80. Let''s take a paternity test


    My first instinct is to deny everything. I mean there was just no way he was my father. Because that


    would mean that Lilly was my sister.


    A sister I didn’t know I had. A sister I met by coincidence when Sebastian took me as a mate.


    “Look, there’s just no way I’m your long lost daughter. I was raised in an orphanage not stolen from my


    pack” I tell Lucas trying to still my frantically beating heart.


    ‘Are you sure of that?’ A voice whispered in my head. ‘You and ire were after all left at an


    orphanage and ording to Sarah, both of you looked to be less than a year old’


    I shake my head. Trying to push away the thoughts. Not wanting to ept what my mind was


    whispering.


    ‘Why are you refusing to see the truth, your story fits with that of his and his beta’s missing daughters’


    “Blue? Midnight?” I call them, ignoring the doubts in my head but they don’t answer.


    It was like they shut me out or maybe I was the one that shut them out.


    My eyes follow Lucas'' movement when he gets up, pulls out his wallet then removes a photograph. He


    hands it to me. At first I refuse to take it but curiosity gets the best of me.


    I gasp when I look at the picture. The face staring back at me is identical to mine, the only exception


    being that the woman has strawberry blonde hair and green eyes.


    “That’s Hailey” Lucas whispers slowly.


    I try to make sense of everything. Try toe up with a possible exnation of why I looked exactly


    like his dead mate.


    “This is nothing, people have at least one doppelganger out there in the world” I argue against the


    evidence staring me in the face.


    My hands are shaking and I feel like I’m being ripped in different directions.


    ‘Why are you fighting the truth?’ the voice whispers in my head.


    To be honest I didn’t know. But maybe it was because I didn’t want to believe that I had such a cruel


    fate. Didn’t want to believe that someone would steal two little girls from their parents, one of whom had


    a father that had recently lost his mate and their baby girl was the only piece of his mate that he had.


    “Wait you said that Hailey had two older siblings, A sister and a brother who were twins right? Luke


    asks


    Lucas nods his head at his son.


    “And mom once told me that her mate rejected her” Lilly adds, the wheels in her head turning.


    “Mom has a twin brother, Uncle Clive…grandma used to tell me that she had another child, a daughter


    who died. There were no photos of her though and when I asked mom, she said that her death was


    painful to all of them, so all her photos were taken down because it was just too hard to look at them,


    especially for her mate. You never told me who her mate was though and I never asked, just assumed


    he moved to another pack or something.” She finishes.


    I turn to look at Valery. See the pain in her eyes. She wasn’t hurting because her mate was hurting.


    This wasn’t just her mate’s pain. It was her pain too.


    “You’re Hailey’s sister, aren’t you?” I asked softly. I see the answer in her eyes before she even replies.


    “Yes, she was my baby sister” she answers with tears in her eyes. Her voice choking.


    I stare at her. “The one that slept with Lucas the day he received his dead mate’s ashes?”


    Luke throws me a threatening look but I don’t pay him attention. I wasn’t trying to be mean or anything.


    I just wanted to make sure that the information was pieced together without any missing pieces.


    “Yes” she murmurs in shame. “It’s not one of my proudest moments, but I was hurting. I had lost my


    sister and gotten rejected all in the span of two weeks. I didn’t want to tell anyone yet so when I went to


    check on Lucas and Freya I asked him if I could join him in drinking. I just wanted to drown the pain


    and heartache. I was horrified when I woke the next morning naked in his bed.”


    “He was mine and Clive’s best friend. We never saw each other like that or ever got romantically


    involved. Our friendship was purely tonic. I felt disgusted with myself. Not only had I slept with my


    bestfriend but also my sister’s mate. On top of the pain, I was dealing with the guilt of what had


    happened between us. We agreed to forget it ever happened, that was until I waste and a trip to the


    doctor revealed that I was pregnant”


    I realize that she still carries the guilt. Just like Lucas.


    “That’s when your parents asked you to be mates?” I asked and both she and Lucas nodded.


