Chapter 269
Chapter 270
Amber’s POV
Confusion and anger swirled within me when Alice and I arrived at the hospital. The servant had pulled me aside to briefly fill me in on the leaked audio. I was grateful for her in trying to protect Alice, but that was only a
small comfort for the fury otherwise overwhelming me.
The servant had then tried to convince me to stay at the house, as Julian had ordered, but I had been doubly
determined to get myself tested now, certain that I had been poisoned and greatly concerned that Tony had
been the one to do it, as per what Alice witnessed.
Arriving at the hospital, we found most of Julian’s family in the second–floor waiting room once more. I
scanned the room but fortunately Tony wasn’t among them. Unfortunately, neither was Julian.
I really needed to talk to him.
“Oh, here comes the harlot,” said one of Julian’s nephews, Oliver.
I stopped in my tracks, startled by his sudden outburst, when he had before been a quiet type. This news must
have emboldened him and his brother Oscar, who was already standing, ready to defend his brother, like I had
been the one to pick this fight.
“I’ll ask you not to use that kind of language in front of my daughter,” I said.
I didn’t care what they thought about me. As a Healer, and as Julian’s secret lover from before that, I’d had all
kinds of vile words chucked my way. Most of them, by now, I’d learned to let bounce off me. The walls I kept up
around my heart with thick, with only those I cared about most able to break through them.
But Alice was still an impressionable young girl, and to hear that kind of language being used to describe her mother would only hurt her. It was disgraceful what Oliver said, and disrespectful to me, to Julian, and also to
Alice.
Oliver stood too, joining his brother.
“She’ll learn eventually, ” he said.
“You led our uncle to this,” Oscar said. “Without your influence, he never would have turned his back on his
back p>
“He hasn’t turned his back on the pack,” I insisted.
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“He has,” Oliver added with his anger rising like his voice. “In the past, he had always put the good of the pack above all else. We are supposed to believe that he would have changed without your coercion. What did you threaten him with? Did you try to keep Alice away from him p>
“I would never,” I said.
“But that’s not true, is it?” Oscar pressed. “You kept her a secret from him in the past p>
The words hit me like a slap in the face. As much as I wanted to dispute them, I couldn’t. I had done that. Even if
my reasoning had been good at the time, I had ultimately kept Alice away from her father, and Julian away from
his only daughter.
And I had never intended for the two to meet, or to know about each other.
That felt like a lifetime ago now, after all that Julian and I had been through together.
The words Julian and I had said together last night had been meant just for each other. I hadn’t any doubt at the
time that Julian had meant them, but now I began to wonder.
It was true that Julian had, in the past, always placed the pack above all else. That was mainly why he had kept
me a secret back then.
Last night, he had spoken of a change in those feelings. He had promised that Alice and I were now first in his
heart, and that he would always prioritize us.
Had he only said those things because we had been in private? Now that the whole pack knew what he had said, was he going to rescind what he had said?
Oscar stepped toward me. “You are the worst thing that ever happened to Uncle Julian p>
“Mommy…” Alice said, her voice trembling with emotion – both fear and pain.
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