She's Mine To Claim: Mr. Alpha, Can You Kiss Me More? novel Chapter 73

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Amelia’s pov

As they told me everything I couldn’t help but think that this must be a joke. A terrible sick joke. But their faces only portrayed the seriousness of the situation and my gut twisted.

“You’re saying that the woman who raised me, is not my real mom but my real mom’s sister? And my real mom was forced to be impregnated by this werewolf council leader who loved to experiment and I might be an experiment–scratch that, I am an experiment and no one knows what I really am? That I am the daughter of an evil council leader?”

The more those words came out of my mouth the more they sound crazy. Impossible. Maddening.

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I looked down at my hands that were fondling with the sheets on my lap and let out a low chuckle that lacked emotion. “I must be dead. Or dreaming or,” I snapped my eyes to Emily and Bryson. “Or anywhere but really here!” I lashed out, making

them flinch.

“Amelia-

“No!” I hissed, throwing the blankets off me, neglecting the fact that they had just revealed they were part animal…wolf. They

all were. I must be really going mad.

“You take me from my home, make me believe a lie and all the while trying to figure out if I’m a threat or not!” My legs move

over the side of the bed, causing the couple to take a hesitant step back.

“If I hadn’t seen your son!” My tone grow angrier by the second. “I would still be your puppet, some experiment to keep your

eye on. I would still be a fool,” I snapped my eyes to Giovanni who looks ashamed and sad. “A fool to think you were my

father.”

My voice cracks. To think that I had finally thought I knew who my dad was, only to be now told that this wasn’t my father at

all. The man I had been living with wasn’t related to me. He wasn’t family. “A fool to think I have family left!”

The tears stream down my cheeks like an endless stream, my lower lips shook and I looked at everyone who betrayed me ” You had no right.”

Emily nods, looking anguished. “We didn’t. But we want what was best for you, we didn’t want you to fall into the wrong hands. Amelia, you are like family to us-

I snorted, cutting her off. “You see me as family? A girl whose father was supposedly your enemy? Funny how your son once called me a monster, now I know why.”

Emily flinched and I continued. “Why am I really here? Is this some kind of sick revenge against my so called real father? Why am I here!”

“To be protected ” Raiden’s voice suddenly filters in as he makes his presence known. I stiffen, unable to look over at him.

“I thought I told you to stay away until-

His father uttered firmly but Raiden cared little “I would have, if you were actually able to get through to her. Seems like spitfire has her claws out again”

I snapped my eyes to him, surprising myself that I do not flinch when our eyes meet and stay connected. “Don’t call me that!”

He leaned against the opened door, and a dazzling smile tugged at the corners of his mouth. “Fine. Only if you calm down and actually listen If my parents wanted revenge they’d not have done all of this to make sure you were safe in their hands.”

“Safe?” I questioned sarcastically. “Do you not recall what had happened earlier,” I looked down at where he had gotten his wound, well where the wound was supposed to still be. But he looks fine. But perhaps I cannot see it because he has a shirt on *mental face palm*

“Was I safe?” I snapped. “I was probably better off in the system! Instead I was living a lie and would have continued if you

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hadn’t been sloppy.”

Raiden ground his jaw, the muscles working stiffly. “Now I don’t know who I really am because my entire life is a lie! My aunt

who I thought was my mom never told me about this mysterious sister who dropped me off like a dead rat on her doorstep. Do you not see my anger here is justified!” Tears rolled down my cheeks in fat drops.

Raiden’s eyes softened and he takes a step forward, but then another, this time a little more with caution. I fell on the bed,

gripping the sheets hard in a fist. “And now, you all are telling me I am to stay here. Live here because I am in danger.

Someone or whatever is after me. How am I so sure this danger is not one of you?” I whispered, looking around the room as

my voice shook. “Or all of you?”

I am lost. Completely a blank slate. What I had thought I’d known was all a lie. I was a lie. “Can you not see?” I whispered. ”

You’ve ruined me.”

It had been better if I had not known any of this. It would have been better if I had not trusted any of them. Did Foster know?

Pickett? Is that why they always told me to stay away from Raiden? Had they known he was a beast?

me to st

But perhaps…they should have been the ones to stay away from me. Who am I? Better yet, what am I? My eyes flick to Raiden,

and a quick zap of electricity runs through the air as our eyes connect once more.

Why can I not fear him as much as I should? Instead of fear, why do I feel betrayed? And why do I still want him to kiss me

more?

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