52. Sick Joke.

Daphne’s POV.

I could not believe my eyes, for fuck’s sake, I could not believe my whole existence! I was surprised, shocked and confused, let us not forget that I was incredibly heartbroken.

I did not understand or even know how this could happen, how was this even remotely possible? How long had this been going on? Where my eyes suddenly playing tricks on me? Was this just a cruel nightmare? Was this a prank? Would everyone just come out of their hiding places and shout, ‘Fooled yah’?

“What the fuck is going on here?!”, I yelled at them in anger and confusion, I really needed to know what was happening to me. How could this day get from bad to worse?

“Who the fuck let you in, Emilia?”, he directed at me, making my confusion peak, did he just call me Emilia? I look at the girl who had her butt placed majestically on my mate’s crotch, why was he calling me her name?

“I am confused, why are you calling me Emilia? My name is Daphne”, I took a step closer but he growled at me,

“Do not dare take another step closer”, he spat harshly, holding Emilia tightly to his check, I felt a pang of jealousy as he did this action. How dare he hold another woman like that in front of me?

I stopped in my tracks when I heard her nasally voice say, “Baby, I am scared”, just by her talking, he should know that I am not the one. I have never referred to him as baby before, or ever voiced out my fear to him, “Why is Emilia here?”, I was so confused? Why was she calling me her? Had she gone mad? Had they both gone mad?

“Do not take a step closer to me and mate, your father caused enough damage in our lives”, my father? What the fuck was he yapping on about?

“Is this a sick joke? Is this because of what happened a few days ago?”, maybe he was still pissed off at me for hitting me, that explained it. But he had already given me the punishment of a lifetime for that, why was he taking this further?

“Nothing happened between me and you, ever. I love my mate very much and I will never cheat on her, especially not with you”, he spat at me. I was dumbfounded, my confusion had been pushed passed its limit,

“I am your mate”, I finally spoke up, tears filling my eyes,

Emilia stood up abruptly, glaring at me, she had a sinister glint in her eyes and I knew she had something to do with this, of course she had something to do with it! She and her devil of a father had always been after me since day one.

“How dare you impersonate me? I am the alpha king’s mate, me, Daphne Penelope Edwards”, she remarked, “Your blasphemy is punishable by death, but I shall not kill you because I am kindhearted”, she said to me with a triumphant smirk on her lips.

“Guards!”, Dwayne called. Suddenly, about two guards entered the office, they bowed at him and he gave out his orders, “Please escort this imposter out of the castle premises”, the guards looked as confused as I was,

“My lord, we do not understand who you are referring to”, they looked at me, wondering why he was referring to me as an imposter while the imposter was clearly sitting her flat ass on his lap.

“What do you mean by ‘you do not know who I am referring to?’”, he snapped at them, “Can you not see Emilia Roland standing right beside you?”, the men looked at me again,

“Sire…”,

“Enough”, he growled, shaking the walls of the large space, “I gave you an order! Escort this blasphemous lady out of the castle immediately”. The men still looked confused as hell; they did not understand what was going on. We were sailing on the same fucking boat in that aspect as I too had no idea of what was happening.

“My lady”, they bowed to me, “Will you please follow us?”, at this point, tears had started to stream down my face in both frustration and heartbreak,

“I am not going anywhere”, I cried, “How can I leave this woman with my mate?”,

“My lady please”, the guards said, trying to hold me.

“Do not touch me”, I yelled at the innocent guard, “Do not fucking touch me”, I screamed, walking towards my mate and the impersonator, “This is unacceptable Dwa…”, I contemplated whether I should use his name or not, was it going to be right to use his name in front of all these people? Especially her?

“What did you call me?”, he heard it, he heard me say his name, “How dare you?”, he stood up, moving Emilia away from his lap, “Guards! I thought I told you to take her away, her presence is irritating me”, I felt another harsh sting in my chest as the guards dragged me by my arms, ignoring the way I was kicking and screaming at the to let me go.

They finally managed to drag me out of the office, my tantrum now alerting all the other castle workers. In my fit, I saw Sarah and Cecilia come down from the stairs along with Fredrick, Dwayne’s second in command.

“What in the world his happening here? How dare you hold the Luna Queen in such a manner?”, Fredrick roars at them in anger,

“It was the alpha king that said we should take her away, she was banished from the castle”, the guard still sounded confused,

“What? Why? What did she do?”, Sarah asked, she ran over to me and hugged me but the guards pushed her away. Cecilia just stood in shock, like she was trying to understand the whole situation.

Fredrick entered the office and growled, “What the fuck is she doing here?”, I hear him yell, “And why is she on your lap?”,

“Do not refer to your luna queen in suck a manner, Fredrick. You are my friend, but I would not hesitate to punish you if you do not watch your tongue”, Dwayne said, I could here the anger piercing through his voice, it made me mad.

“Your mate?”, Fredrick was just as confused as the rest of us, “Who is your mate?”, he asked the alpha king,

“Stop asking me such questions, can you not see my mate seated right here?”, just imagining her on my mate’s lap made me boil all over again, tears started to fall once more as I kept on screaming for them to unhand me. “Is she still here? I thought I told you to take her away. If I come out there, I am having both of your necks”.

“You heard what he said”, they began to drag me out of the building, not stopping until we reached the gate of the big estate, some of the castle staff following us in perplexity, “We are very sorry, my lady”, they bowed before throwing me out of the gates, my hand guarding my stomach protectively on instinct.

How did this happen? How could he get me confused with Emilia? Was this just a joke? Was this a mere nightmare that I would wake up from in a few minutes? How did I even get here?

How could I just wake up one morning and have everything turn to shit?

That bastard! I could not believe I was pregnant with his baby and he was all over another female, saying she was me. We look nothing alike! She is blonde for fuck’s sake, I am a brunette, we do not even share the same eye color! How could he even mistake me for her and vice-versa?

I did not even get to tell him that we were expecting a baby; at this point I realized that it was a good thing that he did not know about our unborn pup, I also planned to leave it that way.

This pup is my burden to bear from now on, not his. The only problem now was where I would stay, I had no friends, no family, nowhere to go other than…

I suddenly realized that I actually had a friend, Fiona, I believed she would not mind letting me crashing at her place until I could get back on my feet.

But boy was I in for the surprise of my life.