The Alpha King's Contracted Luna by Nelson Claudia

Chapter 223

Chapter 223

Ava’s POV-

I didn’t move.

I didn’t blink.

I was frozen.

“Hello, sister.”

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The words echoed in my head, a sound that didn’t seem real, like a cruel joke I couldn’t quite understand. My grip tightened on Grayson’s arm, my knuckles white as I tried to process the shock that was crashing over me like a tidal wave. Every inch of my body trembled.

I was sure I had heard her wrong. Surely, this couldn’t be happening.

My sister? Her?

I hadn’t even noticed the subtle shift in her features at first–how her hair that used to be blonde now seemed to match my own dark strands, how her eyes, which I had always avoided looking at, were now piercing through me with a familiarity I couldn’t shake. I had thought they were just plain brown, but no, they held flecks of gold in them, just like my mother’s.

It was like a switch had been flipped. Suddenly, everything fell into place, like a jigsaw puzzle I never knew was missing a piece. Like how it took my mother asking me about a cryptic pregnancy for me to realize that I was pregnant.

Crystal was my sister?

I swallowed hard, my throat dry and tight. My mouth went dry as my breath caught in my chest. The truth was crashing down on me, one cruel revelation after another.

“You’re…”

My voice cracked, the words barely making it past my lips.

“You’re my sister?”

The silence that followed was deafening.

She smiled at me, that same cold, mocking smile I had come to loathe. It was like a mask she wore so effortlessly, and I had never seen it more clearly than I did now.

Crystal walked towards Damien, her heels clicking sharply against the cold floor, every step calculated and deliberate. She leaned in and kissed his cheek–soft, affectionate, whispering something in his ear. The anger in Damien’s eyes didn’t

nod. disappear, but it seemed to cool just enough for him to give a small, almost approving

“Can I sit down? Pregnancy is so exhausting,” She sighed dramatically, placing a hand on her stomach as if her mere words should demand sympathy. Damien nodded, but his eyes never left me, his dark gaze boring into me like a warning.

I shook my head in disbelief, as if doing so would somehow make her disappear. Would make the reality of the situation fade into a bad dream I could wake up from. But no matter how many times I blinked, she was still there. Still smiling that smile that made my skin crawl.

Crystal–my sister.

could it be her? Why was

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I rose. My eyes flicked between Damien and Crystal, desperately searching for answers, for something that would make sense of this

you? You were so eager to find out who I was. So don’t look so repulsed by the thought that you and I–my darling Ava–are blood sisters. More

gut, leaving me breathless. My mind was a whirlpool of questions, none of which made sense, none of which could possibly explain

her’or myself. My eyes darted between her and Damien, as if expecting one of them to tell

almost playful smile, “You should know how twins are

if waiting for me to catch up, to realize

added mockingly, her eyes gleaming with a

like the sound of distant

her, Little

even glance at him. I kept my disbelieving gaze on Crystal, “You knew?

knew?

there was something else there, something cold in the way her

me, hollow and bitter, “Thats why you knew

born.” on me in a flood, “Because it’s the same day

slow, knowing smile, but there was something darker behind it, “You’re catching

horrible thing she had done to me, every moment of torment–she had been my sister this whole

voice cracking under the weight of my own disbelief. My eyes burned with unshed tears, my throat tight as I tried to swallow the lump

head tilting slightly as she

her voice dripping with mock irritation, “It

turn. Then, to my utter disgust, he reached out and patted her head like she was some

indifferent, as if none of this–none of my agony, my confusion, my betrayal -mattered in the

pulled,” Damien said, voice smooth as silk but laced with warning, “I’d say my offer is declined. You have no interest in standing by my side.” He let out a low sigh, shaking his head slightly, “Maybe I should

into

That night.

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night my mother lost one of her daughters. The night that could

sides, my nails digging into my palms as I

I spat, Turn me into the same vile human

of yours.” She lifted her chin, eyes gleaming with something twisted–pride. “Damien raised me to know the truth. He never lied to me. I knew exactly who you were from the moment I was old

she had always known.

completely oblivious to her existence, she had known about me. She had known we were sisters. And she had still chosen to hate me. She had still chosen

in my throat.

folded her arms across her chest, tilting her

sad about how they turned out,” She mused, “it should

into the smirked, her eyes flashing

the mention of him while Damien’s expression darkened, his jaw tightening as he turned to her,

she had crossed a line but didn’t care, “Fine,”

barely heard them. My mind was already spiraling, a thousand thoughts crashing

mastermind behind everything… if Crystal–my sister–had been a part

was Dylan in on it too?