CALLUM FEW MINUTES LATER “Seth, lead a portion of the warriors and go this way. Make sure you cover the entire surroundings,”“Nolan and I will lead the rest inside the building,” I ordered as soon as we arrived at the six-story abandoned building. “Yes, sir!” Seth howled, nodding firmly with a small bow. Without wasting any more time, Seth and his group moved away to cover the entire surrounding, while my group proceeded into the building. “Let’s split up so we can cover this place quickly. We mustn’t give anyone a chance to escape!” “If you find anything, even the littlest unusual thing, communicate with the rest of us! Everyone should put down the walls of their mind link! I don’t want any excuses!” I briefed them hurriedly, and the moment I was done, we all turned in different directions in the building. I moved stealthily through the dark hallways, lit up by a small torch in my hand. My senses on high alert as I advanced in my search. The scent of dust, mold, and stal
SCARLETT “Scarlett!” I heard Callum’s voice as soon as I walked into the Packhouse and my heart unintentionally skipped a beat. I paused in my tracks as he made his way towards me, grabbed me by my shoulders lightly and began to look me over. My eyes followed his hands in confusion as he looked through my body as if checking for injuries. “Are you okay?”“Did anybody try to hurt you? Did anybody approach you today or anything?!” He asked all in one breath, I grabbed his hands almost immediately to make him stop. “Honey! I’m okay, what’s going on?!” I asked. He exhaled deeply and shook his head slowly. “Nothing, I just thought something bad had probably happened to you,” he mumbled, I slowly took my lower lips into my mouth and shook my head slowly. “I’m okay,” I said to him and he nodded slowly. “Where did you go?!” He finally asked. His question caught me off guard almost immediately like I didn’t see it coming. I raised my brows and pressed my lips against each other.“Hmm?”
SCARLETT “When he brought her into the hospital, she was already bleeding, pregnant women don’t bleed normally, but she seemed to have been abused and that led into forced labour,” she began, I nodded slowly urging her to go on. “Throughout the delievery period, she was in so much pain, mostly from the injuries inflicted on her,”“Do you think he did that?!” I asked and she nodded slowly. “I know he did that to her. I think she found out a very terrible secret of his and she threatened to expose it,” she continued and I nodded slowly. That was the exact same thing I saw in her diary, she was wishing she didn’t know about something. “Immediately after her baby was born, Kian came to me and asked me to pronounce her dead,” “But before that he wanted me to treat her injuries before announcing her dead, so that those injuries would not raise brows if anybody were to see her body, especially amongst his family members,” “That was why we pronounced her dead after three days,” she said
SCARLETT 2:00pm My mother’s hands tightened around my fragile neck and she strangled me even tighter. For some weird reasons, I could see her hands on my tiny seven year neck, I could see myself struggling to break free but I could not feel any pain. I just found myself imagining how painful it must feel. “After everything I’ve done to give us this life Scarlett! You cannot turn out as an omega wolf!” “You most definitely cannot!” My mother growled as she pressed my neck more, slowly pushing me backwards. I looked back at where we were standing and realized that there was a massive sea of water just below. I turned back to her with fear in my eyes. “Mommy, mommy please, I’m sorry!” I stuttered trying to grip her hands with my tiny hands but it wasn’t doing anything to help. “Sorry doesn’t change anything! Do you know what will happen when the entire pack finds out that you are an omega wolf?!”“You’ll be whisked away as an outcast and a maid to the Alpha! You know what that mea
MYLA “What?!” I scoffed narrowing my brows at him. “Are you joking with me right now?!” I muttered. He simply smiled, reached for a small table drawer by the chair where he was seated, pulled the drawer open and took out a small ziplock bag. He pulled out some strands of his hair put it in the bag and handed it over to me. “I know you’re smart, you know what to do,” he said to me. “What is he doing?” I heard Scarlett’s voice. “You’re giving me your hair to conduct a DNA for you and Alyssa?!” I said and he nodded slowly. “You’re so sure she’s your daughter huh,” I mumbled and he nodded. “Ofcourse, what kind of father does not know who his child is,” he said and I nodded slowly. “How come?” I asked. He simply reclined in his seat and crossed his legs. “Cora is my fated mate.”“We’ve been best friends from childhood, up until we found out we were fated mates. Cora did not want that, we were poor and almost wretched, all she ever dreamed of and talked of was leaving that life beh
SCARLETT “Five to six months on that island, something terrible must have really happened,” Annabeth said to me. I exhaled deeply and nodded slowly.“Everything is still very unclear to me,” I mumbled. “Everything he said about my Mom and Dad correlated with the dreams have been having. Turns out even the children my father thought was his, none of us belonged to him.”“Those were not dreams Anna, they’re my memories,” “My father, must be turning in his grave after discovering everything my mother did to him. He didn’t deserve it at all”“He didn’t deserve to be lied to and deceived the way my mother lied to him,” I said to her, my voice barely above a whisper. She nodded slowly and took my hands in hers.“According to what I saw, I fell into the river, I just don’t know what happened after that,” I added. She slowly slipped out right hand out of my grip and reached out to rub my shoulder comfortingly.“Also, he confirmed that he made the potion to kill Callum’s parent from her. I
