Chapter 109

109 Why I Did It Part 1

Tia.

We rushed through our meal in silence. Everyone

was silent. It was apparent we were all eager to do something. Stacy sat beside Aesop, a bit docile. My f

ather had visited her while I was sleeping and prescribed some meds to help her. Stacy smiled a bit, but i

t didn‘t

touch her eyes. I knew she was worried for Monica’s sake. There was no way Caleb or Luke would go ea

sy on her. She had offended both of them extensively. She had tried to kill Caleb‘s mother

and helped her father to steal from Luke. Honestly, I doubted she would have a good explanation.

“Have you told the guards to prepare a room for the interrogation?” I asked Luke, and Stacy looked up, a

bit worried. “Yes, we have the best soundproof room for that,” Luke said, and I was quiet.

“She is a confused child,” Stacy said, and Aesop shut her up, supporting what was about to happen.

“No one asked for your opinion,” Alpha Aesop said, and she was silent at the table. I have never seen St

acy this peaceful and obedient before. She was truly shaken up.

After breakfast, Luke led the way to the room he had prepared to interrogate Monica. From the look of thi

ngs, they were making it a family affair. It was also wise to control the information we would learn just in

case they are vital. I watched as Luke led us to the only soundproof room in that mansion, his office.

We waited in the office

for the guard to bring Monica in. I was worried she might have escaped because the guard was taking to

o long. “Was she secured properly?” I asked, and Luke and Caleb could not give a definite answer.

“Emotions were running high yesterday. I doubt if they paid attention,” Kimberly volunteered, and with tha

t, I knew there was a possibility she had absconded.

Our worries were alleviated when two guards walked in with Monica. We all sighed with relief. Caleb took

her from them and asked what had taken them so long. They explained she was in the restroom and ha

d to wait for her to finish before bringing her.

Still, in chains, Monica stood before us. She looked sad and remorseful, but it meant nothing. She had w

orked against us. The only people she could truly call a family. She stared at her mother in shock.

I cleared my throat, sitting on the office couch and looking at her.

“I do not intend to hurt you,” I lied, ” But if you prove difficult, I will. Looking at what you have done, I pro

mise you I will enjoy every bit of it.” I said, and she was scared. An absolute horror was registered on her

face, and I smiled. She had gotten my message.

“Now tell us. Why you poisoned your mother, How you met Regan, how long you‘ve been working for hi

m, why work against this family and any useful bit you feel can help us. Trust me, your life depends on it.

” I said calmly, and tears began to stream down her face. She looked at

her mother. It was clear that she was shocked that her mother was okay.

“I am

a sorry mother. I really am,” were her first words. As much as I wanted to interrupt her, I was calm enoug

h to allow her to apologise to her mother. Alpha Aesop was seething with anger; I had to link Luke to tell

his father to calm down. If Monica is intimidated, we won‘t learn much. Luke must have spoken to him be

cause the pressure calmed down a bit.

“He told me you will just sleep for a bit and wake up. I did not know it was poison. I swear. Until the docto

r told us about your condition. I was so angry that I came back to confront Stephan about it. He was the o

ne that connected me to my father. He claimed he was from Dome,” she said and blinked away tears. St

acy did not utter a word. Monica looked at me to answer my question.

“I had just arrived with my mother from Dome, and things did not seem great between

her and Alpha Aesop; I became worried. I hadn‘t settled in when Stephen approached me. He said he wa

s from my father, and that piqued my curiosity. He said he would link me with my father, and I was happy.

I had never met him before, and my mother rarely spoke of him, so I was curious and excited. I wanted t

o tell my father to stop blackmailing my mother because I knew how much she was stressed trying to pay

him off. That evening I got a call from my father. He told me he was happy to hear my voice and would li

ke to speak with me in private. I was excited, so I went to the meeting. We met at the Free park. It was a

n open place, so I felt safe. He hugged me and told me he missed me. He expressed how much I remind

him of my mother, and he was pained she left him.” she said and looked at her mother.

