The Alpha Slipped Inside The Wrong Sister novel Chapter 65

65

Ryan’s pov

The second I burst through the doors, I noticed nothing was amiss. Father is sleeping away in the bed and judging by the beeping of the monitor, he is very much alive.

I whip around angrily to face the wolf who had rushed to find me earlier. She’s wringing her hands together nervously and her face turns ghostly pale, “I

“Why did you say he was dying!?” I snarl, demanding answers. Her eyes flicker to mother who followed behind me closely. I tense.

The young wolf before me looks like she is seconds from fainting. Her head was bowed so low that her chin nearly touched her upper chest. “I’m sorry Alpha-

“Leave,” I snap without even looking at her. She doesn’t hesitate. The girl practically scurries out of the infirmary, the door swinging shut behind her with a soft thud.

Now it was just me, mother and father who was still very much alive. Barely. But still alive.

I turn to mother, narrowing my eyes. “What’s the meaning of this?”

She doesn’t meet my eye, just walks to father’s side and sits down on the chair beside his bed. She’s been sitting there for days, rarely leaving his side. “The girl must’ve gotten it wrong-

“No,” I snapped. “Don’t insult my intelligence. You sent her to call me.” I should’ve known it was her. It was rather odd how the young girl came rushing to give me the news.

Mother finally looks up at me then, her eyes turning to slits slightly like she doesn’t appreciate my tone.”I told her to say it,” she admits calmly. I fucking knew it.

The anger inside my chest burns hot. “Why?”

Her gaze drifts back to Father, who continues to sleep peacefully. He was completely unaware of the storm brewing in the room around him.”I needed you away from them,” she says simply. “A war would’ve happened out there. I needed my son to be safe. I can’t bear to lose you too.’

My fists clench at my sides. “Lose me?” I say slowly and dangerously. “Pulling me away from an important discussion was keeping me safe? Are you out of your mind?”

She tenses. “Lower your voice. Your father needs rest.”

“No!” I snapped. “You have been acting weird since the moment I mentioned Midnight Ridge would be coming here! And now I know why!” I take a menacing step forward. “That girl-

The way mother freezes up gives me all the confirmation I needed. The head warrior. She wasn’t just a nobody here. But for some reason I can’t remember her. But her scent…..and the way she stirs my wolf…..

She wasn’t just anybody. She had meant something.

Especially since my head hurt when I stared at her. The image had been blurry but….I saw her. A younger version of her.

My wolf shifts restlessly under my skin. “What are you hiding mother!?”

Her lips thin and she looks away. “She was a nobody. An outcast. A troublesome one who stirred trouble. She was a traitor.”

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A traitor?

“You can’t remember because your brain suffered a severe injury from that rogue attack a few years ago but,” she looks down at father’s sleeping face and brushes a hand down his cheek softly. “That girl had been envious of Kimberly since they were little. Envious enough to try to poison you so Kimberly won’t ever be Luna.”

I flinch. Poison? The tiny woman tried to poison me?

Why does it feel as though it was a lie? It didn’t feel…right.

“She tried to poison me?” I asked, tasting the words on my tongue. They felt wrong to even say.

Something about it doesn’t sit right in my chest. My wolf shifts uneasily under my skin, pacing restlessly in my mind. He doesn’t snarl in fury the way he would if someone truly tried to harm me. Instead, he growls low as if he were confused and suspicious.

And that alone tells me something is definitely off. Why is he not alert? Why does he not see the woman as an enemy now that mother revealed her?

I stare at my mother, my eyes studying her carefully. She avoids my gaze as her fingers smooth over the thin blanket covering Father’s chest. She reeked of fear. What was she scared of? Why was she afraid?

“She tried to poison me,” I repeat flatly, my eyes dropping to her slightly shaky hand. She was nervous.

She nods once but keeps her eyes on father and refuses to look my way. “Yes.”

I run a hand through my hair, pacing across the flooring. My head throbs slightly, like something inside my skull is pushing against a locked door. As if that very thing is fighting to get answers to unanswered questions. Answers I knew mother won’t disclose.

Every time I try to picture the girl outside, the head warrior from Midnight Ridge……my vision blurs. But pieces slip through anyway. A light beautiful giggle. A smile that made my heart skip. Her voice calling out my name breathily.

My jaw tightens.”That doesn’t make sense,” I mutter my thoughts out loud.

Mother stills. “What?”

“If someone tried to poison the Alpha of the pack,” I say slowly, turning to face her again, “they wouldn’t be alive,

My eyes narrow. “Yet she’s here. Standing in my territory. Leading the Midnight Ridge warriors.”

Knowing father and mother, if anyone dared to lay a hand on me, they’d be six feet under. Her being alive doesn’t make much sense to me if what mother said was true.

I watch her lips press into a thin, annoyed line.” She fled before we could punish her for what she had almost done to you,” she says after a tense moment.

My wolf growls the word liar loud in my head.

The word flashes through my mind so sudden it almost makes me have whiplash. I don’t know where the certainty comes from in my wolf, but it’s there. Deep in our very being we feel certain that the girl… didn’t feel like a traitor.

When I looked at her earlier…my chest had tightened in a way it never did before. My wolf surged forward like he recognized her, almost as though he had been waiting for her for years.

And the scent…….

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