SCARLETT Annabeth and I sat quietly side by side with Gina seated in front of us. She was crying uncontrollably, neither of us made any attempt to stop her, we just let her cry to her satisfaction and until she is ready to talk to us. “Doctor Dallas told us everything that happened,” I finally said after her tears subsided.“Mia? She was Godsent,” she whispered in reply.“I’ve been on the run for three years,” she added.“Kian hasn’t stopped looking for me, he knows for a fact that I’m still alive, so I can’t settle anywhere permanently.”“If I stay somewhere for too long, he’d definitely find me,”“I couldn’t even go to any hospital to get myself treated, he seems to be everywhere and if he finds me I know he’ll make my life so much worse,” she continued, her voice still shaky from the tears.“I had to come back here to the orphanage because it’s the only safe place here, I knew he won’t find me here and I also want to see my daughter again,”“I’ve never for once set eyes on her,”
CALLUM FEW HOURS EARLIER. 6:00pmI picked up my phone from the table, swiped up, and dialed Scarlett. I’m done guessing or trying to assume what’s going on, because what’s going on is clearly messing with my entire intelligence.-Hi this is Scarlett, I’m not available at the moment. Leave a message- It kept redirecting me to voicemail over and over again. I sighed, running my hands through my hair as I lowered the phone and began typing.“Where are you? We need to —“ on a second thought, I deleted the text and got up to my feet. I’m just going to talk to her face to face. The door to my office bursted open and Nolan rushed in. He paused upon seeing that I was packing my things. “You’re leaving already?!” He asked. I blinked and slowly turned fully to look at him.“What’s going on?! Any update?!” I asked with my hands on my waist. His eyes shone again, just with the same intensity as before. “Do you remember the phone you asked me to trace before? Annabeth has been a little occupi
SCARLETT “Thank you!” I said to the taxi driver immediately he got to the front of my house. I settled the bills, opened the door and got out. Just as I was about to enter the house, I heard a loud honking sound, only then did I realize there was a car packed by my house. I was so consumed in my thoughts to realize. I turned, the door slowly went open and I saw Callum step out of the driver seat with a big flower bouquet in his hands. I rolled my eyes to the back of my head as I stepped back, folded my hands across my chest and waited for him to make his way towards me. “My Queen,” he said as soon as he got closer to me and stretched the flowers to me. I raised my lips in a sheer.“Don’t call me that,” I mumbled and gently took the flowers from him. “I’m sorry, ““Honestly I had no idea why I didn’t tell you about it, I guess she’s just a part of my life I so desperately wanted to forget,”“Still not an excuse, you should have told me. I deserved to know, not just setting me up
DAY OF THE ANNIVERSARY Hours before the Anniversary ….SCARLETT “If you would just talk to him, he’s been trying for two days now,” Kaitlyn said to me, she was seated on my bed, while I was seated in front of the vanity mirror applying makeup. Cora and Alyssa had gone ahead to set things up and it was just me at home. I paused and slowly looked up at her through the mirror. “You don’t understand do you?!” I muttered and she sighed deeply. “He lied to me, he told me I was his first ..”“Knowing fully well that I wasn’t, that hurts like crazy,” I paused as she completed my statement for me. I rolled my eyes to the back of my head and resumed applying my lipstick, her phone dinged and I turned to her immediately,“Is that Myla?!” I asked immediately and she nodded slowly. “She’s on her way here,” she muttered and my shoulders slumped. “No other thing?” I asked as I closed the lipstick and replaced it in my drawer. “You really don’t want to know the answer to that,” she mumbled, I
SCARLETT Later that day … “I’ve sent Kian’s location to you, Kaitlyn says he’ll be there for a while, since my mother has me already, he’s making an attempt on Callum’s life,”“I’ll update you as she updates me,” I said to Myla over video call and she nodded slowly.“Is Cora still looking for me? Do you think I should take my mother away so she doesn’t find her?” She asked, I bit on my lower lips and nodded slowly. “I’ll take care of your mom don’t worry,” I said to her and she nodded with a small exhale.“Thank you,” she whispered and I nodded slowly. “The anniversary ceremony will hold in two weeks, I plan for us to get our facts right and expose my mother on that day, I’d do it when it’s time for me to give my speech,” I said to her and she nodded slowly. “I’ll keep Callum in the loop,”“Do you still not want me to tell him the truth?” She asked and I shook my head slowly. “I think it’s best I tell him myself, I’ll find a way before the anniversary, just so he’s not caught of
