The Alpha and His Contract Luna (Lauren) novel Chapter 80

My first instinct is to deny everything. I mean there was just no way he was my father. Because that would mean that Lilly was my sister.

A sister I didn’t know I had. A sister I met by coincidence when Sebastian took me as a mate.

“Look, there’s just no way I’m your long lost daughter. I was raised in an orphanage not stolen from my pack” I tell Lucas trying to still my frantically beating heart.

‘Are you sure of that?’ A voice whispered in my head. ‘You and Claire were after all left at an orphanage and according to Sarah, both of you looked to be less than a year old’

I shake my head. Trying to push away the thoughts. Not wanting to accept what my mind was whispering.

‘Why are you refusing to see the truth, your story fits with that of his and his beta’s missing daughters’

“Blue? Midnight?” I call them, ignoring the doubts in my head but they don’t answer.

It was like they shut me out or maybe I was the one that shut them out.

My eyes follow Lucas' movement when he gets up, pulls out his wallet then removes a photograph. He hands it to me. At first I refuse to take it but curiosity gets the best of me.

I gasp when I look at the picture. The face staring back at me is identical to mine, the only exception being that the woman has strawberry blonde hair and green eyes.

“That’s Hailey” Lucas whispers slowly.

I try to make sense of everything. Try to come up with a possible explanation of why I looked exactly like his dead mate.

“This is nothing, people have at least one doppelganger out there in the world” I argue against the evidence staring me in the face.

My hands are shaking and I feel like I’m being ripped in different directions.

‘Why are you fighting the truth?’ the voice whispers in my head.

To be honest I didn’t know. But maybe it was because I didn’t want to believe that I had such a cruel fate. Didn’t want to believe that someone would steal two little girls from their parents, one of whom had a father that had recently lost his mate and their baby girl was the only piece of his mate that he had.

“Wait you said that Hailey had two older siblings, A sister and a brother who were twins right? Luke asks

Lucas nods his head at his son.

“And mom once told me that her mate rejected her” Lilly adds, the wheels in her head turning.

“Mom has a twin brother, Uncle Clive…grandma used to tell me that she had another child, a daughter who died. There were no photos of her though and when I asked mom, she said that her death was painful to all of them, so all her photos were taken down because it was just too hard to look at them, especially for her mate. You never told me who her mate was though and I never asked, just assumed he moved to another pack or something.” She finishes.

I turn to look at Valery. See the pain in her eyes. She wasn’t hurting because her mate was hurting. This wasn’t just her mate’s pain. It was her pain too.

“You’re Hailey’s sister, aren’t you?” I asked softly. I see the answer in her eyes before she even replies.

“Yes, she was my baby sister” she answers with tears in her eyes. Her voice choking.

I stare at her. “The one that slept with Lucas the day he received his dead mate’s ashes?”

Luke throws me a threatening look but I don’t pay him attention. I wasn’t trying to be mean or anything. I just wanted to make sure that the information was pieced together without any missing pieces.

“Yes” she murmurs in shame. “It’s not one of my proudest moments, but I was hurting. I had lost my sister and gotten rejected all in the span of two weeks. I didn’t want to tell anyone yet so when I went to check on Lucas and Freya I asked him if I could join him in drinking. I just wanted to drown the pain and heartache. I was horrified when I woke the next morning naked in his bed.”

“He was mine and Clive’s best friend. We never saw each other like that or ever got romantically involved. Our friendship was purely platonic. I felt disgusted with myself. Not only had I slept with my bestfriend but also my sister’s mate. On top of the pain, I was dealing with the guilt of what had happened between us. We agreed to forget it ever happened, that was until I was late and a trip to the doctor revealed that I was pregnant”