I'm Also A Victim
Pearl jerked her head in surprise while looking among them. “What? Shouldn’t I return to my parents too?” she asked them in a surprised tone. Emily blinked harder in bewilderment. She never thought that Pearl would think about returning to her biological parents. In fact, she didn’t want her to leave so that she could flaunt her new status in front of Pearl everyday and torment her. After all, she managed to steal everything from her.
“Just like you guys… they are also victim of that incident if they didn’t abandon me on purpose. You have me all these years, but what about them? Emily was in an orphanage. It meant that they didn’t get their newborn baby at that time. We…… we can’t even manage how heartbroken they were at that time if this is true. You have me, but …. But what about them,” Pearl continued with a faint sad smile on her lips, mixed with heartbreak.
This heartbreak for her parents was genuine, but she wasn’t sure if they intentionally abandoned her or they had any problem in front of them at that time. Still, she wanted to find them, and asked them why they gave birth to her when they didn’t want her.
Everyone presented in the hall sympathizes with Pearl and her biological parents now. Emily clenched her fists tightly while staring at Pearl blankly. She took Pearl’s determination to find her parents as a tantrum and tried to move the situation in her favour once again.
“May be the… they were the one who left me to the orphanage after the… they found th… that they had a baby girl… or… th.. that I am not their child?” Emma speculated while stuttering hard in panic, and Pearl rolled her eyes.
“I have seen my birth certificate and enquired about that hospital last night. That was a high-profile hospital there, Emily. Do you think that they will let anybody give birth to their child there? They must have records, and even if parents wanted to abandon me after my birth…. I want them to tell this on my face,” Pearl immediately retorted in a firm tone, showing her resolution.
Luna Vanessa grew some hatred towards Pearl in the past two days because of this mixing, but she felt the pain hidden in Pearl’s words. She wanted to blame someone for making Emily’s life miserable all these years, and that was why she blamed Pearl, but what Pearl said was truly heartbreaking. Listening to your parents say that they don’t want you is the most painful thing for a child.
Pearl took a deep breath and rubbed the space between her brows. “I don’t want to dwell on the past, Alpha Kyle. But, I request you please investigate this matter thoroughly, so that I can also go back to my home. It doesn’t matter if they are rich or not…. Just like Emily, I also want their love and affection for me, or the answer, why did they abandon Emily if they got her as their child,” Pearl requested them in a calm tone, and before they could say a word again, she moved behind gracefully and walked out of the hall.
Her fists were still clenched hard, as she had now completely exhausted her endurance. All she wanted right now was to go away from this place and mend her wounded heart. She was now alone in the whole world and didn’t know where to go now. She had to figure out something before sunrise, as she had to leave the pack by then.
“Wait!” Emily exclaimed in a panicked tone when she came back to her senses. She couldn’t let Pearl go because the surprise that she had prepared for Pearl was yet to come.
“Now what?” Pearl yelled impatiently this time while moving her head towards them. Anyone could she impatience written all over her face. Ryder and Alpha Kyle were also confused why Emily wanted to stop Pearl from leaving. It was for the best so that they could celebrate their daughter’s mating ceremony.
Emily’s eyes widened in shock by Pearl’s outburst. “Pearl…. Don’t forget that she is the princess now.” Alpha Kyle immediately defended Emily, even though he also didn’t want Pearl to stay any longer, but her hostility towards Emily was completely evident to them.
“Are you serious, Alpha Kyle?” Pearl asked him in with a shocked expression on her face. Alpha Kyle stiffened when he realized how absurd his behaviour was right now. “I just want to go back to my room, and rest. Did I want something unreasonable?” Pearl asked him in the same tone.
“You… you should listen to Emily first.” He defended himself, but frowned internally. This was a father’s instinct to defend his daughter, but he couldn’t be so irrational to understand Pearl’s mindset. He could see that she wanted to go away peacefully as she promised to them.
“I… I want to apologize to you fo… for what Jonah did to you.” Emily stammered again while gripping the hem of her gown tightly. Jonah’s hold on her waist tightened immediately. “What’s there to apologize, huh? He didn’t want to be my mate, and that’s why he rejected me, and I accepted it. It ends here, and this is between me and him. Why did you need to apologize?” Pearl asked him, faking confusion, and everyone once again looked at Emily and Jonah.
She knew the reason why Jonah requested her to be his chosen mate. It was not because he loved her. He was ambitious and she took advantage of his greed to be associated with royals to make him her chosen mate. Pearl didn’t know their future, but she wanted those cunning people to stay together forever and torment each other.
Emily was about to say something to make Pearl stop from leaving when a warrior suddenly burst in panic. Everyone moved towards him. He stopped running and stood up in front of Alpha Kyle in panic.
“What is it?” Alpha Kyle asked him with a frown. “My… My king…. Th… the Lychan King. He… he is coming here.” The guard informed Alpha Kyle while stuttering hard in fear. The whole hall went silent for a few seconds, and Pearl also frowned in confusion.
Suddenly everyone started screaming in panic. Jonah held Emily tightly and started looking for a passage so that he could get out of the place as soon as possible, but Emily didn’t let him take a step even. “Everyone.” Alpha Kyle yelled in a commanding tone, and the whole hall fell silent once again.
“Wh… what is he doing here? We have already talked about the marriage alliance with them.” He asked Luna Vanessa in panic and looked at his son, Ryder, who also had a panicked look on his face now. “He… he annulled the marriage agreement between our families. Then, why was he here?” Luna Venessa asked him in a panicked tone.
“Pearl…. Di… did you call him to tell th… that y.. you are no longer the princess?” Emily suddenly asked Pearl in a panicked tone, but one could feel the accusation hidden in her statement. Pearl jerked her head backward in confusion and shock.
“What? What are you talking about?” she asked her in confusion, but deep down in her heart, she had this hunch that Emily was associated with this situation with Lycan king here. Her heart was now beating furiously but she masked her anxiousness immediately.
“King Killian annulled the marriage arrangement because you have found your mate. “But now Jonah has rejected you, and you are also stripped from the position of the princess, you called him to seek revenge on Jonah and Emily?” Ryder asked Pearl in an angry tone when he got what Emily implemented.
“Do you think so low of me, Ryder?” she asked him in disbelief. She felt that he stabbed her thousands times by showing this distrust in her. She knew that they weren’t real siblings but she called him brother for more than 18 years. How could he blame her so blindly. Ryder opened his mouth to say something but shut it immediately.
“You…. You almost raised me, Ryder….. This was you who taught me how to crawl, and now you thin… think that I would something like this?” Pearl asked him while pointing a finger towards herself. Her pain was now clearly evident in her voice as tears once again filled her eyes.
“Who else has any issue with me and Emily if not you, Pearl?” Jonah asked her in an angry tone this time. Emily was now crying silently into his embrace, but in her heart, she was gloating over the situation.
She wanted them to hate Pearl, and she felt that she was about to succeed in her mission. Pearl slowly craned his neck towards Jonah while looking at him in disbelief. “Yo… you are an opportunist, Jonah…. Remember what you said to me before rejection?” she retorted while accusing Jonah.
Emily’s smugness in her heart immediately vanished. She glared at Pearl through teary eyes. Pearl took a step forward towards Jonah while looking straight into his eyes angrily. “You said that you are destined to be the mate of a royal, and this is the only reason that you reject me because I wasn’t a princess anymore.” She repeated his statement word by word.
Jonah immediately stiffened and kept on glaring hard at Pearl. If the looks could kill, Pearl would be ten feet under the ground the way he was throwing a murderous gaze on her.