86. Wolf in sheep's clothing

When I open my eyes, I am in a room, laying on a bed. It was dusty and it seemed like it hadn't been used in a while.

My whole body ached which wasn’t a surprise given I was thrown right through a windshield.

I struggle to get up. It’s when I'm seated against the headboard that I realize my skin was burning and that my legs have been chained to the floor.

I try breaking it but it’s strong and the silver burns my hand. I sigh and leave it after a couple of failed attempts.

I reach out for Sebastian but I am unable to. It was as if there was a block or something. Same goes for Blue and Midnight. I couldn’t reach any of them Remembering my hidden phone, I check for it. I thank the goddess when I find it still tucked safely.

Pulling it out, I note that despite the cracked screen, it was still functional.

I was calling Sebastian when I heard voices outside my room. I quickly toned down the voice volume before quickly tucking the phone underneath the sheet.

The door opens and my jaw drops at the person standing in the other side “Valery?” I ask shocked. “What the hell are you doing here?” I continue stupidly.

At first I had this crazy thought that she was here to help me, but the evil smirk she had on let me know that it wasn’t the case.

“Isn’t it obvious?” She pauses. “I am here to kill of course and to make sure you stay dead”

I stare at her, unable to comprehend what was coming out of her mouth. What the hell was happening?

It then hits me after a while.

“You’re the one that has been after me?” I question, staring at her. Noting the evil glint in her eyes.

“Correct, what a bright woman you are.” She answers sarcastically.

So many questions fill my head. Everything was staring at me straight in the face but I was having a hard time accepting it.

“We were with you a couple of hours ago laughing, you welcomed me into your home. Told me you were glad I was there, that you already loved me as a daughter and niece” I say shakenly She waves her hand and scrunches up her nose in disgust.

“That was just an act. You really didn’t think that I would want you there did you? I hate you and I have hated you since you were born. I was glad when Lilly said she was inviting you for a getaway, since everyone I sent after you failed. I knew this was my chance to get rid of you for good”

Fuck! I feel so betrayed. So hurt. Blue was wrong all along, we weren’t lucky, in the end we got the evil stepmother.

“Why? Why would you do this? Why would you want me dead? I’ve done nothing to you” I whispered.

She sighs before taking a seat near the door.

“Let me start from the beginning.” She begins. “I have been in love with Lucas since I can remember and that was when I was ten and he was eleven. I knew he was supposed to be mine. I wanted him to be mine and I planned to make him mine. Given our strong friendship bond, I had hoped that he would be my mate but he was not. Instead my good for nothing sister was chosen by the goddess for him”

“I hated her for that more than I already had. Little miss perfect, always getting the attention, always being praised, it drove me nuts. I couldn’t accept that she was going to have what was mine, I wasn’t going to let her. I prayed that Lucas would realize that he loved me and he would leave Hailey but he didn’t, instead he fell in love with her and marked her”

I see the hate in her eyes and I wonder how she was able to hide all of these emotions. Not only from me but her entire family. It was mind blowing.

She continues. “I was livid but I knew that I needed to think everything through. Come up with a plan to break them up. They then announced that they were going to have a baby. You can’t imagine how much that hurt. I was the one that was supposed to carry his offspring, not Hailey.”

“She was his mate. Obviously she was the one to have his children” I interrupt her.

She glares at me hatefully. “Shut the hell up, this is my story to tell”

I close my mouth and stay quiet as she continues.

“I bid my time and waited for the perfect opportunity. Hailey has always been weak, gullible and easy to manipulate so I paid one of the maids to start whispering things in her ears. Small things like; she saw Lucas and another woman standing a little bit too close together or him holding her much longer than was deemed appropriate. When we had my claws into her mind we moved on to bigger things. She started telling Hailey that she saw them kissing, touching and then sleeping together”

“My sister was so stupid, because she never questioned why Lucas didn’t ever smell like another woman if indeed he was cheating. She just believed everything. Everything was causing a strain on their relationship but I knew I needed to do more. I was hoping to get rid of her and the bastard she was carrying”

I stare at her, amazed at how someone can be so evil. Who would have known that so much darkness existed in her pretty sweet smiles?

“She confided in me because she was so worried and that’s when I decided to drive in the last nail to the coffin. I told her that I was the other woman, that Lucas and I have been having an affair. That we were in love and we were just waiting for her to deliver the baby before he could break their bond. The heart broken look in her face was everything. It was so magical seeing her hurting and in pain” she laughs evilly.

