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We need to leave as quickly as we can but I need to find Liam first. I haven’t seen him since I woke up. Ace left after I called him a murderer. He didn’t say anything, he just walked out of the room. I pushed the thought away and focused on packing. I had been putting our luggages back together, including Leslie’s. The sooner we left this place, the better.
1 stormed out of the room, slamming the door with force, only to bump into Kathryn standing right outside. She had been lying to me too, and she was supposed to be my best friend.
“Char, where are you rushing off to?” she asked, reaching out her hand. I ignored her and walked past her, heading straight for the stairs. My steps were quick but she followed right behind me.
“You’re mad at me and you have every right to be,” she said as she tried to keep up. “Believe me when I tell you that I’ve always had it at the top of my tongue to tell you the truth. It killed me every time I saw you and couldn’t talk to you because you didn’t recognize me and I couldn’t tell you who you were either.”
I stopped walking in the middle of the stairs and turned to face her. She stopped too, her eyes were filled with regret and beads of sweat rolled down her forehead as she looked at me.
“Why didn’t you?” I queried. “You had every opportunity to tell me, but you didn’t. That day at the Virel Holdings, when you crashed into me, why did you hold back?”
Tears formed in her eyes as she struggled to answer. “At first I thought I was mistaken. My best friend, Char, had this huge. birthmark on her cheek that seemed impossible to remove even with surgery. But the woman I saw that day looked too perfect.” She stepped closer and grabbed my hand in both of hers, holding it tightly. “The day I found out the truth, I wanted to run to you and tell you everything,” she continued, her voice shaking. “But Ace begged me not to.” A small laugh escaped her throat as the tears finally fell from her eyes.
“You could have told me,” my voice croaked out.
“I’ve hated Ace since the night he banished you and he knew it. But after seeing how he fought for you, he didn’t mind what he was going to lose, all he wanted to do was to be with you.” Her voice cracked and the tears kept falling. “He was so scared of losing you. Every time he thought of you getting your memories back…” She shook her head slowly, remembering it. “It scared the shit out of him and he hated himself everyday.”
I pressed my lips together before answering. “It doesn’t matter. He did all he did out of guilt and the curse not because he loved me. Have you forgotten how he was with Moon back in the days?” Those memories have been haunting me since they came back.
“Yes. Maybe, she admitted. “But trust me, he didn’t know you had an accident and he wasn’t aware that Moon was responsible for it.” She reached out and took my other hand, her eyes searching my face. “Nothing I say will make you feel
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“Yes,” I said after a moment. “And right now I want to leave this city, this country, and go back to London. Back to the life l‘ ve always known. This place holds a lot of bad memories.”
I couldn’t stay angry with Kathryn for long. She was the only one who stood by me when I was brought to the Brown league pack. She was the only sister and friend that I had, and no matter how upset I was at the moment, I wasn’t going to take it out on her.
“Will you ever forgive me?” she asked, releasing my hands to wipe the tears from her eyes. “I’m really sorry, Best. Okay, we‘ re not best friends right now but we used to be and I want us to get back to how we were.” She stepped back, shaking her head a little. “Okay, I’m rambling. We can’t get back exactly how we used to be but… can we start again? Afresh.”
“Kath…” I called, but she wouldn’t stop rambling.
“I know you have another best friend right now, the other doctor and I’m not a doctor but a secretary…”
I pulled her into my arms and that finally made her stop talking. She froze for a moment before her arms wrapped around me. After a second she mumbled into my shoulder.
“Does that mean we get to try again? As best friends? You know I’m not going to back down, even if you refuse.”
I couldn’t hold it anymore. I burst out laughing loudly as I held her tightly, our bodies crushing together.
“You’ll always be my best friend, Kathryn.”
We pulled apart slightly and I held her face, wipis Successfully unlocked! with my thumb.
“You’re the only reason I didn’t die all those years ago, ligning my Dunes uke the bad ass wolf that you are.”
“You’re not mad at me anymore?” she asked, hope rising a little in her voice.
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I was,” I admitted honestly. “Everyone lied to me but I can’t stay angry at you, even if I tried.” I grabbed her hand as we valked down the rest of the stairs. “Right now I want to find my son so that we can leave America. I’ve searched the entire building and I couldn’t find him anywhere.”
Right, that’s because Ace took him to the pack.”
A wave of anger rose inside me at the thought of him taking Liam without telling me. Kathryn must have seen it on my face because she spoke quickly.
