The Alpha's Exchanged Mate
The Alpha’s Exchanged Mate – Chapter 51

Edwina’s POV…

I was anxious to know it all, to know what is Ben’s plan. All this while, he has been one step ahead of us. We always thought he was the victim, as after he lost his role as the Beta, he was publicly stripped of all his title, but he was always one step ahead.

“He had a plan for every possible scenario, including the one if he ever got caught and thrown into prison,” Sonia said, interrupting my thoughts, and I glanced at her.

“So that means you knew he would escape. Why didn’t you ever tell me?” I asked. The question didn’t sound as substantial as I thought it would come in my head because, obviously, there was a lot of reason she should not have told me.

Ben was an ex-lover of hers and also my husband. That situation is already as complicated as it seems.

“Yes, I knew, but all his ideas were crazy, and I didn’t know he would carry them out and this soon. I thought it was something he would want to do in the distant future after being conversant with the prison and its lifestyle,” she explained and truly, I could understand her. When Ben had told me he would escape, I didn’t think it would be that close, and when I told Alex, he then figured it out that most likely he would be trying to escape that day. I doubted it because what were the odds that he knew about a trip that we had just planned in the sprout of the moment? That’s to say, he had already been ready and was just waiting for the right moment to execute his plan, and that happened when we left.

But something tells me Alpha Bethel showing up in the coronation ceremony of Caleb had something to do with his plans.

“Sis, Edwina,” Sonia called out, startling me back to reality.

“Sorry about that, ” I apologized. I am not sure why I am apologizing.

“Not a problem. You seem awfully distracted today. Is it because of Ben’s escape?” She asked, and I nodded.

“Yes,” I replied briefly. But if I am to be honest, I had a whole lot on my mind, from the escape to his next plan. I wasn’t sure if I wanted to tell Sonia about the settlement deal. She would question why Ben would want me and why the sizzlers would want me and why the Alpha won’t give me, and why they would find the need to ask the Alpha about it. And then I wouldn’t be able to answer all those questions and maybe, lie to her. I didn’t want to add more webs to my lies.

The lie I was keeping from her was already huge enough.

“I don’t think you should worry much about Ben. He didn’t have you in his plans,” Sonia said. If not for the sincerity in her eyes, I would have taken the statement as one that would maybe look like she was demeaning me, but she was being sincere; Ben didn’t have me in his plans before now. So what changed? Was it the fact that I was now with the Alpha? Do I appeal to him more now because I was now Luna?

“I know that he had never really loved me,” I said sympathetically because there was a point in my life where I was practically begging for his love. I was only that wife he came home to, ate her food, f****d hard, and then went out, leaving her. The cycle continued.

There was no form of intimacy between us; there was no connection. The only form of connection we had was when his hard length was inside me, but as soon as he came and everything rushed out, we had nothing left again.

“Well, I can’t really attest falsely, but truly someone like Ben didn’t deserve you. You were too good for him, ” she said, stretching out her hand to mine and clenching them together, rubbing them in between each other.

I smiled back at her. If only she knew that I f****d her husband, she wouldn’t say what she just said. I glared at her, wondering what her reaction would be to all this if she ever gets to find out one day. I wonder if she would ever tend to forgive me and see it in the light of the truth, which is: that I did all I did for her.

“So what is Ben’s plan after escaping? What does he plan to do?” I asked her.

She sighed and breathed out.

“So I know that the deal was that he will give Alpha Bethel the realm to rule if he would help him escape,”

That sounded like the most ridiculous deal ever. I know Ben. He was too self-centred and selfish to agree to such a deal that wouldn’t benefit him in any way.

“Are you sure that’s the plan? Because I know Ben, he is too selfish to actually compromise in such a way,” I muttered to her, and a smile appeared on her face.

“You know the man you married too well.”

I faked a half smile at her teasing me. If only she knew I wasn’t married to him anymore.

She chuckled and continued talking, “He plans that when he gets to escape, he will use the connections of the sizzlers to conquer the night howlers’ territory and then betray Alpha Bethel after gaining much ground so he can rule both territories.

“Wow!” I exclaimed with shock because even for Ben, that was too ambitious. He had always talked about how he was destined for greatness and how he was meant to do a lot. But truly, I saw him dying all in the name of greed.

“He is being foolish right?” Sonia asked, then she pulled away her hands from mine and commenced her stomach caress.

“I think it will lead him to his early grave,” I spoke out sincerely.

“I hope it does,”

I cast a glare at her.

“What? It’s true. The world would be a better place without him around.”

“You don’t get to say that about the man you are carrying a child for.” As soon as the word left my mouth and a frown formed on her face, I knew I had just pissed her off.

“Oh, sorry, my child has such a sorry excuse of a father,” she mumbled, and I sighed. That wasn’t what I meant because, with all this, I have really felt this child should be so innocent and was just a product of the wrong kind of passion.

“Oh, come on, Sonia, you know that’s not what I meant,” I replied to her, trying to make her see things from my own perspective.

“I know that you are still hurt about what we did to you, and you don’t want to talk about it,” she replied.

True, I was hurt about it. True, I do not want to talk about it. But right now, who am I really to judge her? I knew well enough that this was almost the same thing I could be accused of doing. I was lying to her face in regards to her husband, who she doesn’t even know was no longer her husband, because when they dissolved all the marriage right, she wasn’t present, just the same way I wasn’t present when it was mine and Ben.

And now I was also lying to her about it, keeping her in the dark in fear of what her reaction would be when she figured it out.

“I don’t want to talk about it, Sonia. We have moved past it already,” I muttered. I lied because I knew that was far from the truth.

“Maybe you have, but honestly, I haven’t. How do you move past something of such grievance? How do you move past something of such weight and gravity?” she said to me, and this time, I was struggling to speak as my fist tightened together,

“Sonia, I said I had moved past it,” I yelled at her, “so please stop bringing it back up and let’s focus on how to get Ben and stop him before he disturbs the whole realm with his greed,” I shouted, and then I paused and breathed out knowing I had just reacted and not responded. I had given her what she wanted; a reaction.

“I am sorry,” I muttered.

“Please don’t be, Edwina, what we did to you was terrible and you have every right to react and be angry. You do. And I can’t take back what I did, I am sorry. I hope I get a chance to rectify all my wrong, help stop Ben and I hope to get back my husband because I finally realize that I love him and I had let a good one go away,”

As soon as she said the word, I stood up hurriedly.

“Later Sonia,” I left without allowing her to say a word.

I couldn’t let her say anything more. The guilt of being with Alpha Alex and her still having this hope for the future about him was killing me.

I do hope she doesn’t kill me when she finds out first.