“Father told me that you left him for money and power. He couldn‘t give you any of those, and you decide

d to abscond with your lover, whose wife had just died. I believed him,” she said, wiping away her tears a

nd shaking her head,” I am sorry, Mommy, but I believed him.” she said, sounding remorseful.

“All I could think about in those moments was what I was deprived of. I grew up as nobody‘s daughter. Yo

u told everyone I was your

niece and treated me as such. I grew up as an orphan. I was mad. He told me he wanted us to be

family, and you left. I was angry, thinking I could have had a home, a father and mother who loved me. I

believed you robbed me of everything you provided for

Caleb. You took everything from me. All the years we could have spent together, you were here, being a

mother to Alpha Luke and then Caleb while you left me to rot in Dome, sending me gifts and promising y

ou would bring me to the mansion. Thinking of everything, I resented you.” She said and then looked at

me. Monica had it all twisted. Stacy was actually trying to protect and provide for her. It was clear Monica

had Daddy issues. There was no way anyone would have convinced her otherwise.

“We began to hang out often, and he seemed like a nice man. He told me about his family and how our b

loodline was never recognised because the Moons struck the Adhit name

off the recognised alpha‘s list. He told me that was why his father died and that he promised his father th

at the Adhit name would be recognised one day. So he started his journey to maximise wealth and move

up the ladder. Still, the Moons and the Renshaws had monopolised everything. He had a problem with Al

pha Aesop because

he always took things from him. First, he took Chloe Renshaw from him, letting it go....” She said and fro

ze when Alpha Aesop exclaimed. Alpha Aesop had interrupted her at the mention of his late wife‘s name.

I had to link him to calm down so we do not divert. I was

bound to question her more on that. Monica wasn‘t giving us any problems at all. She might have realise

d her errors, but I did not want to jump to conclusions.

“Continue,” I said to her, and she nodded.

“He said he forgave the incident with Chloe, but then she died, and Alpha Aesop took my mother from him

“I believed him, and we spent a lot of time together. I hated my mother for depriving me of having a father

be so gullible at twenty–

four, but my daddy issues got the best of me. I was so excited about what he said and willing to help him.

to Alpha Luke and try to work at the company‘s top–level, so they could get account passwords and

know the people in the IT and Account Department. I told him that would be easy and started pressuring m

could place a bug on his phone and computer

and know his next moves. I finally told him it was impossible that Alpha Luke detested me and that we had

said he would only take some money to get on his feet. Since the Moons have a lot, they wouldn‘t miss it.

get her out of the house. Around that time, my mother hired an old friend who knew my father to help her

father was. She told me she was planning to kill him so we could have peace. She said she would split the

whatever I like away from here and the last one she would use to run away from Woodclaw Island. I prete

it was necessary. Since the Moons had declared him wanted, he could easily lead them to him. I believed

friends. Kimberly never really paid attention. All I would have to do was load her up in the car, telling Norm

she overdosed on something. I knew he would let me go because she had been acting slightly suicidal.

my father said, and then the unthinkable happened. She had a seizure with saliva foaming on her mouth a

was when I began to call for help. I did not know it was poison.” She said and began to cry, then she sat o

“He lied to me and used me. It was later I found out that I was used to create a diversion. I thought

the money he took, in the beginning, was all he needed, but then I found out he had emptied the accounts

on a mission. I was hysteric about it, and he apologised and said Stephen must have double–

crossed him. I still believed him. He told me to join him in Tetra, and I agreed. I was so mad at Stephen th

would be strong. Seduction was an ingenious way to make Stephen relax.

“So, you wrote the suicide note?” I asked her, and she shook her head.

“I didn‘t, I swear. Stephen wrote

it and placed it in the envelopes when he went to clean the place. He was following my father‘s instruction

We were shocked at what she had told us. But we could not rest yet. We needed to know what happened

to Chloe as his girlfriend. From all indications, Monica was going to go to Jail. That was

the best outcome I could see in all this because she did everything with a sound mind. She was also an a