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

look like

that will save her from

Alaric, no!"

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and brave move to step between an Alpha King and his intended target. I'm sure Eamon wants to protect his little sister; I'd probably

BloodyMoon. There would be

to make sure each member of the pack can not just survive,

war would make all of that for nothing. But his

stop in my tracks, giving him a

are gawking at the scene,

my gaze then turns on his heel towards

SLAP as

her face, a pink handprint

Hell, I'm sure

What the hell?!

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

the silence, breaking the spell of the shock. I don't care who's calling, but the distraction is enough to remind me...

need to go to

with you later," I growl at Lilia, who is still cradling her cheek. I turn to look at my

says, facing me. "There is something you need to hear first." He looks

before deciding to let him speak. Knowing Eamon, he wouldn't

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was something really important.

turns

Lilia

the princess of

the

blood feels ice

voice is razor sharp, and my

in my family as one of us. But, as I found out recently, that was a carefully constructed lie. She is a bastard, an illegitimate child borne out of an affair between my father 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 can't help but feel my respect for him grow. Lilia is

her entire world

I suppose it

not the princess?!" One of the DarkWood

a princess of

was that a lie, too?" Some else yells

few days ago." Eamon says seriously. "But the princess is

"Then who?"

the BloodyMoon

at Eamon, practically drooling waiting