The Alpha's Exchanged Mate
The Alpha’s Exchanged Mate – Chapter 28

Edwina’s POV…

Going home, I was truly confused about the conversation I had just had with Ben. He had just openly told me he was planning to escape, and I wasn’t sure if I wanted to tell Alex. It could just be his irrational part speaking again, but then I knew Ben. There was nothing irrational about him. When he says something, he almost always does it, and that’s what scares me about all these. I needed to make one more stop before going back home. I needed to see my sister.

The last time I was there, we left things a little bit scattered, especially with her crazy idea of Alex forgiving her one day.

She is still my sister, and I needed to stand by her. I might have chosen Ben to be my husband, but she was made my sister by design, even though it wasn’t always like that.

I sat in the car; after instructing the driver to take me to the female prison, which wasn’t that far, I recalled this was the same car I had f****d Alex in. It was crazy that I didn’t care if the driver would hear us, I was moaning so loud, and he was letting out soft g****s. Sometimes I wonder how it is for him to be in his wolf form. Ben had once tried to have s*x with me in his wolf form since I was wolfless, but I couldn’t just bear it. It was more like having s*x with a dog. I couldn’t bear it at all.

But unlike with Ben, I was curious to see Alpha Alex in his wolf form. There is this certain fire in his eyes that burns anytime we have s*x, and he lets out the small howling sound.

I am curious as to how he sucks in his wolf form. But I heard that ever since he was injured and left crippled, he had been unable to change to his wolf form, and that was why a lot of women considered him weak.

They said it leaves the night howlers’ territory vulnerable to attack because other people in the realm are aware of how defenseless the Alpha is.

I don’t want to see things the way they do because he had been ruling the night howlers and commanding the soldiers effectively even in this state.

I reached the female penitentiary and headed straight to the private waiting room. I was becoming conversant with the prison area and what it is to stay here. As I waited for Sonia, I kept thinking of how things had changed for us in the space of a few months. Whoever knew that this situation would make us closer, it was truly hard to look past her betrayal especially considering all that she had done to me in the past, and how she and my father had maltreated me, my mind wandered off a bit to one of those horrible moments.

***FLASHBACK***

My tears hit the floor for the second time. It wasn’t tears of pain but of pleading.

I was pleading with my father to call off this absurd match. He had just arrived from some consultancy, and the wolf expert had told him that they needed to bring out the wolf in me through brutal combat. He claimed I had a wolf, but it was recessive and asleep. My mum is a wolf. She was one of the strongest female warrior wolves around. She was fierce and would go into combat. She and my dad met on the battlefield and fell in love. When they had my sister, they were so happy, especially when it shined golden on the second day, indicating the wolf in her.

But when they had me, he waited throughout the second day alone for my wolf to emerge. At this point, he was in pain, not because I wasn’t showing any sign of having a wolf but because my mum had died during childbirth. It was devastating for him to lose the love of his life in such a way, and then as the day went by, I was still not showing any sign of having a wolf in me. He became concerned and began to take little me to all kinds of wolf healers and spiritualists. After most of them supposedly tried their best and to no avail, they would all say the same thing that I had no wolf.

Being one of the strongest warriors and a family built on war, it was unacceptable to my father. He would become an object of mockery, so he said.

“Never,” he screamed one night. ” no child of mine would be deficient,”

I detested that word, and it was the word that people had used the most frequently to refer to me. They had called me deficient more times than I could count in my life.

They had told him that this was the last resort, that if the wolf in me didn’t emerge this way, then it never would.

I stood before my sister on the battlefield of b***d, I was just fifteen years old, and I knew I couldn’t stand the physical strength of my sister, talk more of her wolf form.

“Don’t worry, I would go easy on you, ” she said with an evil smirk on her face, and I knew she was going to tear me limb by limb. She had always joked about this day. She said she would do it with no remorse. I knew she would not. A small crowd had gathered to watch the show. I felt like a bull, just that I wasn’t powerful. She arched her back as she quickly shifted to her wolf form. Shifting to her wolf form had been made so easy for her. She had mastered the art of it because she was trained by the best soldier there was.

Sometimes I do wonder if my mum had been alive, she would stand them doing this to her daughter but then again, they had also blamed me for her death, and I found it unfair. I wasn’t the moon goddess. I didn’t have the power of death and life in me.

“Please daddy, ” I cried out to him. I was pleading and begging for mercy.

“I am doing this for your own good,” he responded with no remorse in his eyes.

“Am I not your daughter, why would you watch me die?” I asked, puzzled about the kind of cruelty in his eyes.

” You are better off dead than without a wolf,” he finally said as he dropped down his hands and Sonia charged toward me. I had tried to outrun her, but she turbocharged and caught up with me. In a split of seconds, I had four broken bones, torn muscles, dislocation, and multiple separations. I had never felt such physical pain before caused by my own sister. It took months for me to heal after that.

But even with that experience, I was lucky because after regaining consciousness, the healer who had treated me had told me that I barely made it out with my life.

After that day, my father wouldn’t speak to me again because I had frustrated his last efforts of ever letting out my “wolf.”

*** PRESENT DAY***

When she walked into the room, she paused, and I saw a sense of disappointment on her face.

“Who were you expecting it to be,” I immediately teased with a smile on my face as I stood up to hug her though we were hindered from a full hug due to her already protruded baby bump.

“I thought it was Alex who had come back,” she replied, and I paused mid-hug.

I was aware Alex had planned to come and see my sister. Suddenly I became nervous. What if he had told her about the marriage, just like he had done with Ben? But that was part of my agreement with him that he wasn’t going to say to her.

Then again, if he had, she wouldn’t be hugging me. She would have welcomed me with a slap on my face.

“Really?” I was still puzzled by his purpose of visit but didn’t want to come off as desperate to know the reason why.

“Yes, though we didn’t talk much, I think he was overwhelmed by all this. This is the first time ever since I hurt him we had seen.” She said as we headed back to the table and sat opposite each other.

“You guys have not seen each other since all this started?” I asked, even though I was perfectly aware of the answer.

“Yes, but I am glad I saw him today,” she said with a smile on her face.

“Why?” I asked briefly again, trying to be careful with my words in order not to come off as too inquisitive.

“Because it made me realize how wrong I was by leaving him or cheating on him.” She paused and reached out for my hand, “he had been the most affected by all this,”

Was she f*****g kidding me? Was she trying to invalidate my struggles, my sister f****d my husband, and I am not the least affected?

“Don’t get me wrong, I know it had been a lot on you, and it had not been easy, but he was left crippled by all this,”

“He was left crippled by a battle,” I corrected her almost defensively, and she paused for a second.

“When Ben found out I was pregnant, he allied with the sizzlers to kill Alpha Alex so that we can be together,”

My eyes widened at this new sense of revelation, so the battle with the sizzlers was an attempt by them to get away with cheating. That act alone is treason, and it is punishable by death.

“You are the only one I am telling this to, but I think Alpha Alex wants to forgive me. Thank God you didn’t accept his proposal. At least now I have a little hope,” she said, sounding optimistic, and I couldn’t help but feel down.

What would happen if she would ever find out that I got married to Alex?

Sonia would kill me.