The Alpha's Exchanged Mate
The Alpha’s Exchanged Mate – Chapter 68

Author’s POV…

At this point, Sonia had done a single act that was going to help her case and to prove herself not to be a traitor to the crown. When she saw the guard, he introduced himself to her. She saw an avenue to prove which side she was on. He wasn’t an escape plan for her. She was lonely and hopeless, and she saw in the man’s eyes a route to vindicate herself. If she was loyal to Benedict, she wouldn’t have done that.

Sonia glared at Alpha Alex, hoping to see some kind of pleasing smile, but he still looked as indifferent as he did when the case started. She knew it would take more than just whistleblowing to get him to know she was on his side and on the side of the throne, and whoever is the Luna sitting beside him must be feeding him with lies about her.

“She must be a new bride,” she thought to herself.

“So may we continue,” Caleb announced. At this point, he prides himself on knowing all the faces of the omega wolves and their names. When he had made it a mandate for him to know, he had done it so that everyone felt noticed and known and also, to identify spies.

“So we asked you, can you run us through the version of events that lead us up to the moment you were caught in an affair with Benedict and please note this is a court of law, and such no explicit detail is required,” he added. Sonia let out an exasperated gasp. She wasn’t even intending on saying anything relatively vague. At this point, she was confused about where she should start. She was about to tell a bunch of strangers about herself and Benedict, a story which she isn’t proud of to date.

How does she look Alpha Alex in the face and tell him she didn’t love him at first?

At first, she thought to herself. Maybe for them to understand her and her actions a little. Maybe, just maybe, they needed to understand her story at first.

“Everyone thought my father loved me and I was his favourite daughter. Everyone thought I was the preferred one and the one that gets to have it all. My sister was the one neglected because she had no wolf. But at a point in my life, I began to wish and cry for myself to have no wolf.” She paused and breathed out. She wished her sister was here to hear all these.

“They were all right. I was the loved and favoured one, but it wasn’t in the way you all thought. It all started when I came off my adult age, and my father had been alone for years without a mate, and then he always told me, I look so much like my mum. I thought that was meant in a good way. No protege daughter wouldn’t want to look like her dead mum, but that wasn’t it. I was barely eighteen when my father sneaked into my room in his wolf form, telling me that his wolf wanted me as his mate because I looked so much like mum. I was just eighteen when he first touched me and raped me,”

There was a loud shout from the hall. Everyone was surprised, but that didn’t stop Sonia from continuing.

“I am not saying this for you all to sympathize with me, but I needed to let out the truth. My father hated my sister because she had no wolf, so he couldn’t touch her, and I hated her because I felt like I was at the receiving end. He didn’t like me in his human form, but whenever his wolf took over his body, I would be at the receiving end, and his human form dreaded himself and the act, my dad was struggling, and I could see it, and that was why when the opportunity came for him to marry me out to someone, he replaced me for my sister in order to get rid of me, knowing he wasn’t attracted to my sister,”

She paused, and at this time, tears were all over her eyes. She had tried so hard to keep this huge and mighty secret away. This was the dark secret of her past; this was the part of her nobody knew. This was what made her who she was.

“Marrying Alpha Alex was an escape for me, I had no feelings whatsoever for him and this is my truth, I was a damaged girl with a lot of trauma, and I still am,”

“Can you stop?” Alpha Alex muttered. This was the first time he was speaking to her directly, and she knew she had touched a part of him.

“You asked for my truth, and this is me telling the truth right now, this is all I am and that part of me you never saw, this is the story behind all the scars you asked me about that laid out in my body,” she muttered, and he rose his voice.

“Why are you telling me all this now? Why today? Do you think I will spare you?” He yelled at her.

“Let’s take a ten minutes break. Guards, take her back to the waiting chamber, and everyone should go out and come back in ten minutes,” Caleb quickly announced before things got out of hand. The guards took her out as everyone exited the hall. When everyone was out, Edwina opened her veil and burst out in tears,

“Don’t cry, Edwina, please,” Alex begged, rocking her into his arms as she wailed bitterly. This was why he stopped Sonia. He was agitated, and he knew Edwina was already crying and trying so hard not to burst out openly in tears.

“Don’t believe it. She is just trying to get to us with her sad story. This is all part of her plans,” Caleb said to her.