Rejected, And Became A Heiress

Chapter 39

Chapter 0039

Alaric's POV

...Cara was pregnant?!

With twins?!

Lilia's face is expressionless now, but I will never forget that little smile. The look of satisfaction on her face when she heard it was Cara who had been wounded in the accident. "LILIA!" Grey growls in my head. "She did this!! She is responsible!!"

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She has hated Cara ever since the two first met. Lilia saw Cara as a rival, as an enemy.

How many nights did Lilia tell me to say how much I preferred her over Carà? Begging me to stroke her pathetic ego?

"I'm the best you've had, right?" Lilia had asked me with her big doe eyes one night after we'd had sex. "Better than everyone else? Better than her?"

She hadn't said Cara's name, but we both knew who Lilia had meant.

I assured Lilia

that

Which was a lie.

But the

!

I she was of course the best sex I'd been had.

look of triumphant relief on her face was enough to show me I'd answered the question correctly.

I thought that would be the end of it, but Lilia asked me to compare her to Cara constantly. Big things, little things, it didn't matter. Lilia always needed reassurance that she had won this imaginary competition between her and Cara. figured it was normal she-wolf insecurity. I thought Lilia was just being territorial because she cared for me so much. Because she loved me.

Now I see how wrong I was.

Lilia didn't just t want to O win. She wanted Cara to lose.

Lilld

How many wolves would have to die before Lilia would be satisfied?

At least two. Cara's babies...

I growl out loud and step closer to Lilia. She hunches her shoulders, making herself

Making herself look like less of

save her from

Alaric, no!"

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has placed himself between me and his sister. Between me and that

step between an Alpha King and his intended target. I'm sure Eamon wants to protect his

want to fight Eamon. It would cause an inevitable war between Pack DarkWood and Pack BloodyMoon. There would be more bloodshed, more destruction. I've worked so hard to make DarkWood the powerful pack it is

to make sure each member of the pack

a war would make all of that for nothing. But his

my tracks, giving him a

who remain are gawking at the scene, eyes bulging out of their heads processing

then turns on his heel

SLAP as Eamon's hand crosses

grabs her face, a pink handprint immediately

I'm sure I

What the hell?!

one speaks, it's like time has stopped from the sheer shock of Eamon slapping Lilia. His

in my pocket, and the buzzing fills the silence, breaking the spell of the shock. I don't care who's calling, but the distraction is enough to remind me... Cara.

need to

later," I growl at Lilia, who is still cradling her cheek. I turn to look at my butler, "Grab the car, we're going to the

Eamon says, facing me. "There is something you need to hear first." He looks at all the pack members still gathered around us.

him carefully before deciding to let him speak. Knowing

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it was something

at me then turns

Lilia

the princess of Pack

again, the crowd

blood feels

is razor sharp, and

our childhood nanny." Eamon's face i is serious, and I believe his words immediately. It takes a hell of a lot of guts to air your family's dirty laundry in public. I

her face, like her entire world is

suppose it

the DarkWood elders says in

there even a

was that a lie, too?" Some else

days

"Then who?"

the

crowd fires the questions at Eamon, practically drooling waiting