The Alpha's Exchanged Mate
The Alpha’s Exchanged Mate – Chapter 69

Author’s POV…

“No, she is not lying. How could I have been this stupid?” Edwina cried out, and Becca approached her.

“Ma’am, maybe you should leave because I don’t think you can handle any more of this trial,” Becca begged her.

“I think Becca is right, this would be detrimental to your mental health,”

“I used to see him leave her room on different nights, and I would think that maybe he went to check up on her because she was his beloved daughter. I didn’t know there was more, she had more scars than usual, and I would think they were training scars because she spent all her time training to be the best. How come I never saw things for what they truly were?” Edwina mumbled in tears as the realization hit her. She had always thought of herself to be the victim, but in actual fact, she was the fortunate one, and the real victim was Sonia. No wonder she turned out to be this way when she had to withstand abuse from her father; that was the height of it. Edwina endured verbal abuse while she withstood physical and s****l abuse.

“I don’t think you should stay here till the end. It would only do you more harm than good,” Caleb said to her.

“No, I want to hear it all, it would only do me badly if I am kept in the dark after realizing all this. So I would prefer to see this to the end,” she said,

“Are you sure?” Alpha Alex asked her.

Edwina wasn’t sure about her answer, but she knew there was no going back at this point, and she would see it through to the end, no matter how painful.

“Yes I am sure,” she replied, ” I will see this through to the end,”

Caleb ordered that everyone be let in and Sonia brought in again. Edwina sat down back at her throne and covered her face with the veil once more.

They brought out Sonia, and for the first time, she was truly seen for who she was and not what she was.

“I must refrain you from speaking about the abuse because this could be triggering to others and so we need to warn you from speaking about it, “

She nodded her head ” I am sorry for whoever had this caused a great deal of turmoil but this is my truth. Mr Sinclair wasn’t a terrible dad. He had his struggles, I just wish my sister could be here because I don’t want to have to repeat this to her again, and I never planned that she would hear such details from others,” she said, and there was a whisper in the hall.

At this point, surely a great number of them knew that Sonia wasn’t aware that the woman behind the veil who sat on the throne as Luna is her sister, and Sonia wasn’t aware of all that.”

“Let us proceed. A lot of time has already been spent narrating this part, but none of how the affair with Ben started,”

She cleared her throat.

“When I met Ben, I was attracted to him and his wolf. He was damaged just like I was, and as the saying goes, damage attracts damage. He was the first person that truly saw me for who I was. He told me that my scars came from the fact that I was abused and I loved that he saw me for who I am, damaged and not the perfect Luna, and then I was real with him and scripted when I was around Alpha Alex.” She paused and swallowed a lump of saliva that was in her throat.

“It grew to the point that I was already in a relationship with him, but I had begun to fall for my husband and his kindness. So one day he came to me that he had figured out a way for us to see and be seen as usual.

He told me that he had decided to marry my sister so we could see. People would see us as in-laws and not flag any card,” she paused and glared at Alpha Alex, hoping she could get any reaction from him, but again he had taken the indifferent composure, and there was nothing you could tell from his face, one couldn’t even tell if indeed he is angry about all these.

She glared at the crowd as most of them listened to her with keen attention. She knew she had managed to gain some people’s sympathy.

“I was not all in on the idea because, yet again, she was the favoured one, but I couldn’t stop Ben. When he told me about his plan to kill the Alpha, I was already pregnant for him, and I wasn’t a part taker, but I didn’t disclose any of the information because I know that I would be locked up for it and then our affair would be discovered.

I am not his accomplice either in his escape because when I knew about it, I disclosed all the information to my sister, who I had listed as a witness, even disclosing his plans on how to escape with me. I wouldn’t do all this if I wasn’t loyal to the crown, and I later grew to love my husband, but when I realized it, it was already too late. I plead for mercy.”

She concluded, and there was silence.

“Before we go into the part you get to answer the questions, we call upon your witness to testify to what you have just said, else we will skip to the other aspect,” Caleb announced.

Everyone turned to face the throne as they all knew she was the one.

“For the second time we call upon your witness,” he called out again.

“For the third and final time, we___.”

Edwina stood up, and everyone exclaimed because they didn’t expect her to do so, she removed her veil, and Sonia’s eyes widened.

WHAT THE F**K!!!! She exclaimed.