Rejected, And Became A Heiress (Cara)
Chapter 39

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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

smaller. Making herself look like less of a threat

As if that will save her from my wrath.

Alaric, no!"

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It's Eamon. He has placed himself between me and his sister. Between me and that murderer.

It's a bold 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 do the same if I were him.

I don't want to fight Eamon. It would cause an inevitable war between Pack DarkWood and Pack BloodyMoon. There would be more bloodshed, more destruction. I've worked so hard to make DarkWood the powerful pack it is today.

I've worked so hard to make sure each member of the pack can not just survive, but thrive.

Cara Eamon and starting a war would make all of that for nothing. But his sister killed

I stop in my tracks, giving him a hard stare.

The wedding guests who remain are gawking at the scene, eyes bulging out of their heads processing the heated exchange.

Eamon holds my gaze then turns on his heel towards Lilia."

There's a loud SLAP as Eamon's hand crosses Lilia's cheek.

Lilia grabs her face, a pink handprint immediately starting to form.

The crowd gasps. Hell, I'm sure I gasp, too.

What the hell?!

The room is deadly quiet. No one speaks, it's like time has stopped from the sheer shock of Eamon slapping Lilia. His own sister.

My phone vibrates in my pocket, and the buzzing fills the silence, breaking the spell of the shock. I don't care who's calling, but the distraction is enough to remind me... Cara. She's at the hospital.

I need to go to her!

"I'll deal with you later," I growl at Lilia, who is still cradling her cheek. I turn to look at my butler, "Grab the car, we're going to the hospital."

"Wait." Eamon says, facing me. "There is something you need to hear first." He looks at all the pack members still gathered around us. "You all need to hear this."

I eye him carefully before deciding to let him speak. Knowing Eamon, he wouldn't try to in

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a mood like this unless it was something really important. "Make it fast," I warn him.

Eamon nods at me then turns to speak to the crowd.

Lilia

is s not the princess of Pack BloodyMoon."

Once again, the crowd gasps.

My blood feels ice cold.

"What?" My! voice is razor sharp, and my eyes narrow at Eamon.

"She was raised 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 frozen. She hasn't moved an inch since Eamon slapped her.

Sheer panic fills her face, like her entire world is crashing down around her.

And I suppose it is.

"She's not the princess?!" One of the DarkWood elders says in the crowd.

"Is there even a princess of BloodyMoon?"

"Or was that a lie, too?" Some else yells angrily

"I only just learned of this myself a few days ago." Eamon says seriously. "But the princess is real."

"Then who?"

"Who is the BloodyMoon princess?"

The crowd fires the questions at Eamon, practically drooling waiting for the answer to the questions. Waiting for the truth.

"The princess of Pack Bloody Moon is someone you all know. Someone you've taken in and raised as one of your own."

No.

It

can't be.

There's no way.

"You know her as Cara Wilson." Eamon stares directly at me as he says her name.

...Cara?!" Someone yells.

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"The Beta?"

"I thought she was an orphan!"

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The noises from the crowd are deafening, but I can't hear them. I can't hear anything over the sound of blood rushing in my ears. Only Grey's howl in my head is loud enough to overcome it. Until Lilia screams.

It's terrible, blood-curdling even. Her voice is filled with panic, rage, frustration, and every bad emotion I can think of.

She's shaking, and the crowd backs away from her, giving her a wide berth.

Lilia's been the true interloper this whole time, not Cara.

Cara was the princess all along.

+ feel weak, like neither my mind nor my body can really process the information.

Eamon raises his hand, silencing everyone. He turns to face his half-sister, then speaks. "Lilia Auburn, you are hereby officially and permanently exiled from Pack BloodyMoon for your crimes against the pack's princess and your role in the plot to kill her. If you are ever found within the pack's territory ever again, you shall face grave consequences." A chill visibly goes up Lilia's spine as Eamon says 'grave.' The look in his eye is deadly, and there's no question that he's serious.

"I won't speak for DarkWood..." Eamon says, gesturing to me.

I nod and say to Lilia, who is now doubled over in what looks like tremendous pain, "You are hereby also officially and permanently exiled from Pack DarkWood as well. We have no to scheming, murderous masqueraders here."

"I'm sure all the neighboring packs' Alpha Kings will feel the same, once they get word of what you've done." Eamon says to Lilia with a voice full of bitterness.

"...I never want to see you again, rogue."