Chapter 33. Anthony's Secret

"I had to do it, Anthony. I didn't have any other choice. She had to die." Daniel said as he entered the cemetry gates and walked towards Anthony.

"She had lost herself to the darkness. There was no returning back. If I would let her live, she would kill innocent lives," Daniel continued coming to stand in front of Anthony, next to the grave, "Ginivieve had to die."

Something ticked in Anthony as he got up from his sitting position and I swear I even saw his eyes spark golden or maybe it's just because of the lighting. Then in a splurge of a moment, Anthony lunged at Daniel and hit him on his jaw brutally.

I prevented myself from gasping out loud by covering my mouth with my hands. I saw blood dripping down Daniel's lips where a cut had come to form due to the punch. But all too soon the cut healed in a second and Daniel wiped the blood off his lips. He didn't have time to attack back as Anthony threw another punch on his face.

"What the-"

Punch.

What the hell is wrong with Anthony?

"Don't you dare utter her name from your fucking mouth," Anthony snarled aiming to punch Daniel once again but this time around, Daniel blocked his hand and instead punched Anthony back, square on his face. Anthony fell down on his back as Daniel tackled him to the ground.

"What the hell?! You're stronger than an average alpha. That punch took me offguard! The force in that hit. I even saw your eyes glow golden which only happens when you're a...." Daniel's voice trailed as he scrutinised Anthony's face all the while keeping his guard on.

"Royal," Anthony completed smirking lightly, "Which only happens if you're a Royal." He repeated Daniel's words, "Think again. Do the men of the royal families ever had a mistress?"

My hand slid down my mouth involuntarily as I gaped at Anthony in shock. What is he saying? A Royal? But there's only two royal families in existence--The Davies that is The vampire king Evan's family and The Rodriguez, Daniel's family.

Does this mean Anthony is from one of these two families? Or is there another royal family in existence that no one is aware of? But what is he talking about mistress?

"That's not possible. You're not from my family. Father would never betray mother. He loved her." Daniel said with conviction as he stepped away from Anthony and stood up, back on his feet. Anthony himself got up from the ground dusting his pants and leaned next to the tall gravestone of the girl in question.

Daniel had said how much his father loved his mother and how his father was not willing to re-marry queen Diana but only married her because the kingdom needed a queen.

"I never said I was from your family. I would be damned if I shared the blood with the person who was the reason the love of my life is dead," Anthony smiled bitterly as he glanced at the tombstone of the girl lovingly before a grave expression took over his face, "But how ironic. I actually do share the blood with my Gini's actual killer."

Something clicked within Daniel's eyes while I was still oblivious and thoroughly confused with the whole scenerio. Nothing is making sense. I don't understand anything they're talking except Anthony saying he's from a Royal family.

"You mean Claire? You're from her family? But that doesn't make sense since uncle..." Daniel's eyes widened as he seemed to realise something, "Your father is Evan's father, Jonathan Davies, isn't he?"

"BINGO!" Anthony clapped his hands dramatically with a sardonic smile etched on his face, "This is so funny. Let me tell you the whole story. Stephen and Me, we're both Evan's step-brothers from different mothers --although Stephen thinks he's been bought from the streets since Evan never revealed that Stephen indeed is his own blood related brother and Stephen is actually an illegitimate child of his bastard father whom the man had abandoned leaving the mother and child to die. It's fortunate that Evan found Stephen before he could die. But why did Evan put up such an act of 'transforming into a royal blood' stupidness thing when Stephen already was a royal? It's because Evan cared for Stephen and didn't wanted him to hate his own father who according to me deserved all the hate in the world for what he did."

"Talking about me, I am the result of the bastard man's another fling and hopefully the last one. Well, the fling as I say, was my mother who was young and immature at that time. She caught into the bastard's charms and let him take advantage of her which you must have guessed resulted in me, ofcourse. After the news about me was known to my supposed 'father', he became enraged and proposed mom a preposition to keep her mouth shut. The preposition was that she would get enough wealth to live her entire life leisurely and take care of me, in return she had to never utter a word about my father to any living soul and she had to disappear from his life completely."

"Well, by that time, my lovely mother was already in love with the bastard and when he did leave her alone with me and a lot of wealth, she felt heartbroken. Every time she looked at me, she would remember her mistake and get furious on herself and sometimes me-" Anthony stopped mid-sentence as his shoulders tensed a bit but he continued nevertheless, "I mean, the man ruined her for anyone else even someone as good as Richard, her mate, didn't cease to win her heart. She started becoming cold and distant. Still is. But that's none of your business. The fact is that at the end, she's content and more than willing to face a heartache in return of a fair compensation which my 'father' offered her in the form of innumerable wealth."

"In the end, Stephen was lucky and eventually ended up where he actually belonged while I was left behind. Evan knew about my existence, just like he knew about Stephen, but he didn't look for me. Not even tried, I guess. How annoying, right? But I couldn't care less whether he would have found me earlier or not 'cause I don't give a fuck about my so-called 'step-brother' or my bastard of a father's family in that case. The thing I actually care about is the status of a 'Royal' but I don't want it as of now. All I want right now is-" Anthony glanced at Daniel with a menacing look as he stood straighter and took slow steps towards Daniel, "-to kill you."

With that, in a splur of a moment, Anthony took out a dagger from his pant pockets holding it in his gloved hand which I didn't notice earlier and tackled Daniel to the ground who looked like he was in his own bubble until he fell down on his back.

