Chapter 25
Asher’s POV
I raced back home. My mind was like a turmoil, filled with things that Isaac said to me.
I hated myself for letting an enemy affect me so much. But what
if his words were the truth? What if my parents were indeed
hiding something from me?
I didn’t even realize it when I arrived at the packhouse. Some
members called out to me, but I walked right pass them.
There was only one thought in my chaotic mind–Find my
parents.
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Then I stumbled upon Violet by the door. She seemed to be
waiting for me, worried.
“Hey how is it going? Are you hurt?” she ran to me, asking.
I stroke up to her as well and yanked her into my arms. She let
out a small gasp and struggled slightly, but I wrapped my arms
around her even tighter.
With her so close to me, I could finally feel the storm that had
been going on in my head quiet down. She was the only steady
thing in the chaotic world. Now I could think again.
“What happened Asher?” she hugged me back, asking urgently.
“You scared me!”
I let out a heavy breath, “He told me some fucked up things.”
“He is probably manipulating you. Don’t let him get to you
easily.” She comforted.
I shook my head, “No I think there might be some truth to his
words. Whichever it is, I need to find out.”
I had mind linked my parents and asked them to meet me at my
office right away. Still holding hands with Violet, we headed to
my office as well.
My parents were already there when we came in.
“Asher! Is everything OK?”
Mom shot up from the couch as soon as we walked through that
door. She seemed deeply worried. Normally I would tell her that
everything was alright even if there was a problem, just to set
her mind at ease.
But this time, I couldn’t bring myself to lie to her. This was too
huge.
“We need to talk,” I gulped, shifting my eyes to my dad, and then
back at my mom.
Fuck. I didn’t even know how to begin!
“Do you have anything that you want to tell me? Any secrets you
were hiding from me?” I in turned asked, nervous, my heart in
my throat.
This was me giving me a chance for them to come clean. I wished
they could take this chance if there were indeed something.
They exchanged a quick look. And by that look I could tell they
both thought of something at the same time.
Yet after a brief moment, my father looked back at me and said,
“What happened really Asher? You are making all of us worried.”
So he was still trying to fucking hide it! Anger swelled in me like
hot lava. I balled my fists and blurt out:
“How about I have a twin brother and you never told me about
it?!”
“WHAT?!” Violet cried beside me, astonished.
My parent’s expressions were precious, like they just saw a ghost
in bright daylight. Mom swayed on her feet and almost feel. Dad’s
jaw tightened as thought he was chewing on a tree root.
“Fucking say something!” I snapped.
“How told you this?” dad asked in a strained voice.
He didn’t deny it, which made it true. And looking back at my mother, she could barely stand now. All evidence pointed to one thing–I had a secret twin brother that they abandoned years ago
and didn’t know about it.
I had never cried in my entire life. But at this very moment, hot
tears welled up in my eyes. Tears of fury. I wanted to tear the
whole world apart!
“How could you?!” I snarled at them, “I can’t believe this…My own
parents, the former Alpha and Luna left your own kid in the
woods to die?! What kind of monster does this! How can you
sleep at night and keep lying to the world about it?!”
Mom seemed horrified by my reaction. My dad tried to approach
me, saying, “Calm down Asher. We never lied to you.”
I quickly backed away from him. If he got too close, I might
seriously punch him. “Then what do you call the man I met in the
woods? A fucking ghost? We look exactly the same! You lied to
me for almost 30 years!”
Mom let out a desperate sob and collapsed to the floor. Violet
rushed to her side. She grabbed Violet’s hand as though holding
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onto her lifeline and whimpered, “No…we didn’t abandon him.”
Why are they still trying to deny this? “I just met him mom! He is
a rogue. He is the rogue king! If you didn’t abandon him, how did
he end up like that?!”
Mom shivered. More tears poured out of her eyes.
“No, no…” she cried into her palms. “Isaac wouldn’t do this to us…”
She even knew his name! So she knew exactly whom I was
talking about!
My nerve snapped. I lost control of my inner beast again.
“Somebody tell me what the fuck is going on here NOW!!!” I
roared at the top of my lung.
Mom was crying so hard that she couldn’t even say a full
sentence. Eventually it was my dad who told us everything.
Apparently, my mother was pregnant with twins 28 years ago.
Isaac and I were constantly fighting in the womb, making her
pregnancy extremely hard. Because of our royal blood, we were
blessed with extreme power, and every time we fought in her
made my mom weaker and weaker.
Eventually it came to a point that she couldn’t carry on this
pregnancy anymore and they had to cut us out of her.
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But our brother rival didn’t stop. We were still fighting even
when we were born, kicking and biting each other whenever we
were given the chance.
“It was nerve–wracking because you aren’t like any other twins.
It is like you two are born rivals, saint versus devil, the light
against the dark. Then everyone started to notice how strange
this was. They didn’t want this to happen in the Alpha’s family.
So after a long discussion, the council decided to take your
brother away from us.” Father said in a gloomy voice.
“But I was determined to raise you! Both of you!” mom sobbed, “It
didn’t matter if you were monsters because you would always be
my sons. But the council didn’t give us a choice. It was either
giving up on one or they would take away the both of you…So…in
the end…”
Her voice broke. She couldn’t continue.
Father finished her telling, “Your uncle and aunt can’t have their
own child. So the council proposed to have one of you sent to
your uncle’s. And that was Isaac. It was a stressful time, Asher,
you can’t even imagine.”
“STRESSFUL?” I blurt out, my voice filled with sarcasm and
anger. “You call giving up on your own son stressful? What a wonderful father you are!”
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He glared at me and thundered, “Don’t talk to me like that! YOU
KNEW NOTHING!”
“I know nothing because you fucking keep everything from me!
Like Violet could have told me she was my mate but she didn’t!
Kylie could have said that Isaac was her mate, but she kept it
from everyone and rejected him! All of you! Stop fucking play
innocent!”
www.
