The Witch and Her Four Dangerous Alphas

Chapter 53: Chapter 53: No One Ever Knew Her

Author’s POV ~

Silence crashed over them like a tidal wave.

It wasn’t the kind of silence that settled softly or allowed breath to return—it was the kind that suffocated. That crushed ribs and stole air and made hearts forget how to beat.

No one moved or spoke. Not even Lucian dared to groan beneath the dagger pressed into his chest. Because the words she had just unleashed were not something that could be brushed off. They weren’t rage-fueled accusations or delusions born of pain.

They were the truth.

And that truth now hung in the room like a ghost, staring each of them down, refusing to be unseen.

She wasn’t his daughter.

She wasn’t Eirik Moonveil’s child.

She was his victim.

Kael staggered back, his breath hitching so violently it almost sounded like a choke. Luca stared at her like he had never seen her before, like she had become a stranger in the span of seconds, and not because she had changed—but because they had never truly known her to begin with.

And Aeron—dear gods, Aeron looked like the world had just split open beneath his feet. His shoulders sank, his jaw slack, as if everything he believed in had just been set on fire and left to rot in the ashes.

his temple, fingers trembling. "That... that can’t be... You were there. At the manor.

now. Hollow. Like

any blow

Now they remembered.

Fang Pack—Eirik’s mate—had died young. Murdered in a brutal attack that had shaken the entire region. They had all known of it. Had whispered about the madness of the Alpha, how he had lost

new lens. Not just a

and

child forced to watch her mother be ripped from her arms, not by rogues or invaders, but by the very man

But why?

now the seed of doubt

had no love to give. He wasn’t the kind to spare life out of pity. He didn’t take in

raise a

feel the tremble of something darker beginning

struck harder. "She tried to run. She tried to protect me. And he... he snapped her neck

Aeron closed his eyes.

image of a small girl covered in her mother’s blood, shaking in a corner while the beast who had done it stood above her... It was enough to make even the strongest Alpha

what if she was simply a girl left behind by a man who needed her for

And suddenly everything twisted.

she hidden all her life but suddenly one day appeared and

she wasn’t Eirik’s daughter.