"It's time for you to die, Daniel Rodriguez. It's time that I avenge Ginivieve's death," The dagger looked like it was made of silver as Anthony bought it to place on Daniel's neck.

Daniel tried to snatch the dagger from Anthony but failed miserably when Anthony pinned his hands down to the ground, above his head. Maybe Daniel speaking about Anthony's strength wasn't a farce as he couldn't quite get out of Anthony's grasp.

"Goodbye, Daniel." Anthony said bringing the dagger closer to Daniel's neck such that it almost touched the skin on his neck.

I felt dread filling me as I continued to look at them. The dagger was close to his neck. A cut from an object made of silver cannot be healed easily for a werewolf. It can even cause our death if the cut is too deep. Silver is just fatal to werewolves. Though I don't know about Hybrids but Daniel still is a part werewolf which puts him at a great danger with his position right now.

I don't know what overtook me as I ran towards Daniel when Anthony was about to slice his neck with the dagger and pushed Anthony forcefully away from Daniel. In the process, somehow Anthony's hold on the dagger wavered and accidently sliced through my right hand causing a deep cut to form on the skin of my upper arm as it slid down the length of my hand. Blood dripped down from the wound and I felt a burning sensation on my skin, my vision was also turning a bit blurry.

"What the actual fuck?! How did my pathetic excuse of a mate arrive out of nowhere?! What were the guards doing?" Anthony seemed really pissed off but he didn't make a move to attack again.

Pushing the dizziness away, I focused my attention solely on Daniel who looked shocked at the change of events. Before I could ask him whether he was okay, he sat up abruptly making me step back as well with my vision still blurry. The moment I stood up groggily, I felt two pair of warm hands holding my shoulders firmly.

"Ari? Are you okay? What are you doing here?" Daniel's deep voice made a small smile tug at the corner of my lips despite the fact I couldn't really see his face clearly. I missed him so much and his voice. I could care less that I was a certainly flailing about in his arms and would most certainly fall down if it wasn't for him holding me firmly. The silver is affecting me.

"Why are you flailing-" my body fell forward involuntarily colliding with a hard chest and two large arms enveloped around me.

"What the heck?! You're arm is bleeding, Ari!" Daniel said frantically as he finally seemed to notice the huge cut on my arm.

"How the hell did that cut...?" His sentence trailed off, his hold on me tightening as I started feeling too cold all of a sudden.

"Ari, you're freezing! This is not good. Not good at all. Damn you, Anthony! What did you do to her? I swear if anything happens to her-" Daniel's threats were cut off by an equally pissed off Anthony.

"I didn't tell her to get in the way of my killing. She got here herself. So, don't blame me. Besides, it's just a cut from a silver dagger. The worst that will happen is she will die. That's it. I don't give a damn if she's alive or not. She's none of my concern. By the way, why are you so worried? Do you actually love her, Daniel? Aren't you in love with my mate?" Anthony rebuked coldly. I could imagine the smirk on his face.

'SILVER....IT WAS SILVER....IT'S NOT GOOD...' my wolf said in strained voice.

It's really my wolf, Seline!

I wasn't hallucinating last time.

Before I could dwell on the fact that my wolf finally tried to talk to me after so many years, I suddenly felt a shooting pain all over my body which made me scream in agony.

"Ahhh!!!" I clutched onto Daniel tightly and started trashing against him as the pain became unbearable.

"Ari, what's wrong?! Where are you hurting? Dammit, just hold on for a while more, okay princess? I'll take you to the castle," Daniel carried me up in bridal style and started heading towards the exit with me in his arms but stopped mid-way at Anthony's next words.

"Just for a reminder, she'll die before you make it to the castle. She does not have an Alpha wolf's blood neither a Royal's. She won't be able to hold it longer," Anthony tried to sound nonchalant but I detected a bit of worry in his voice which came as a surprise to me.

"What do you want me to do then? Sit and watch her die?! You must be happy right? Afterall, it's like God is paying me back on what happened to you. Just like you saw Ginivieve die in front of your eyes, you want me to see Ari..." Daniel's voice broke midway as he clutched onto me tighter as if he was afraid that if he let me go, I'll disappear. "Who more than you can know how I feel right now? I don't want to lose her....she's all I want...."

I felt a drop of water or tear fall on my face which meant Daniel was crying for....me?

"Geez. You make me emotional. Don't think I'm letting you off the hook or something. I'm just helping 'cause I know for a fact that she is innocent. And doesn't deserve to die because of my mistake..." the last sentence was barely above a whisper which was hard for even my werewolf ears to pick up.

Soon after, I felt a gush of air rush around me and with my hazy vision, I found Anthony standing in front of me and then he placed his palm on the cut of my arm which was bleeding.

Daniel was still holding me in arms when I oddly started feeling better all of a sudden. It was as if Anthony's palm did some sought of magic that nulled the effects of the silver. And guess what, I wasn't wrong. Since when Anthony took his palm off my arm and I looked down back at my once bleeding arm now with a much clearer vision, I saw the cut had disappeared completely leaving only smudges of wet blood on my arm.

I looked back and forth between Anthony and Daniel. Anthony seemed annoyed, confused and relieved all at the same time while Daniel looked relieved but shocked at the same time before he finally spoke,

"Every Royal has an affinity. And you have the ability of healing others, don't you?"

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