Aleena’s POV
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“This is the call recording of former Luna Penelope and Silas, a contracted vampire whom she had asked to kill Evangeline. And this is the real voice of both of them.”, he explained, providing a file. “Here is the forensic report of the call. As per the conversation and the evidence that I have collected until now, it looks like Luna Penelope was behind everything. And also, behind the plan to trap Aleena for her murder otherwise, what is the use of writing everything against her in a diary just a day before her death? I would like to call my mother, Luna Chloe, now.”
“Sure, go ahead.”
“So, Mom! The day when Aleena was stabbed, we were in the hospital. Where were you?”
“Emma and I were with Luna Penelope because we were worried about her state of mind. But later, when she woke up, she was acting normal. She went to the study room in which Alpha Francis was killed and spent all her time over there and had asked us not to disturb her. We did just like she had asked us to do, but at the same time, we were worried for her too. That’s why we used to keep checking on her too, and we found her writing this diary. I didn’t deserve her, thinking she was writing this to pour her feelings or to divert her mind.”
“Thank you, Mom. Now you can leave. Now, you can see that Luna Penelope had written this diary just a day before her death. The whole things are pretty much clear. Now, everyone would be wondering why a mother would do anything against her own daughter? Then, I have an answer to that, too but instead of sharing everything on my own. I would like to call the first wife of the Alpha Francis Willaims, who can explain it in a better way because when all this started, then she was there in that time.”
Clara? Was she here?
What was she doing here? And since when?
Thankfully, the sun was under the sky, so there was no problem for a vampire to walk in the daytime. I couldn’t help myself from gasping when I saw her face.
She looked like an exact copy of Eva!
Or I should say that Eva was exact her mother.
And above all, why was Stephen, again and again, blaming Mom for everything? Even that day, he was saying the same.
“Clara! I didn’t know you were alive.”
“Well, for this world, I’m still a dead person.”, Clara responded with a smile and bowed her head in front of the King. “Hello, Clara!”
“Hi, Stephen.”
“Can you please tell everyone when you knew Luna Penelope and what kind of woman she was?”
“I knew her after eight months of my marriage with Williams. And since the moment he brought her to the pack, she was not fond of me. Well, I can’t blame her for her jealousy because her mate was my husband. But except that she also had a problem with me being a human.”
Okay! That sounded like my mother.
“It was the time when I was on death bed. Penelope got pregnant with her second child.”
Second child?
I was the only child, right?
It meant it was indeed me who used to run happily around that pregnant lady.
“I believe a lot of pack members would know about the second pup, who was a boy.”, She said, and I looked around only to find others nodding their heads. “But before he could have said hello to this world, he had to say goodbye from his mother’s womb.”
I gasped, slapping my hands on my mouth.
“This accident happened because of a mistake, because of the mistake of the caretaker of the Aleena. After coming from skating classes, she had thrown her skating shoes, here and there, and Penelope fell down, losing her balance after keeping her legs on it, which caused this miscarriage.”
It was my skating shoes because of which this all happened?
Not just I killed my dad but also my brother.
I wondered if I could stay alive with all this guilt.
“After this incident, the doctor announced that she could never be pregnant again in her life. And that incident not just took away that little angel from Penelope but also changed something in her. She went into some kind of trauma, and at the same time, I died, I meant as a human. Williams got torn between handling both the daughters, filling the gap of both of mother and father in their life.”
It meant that dad was always there for me! It was just that I didn’t remember about that part.
“One day, when Williams went out of the pack for the work, the caretaker of Aleena was found dead in Aleena’s room, and both Aleena and Penelope went missing from the packhouse without informing anyone. Everyone had thought that they went kidnapped, but the truth was that Penelope took Aleena with her to punish her for killing her unborn baby. She used to whip her, beat her, make her cry, and give Aleena as much pain as she could until Aleena died. It went for a few days until Eva and her guards found Aleena and saved her from her own mother.”
My mother tried to kill me?
Just because I was indirectly the reason because of which she lost her son and also lost an opportunity to become a mother again.
It also meant that the incident that happened at dad’s funeral wasn’t the first time when she had tried to kill me.
She had done this before too.
“This information is something that most of the pack members, doctors, omegas, can confirm, and most of the pack members know except Aleena because it was the strict order from Willams not to let Aleena about it as I had wiped her memories. Williams sent Aleena to the boarding school in another pack when Penelope was going through her treatment to keep her safety as her priority.”
“But…but dad said that he sent me away because I was a bully.”, I pointed out. Clara looked at me and smiled just like Eva’s smile.
“That was just a part of the truth, Aleena. Just a small tiny part of the truth, the main reason was to keep you safe from your own mom and also because your mom asked him to do so because she didn’t want you around her. Your dad wanted to keep you with him, but he didn’t have any other choice with him at that moment.”, She explained. She could see that I wasn’t trusting her completely until, all of a sudden, I felt that all my blur memories started getting vivid and clear.
Did she?
Yes! She did.
“Thank you so much, Clara.”, Stephen said, gesturing for her to leave. “Now, I would like to call the pack members who have been staying in this pack for over fifty years and all the people who Clara mentioned in her story.”
One by one, a lot of people came and testified, but I didn’t give any attention to them because, more than that, I was busy with my memories that had been wiped.
I was so overwhelmed with all those memories that I didn’t realize it when I started crying.
All my life, I spent my time with the woman who hated me and barely spent a moment with the person who actually loved me.
I sobbed, recalling the lecture that I had given to dad on parenting? Seriously, what was I thinking then? Who gave me the right to speak those things to him when that person was busy withing filling the gap of mother in my life when I wanted mom by my side.
It was easy for me to give a lecture, but when I placed myself in his shoes, I realized that he did the best he could, managing pack, mate, daughters, and everything.
I didn’t know how long the trial went because I was not mentally present there until I heard Leia’s voice.
‘Did I miss something?’
‘Leia.’
‘Yeah! That’s my name. Are you alright?’
‘No.’
Before we could have discussed it, our attention went toward the werewolf King, “After hearing all the witness testimonies of everyone involved and all the supporting evidence submitted by Beta Stephen. That’s why I, Werewolf King, released Aleena Williams from all the charges because she has been found innocent. It is clear that she has been framed into everything by her mother. She is not the killer of both the former Alpha and Luna. The investigation of their death will be continued, but she is not the suspect anymore.”
Tears started brimming in my eyes when I heard that. I couldn’t believe that I was really dragged out of the death’s mouth by Stephen and also Eva. As of now, I didn’t know what she had done till now, but she was involved in it. She always did.
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#TBC