Chapter 139
AMELIA
“Is that? What the fuck is he doing here?” Ryden’s eyes glowed and he was about to rapture into a freaking volcano. “Isn’t he supposed to be locked up or has his head stuck into a pole?”
The tension rose in the room. Growls erupted from both parties, ready to charge at each other and tear themselves apart.
I turned my head at Lucius. “You, calm yourself down. You’re maybe an alpha fucking king of assholes, but you are a nobody here, and you’re a guest at Alpha King Sebastian’s territory. I will let them rip you to shred. Do you understand me?”
He was about to say something when I raised my finger. “Not a word. We’re here to clear things up and talk about what matters at hand and not to kill each other. Do we have an understanding?” I looked at Ryden. “You, too, Alpha.”
With nose flaring and locked jaw, he growled, his body still shaking in anger. “Why the fuck do you smell like him?”
“Calm down. If you won’t calm yourself down, I’m walking away. You two can kill each other, and I don’t give a shit.”
“You don’t mean that?” He grunted as he glared at me.
“I do because I’m here to know what he knows.”
“What do you think he knows that you don’t?” he barked back.
“For once, who tried to kill us earlier,” Lucius spoke. “I’m not your enemy from the start. Someone out there wants us all to fight each other, eliminate the bigger threats.”
“What the fuck are you doing with him, Amelia, mate?”
“Goddess.” I rolled my eyes. “One more growl I hear from both of you, I will scream until your ears bleed.”
Lucius retreated back. “I’m okay if he is.”
“You are all in my fucking house, in my territory. If you can’t respect my rules, get the fuck out of my place before I rip you all apart.”
The entire house went silent as Sebastien spoke.
“My house, my territory, my rules. And next time, Amelia. Before you bring strangers into my place, a little heads up would be nice.”
“Understood, Alpha King. I apologize for the trouble, and I wouldn’t have brought him here if I knew a safe place for us. Thank you for accommodating us. I promise it won’t happen again.”
“Good. Now let’s talk like ladies and gentlemen, not like rabid dogs. It means, no growling, no fangs and claws, and no magic.” He looked at everyone and turned to me.
We settled in the larger living room. Ryden and I shared a loveseat. Three of Sebastien’s trusted men, including Alessandro, remained standing behind him. Zarah took a seat next to him. Ren and Theia who arrived a little earlier than Ryden and Nora stood behind me while Lucius was on a single chair facing us.
“Let’s start from the very beginning.” I nodded at Lucius.
Halfway to the story that I already knew, Ryden began fisting his hands.
I placed my hand on top of his, and Lucius saw what I did.
“Do you believe anything this man said?”
I looked at Ryden. “I do.”
He snorted and shook his head. He wasn’t impressed.
“Please, let him finish.”
“After this, if my people are still safe, I will take you to my pack. I don’t run from a fight, but the reason why I kept my territory hidden is because of someone like Victor Fredrick and the Director.”
“Have you seen his face?”
“I know him, and one of the reasons why he’s hunting me. No one should know the face, but he also recruited me and trained me, and I know that voice.”
“So you worked at the SEO, and then why have I never heard of you?” Ren asked.
“It’s a disgrace to the SEO, especially to the director that the top student and agent just turned against him. I have a feeling why Victor worked with the director is because Amelia knows what he’d done.”
“How did my father fit in all of this? I thought you recruited him,” Nora asked.
“I didn’t. I was trying to kill your father when he unleashed demons. He was working with Victor. That’s what I know. I still have friends in the high places.”
“Did you kill my father?”
“No. He’s alive but very sick, and I can bring you to him, that is if Victor hasn’t raided my warehouse.”
“You have my father?” Nora was even shocked, everyone was, and they started sharing looks.
“Yes,” Lucius confirmed. How did he even find Alec when we’d been trying it for months and he still managed to escape? I guess his demon just gave up on him.
“Why did your bullet doesn’t explode?”
I gripped Ryden’s hand. “It wasn’t him. He didn’t even know I knew the Alpha King.”
“Yet he knows a lot about you.”
“Yes. I know a lot about her because she was my target.” The way he said it, there was more to it than he let on.
Everyone gasped, and the room went silent.
“What the fuck did you just say?”
“I was ordered to kill an innocent girl, Amelia. I told her when I first saw her.”
“You two spent a lot of time together, huh?” Ryden’s eyes narrowed, his jaw ticking the longer he stared at me and then tightened his grip around my hand.
“He was my mission. Well, not him. It was the drug, the thing he developed. I realized after the accident, that they didn’t care I died in the crash. I was merely a pawn as long as they got to kill Lucius. I started to believe he was telling the truth. How did you get out?”
“Mason is a good liar. I barely sensed his heartbeat racing,” Nora said.
“He told us stories, then I realized, he might be ordered to take us outside. It was pretty convenient.”
I shared a look at Ren. “Mason is a snitch. Yeah, we sometimes asked him a favor, but he’s loyal to the SEO.”
“Why was she a target, Lucius?” Zarah asked.
“Do you know who her father is?”
“An angel?” Theia replied.
“The statue in the hall,” Ryden mumbled.
“Not just an angel.” He looked at me. “Remember what I told you before the accident?”
“Yeah. About my biological parents.”
“Yes. Your father had been on earth for thousands of years. He adapted very well. He was more human than a divine being. At least, that was the story that was told. He founded the SEO. In the late Eighteenth century, he changed his name and went by Enoch, but he’s not the Enoch of the Book of Genesis. Anyway, hundreds of years later, he met a human, fell in love, and he wanted to retire and focus on his family. His second-in-command didn’t like that idea. When he found out, the angel managed to bear a child, he ordered a pack of werewolves to attack the woman six months pregnant.”
I didn’t know I was crying until I felt my cheeks wet. I wiped them, but Lucius saw my tears. “What’s her name?”
“Celine. Enoch was too late. Even an angel couldn’t break a natural law for the woman he loved. He had to sacrifice Celine to save his daughter. He used his power to keep the girl alive. She shouldn’t have survived, but the girl has the power of her father even when she wasn’t born yet. The only human who knows about your existence is Dr. Gallagher.”
“How do you know all of this?”
“I met the old doctor. He’d shown me some evidence about you. That’s how I found you. My mistake was I trusted the director. I was like Dane to Victor.”
“You know Dane?” Sebastien asked.
“Yes. We’ve met once, but he was loyal to Victor.”
“Why did he want me dead?”
“Because your father might visit you and tell you the truth.”
“Why did he not kill me when I was recruited?”
“Do you know the saying, keep your friends close but your enemy closer?” Theia reminded me.
“You’re right. So all these wraiths, demons, killings, and setups are for what? To expose me? He could have just killed me without killing many people.”
“Why do you think you get this assignment? They set me up with wraiths and demons and used Alec and the witches to get to me. He and Victor are working together to take me down because I know something that I can use against them. What do you think the drug is used for? They’re building an army to kill me, you, and the people around you.”
“Why do all this for one life?”
“Lives. To kill birds with one stone.”