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.

How could it be her? Why was it

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feet, my legs unsteady as I rose. My eyes flicked between Damien and Crystal, desperately searching for answers, for something that would make sense of this nightmare. Grayson stood silently behind me but his quiet only amplified the storm of confusion inside me. He was there, but in this

with mock sweetness. “You wanted to meet me, didn’t you? You were so eager to find out who I was. So don’t look

the gut, leaving me breathless. My mind was a whirlpool of questions, none of

Damien, as

almost playful smile, “You should know how twins are formed.

for me to catch up,

after all,” she added mockingly,

to snap at her, but Damien’s low chuckle interrupted me, like the sound of distant thunder in

meet her, Little

disbelieving gaze on Crystal, “You

knew?

smug. But there was something else there, something cold in the way her eyes

escaped me, hollow and bitter, “Thats why you knew exactly when my birthday was,”

a flood, “Because

smile, but there

the realization cutting deeper. Everything, every horrible thing she had done to me, every moment

disbelief. My eyes burned with unshed tears, my throat tight as I tried to swallow the lump forming there. “Why

head tilting slightly as she turned away from me, looking at

exhausting, Damien,” She drawled, her voice dripping with mock irritation, “It gives me a

and amused sound that made my stomach turn. Then, to my utter disgust, he reached out and

as if none of this–none of my agony, my confusion, my

my offer is declined. You have no interest in standing by my side.” He let out

stomach twisted into knots at his words.

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stole her. The night my mother lost one of her

at my sides, my nails digging into my palms as I took a

too?” I spat, Turn me into the

good–for- nothing parents 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 enough to understand, and I saw that he was right. Right to despise every single one of you.” She smiled, slow and cruel, “Just

had

I had spent my life 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 to destroy me.

stomach churned, bile rising in my throat. I couldn’t comprehend it.

chest, tilting her head

be sad about how they turned out,” She

smirked, her eyes

expression darkened, his jaw tightening as he turned to her,

rolling her eyes like she had crossed a line but didn’t care, “Fine,” She muttered, waving a hand dismissively. “Sour

already spiraling, a thousand thoughts crashing into each other. I had never considered it before.

behind everything… if Crystal–my sister–had been a part of it all from the very beginning…

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