Escaping my arranged marriage with Alpha Prescott

Chapter 70

Matilda

Awicked smile stretched her lips, showing how much she was enjoying seeing me in pain. “Camilla got everything that | wanted, power, love, and a perfect life. She became the Alpha Queen when she didn’t even deserve to be because she was so fragile and weak while the Goddess mated me to the Witch King’s first-in-command who didn’t even want me yet I couldn't help but feel drawn to him. He discarded me after using me, and that’s when | saw your mother living happily ever after and | decided to sn tch everything from her and become the Alpha Queen myself and take revenge on my mate.”

| couldn't believe my eyes and ears or perhaps | didn’t want to believe that the woman kneeling in front of me was the same woman whom | used to call Mom and the worst thing, she was my

real

mother’s sister.

How could she be so hostile to her twin sister? Werewolves had their unique scents, even the twins shared different scents. How could my father not know that she was not his mate?

“How did you fool everyone? How could anyone not notice that you were not the true Queen?” | probed her as an unsettling feeling settled in my chest.

“She used her witch mate to have a cast spell over her with the blood sacrifice. Dirty dark magic that is forbidden to be used by even the Witches,” Owen replied, pressing my shoulders and making me lean into his body to let his soothing aura calm me “You think you know everything, don’t you?” Beatrice mocked Owen, bursting into laughter. “You know nothing about dark magic. Dominic swapped our souls and | got my twin sister's body so no one could doubt it as my body already had the marks of my mate and Queen's.

Owen didn’t know it, his face contorted as the revelation dwelled upon him. Prescott pulled me into his embrace and held me tightly in his arms, that’s when | realized that | was trembling. The sparks from his touch comforted me and | felt a wave of serenity washed over me.

It was supposed to be the happiest day of my life and it was until | realized that | lived. life in the shadow of a dark lie that changed everything for me.

my whole

My head spun and | almost dug my nails into my mate’s skin while holding onto him tightly to get the support to stand still. Prescott

“Take her inside. It’s too much for her to take in one time,’ Owen conveyed through the link as | supported her shaking frame in my embrace.

| mind-linked my Beta to come there and seize Beatrice to throw her into the dungeon in at separate cell.

“Let's go, Tila. We'll not let this slide. | promise you that I'll find your mother and justice will be served to everyone,” | murmured in her ear as she sobbed silently on my chest, hiding her face.

Her aura changed as justice will be served now that

she pulled away and wiped her tears off. ©

I'm the Queen. | just want to ask you one last question,” her voice was loud and firm.

“Why did you give me your necklace and teach me to utilize my powers?” My mate asked with at poker face. The warmth that once she had for her Mom was now replaced with coldness and hatred.

Beatrice let out a sardonic chuckle, her face turning red with fury. “Dylan had his eyes on you so | wanted to get rid of you from the town and sending you back to your cursed mate seemed the best option to me,” she uttered with difficulty as Matilda’s command forced her to speak the truth which she precisely didn’t want to speak.

“Why is that asshole after my mate?” My voice came out sharp and far dangerously lower than | intended to.

“The bi ch has got looks and curves that would make any man with eyes want her,” she spat with her clenched jaw.

“If you dared to call her name again, | will slice your tongue and feed it to the dogs in front of your eyes,” | threatened her in a deep voice and she knew in her bones that it wasn’t a mere threat. | was capable of doing it..

“Where is my Mom? Where have you kept her?” Matilda asked.

Beatrice smirked despite shivering at the effect of royal command. “Dylan Kane has your mother. The Alpha King had killed his mother in the war so he wants revenge.”

From what she had divulged till now, | figured that Dominic was her mate who happened to be the first-in-command of the former Witch King who was Dylan’s father. Everything about Dylan was so twisted that it seemed as if he had crafted a labyrinth of secrets, all leading to his quest for

vengeance.

Beatrice didn’t want Matilda to meet Dylan and that’s what | found suspicious. She clearly didn’t care about my mate so she wouldn't want her safety. There was something that she still didn’t. reveal.

“Alpha,” Caleb bowed to me and his men captured Beatrice.

“You're going to lose everything. Matilda, just like your mother. This time, things will turn in my favor,” Beatrice said menacingly, hissing in pain as the silver chains burned her wrists.

“Don't listen to her. You'll lose nothing, | promise you,” | cooed, cupping her checks and pecking at deep kiss on her forehead. After scooping her up in my arms, | carried her toward our apartment and helped her get charged.

“Can | sleep with Avery tonight?” She asked in a barely audible voice after removing her makeup.

| didn’t want to leave her alone tonight but | knew that she needed some space and to talk to her sister as she would be able to comfort her more than me.

Avery also deserved to know the truth about her real mother so | agreed to her and insisted that they both would sleep in our room. | wanted my mate to be in our room so at least, my scent would

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soothe her if she missed me.

| could feel her pain through our mate bond and for the first time, | was able to smell her delicious bewitching lavender scent. “Come to the office, Dad's voice rang through the link.

After taking a quick shower. | changed into my track pants and a T-shirt before heading to my

Office.

“| don’t understand how is it possible. | kept her secret safe for all these years only to be betrayed?” Dad muttered in frustration, raking a hand over his hair.

“Which secret are you talking about?” | stared at him dubiously.

His heart started racing in his chest as our gaze locked and the office carried a pin-drop silence.

“There is no point in hiding it anymore.” Owen suggested, assuring my father.

What was with everyone having secrets and hiding them from their children when we were bound to find them one day anyway? “| see,” Dad heaved a sigh and sat in the chair. “Lola...” He struggled to speak and it irked me. A low growl erupted through my chest as | was no longer able to hide my resentment of the situation.

“Lola is the daughter of Camilla,” said he as he lowered his gaze in remorse. “I mean. Beatrice.”

“What?” | couldn’t believe what he said. “Come again?”

“Lola is the daughter of Beatrice and Dominic, Dad uttered, “I didn’t know about the dark magic. She told me that Dominic raped her and left her there to die. She didn’t want Sheldon to know about it so | helped her to keep her secret because | thought that it was Camilla.”

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