Don’t be mad at him, you were sleeping and Liam wouldn’t let Ace leave so Ace had to take him along.”
She got into the car with me and we drove to the pack. The moment we arrived, Kathryn led me straight inside and toward Ace’s office. With my memories back, I already knew exactly where it was and what it looked like.
When we walked in, Ace looked up immediately. His eyes widened the moment he saw me standing there. Liam was sitting on his desk while Ace was giving instructions to his men about finding Moon wherever she was hiding.
Seeing that office again pulled an old memory to the surface. The first time I stepped into that room, I had walked in on him and my sister kissing. Moon had turned to me that day and started yelling, throwing insults at me as if I had done something wrong by being there. Ace had stood beside her the whole time without saying a word, without even looking at my face, and I remembered standing there feeling invisible, like I didn’t exist in that room at all.
‘Mummy!” Liam yelled the moment he saw me. He jumped off the table and ran straight into my open arms. “How are you mummy? Are you truly awake? I missed you so much.”
‘I missed you so much too, my baby.” I pulled him into my arms, holding him tightly as the fear I had been carrying finally oosened. “I was so worried I was never going to see you again.” My eyes watered and tears dropped onto his shoulder as I held him.
‘You don’t have to worry, mum,” Liam said, pulling back a little to look at me. “Daddy rescued me and he also rescued you.” The word made my heart stop for a second. Did he just bluntly call Ace Daddy? My past was already painful enough, but the one thing I wished had stayed buried in those memories was the truth that Liam belongs to Ace as well. My son is his son, but that doesn’t give him any right over him.
Everything started making sense now. Why Liam had always been so strongly attached to Ace, how he followed him around without hesitation. The resemblance between the two of them, Gavin as well, they were all related.
The moon on both their necks, no other Alpha had that mark on them, I had been checking, It was all because they were father and son.
“Charlotte, we need to talk,” Ace said as he motioned for his men to leave the room.
“Baby, why don’t you go with Kathryn. I’ll come pick you soon so that we can leave.”
“Where are we leaving to, mummy? I want to stay here with daddy.”
The word made my chest ache but I didn’t react. Kathryn gently took his hand and led him outside, closing the door behind them. The room fell quiet with just Ace and I left.
“Did you tell him about…?” I stopped halfway, his brows pulling together in confusion. “Did you tell him you’re his father?”
“I wanted to but I didn’t want to take that away from you. You should be the one to tell him.”
I let out a sarcastic laugh. “You must be crazy if you think I’m going to tell him the truth. You’re not his father, you rejected him the night you rejected me,”
“I have a right to my son.” He rubbed his temple, the frustration on his face building up.
“Then maybe you can also lay claim to his twin,” I blurted out, my hands trembling as the anger began to rise, and I mashed. my lips together to stop myself from shouting more than I already had.
His head snapped up, his eyes flashing with shock and rage. “What are you talking about? Liam has a twin? Where is he and why have you been hiding him?” His voice climbed, cracking under the weight of his fury as he stepped closer, looming over me. “How could you hide my other kid from me?” Beneath the anger and frustration in his voice, there was a faint, bitter edge of betrayal that made me hate him more than I already did.
“How dare you?!” I yelled, my hands clenching at my sides. “You have no right to stand there and act like I betrayed you when you were the one who never wanted us.”
He closed the space between us, breathing hard, veins in his neck popping as his jaw tightened. “Where is my other pup?” “In the ground,” I spat, my voice cutting through the tension. That night, the woman you locked and punished me in the cage for… she didn’t just kill the old me. She also killed my other son. It was a miracle Liam survived.”
I locked my gaze with his, letting the anger that had boiled between us flare for one last moment before it collapsed as my
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words hit him. His eyes went wide, all the anger draining from his body. “You killed your son, and I’ll never forgive you for that or your wife.”
This was a part of me I had never shared with anyone. I had still been asleep when he was taken from my womb. I never got the chance to hold him, to see him or to love him.
“Stay away from me and Liam.” I turned and started walking toward the door, but stopped midway, my eyes fixed on his face, which now streaked with tears that ran freely down his cheeks. “I will find your wife, and I will make sure she suffers as much as I suffered.”
I walked out without another word, ignoring the low, broken sobs I heard behind me.
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Sara Lili is a daring romance writer who turns icy landscapes into scenes of fiery passion. She loves crafting hot love stories while embracing the chill of Iceland’s breathtaking cold.