SCARLETT NEXT DAY. At the hospital. “Here’s the result,” I slowly took the envelope from the doctor and stretched it out to Kaitlyn,“Will you open it?!” I asked, she swallowed hard and slowly took the envelope from me. I watched as she tore the envelope open with shaky hands. She slowly dipped her hands inside it and took out the white paper in it. Her gaze fell on it and her eyes went tightly shut.“What does it say?!” I asked my voice barely about a whisper.“It’s a hundred percent match.” The doctor supplied immediately.“Although something is surprising, the report says that you both are identical twins sharing the same parents, it doesn’t seem that way to me,” he added and I nodded firmly at his words.“I understand this is your office, but please can you give us a minute? I need to talk to her,” I said and he nodded slowly. “Sure,” he muttered and with that he pushed his chair backwards, got up and walked out. I exhaled deeply and the next thing I heard was Kaitlyn whimperi
CALLUM Later ….“His name is Marcus. He’s been Cora’s accomplice for the longest time,”“He has been helping her make all the potions that makes her execution seamless. He’s also Alyssa’s real father” Myla said to me, my gaze intensely on the building in front of us and I nodded slowly. “I’ve been seeing him for some weeks now, he has helped Scarlett and I a great deal,”“When I spoke to him today, Cora found out that he has been seeing me, I know she’s going to do something to him, this is my chance to make him escape her,” she said. “I’m only doing this because it’s what Scarlett would have wanted, and you should know, he most definitely won’t go Scott free,” I said to her and she nodded slowly. “I understand that. We just need him to be alive as our witness,” she responded, with that we both stepped out of the car and I headed towards the door. I insisted Nolan stayed behind with Annabeth while we settle this quickly. As soon as we got to the entrance I tried to open the door
SCARLETT “Scarlett!” My mother yelled as she forcefully pushed the door open and barged in.“Scarlett!” She yelled even louder. With shaky hands I slowly pushed the closet door open and peeked out. “Mom?!” I whispered, I saw her pause and slowly turn to me. I slowly opened the door fully and stepped out limping. “M-y—Myla, she tried to kill me?” I stuttered as I stretched out the wrist I had stabbed myself in to her. Her eyes widened almost immediately and she stepped closer to me. “She did this to you?!” She asked, I nodded firmly, winced pretentiously and stepped away when she tried to touch the hand. “She — she came here, plugged in, like she was being controlled by what she was listening to, I couldn’t even defend myself because I don’t have a wolf.” I said, she stiffened and slowly looked up at me. “You don’t have a wolf?!” She whispered and I nodded slowly. “I don’t remember ever having a wolf? Did I develop one in the last Eight months?!” I asked, she swallowed hard and
SCARLETT I watched as she froze over her hands gripping the door knob tightly. I wiped my tears dry and dropped the picture onto the space beside me. “Kaitlyn Pierce, my twin but we were born two hours apart which practically makes me your older sister,” I continued my voice barely above a whisper but loud enough for her to hear me. “Kaitlyn Pierce , you swore never to get married because you were scared of how badly Father treated mother, but you never said a word of it out, you told just me because you knew mother would freak out if you ever mentioned a word of it,” “Shut up!” She growled as she turned the door knob locked and swiftly dashed to me.“How did you find out so much about me! Since when have you been stalking me! Who did you pay to find out about me!” She growled in my face. I didn’t flinch, I just kept staring at her.“We were the HK twin from silvery Island, we were a force and we were unstoppable even at our young age. I was the stubborn one and you were the peace
TWO DAYS LATERCORA “What the hell Kian! After I told you to leave her to me!” I growled, my eyes on Scarlett who was lying almost lifeless on her bed in her room. Her head was wrapped in thick bandages. She looked pale white and her lips was very red. “You even had the mind to bring her here? Where do you think is the first place they’ll try to look for her?!” I asked turning to Kian where he stood by the foot of the bed. Alex was seated by her vanity table and the new girl Kian came with — Kaitlyn, stood by the other side of the bed. She had a look of strong hatred for Scarlett as she stared at her on the bed, I don’t know why but I just have an unsettling feeling around her. “You should even be thanking me for saving her life, left to Kaitlyn, she would have been dead!”“Don’t worry about them looking for her here, they’re probably caught up with looking for her in the alliances surrounding that ocean” I said to her. I slowly turned to look at Alex,“You should thank me, I wan
CALLUM 11:00pm …. “Seth, is everybody ready?!” I asked and he nodded slowly. “Great, I’m coming with you!” I said and got up to my feet. “No no, you don’t have to. Trust me, we’ll get the job done,” he said. I passed him a long stare and shook my head slowly.“I want to be there, so I can be sure you’re doing your jobs thoroughly,” I muttered. Just then, Gina walked into the living room with her hands behind her. “Callum, there’s something I need to tell you,” she mumbled. “Gina, please hold on, now is not the time, I’m actually very busy,” I rushed my words without sparing her a glance. I slowly bent and reached for Scarlett’s clothes folded on the floor. “Incase you might want to send those scent trained wolf to sniff her out,” I muttered handing over the bag to him. “Kian is not dead,” she said. I paused and slowly turned to look at her. “What are you talking about?!” “R-remember that —that night? When I said he didn’t find me ? It was a lie, he found me,” she stuttered s