.”

That cut straight into the remains of my heart.

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If someone had told me a month ago that Sharon would poison me – her own mother, I would have laughed it off as a bad joke.

But now, with the lab reports and the police statements in front of me, I couldn’t stop the shaking in my hands.

“Yes,” I whispered, the terror finally taking root. “Send her away quickly before she finishes. what she started. But… will Jensen agree? She is the Alpha’s wife. He has his own pride to consider.”

Jordan’s gaze turned cold.

“He will agree… He has no choice. The Accord is already looking for a reason to strip him of his title. If a murder investigation into his wife goes public, he’s finished. He’ll sign whatever papers I put in front of him to keep this quiet.”

“Then what are you waiting for?” I urged, grabbing his sleeve. “Go find him. Sharon can’t stay here. Not another night.”

Jordan nodded.

“But before we recognized her, no one knew she was switched. Even if that woman preferred sons… it may not have been as cruel as Sharon claimed.”

A pause.

“We may have believed a monster’s lies too easily.”

I closed my eyes as the sedative began to pull me under.

And now… I didn’t know whether I feared losing my daughter…

Or facing what she truly was.