Chapter 95

Killian:

“I told you not to fucking trust a Bernardi, but no, my son goes on ahead and falls in love with the ONE FUCKING HEIR…”

“Maria, ENOUGH!” Dad yelled, stopping mom as both entered my office. Both Vladimir and I frowned in confusion as we looked at the two of them, and mom threw what looked like a newspaper at me. I frowned at the fact that whatever she was showing me would be in a newspaper to begin with, but nevertheless, I looked down at the article, reading through.

“Your little Luna, the fucking bitch that you marked and chose to bring between us is going to be getting married to Elton Bernardi.” She said, just as I reached the article that said it. I frowned, not responding, as I read the news three times, trying to allow myself to digest what was written. 

“That is impossible…”

“Impossible? The picture is right there, and I think that you are not blind. The woman is carrying his damn child, and would be giving him the heir that would have him as an official Alpha.” She said, glaring at me. “I told you to send all the Bernardi from here. Considering that you weren’t planning on killing the fucker, fine, I gave you the fucking excuse, I stood by your damn side. I told you not to FUCKING TRUST THEM…”

“Mom, one more word about this…”

“What are you going to do? Tell me, son? When that bitch and her husband have their baby, he is going to be an Alpha and we are going to have to deal with another one of them. I don’t need to mention how corrupted each one of them is and how much bullshit we all took from them so far. And no, I do not want to deal with another loss again. I am sorry, but your sister was in enough pain for me…” I banged my desk, stopping her. Her eyes widened in surprise before she looked down at her feet. 

“If anyone saw her die and was unable to do anything about it, it was me. I saw her getting shot to keep ME safe, and I have sucked up my pain for years. I swore my vengeance on Luca but I am the one who fucking saw how broken the woman was, and no, mind you, mother, she was not faking anything of it. Therefore, if she is going to marry the man, then there is something to it.” I said, and she frowned. “I am not looking for your consent about what I just said, and believe me, the last thing that I need is for you to state your opinion on such a topic. Now, if you will excuse me, and if you don’t have anything else to add, please, you can leave.”

She kept her eyes on me for a second before she looked at my hand to find me clenching my fist. She knew that I often did that to control my anger and what I was feeling, and I couldn’t even describe the number of emotions that I felt right now, but I knew that they were not ones that I wanted to deal with.

She nodded and took a step back before walking out of the room alongside dad. His eyes met mine for a second and I nodded in assurance, letting him know that I was okay. The man has been doing his best to contain things at home, but I wasn’t dumb. The more this topic grew complicated, the worse things became at home. Plus, there was the fact that I didn’t even know where my mate was despite feeling her being close to me. And that was something that tore me apart in ways that I couldn’t even describe.

“I thought that you said that you gave her an after pill.” I said, looking at Vladimir who nodded.

“I did,” he said, “And the after pill was only a precaution. Eleanor said that he never did reach his end.”

“Then how would she be pregnant? And not only that, but showing?” I asked, showing him the newspaper. He frowned in confusion before putting the paper on the desk in front of me. My heart raced as a number of theories played in my head, and the idea of this being nothing more than a cinema was one thing that I couldn’t help but find myself considering.

“Why would Elton, the idiot that wants nothing more than power, and the two of us know that it won’t exactly be legal power, want to announce anything in a trashy newspaper?” I asked, shaking my head in question. I paced around the office as I got lost in my thoughts, trying to process what I was dealing with right now because I knew that it was nowhere near being logical or sane. “I know the Eleanor that I saw. I felt her, and the two of us bonded in a way that is unbreakable.”

The fact that she opened up to me, allowing me in her head, was one thing that proved to me that it was impossible for all that we went through to be a lie. The smile that was on her face was forced, but I didn’t see fear in her eyes as she put her hand on her stomach, but that wasn’t the one thing that caught my attention. 

“The emerald…” I said, looking down at her wrist. I shook my head at the fact that she chose to wear it on her hand as she put it on her stomach, and Vladimir frowned in confusion before shaking his head. 

“Elton wasn’t going to…”

“Unless she managed to keep it hidden or he kept it to punish her…”

“You can’t be serious, Killian?” Vladimir asked, shaking his head at me and I nodded in response. I knew for sure that something was off, and I knew for fact that my mate was trying, somehow, to send me a message. 

“Think about it, we never did see Eleanor before.” I said, and he frowned in confusion. “The woman was nothing but a name Alienora Bernardi, the chosen woman for the famous Elton Bernardi, but now, she just pops in a picture by his side, holding her stomach and showing off a ‘pregnancy’ that has to be at least three or four months old, doesn’t all that raise a small question mark to you?”

“Even if it does, how are we going to…?”

“Eleanor is asking for help, or she is showing us where she would be.” I said, looking down at the picture. “Something is holding her strong right now, and I know that it is me and our baby.”

“You are convinced that it is yours?”

“Aren’t you?” I asked, looking at the man who sighed but nodded.

“Knowing her, I know that she would rather find herself losing her womb than carrying his baby with the pride that I see in her eyes.” He said, and I smirked. “We’ll trace where this picture came from and we will see how we can manage to reach the wedding hall and alter before he manages to get anything done.”

“Until then, I want no one but the two of us to know of this.” I said, and he nodded. “We are going to be stopping this wedding, somehow, I am going to be fucking sure of it.”

I am not going to leave you, malyshka. Your message has been delivered, and your demon has responded…