Offered to the Triplet Alphas

Chapter-64. My revenge

[Xanthea]

"Doctor! Call the doctor!" Meesa howled. "My baby! My Lia! Lia! Sweety! Respond to mamma! Baby!"

Taking a knife from the table, I walked closer to Nathalia.

"What do you want?" Meesa looked at the knife in my hand, hugging Nathalia protectively.

Nathalia was partially unconscious, her breaths faint and faltering.

"My revenge," I said, my voice low and detached as I knelt beside Nathalia and reached out to check her throat.

"What are you doing? Keep your filthy hands away from my daughter!" Meesa shoved away my hand. "Don't touch her, you wench-"

With stalled breaths, Meesa withdrew her hand as I pointed the knife at her.

"Mom! That's not what you call your daughter. I guess we need to set new ground rules to become a family again, Meesa," I said, coldly peering into her soul through her eyes. "And number one, keep your hands to yourself or I will break them." I smiled. "Don't worry, I will heal them later. This has been our love language, right? Hurting and healing each other? Pretending nothing's wrong."

Petrified, Meesa looked at the knife and then at me. I wasn't joking or playing around and maybe she felt it, too.

Checking Nathalia's breaths and pulse, I made Nathalia lie flat on her back and tilted her head upwards so she could breathe better. Using the knife, I cut off her clothes across her torso. "Nathalia! Can you hear me?" I patted her cheek.

She tried to breathe through her mouth, but couldn't.

Putting the knife aside, I placed my hand on her chest, starting the CPR. Locking my mouth with hers, I gave her breaths after every thirty chest compressions.

After a while, Nathalia's eyes widened as she gasped and broke into wheezes. She frantically held her neck, taking in deep breaths.

"Lia!" Nikolai and Meesa called out to her together.

I checked her pulses and breaths again. They were returning to normal. It took her a while to regain complete consciousness and when she did-

"Mom! Mom!" Shivering and frenzied, she sat up on her own and crawled away from me to her mother.

"It looks like she doesn't have any neck injuries, but it'll be better to take her to the hospital and have her checked thoroughly," I said.

I got up, breathing heavily as I trudged towards the dining table.

Sitting on the chair, I put aside the knife and clenched my hands together, trying to ignore Meesa's and Nathalia's united sobs and Nikolai's panicked voice as he checked on his sister.

heavy sigh. Leaning forward on the table, I held my head in my clammy,

go back home. But where exactly is

about my home, I came across Meesa's voice, dripping

from the tree. You are just like

I shook my

don't change easily,

tipsy because

Nikolai said, keeping his

She wanted to talk to

Nathalia in Nikolai's care,

why I treated you the way I did? Because you are the living proof of my husband's betrayal and your mother's conceit and decisiveness. Kid?" she chuckled. "Don't make me laugh! You were the kid who reminded me every day of how my husband cheated on me with an omega. How

between my fingers and tossed them aside. I really hate this

for a while, probably peering at the fruits rolling across

unusual medicines. Pain and happiness, it was all started by your mother. Your mother stripped me of my rights, my pride. And then

Getting up from the chair,

Meesa nodded.

So, I couldn't bear to let 'you' take away the rights of my children." Nikolai and Nathalia looked at

deserve to stand in front of us, you filth! You deserved what you got. And if you want to blame someone, blame your mother!" Her voice shook with rage and pain. "Blame her for giving you birth. Blame her for dying after that, leaving your burden on me! And what did my husband say? Raise my Thea as your own! The child of a fucking mistress was

for the full experience. You won't find the next

my dry lips. I looked

I didn't deserve to become an outlet for your emotions. I understand your

and to be punished for something I didn't do all my life. It was unjust, unfair to me. I just wanted a little love, a little acceptance. I just wanted to be seen and accepted and celebrated like Nikolai and Nathalia were.

howled. Holding her chest, she crumpled to

her eyes blankly, feeling a numbing tremble

you did to me was wrong. Your emotional baggage is not mine to carry. It's yours and I have come to return it to you and I have done what

ungrateful wench!"

"Mom! Enough!" Nikolai intervened.

chuckled, swallowing the tightness building in

just broke my body and not my spirit and now I am going to fulfill my mother's dream. I am going to become a healer and I am

she was like and you worship that wench of a witch like some goddess! You call me delusional, Thea? Seriously? What is your mother's name, Thea?" she asked,

brows, I grimaced at

"Freya Plath," I said.

her real name? Are you

looked at her,

name of the person whose identity your mother stole. Freya Plath is not your mother. And identity theft is the worst of the worst crimes. Where does your mother stand on your moral compass now? No one knows where she came from. No one knows her name. No one knows what she was or did before she came here. Not even Valdimir. But my dear, I can tell you one thing for sure: your

raised my voice, clenching my fist. "My mother was a wonderful, beautiful woman. She was capable and confident and maybe that is why father chose her over you!