The strange woman didn’t take my angrily spoken words to heart. “Really? Don’t you wanna know who your father’s other daughter is? She is significantly stronger than you. She is also brave and kind- hearted, and has inherited your father’s powerful bloodline. Your father adores her. As for you, you are nothing but a burden. You are a piece of garbage in your father’s eyes. You don’t deserve to inherit the Alpha’s position. He obviously has to send you away.”
My lips curled up in disdain. “You can continue cooking up stories. My father only has one child-me. If he truly had another daughter, he would have brought her to the pack.”
“You are so naive, Alina.” The woman scoffed at me, withdrew her hand from my neck, and flashed in front of me. She extracted a crystal ball from her black cloak and handed it to me. “Don’t you want to see it with your own eyes? Don’t you want to know who this woman is?” I eyed the crystal ball with disdain. This woman was excellent at creating lies.
I wanted to see what tricks she would play.
I accepted the crystal ball and fidgeted with it, feeling a little impatient. “How do I use this? It’s too complicated.”
“Hold it tightly in your hands.”
I followed her instructions. She cast a spell on the crystal ball, and her long cold fingers brushed over it.
Then, a blurry image appeared.
It slowly became clear, until I could finally make out a girl’s back.
This girl was dressed in a long blue dress. A diamond bracelet adorned her slender wrist. She had a shapely waist and her long hair fell in loose waves around her shoulders.
I frowned. I was well-acquainted with this figure. It looked like…
My heart was beating like a jungle drum, and an unwelcome answer was about to pop into my mind.
At this moment, another familiar voice called out, making the girl turn around. She slowly revealed her face, a sweet smile lighting up her face.
My mind went blank, and the crystal ball slipped from my hands. It was Sylvia…
Alina’s POV
When Sylvia turned around, the voice that called her came from the crystal ball. Soon, the person’s features eventually appeared. It was my father, Leonard.
I was disoriented, and it was obvious by how blankly I was peering in at the crystal ball on the ground. I never pictured that my father could be so gentle and kind. It was as if the person I was looking at was another entity. Was he indeed my father?
What flashed in the crystal ball was the scene when my father was giving Sylvia a special training in the capital city. The more I stared at the scene, the more I couldn’t help but notice something different.
Oh, I got it now. My father had never trained me with so much patience, let alone got along with me like a friend. What I didn’t experience when I was with him was what I was seeing he was letting Sylvia encounter.
I couldn’t really peg the two of us as father and daughter-we were more like superior and subordinate. We seldom interacted with each other, but when we did, we would usually get straight to the point. Small talks were out of the question. He had always drawn a line between us; if there was nothing necessary to talk about, he wouldn’t even bother speaking to me.
I had a hard time understanding our setup before. I eventually decided to shrug it off thinking it was just the way my father was. He was only keeping a stiff edge around me for my own good. But never had it crossed my mind that he could be a kind and gentle father. Was it because I was conditioned to think that way?
The crystal ball was now giving me the answers to my questions: he poured all his love to another girl, sparing none to his own daughter.
My eyes stung, and the next moment, tears streamed down my face as I felt my heart being wrung.
The scene switched to the wilderness. A majestic white wolf was galloping in the forest. Without a doubt, I knew it was my father’s wolf. Sprinting behind him was a she -wolf of the same color. It was Sylvia’s wolf.
I had seen her wolf in the school exam before. I didn’t think too much at that time, but after witnessing how close Sylvia and my father were, everything became clear to me. Once again, I felt my heart being wrenched. One glance could fool anyone into thinking they had the same hair. Another glimpse would make one notice that a few wisps of their red hair matched each other.
The giant wolf wandered through the dense forest with the smaller wolf’s neck in its mouth. Anyone could make a rough guess what their relationship was, seeing how the two wolves were having the time of their lives in the forest.
“Your father has never treated you like this.” The woman in black sneered, rubbing salt in my wounds.
I looked at the crystal ball on the ground with glaring eyes, and resentment rushed through my veins like lava. “What else do you know?”
The woman in black snickered. “The reason why your father is in a hurry to wed you to an ordinary man from another pack is because he wants to take Sylvia back and let her take over this pack. You know that your father has always been in poor health, so he is eager to find a successor.”
“That’s impossible!” I stepped on the crystal ball and cried hysterically. “You’re lying to me! That’s not true!”
How could my own father abandon me? I was his biological daughter. We had been a family for so many years. Did he seriously abandon me because of that bitch? Did he choose someone else over his own flesh and blood? But father must have had his reasons. That bitch must have used underhanded tricks. She took away Rufus once, and now she wanted to take my father away! I hated her so much that I wanted to suckher blood, skin her alive and eat her flesh as she screamed for mercy. What more did I have that she wanted all to herself?
“Sylvia is also his biological daughter.” The woman in black seemed to have read the thoughts rolling in my wits and mercilessly broke to me the notion that I was trying hard to bury at the back of my mind.
“Nonsense! That bitch doesn’t deserve to compete with me.” I was more than infuriated that my brain was buzzing and unable to think straight.
“Don’t be so arrogant, Alina. It doesn’t magically fix the fact that you’re still a loser. No matter how excellent you think you are, you will never be able to compete with Sylvia. You must’ve forgotten that Rufus didn’t like you. Now in your father’s heart, I won’t be surprised to know that even Sylvia’s hair is more important than you.”
The woman’s words were like a knife stabbing into my chest senselessly. Just how much more did I need to endure?
The combination of powerlessness and anger tore me apart. I didn’t want to believe anything she was spouting, and I didn’t dare to look at the crystal ball again. She was just playing tricks with my mind to intentionally hurt me.
I picked up the crystal ball on the ground and smashed it against the wall. With a bang, the crystal ball exploded, and the shards flew everywhere, shimmering in the light.
The woman didn’t expect me to do something like that, and my little stunt stunned her. Before she could react, I grabbed her hood and pulled it off. Just who did she think she was, spewing nonsense with that running mouth of hers?
But as I got a closer look of her face, it was my turn to be dumbfounded. “Damn it! How could it be you?”
Alina’s POV
The woman was Camil, the maid I drove away before. Her timidity disappeared without a trace, and she now looked at me as a smile slowly came to her lips. “Miss Quinn.”
As if sensing that I was about to lose my temper, she turned around and in that split second, she morphed her face into a somewhat rough man. Another fleeting second passed and she mimicked the face of my deceased mother and said in the same serious voice, “Alina, are you going to admit defeat? Are you going to allow yourself to be trampled by a lowly she-wolf? Are you really going to take it lying down?”
Along with the shock of how fast she could alter her facial features was the terror that hit me as I saw my late mother’s face. I fell to the ground. “Who the hell are you?”
The woman strode over, still wearing the exact same face as my mother’s. She squatted beside me and said gently, “You just need to know that everything I said is true.”
I looked at the woman’s face in a daze and was able to fool myself into thinking that my mother had really come back to me.
“Tell me, why did you come to me today?” Facing the counterfeit of my mother’s face, I tried to calm myself down. I had naturally revered my mother since I was a child, and I held onto it until now, even if the person in front of me was not really her.
“I told you. I just want you to know the truth.”
“Really? Can it really be that uncomplicated?” I simply didn’t believe that she had no ulterior motives. Judging from her black cloak, I reasoned that she should be a witch. I couldn’t shrug off the doubts I had over her. None of the witches I had seen was good, and the one in front of me was definitely no exception. She must be up to something. Why else would she come to me?
The woman in black raised the corners of her mouth, revealing a strange smile. “Do you think I have other intentions? Alright. You can help me Kill Sylvia, then.”
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