“Corrado, I have told you to be careful countless times,” Leo’s cold voice makes me look up, my heart thumping when our eyes meet. He looks away first, coming down the rest of the steps.
“Don’t worry, Daddy, she saved me,” the young boy says, pointing at me as he rushes over to Leo.
Daddy.
I stare in shock as Leo lifts the boy into his arms. Our eyes meet, and despite the fact that we are nothing to one another, I can’t deny that the one word burns in my mind. My heart thunders as I try to make sense of it. I look away, ready to escape into the apartment, when Nikki steps out into the hall again.
“Oh, hey, babe. I was showing Azura the apartment,” she says, walking over to Leo. Reaching up, she kisses his cheek before turning and smiling at me.
Leo doesn’t speak, and neither do I, but the crushing pain in my chest makes me simply stare blankly at them. He has a family, and he had slept with me…
I hate people who cheat, and somehow, I have become the other woman in this sick situation. Things just can’t get fucking worse; he has rejected me and had a family before me.
So, why does it hurt so much?
Struggles
Azura
He has a family…
I stare at the marble tiles of the shower walls, letting the water pour down my body.
Nikki is his woman, and the boy…
I close my eyes, resting my forehead against the cool wall.
He has a son…
Why don’t I know this? Sure, I never cared about the latest news, but it was never something that was mentioned. Sky or Kat would have mentioned it… but then again, Leo has moved away from his family entirely.
Nikki seems damn nice, and I have gone and slept with her man.
He was your mate, Azura.
Would he have broken up with her if I wasn’t a Westwood? I don’t know… why did he mark me then?
Does he love her? Probably…
What he felt for me was just because of the bond…
I am the other woman.
My heart squeezes, remembering the story of my biological mother. Her mate cheated on her. In fact, I even have a brother, thanks to his infidelity, a brother who has been desperately trying to get to know me, but it’s been me who just hasn’t wantedto. I’m not ready. I feel bitter… he is the reason Indigo ended up giving up the will to live. I know the story from Mama and Dad. From the first time when they told me that I wasn’t their biological child, like Kia and Liam…
OVER NINE YEARS AGO
I stared at Mama and Dad, feeling worried. They were on either side of me in my bed, but they wanted to talk to me about something. Did they find out I cut the squares in Liam’s underwear because he refused to allow me to taste whiskey? But… I made sure I had an alibi… hmm. Something wasn’t right.
No, wait, oh my god, they must have realised I emptied the pot of worms on that dumb boy’s head! But he was calling me names! No, wait… what if they realised I’m the one who made Jayce and Theo flood the bathrooms? Or wait, what if it –
“Hey, stop overthinking it, Wildfire,” Dad said, tapping my nose.
“I just want to say, whatever it is, I didn’t do it. I’ve done nothing at all.”
“We haven’t said anything yet,” Mama added, looking amused.
“I know, but it might be a trick, so whatever you think I’ve done, I haven’t done what you think I’ve done.”
“You usually have done what we think you have done, but it’s nothing of the sort. There’s something we want to tell you,” Mama replied, wrapping her arms around me tightly as she smiled. I snuggled into her, letting out a breath of relief, wondering what it was. “You know Mama Indy, right?”
“Yes, Mama. You always go on about her because I look like her, right? Are you missing her tonight?” I asked softly, looking up at her. Her eyes filled with sadness, and she kissed myforehead.
“We always are,” she responded softly, looking at Dad, who put his arms around us.
“Yeah…” Dad agreed.
Dad always got sad when he looked at her picture, too. I knew Mama and Dad’s parents were married, although Mama and Dad had never really mentioned it directly. I had heard things. They turned out to be mates, too, so everyone had to accept that their love was meant to be, even if it was very shocking to imagine it… naughty Dad and Mama having a secret love affair.
“What we are going to tell you, Angel, is only because you deserve to know the truth. It doesn’t change anything,” Dad said, kissing my head.
I frowned but nodded. This is weird…
“When the battle that took Indigo’s life occurred, she was pregnant, but she wanted to help us against the evil. It cost her her life.”
I frowned. “Wow, but what about her baby then? Didn’t she care about it?” Mama tensed, and then I saw her and Dad exchange looks. Dad gave her hand a squeeze.
“She did, but she had been through a lot in life, and she wanted to do something to protect everyone because, without us winning, things would have been terrible for us. When she was killed… Marcel and your mother took her to Grandma Amelia. You know her, right?”
“Yes, I do. Grandma Amy, how can I not? You all make sure I remember her all the time,” I said with a roll of my eyes. “I think I would have loved her. So then, what happened?”
“Well, Grandma Amy had some magic that we never knew she possessed, and, using it, she placed the baby that was still fighting for life into me instead,” Mama explained. I furrowed my brows, staring at Mama’s tummy.
“Then the baby lived?”
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