The Lycan's True Mate

CHAPTER 5

CAT OUT OF THE BAG

LORETTA'S POV

My aunty had barged into the palace with an unknown man and claimed that I was having a secret affair with him, I tried to prove my innocence but she had some weird pictures of me and the man going on various dates and being so intimate.

The Lycan king became so blinded with rage, that he ordered his guards to lock me up at once. I was dragged away without getting the chance to explain myself, I had seen Natasha from the corner of my eye, winking at my grinning aunty.

“I suspect Natasha … seriously… maybe she and my aunty met to destroy me …” I stated my opinion to Morgan, she shook her head in agreement but said nothing, instead she deepened the towel she had been using to pat my forehead with cold water and continued the same routine to help keep my temperature from getting high like last night.

Just then the Lycan king pranced in and without any word, entered the smelly dungeon, opened it hurriedly, and flung me into his arms, I wanted to ask him what was happening but I noticed he wasn’t looking my way, he was yelling at his beta to gather everyone into the meeting room.

What I saw marveled and shocked me altogether, lying on the floor with blood all over their face and clothes were my aunty and the famous Natasha, pleading for leniency.

The Lycan king dropped me only when we got into the hall, to sit beside him, yet he said nothing to me but I saw the glint of affection and regret in his face. He wanted to say something but thought against it, before sliding into his seat.

“Start talking .., everyone is here, let them hear your confession… the same way you told me in my office a few moments ago, Natasha you start!” The king Barked at his wife, all forms of affection or guilt gone from his face.

“I… I.. went to Aunty Linda for some help in getting Loretta into trouble. I lied about the man having an affair with her, it was my plan… I paid the man and Loretta’s aunty to lie against her”

“So you are telling us now that those pictures are photoshopped?” The Lycan king's father bellowed at her, she shook her head in agreement and the room filled with mumbles and various whispers from the listeners.

I wasn’t so surprised at the confession but it didn’t stop my heart from aching, I knew that I didn’t do it therefore someone had instigated it with my aunt, and my suspicion was very right.

Although I was disappointed that the lycan king; my husband didn’t stand up for me after he saw the photoshopped proof, I know it’s because of his intense obsession for me but right now I feel relieved, and I commended him in my head for doing the right thing and punishing Natasha like this. Most husbands would hide their wife's wrongdoings but he’s never for once done such.

“I… I … will say everything, please help me ask for forgiveness from Loretta and Cynthia … I have wronged them…” my aunty was talking to the onlookers. The Lycan king had roared at her to confess her part, I squinted my eyes at her, my heart racing in my chest.

My wolf was saying something to my heart but I was too scared to think about it aloud. I hoped for my sanity's sake that it wasn't as my wolf suspected, then I heard it and I couldn’t hold my scream, everyone's eyes fell on me. Filled with compassion and condolence, one of the maids even burst into tears on my behalf.

There and then my aunty confessed to killing my mate all because she didn’t want me to leave her and move away with my husband where I would have peace and feel loved.

All I knew was that my feet were flying toward her, Morgan and one other woman had to hold me back, my scream filled the large hall and I was raging like a lion. My wolf had never been that angry and vengeful.

“I have taken a lot from you … a lot! You can hurt me but not people around me… what did I do to offend you? what was my offense? I tried everything to make you happy…” I was wailing and scratching the tile floor with my shoes.

My late mate's mother was beside me in no time. The Lycan king had summoned her as well. As the case is also related to her, we clung to each other and cried bitterly.

“She tried to separate you and the Lycan king as well… she should be punished!” One of the pack members called out and others murmured their agreement at once, each stating their thoughts and opinions.

The lycan king coughed once and everyone went quiet at once, including me but I was still crying profusely as I couldn’t control that.

“She has more to say Loretta and I suggest that you brace yourself… “ my husband eyed his beta to help me sit down in my seat, I complied but was still shivering with agitation.

My eyes fell on Kimberly and she was trying to hide her face from me, the shame she was feeling was obvious by merely looking at her. I didn’t want to hear any more of my Aunty’s confession because I feared that it would hurt me hard and deeply.

“I… as well have been poisoning Cynthia's food right from when she was two years old… when you moved. That’s why she's always so weak and always sick, I planned on killing her slowly and planned on selling you for money…” she confessed again.

My husband reached out to hold my cold hands, we weren’t in a good place and our relationship had its stumbling block but at that moment, his touch helped a lot in calming me down.

Because I would have pranced on my aunty and torn her into shreds with my teeth, I wasn’t crying anymore as I perceived and grasped that my case wasn’t that of tears but revenge, “why is this woman still standing here… why!!” I yelled into the crowd.

“She’s a murderer … shouldn’t be forgiven ever…” the elder king added, supporting me, but he didn’t shout like me, he was saying it to the eldest council member sitting closest to him.

They had begun to deliberate on what to do about the two offenders kneeling in front of them, my aunty was wailing and calling on my name, and all I could think of was seeing her lifeless in front of me… finding out that she knew about my sisters’ failing health was the most painful.

The poor girl would go to bed every night in tears and pain, most times she would have to use oxygen to breathe and the doctors kept giving me a list of her failing organs. Not knowing it’s my Aunty’s handwork.

Why she had Always used it to taunt me, calling my sister a dead living being. “Ahaaaaaa… aunty you are wicked… you are a devil, worse than a devil!!” My voice filled with pain and fury, I shrieked at my aunty, my whole body shivering with anger.

Kimberly stayed back in the shadows of other onlookers, she had stopped pleading for her mother and closed her face with her hooded sweater. She knew if the people found out that she was my aunty's daughter she could be stoned to death right on the spot.

“Loretta … I killed your mother when you were six years old…please forgive me … please. Don’t let your husband kill me”. At that point, all I heard was my aunt's voice.

I felt myself leaning into darkness, and from nowhere, my head felt like several sharp needles were piercing into my skin and head, I heard people screaming my name and my husband growling at Morgan to get the doctor.

Aside from the fact that my aunt is a devil in the flesh and all she had done to me and my family was unforgivable, I was scared for my baby’s life.

This week had been a very rough one and all of these confessions were making it worse, my aunty turned out to be the reason why myself and Cynthia no longer have a mum.

“I will say how I did it, I will confess… It's jealousy. Your mother had you and I found out I have no womb. So I adopted Kimberly and she found out, so I killed her. I was scared that she would use it against me in the future or tell other people about it” I heard her strained voice and lame excuse.

It felt like poison to my ear and did more harm than good, I held my head and howled like a wounded wolf, of course, that’s what I’m at the moment, wounded and broken emotionally by my aunty.

Who kills his or her family member because of “thoughts”, she thought that my mother would taunt her with adopting. With not having a womb! a guard had whipped her neck for her to keep talking but I couldn’t hold on anymore, guess the guard was as well pissed with her confession and stupid reasons.

Before I allowed the darkness to envelop me, I wished hard that my husband’s doctors would not find out about my pregnancy because if they do the kycan king will be so pissed with me and with all of these going on, I don’t need the Lycan king’s wrath.