h4Chapter 784: 784-The Skit Of My Mother’s Life/h4

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    He was weed by the warriors who had been told to give him special protocol, and I could tell my father felt like a king. He had a wide smile on his lips. He probably thought he had achieved everything, that he would never be confronted for his crimes. I took a deep breath, but it was Norman’s hand on my thigh that gave mefort.

    Then my father walked straight toward where we were sitting, and he was asked to sit with us. His shoulders looked broader than ever. He looked around with a bright smile, admiring the preparations like he was some real king. He sat down and epted the wine ss from the server. I guess because my mother had left, he thought I never got to know his truth.

    My stepmother had a simr look, but hers was suspicious. She kept ncing around. Whenever our eyes met, she narrowed hers at me before looking away.

    "We also have a very beautiful performance prepared for our Alpha Queen’s father. Father figure, we can say," Dalton corrected himself, and everybody smiled. Niles just rolled his eyes.

    "Well, she is more than a daughter to me. Doesn’t matter if I adopted her or not. She is closer to me than my own blood," Niles imed, having the nerve to say all that when he had treated me like shit in the past.

    Part of the reason he didn’t expect us to be plotting was that, after I found out Soren Von was my father, we had already started nting seeds. I began sending letters to Niles, telling him I wanted to fix things, that I wanted to make things right between us, and that my parental figures meant a lot to me. It was hard to fool him at first, but a few expensive gifts from us were enough to make Niles crack. And I had to give it to Vani for helping me through and through.

    "Yeah, we know that. We all know how much you love her," Dalton said sarcastically, and I wondered how Niles still didn’t get it.

    "So, we present to you a beautiful skit of a daughter and her heroic father," Dalton announced, stepping away from the big stage as the characters walked in.

    But the man who looked like Niles introduced himself as Niles, and behind him was a woman tied to a bed in chains who looked just like my real mother, the one they had tortured. I turned to my father, watching his smile slowly fade.

    "No, please, Niles, no, let me go!" the woman cried dramatically, begging for mercy. Smiles were already fading away. Everyone looked confused, wondering why the woman was begging him.

    "No, I will not. You will rot here until you give us a child we can sacrifice and get paid for," the fake Niles said. I watched the real Niles gulp.

    "What is this?" Larissained.

    "You just keep watching," I told her with a smirk.

    At that point, Niles tried to get up, but a warrior stepped closer and ced a hand on his shoulder, reminding him he needed to sit down. The show wasn’t over yet.

    I noticed the council members crunch their noses hard.

    "But you married me, how could you do this to me, Niles?" the woman screamed and cried.

    Then came the point when she finally gave birth. Fake Niles took her baby and sacrificed it. Everybody gasped. Chaos had erupted. They were whispering, talking, probably even asking themselves if this was still just a y.

    Then came the men. It was the hardest to watch, the way they woulde and force her, the way she would give birth and the babies would be discarded. All this time I was shaking from anger and grief. Watching my mom go through that was unbearable. I wondered how she managed topose herself after everything that happened to her. Even the council members were looking around, asking each other what they were seeing.

    "Excuse me, I need to take a breather," Larissa muttered, getting up and trying to squeeze through the crowd. But I knew she wouldn’t be able to leave. A warrior stepped in her way. She kept trying, but my focus had already shifted to Niles, who was staring at me, his eyes red with anger and fear showing on his face.

    The story continued with Larissa whispering into his ear about what to do next. And then Soren was introduced. I closed my eyes and sobbed. Norman quickly pulled me close, and I hugged him as we all stood up from our seats. By now nobody could stay seated.

    But Niles was still sitting. He wasn’t allowed to move. Him and only him. Warriors stood behind him, each with a hand pressed on his shoulders.

    Finally, it was time for my mother’s name to be revealed. When Soren told her they were mates, and then I was born. It was all disyed. Everything.

    Then the story shifted from my mom being tortured to my mom ready to take revenge. It went on until I was six, when my mother divorced and left. But there was still onest thing to be revealed, something that would take everyone’s breath away.

    In the end, ady showed up and told my father he had disappointed her. Everyone started yapping, trying to figure out who she was. She reeked of royalty, so they knew this woman was also real, like the rest of the story. Her time woulde, but not tonight.

    "And this is how the beautiful story of a scumbages to an end." Dalton finished the theater, and everyone began grunting and yelling slurs at Niles.

    "Is it true? Did you really do that to an innocent soul?" a woman shouted as she threw her sandal, hitting my father in the head. He turned and grunted at her, but her mate stood up, ring at him as if daring him to try and hurt her like he had hurt my mother.

    "That is a lie. This is a made-up story," Niles blurted, instantly trying to defend himself.

    "I cannot believe you did this to another creature!" Dalton stood, his face flushed red with anger.

    "The mermaids are not our enemies. You fucking used her like that? And then you had the nerve toe here today wearing a fancy suit to ept gifts?" Vonstan roared before lunging at Niles, pping him hard enough to knock him off his feet.

    Hended right at my feet.