Chapter 5: Blood Betrayal
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Delia
My mothers jaw hit the floor and I could see the guilty look on her face. Dennis scoffed and an angry fire lit up in her eyes that I was sure mine swallowed whole.
I was beyond enraged.
"You want to throw me out? After everything, you don't love me? It's all been a lie, hasn't it?" I yelled, making my mother flinch.
"I thought you loved me. I really believed you could all accept me like how you have loved and accepted Dennis this entire time, but you don't love me do you? Not after all the years I spent at the orphanage, waiting for you guys to come back for me."
They would never love me. Not like they loved Dennis. Not ever at all.
Dennis put down the glass of wine she'd been holding on the coffee table and got up off the plush couch she'd been sitting in beside the fireplace. She stood with her arms folded under her breasts. "Yes, it's all been a pretense, Delia." She drew out my name mockingly. "Every minute, every second you've been in this house, has been a torment to me. To all of us! You're bad luck wherever you go."
I gasped, taken aback by the venom in her voice.
Dennis was not just my sister, she was my twin. Why did she hate me?
"You had just one job, one job Delia." She walked around the coffee table, one index finger held up as she jabbed it straight at me. "You were supposed to be with Logan, replace me, do a good job of it so he never found out about the switch and our family was safe from his wrath!"
"But what did you do? You f****d up so badly he brought you back just the next f*****g morning!"
I winced. Everything she said was true. I hadn't been able to hold onto Logan, even though I loved him. Even though I'd promised them I would help. I had failed them yet again, by being a disappointment.
"But what about you, Dennis? You stood there, all of you, when Logan brought me back here. None of you spoke up. You let him believe it was all my fault!" I yelled in her face, my chest heavier with each breath I took, with the hurt in my heart.
"Are you f*****g insane? Are you dumb? I mean I knew you were, but seriously you must be lacking serious brain cells. What did you want Daddy to do? Fess up and tell Alpha Logan that we all planned it and lied to him? Do you have any idea how much trouble our entire family would be in then?"
"Better one stupid omega get the blame than the entire family, don't you think?" She stood closer to me, as her words lashed at my battered poor heart.
"Dennis, stop it. Delia, don't mind your sister, you know she's pregnant, and well, pregnancy can make you say things you don't mean sometimes. You know we love you."
Even to my ears, my mother's excuse sounded weak as f**k. "Pregnancy? And what about you then, mother? What's your excuse for the things I just heard you say about me? What's your excuse for just standing there and allowing father to throw all the blame on me when Logan was here? What's your excuse for allowing him beat me to the point I almost died?"
"Oh, shut up, Delia. You always have to be dramatic about everything, don't you? Beat you until you almost died, my ass. Aren't you the one standing here before us? You're obviously well enough to eavesdrop, stupid girl." Dennis sneered.
My eyes filled up again and the tears threatened to fall. I shook my head, biting my lip hard. I would not be pitiful here before them again. I stared straight at Dennis. "I know we're adopted and I know my wolf is weak, but if everyone else rejects me, shouldn't you love me? Can't you accept me? I'm your twin!"
"And I hate you even more for that!"
My legs trembled at her words. She had such a strong look of hate that I didn't doubt any of the words out of her mouth. And it broke me.
Smashed my heart to bits on the cold floors. I stared down at my feet as the first tear drop hit the floor between my feet.
She hated me.
"You're so weak and unfortunately, you're my twin. You're a part of me I wish didn't exist. How dare you be so weak and so utterly useless and still want to be associated with me, with us?" She swallowed a deep breath and then lashed out some more.
"And now that you've gone and revealed the truth to Logan, guess what?! People are going to know you exist. They're going to know that we have an Omega as part of our family."
"Dennis, stop it. You've said enough!"
"No, mom, someone has to tell her," she came closer to me, her breath in my face, i couldn't avoid the ugly scowl on her face, a face identical to my own. "You, you're so lucky grandpa left you some shares. If not, you'd have been long gone from here."
She pushed me away, not caring if I broke a bone or lost any teeth as i fell to the ground. My eyes squeezed shut tight as I sat on the floor, her words ringing in my head over and over again until I felt I'd run raving mad.
"Delia?" I heard my mother whisper. "Delia, get up. It's just a little fight, sister's fight all the time." She grabbed at my arm and I shrugged out of her grasp like her hand was on fire.
I stared up in her eyes, I forced my lips apart to ask her. "Is that all I'll ever be in your eyes? Just an omega?"
She didn't answer me as I swallowed,and whatever was left of my heart broke into tiny pieces that shredded my chest from the insides and left me in pain.
I got up to my feet without any help and turned around, making my way back towards the front door.
I didn't stop as she called out my name, again and again and again.
I kept walking.
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