“I was going to stab her and leave her for dead but then the shock sent her into labor, Lucas came and rushed her to the hospital. Lucas never knew that I followed them. I got there, found a doctor that owed me and I collected on the debt. He was to inject both Hailey and her baby with Mirazone. Mirazone is a poison that not many know about. It was only dangerous to werewolves. The good thing about it was that it wasn’t traceable in the blood”

I started shaking, thinking of all that she had done. What got to me is the fact that she didn’t have an ounce of regret.

The woman was clearly a psychopath. How did no one notice it? Hell I didn't notice it till it was too late.

“I left the hospital and went back home. Lucas later came home and announced that both Hailey and the baby were okay. We celebrated but I was happy for other reasons. I knew they wouldn’t make it through the night. After Lucas went back we later received the news that Hailey was dead. I was angry at the doctor when he told me he couldn’t kill a baby but I knew I could deal with you later on. The fact that Hailey was out of the picture made it easier to get rid of you”

“I hated that Lucas fell into depression when Hailey died, I mean what was so special about the slut.

She wasn’t worth it, I was better than her in every way. The night I found him drinking, I made sure that he was too drunk to fight me when I took him to bed. He called me Hailey’s name over and over again and though that I irritated me it got the end results”

“Which was?” I interrupted her.

She looks at me like I was stupid. “For him to release in me. I prayed I would get pregnant and I did.

Once my parents knew, I convinced them that it would be in the best of our interest for us to mark each”

“So you manipulated your own parents into agreeing to mate you to your dead sister’s man, who was still grieving?” I was honestly disgusted.

“Pretty much…It wasn’t hard given they were already vulnerable from grief. Everything was going well except for you. I didn’t want you around. I wanted to get rid of every evidence of Hailey’s life, including you. That night I crept out of my room, Lucas and I weren’t sharing a bedroom as of yet because according to him, he was still having a hard time accepting that Hailey was gone and it didn’t feel right sharing a bed” she rolls her eyes in mockery.

“Anyway, I snuck out and got to the nursery. You and Abby were sharing a cot. I don’t know how that brat sensed I was going to hurt you but she refused to let go of your hand. When I tried taking you forcefully, she scrunched her face, and I knew she was about to scream down the whole house. I couldn’t allow that so I took both of you”

“I used the same maid as before. She was supposed to kill you. As for Abby, she was to dump her at an orphanage. Things were hectic for a while but then they settled down a bit. Lucas continued to search for you but I believed you were dead and that he wouldn’t ever find you”

“So it wasn’t you that left us at the orphanage?” I ask.

“No, it was the maid. I sent someone to kill her once she confirmed that she had gotten rid of you. It wasn’t until I saw your face splashed on gossip columns when Darren cheated on you did I realize that the maid lied to me. I knew I had to take care of her mess up. When you then left the country and went underground, I relaxed a bit. That was blown up when you showed up again and married Sebastian who happens to be Lilly’s Alpha.”

“Time was running out and I could see it. I needed to cover my tracks and eliminate you before someone recognized your resemblance to Hailey. So I hired goons to kill you , unfortunately they were idiots and they failed each time.”

“How did you know about me, you have no technology in the pack?” I wondered.

“Unlike those fools, I do have a phone that I keep hidden”

“What about your mate? Was everything you said about him true?” I scoff “The only part that was true was that I met him the week after Hailey died. I killed him though, not only was he a rogue but there was no way in hell I was going to let him get in the way of me having Lucas”

Goddess, this woman was pure evil. How does someone kill their own mate? It was inhuman and just proved how black her heart is.

“Now that you know the truth, It’s time for you to die” she says her voice turning sugary sweet. “We have to make this quick, because I have dinner to prepare. The men will be hungry after hours of searching for you”

“You have no idea what I can do” I warn, trying to shift but it doesn’t work.

She laughs loudly. “Oh I know, Lilly told us about your other beast, but I have already taken care of that little problem, why do you think you can’t shift”

That’s when I feel it, how hot and sweaty I felt. Why my wounds weren’t healing. I had not noticed but now I do. She had injected me with silver.

I scramble back, fear encasing me. Fuck! This can’t be how I die…Where the hell was Sebastian?

She was upon me when the door bursts open and someone enters. We turn and both our breaths catch.

“Hailey?” Valery says in shock, right before she is clawed.