21

Aleena’s POV
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The moment I opened my eyes and my senses returned, I felt like I had been bathed with a bullet full of perfume.
What the hell, Leia?
‘What did you do last time because of which you pour so much perfume on my clothes and body?’ I hissed at her. I would have questioned more about hiding something or hiding someone’s scent or more, but that’s when my eyes landed on the broken bottle of perfume.
I sighed, realizing I was thinking unnecessarily. She wasn’t trying to hide any smell from me. Maybe she accidentally broke the bottle last night. If she had been hiding something from me, then she would have surely changed the clothes or something.
‘Clumsy wolf.’, I muttered. I made a mental note to get this mess clean as soon as possible because my room was filled with so much perfume that it was invading me from smelling something else. I ran into the washroom to freshen up and made up my mind to talk with that Beta to know Daniel’s and Eva’s location before I lost my mind.
I had never felt this clueless in my entire life. Sometimes I wish I would have the power of reading minds. Even if I had any idea that both Daniel and Eva were going to vanish into thin air for two fucking days, then I would have appointed a spy to keep an eye on them.
But never mind, going forward, I would do that because I had learned my lesson from this incident. Talking about mom finding out the location of Daniel from my father’s mouth was next to impossible. When she told him about it, all he said was just two words, ‘I know.’
That was it.
He didn’t say a word more than that.
If he wouldn’t be my dad, I swear I would have killed him. I just hope that mom finds something about that bitch’s mother’s past because she wasn’t here to tell me about her, and I couldn’t wait a day long now.
‘Aleena!’, Mom mind linked me.
‘Tell me, Mom, that you have some good news. Because I really want to know something that I don’t know.’
‘Yes! I’m coming to that part.’
‘Great.’
‘Your father is not her father.’ I gritted my teeth in anger when I heard that. It meant she wasn’t even my half-sister but step sister. Then why the hell, dad loves her so much. I didn’t comment on that part and let her continue. ‘Eva’s mother, Clara, had a boyfriend who was actually a hybrid, Orpheus. Her family kept him as a hostage to make her marry your father and then almost killed her boyfriend.’
‘The same vampire who left his position of the Clan Elder sixteen or seventeen years back just because he wanted to spend the rest of his life with his lover?’ I asked to confirm.
Since I was a vampire hunter, I knew about a lot of vampires, and this Orpheus’s story was something quiet and strange. His lover was a human and was not welcomed in the coven, so he left his position and power for his lover by turning into a vampire around sixteen or seventeen years before. And since he had the gift of masking anyone’s scent. No one knew where he did he go after leaving his coven? A few vampires whom he considered as his family disappeared from everywhere after Orpheus converted his lover into a vampire.
When I heard this story, I literally laughed at his love story, thinking about Orpheus. I meant, who leaves his everything for the sake of love? And if he was that desperate, then he could have continued to live his life as an Elder and secretly would have been romancing his lover. I was sure that he was smart to hide her from everyone. In that way, the story might have been a little different, but he would have been in power.
‘Yes, apparently, or maybe not! I don’t know more about vampires. You should know about that part, right?’ Mom’s voice in my mind broke my chain of thoughts. ‘But I think you have told me about his love story. That’s a different thing that I don’t remember much.’
‘Mom, when did Eva’s mom die, and how did she die?’
‘I don’t remember the date and year actually, but it has been sixteen years of her death. And she died just like a human because of cancer.’
‘Did you see her dead body or saw her burning into ashes?’
‘No. She was buried…’,
‘Daniel is here. I will talk to you later.’, I said before closing the mind link, cutting her in the middle of the sentence. I could smell Daniel’s smell, but it was a bit different, maybe because my smelling power was getting invaded because of perfume in my room. I ignored that part and started rubbing my body with the Loofah quickly. Immediately my eyes landed on the mirror in front of us.
I turned around and marked it all over my back again. It looked like someone had hit me with a belt or something more powerful, but I didn’t remember that something like that ever happened to me and my mom confirmed that same.
Mom said that I was born with these marks on my back, but still, sometimes I get a blurry memory of a little girl getting beaten by someone badly. I shook my head, pushing that thought away because it was not but a part of my imagination. I had a lot of things to focus on right now. Especially the fact that I recently discovered Clara was having an affair with Orpheus, who used to be a Vampire-Lycan hybrid until his Lycan sacrificed his life to save Orpheus when he was badly injured by the family of his lover.
My body froze when I dotted both parts of the stories.
I didn’t have any proof right now, but I could tell that Eva was the daughter of Orpheus and Clara. And after realizing everything, one more thing hit my mind, Eva’s real mother was still alive as a vampire and was somewhere with Orpheus.
I cursed myself for not figuring out all these things earlier if I would plot anything against Eva because she was a hybrid, and there was a chance that not just her mate or my father but also her REAL parents would step in to protect her.
What could anything be more worst than this?
I stepped out of the washroom and took my time getting ready. I could also smell the different scents of Eva, and at that moment, I couldn’t help but glare at the broken bottle of perfumes.
It was all happening because of it.
Well, not exactly the bottle, but I should divert my anger toward my wolf because she was the one who broke it.
I stepped out of the room and closed the door beside me, and smelt the scent around me again.
This was not possible. This shouldn’t have happened. With heavy legs, I walked toward the living room, and I started regretting the moment I had asked, ‘What could anything be more worst than this?’
Because the worst news was sitting in front of me.
Daniel and Eva had marked each other. So, all this time, I didn’t have any problem with my smelling power, but their scent had indeed changed.
Moon Goddess! Please wake me up from all this because whatever was happening in front of my eyes was no less than a nightmare.
“Aleena.” Eva gave me a wide smile, and I wanted to snatch her smile from her lips. She ran toward me and hugged me tightly. “I missed you.”
Then why did you leave in the first place, bitch?
“I missed you too.”, I said, wrapping my arms around her. Only I knew how much my hands were inching to wrap around her neck. “Congratulations.”, I wished her, breaking the hug.
“Thank you.”
“So, this was the reason you left, hmm?” I teased her because I knew I couldn’t say a word laced with venom right now.
“Actually, I didn’t know anything about it. Daniel planned everything.”, she responded, and her cheeks turned red.
Why did she always have something that I wanted the most?
Generally, first dad’s love.
Now, Daniel.
God! Not to forget, she wasn’t even the real daughter of dad.
“Really? You had no idea about it?” Daniel asked with a sly smile on his lips, on which Eva glared at him, maybe asking him to shut up. It meant she knew about everything, and she was just pretending in front of me.
“So, when is the Luna ceremony then?”
“Tomorrow evening.”, She replied.
I had now just 36 hours to do something because of which I could become the Luna of this pack?
“Though I’m happy for you both, this looks like a shock, then a surprise. How the hell will we manage everything in just 36 hours?” Chloe scolded them, showing her fake anger.
“Don’t worry about that, Mom. I have handled everything. All you need to do is shopping.”, That Beta said, adding fuel to my anger. He knew. He always knew what was Daniel’s plan and maybe because of his doubt of me, he didn’t disclose this news to anyone in the house.
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TBC