The Rise Of The Betrayed Luna (Amorah and Holmes) novel Chapter 111

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Chapter 111

Amorah POV

The moment Conrad showed me the erased council record, I felt cold settle deep inside my chest. The name attached to the twins’ biological mother had been stripped from every official archive like she had never existed.

I sat forward inside Conrad’s office and read the file again slowly. Someone powerful had not only hidden her identity but buried every trace of her from the Alpha system completely.

“This wasn’t an accident,” I said quietly.

Conrad leaned back in his chair and rubbed a hand over his jaw.

“No,” he answered. “This was deliberate.”

The room stayed silent for several seconds while my thoughts turned darker. I suddenly understood why Bethany hated bloodline politics so violently, even if I still hated everything she had done.

I closed the file carefully and looked at Conrad again.

“What if this is bigger than Holmes?” I asked.

“It already is,” he replied.

I exhaled slowly and stood from the desk. My pregnancy had started making exhaustion hit faster lately, but I ignored it and reached for another folder from the stack beside him.

Conrad watched me carefully.

“You should rest,” he said.

“I’m not stopping now,” I answered.

We spent the next hour reviewing old territory records connected to vanished Alpha disputes. The deeper we searched, the more obvious it became that the twins’ biological mother had challenged succession politics publicly years ago before disappearing completely afterward.

“She argued against bloodline inheritance laws,” I muttered while reading another report.

Conrad’s expression hardened immediately.

“And several council elders opposed her directly,” he added.

I looked up from the page slowly.

“She threatened them.”

“Yes.”

The realization made my stomach twist unpleasantly. The Alpha system liked strong women only when those women stayed

useful and obedient.

The moment they became dangerous, the system buried them.

I suddenly thought about my own pregnancy differently. I thought about the hearing, the attacks against my credibility, and

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he constant attempts to reduce me into nothing except Conrad’s unborn heir.

The similarities felt too ugly to ignore

Conrad noticed the change my expression instantly.

“What are you thinking?” he asked.

I hesitated briefly before answering.

“I think women tied to powerful bloodlines only matter while they’re convenient,” I admitted.

His gaze sharpened immediately.

“You are not disposable to me.”

“I know,” I replied softly.

A knock interrupted the conversation before either of us could continue.

One of Conrad’s intelligence wolves stepped inside carefully.

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“The twins are asking for you,” he said.

I nodded immediately and rose from the chair. Conrad stood beside me automatically without even thinking about it anymore.

We found Kyra curled against the couch inside the family sitting room while Zane paced near the windows angrily. The tension around the territory had started affecting both of them badly over the past few weeks.

Kyra looked up first when I entered.

“Are people lying to us?” she asked quietly.

Zane crossed his arms tightly.

“We hear guards talking,” he muttered. “Everyone keeps whispering.”

I walked toward them slowly and sat beside Kyra first. Conrad stayed nearby quietly instead of interrupting.

“There are things we’re still trying to understand,” I admitted carefully.

Zane’s jaw tightened.

“So Bethany isn’t really our mother.”

The room went silent immediately.

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Kyra looked close to tears beside me while Zane tried pretending he wasn’t hurt by the possibility. The anger in his face could not hide how young he still was underneath everything.

I reached for his hand gently.

“You are not alone in this,” I told him.

“That doesn’t answer anything,” he snapped.

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onrad finally stepped forward then.

“We will tell you the truth when we fully understand it ourselves,” he said firmly.

Zane looked ready to argue again before his shoulders suddenly dropped instead

“I’m tired of everybody hiding things,” he muttered.

The words stayed with me painfully because I understood exactly what he meant. Too many people had spent years controlling these children through secrets and manipulation.

I refused to become another person doing the same thing.

Later that evening, I found Kyra sitting quietly inside the nursery Conrad had prepared weeks ago. Small paint samples and unfinished furniture still covered half the room.

She looked up when I entered. “Will the baby stay here?” she asked softly.

“Yes,” I answered.

Kyra touched one of the small blankets folded nearby.

“I think the baby will like it,” she whispered.

Emotion tightened unexpectedly in my chest. I sat beside her carefully while she continued arranging tiny clothes with serious concentration.

A few minutes later, Zane appeared reluctantly in the doorway carrying a box of nursery decorations one of the workers had delivered earlier.

“I’m only helping because she asked me to,” he grumbled.

Kyra rolled her eyes immediately.

“You wanted to help first.”

“I did not.”

I almost smiled despite everything.

Conrad entered quietly behind him carrying another box. He paused near the doorway and watched the three of us silently for several seconds.

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Kyra arranging baby blankets. Zane pretending not to care while helping anyway. Conrad standing there looking exhausted but calmer than he ever seemed anywhere else.

Without realizing it, I had already started thinking of them as mine. Conrad crossed the room slowly and stopped beside

“You should sit down before you overwork yourself,” he murmured quietly.

“I’m fine,” I replied automatically.

He rested a hand lightly against my stomach anyway.

“You always say that.”

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the Tamiliar warmthin his voice softened something inside me immediately. I leaned against him without thinking while Kyra continued talking excitedly about nursery colors nearby.

Zane noticed the movement st and made a face.

“You two are getting embarrassing”

Kyra laughed instantly.

“You’re just grumpy.”

“I’m not grumpy.”

Conrad looked down at me quietly after that exchange.

“You look happy,” he said softly.

The words caught me off guard because he sounded almost surprised by it himself.

I glanced around the nursery again before answering honestly.

“I think I finally stopped feeling temporary.”

His expression changed immediately after I said it. He touched my face gently before leaning down and pressing a soft kiss against my forehead.

“You never were,” he murmured.

That night, after the twins finally fell asleep, Conrad and I returned to our room exhausted. I barely settled against the bed before he pulled me closer.

“I trust you with this family,” he admitted quietly into the silence.

I looked up at him carefully.

“You already do.”

“Yes,” he said. “I do.”

I rested my head against his chest and listened to the steady rhythm of his heartbeat. For the first time in weeks, the territory felt calm.

Then Conrad’s phone vibrated sharply against the bedside table.

He frowned and reached for it immediately. I watched his expression darken while reading the message appearing through Alpha channels publicly.

“What happened?” I asked.

Conrad handed me the screen silently.

My stomach dropped the moment I read Bethany’s statement.

“The twins were never meant to survive long enough to learn the truth.*

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