    I could see the sense of their thinking. Lucas was drowning in his sorrow and pain. Being the Alpha and


    a single dad he needed a Luna. Valery was a good friend. She was rejected by her fated and was


    carrying Lucas’ baby so it made sense to mate them.


    They had a foundation to build their rtionship. I’m sure their parents were hoping they would heal


    each other.


    “You were pregnant when Freya was kidnapped, what happened to the baby?” Luke is the one that


    asked. Suspicion in his eyes.


    “Yes, I was six months pregnant. As for the baby, you’re that baby Luke” Valery replies with a small


    smile that doesn’t reach her eyes.


    “You were born ten months after Freya, your older sister. We were happy but still overshadowed by the


    death of my sister, our guilt at sleeping with each other and the disappearance of Freya and Abby…it


    was a painful period for not only us but the entire pack”


    Lilly looks from her parents to me then back to them again. Different emotions flickering through her


    eyes.


    “If indeed Lauren is dad’s daughter then it means not only is she my sister but also my cousin?” she


    says it more like a question. As if she can’t even begin to fathom what she was uttering.


    Not that I believe for one second that Lucas is my father but if he was that would be totally messed up.


    Being siblings and cousins at the same time is just… It just doesn’t sit right. It’s all kinds of messed up


    and wrong.


    “Look, like I keep telling you, you’ve got the wrong person.” I tell them before turning to Lilly. “You know


    my story, know that ire and I grew up in the orphanage. So I can’t be your sister sh cousin”


    She frowns a bit. “Yeah but didn’t you tell me that you and ire were left at the orphanage door step


    together?”


    She turns to face me fully. “I mean think about it Ren, two baby girls about five months or so appear at


    an orphanage together. They’re not rted at all so that’s particrly strange right? But what’s even


    stranger is that thousands of kilometers from the orphanage, an Alpha’s and a Beta’s daughters have


    mysteriously gone missing and no one can find them. Even more of a coincidence is that the Alpha’s


    daughter had red hair just like one of the girls that arrived at the orphanage”


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    I swallow because she had just voiced the thoughts that I have been battling.


    “Yes but there’s a w in your reasoning. If ire is the beta’s daughter then shouldn’t our DNA test


    have confirmed that we were rted given that she was the daughter of your Hailey and Valery’s


    brother?”


    Lucas did say that the siblings were the children of the betas.


    “Not necessarily. My twin brother isn’t our beta. He found his mate in a different pack. She was the only


    daughter of the Alpha so that meant that the title fell on whoever her mate was. Clive changed packs


    and Lucas picked John and Olivia to be our beta couple” Valery exins.


    If that was the case then Lilly''s conclusion now made more sense. Valery''s exnation would exin


    why ire and I weren’t rted.


    “Is that true Lauren? That you arrived at an orphanage with another girl?” Lucas asks, pulling me from


    my thoughts, hope rising in his eyes.


    I nod. “Yes, the woman running it said they found us at the doorstep and we refused to be separated,


    so we grew up together and became sisters even though we weren’t rted by blood”


    I then shake my head. “But it doesn’t make any sense though. If everything is true then why would


    someone take us only to leave us in an orphanage? There was always the possibility that we could be


    found”


    “I don’t know, we’ve never quite figured out why someone would take Freya and Abby except for


    maybe revenge. Lucas and John were the leaders of the strongest pack in these parts so they had a lot


    of enemies. Any of those enemies would have paid someone to take the children not only to hurt Lucas


    and John but also to weaken. A person is most vulnerable when they’re grieving and in distress.”


    Valery answers my question.


    “I still think you have the wrong person” I insist.


    Lucas stands up and looks at me. The same hope still swimming in his eyes.


    “Deep in my gut I know you’re my daughter. My wolf feels the connection to yours…but if you’re still


    doubtful then we can get a paternity test”


    I didn’t want to but didn’t I owe it to myself and him to get it done. Maybe after it turns out negative he


    can finally let the issue go.


    “Okay” I agree. “Let’s get the test done. Today if possible” I finish and he nods his head.