Chapter 18

As I walk down the street, I inhale the smells around me. I smell freshly brewed beer, sausages and sizzling in a restaurant somewhere accompanied by the divine smell of sauerkraut. All these gourmet tastes of deliciousness is making my mouth water. Everything smells so delicious. I decide to step into one of the local restaurants. I order food for my uncle and myself. I pay for everything, and step to the side to wait for my order to arrive.
As I chose a table to sit down, there is a man in the corner who appears to be watching me. His face is a mixture of shock and recognition. As if he knew me and had not seen me for a long time. When I can attest for myself that in all of my travels to my uncles city, I do not recall seeing this man before. The man looks like wants to say something but, stops himself. I chose to ignore him and wait for my food. Once my order is called, I exit the restaurant, and start to walk my way back home. I hear someone calling to me from behind, so I stop and turn to find that same man.
“What is it that you want sir?”
He just stands there like he does not know how to speak
“What is your name?” he asks me
“What is it to you?” I rudely inquire
“Please, I need to know something, you see, I have been looking for my daughter for many years, she was taken from me, I am sorry to bother you, it’s just you look so much like her”
I held back my shock, could this man be my real father? No. They did not care when they left me in the middle of a forest, why would he care now?
“My name is Velaria Connors”
The man nodded his head, disappointment clouding his face. Something in me tells me to have compassion for the man. There is something inside of me telling me that it is alright and to speak with him.
“I do not know you, yet something in me is telling me to speak with you, maybe I can help you find what you’re looking for if we talk?”
The man looks at me and beams with a bit of happiness.
We decide to take a walk, and he tells me about his home or what it once was. Shockingly everything he is describing fits exactly with the dreams I have been having of a different world. A kingdom of splendor, magical beasts, and images of royalty. That is nothing but, fairytale though, right?
He tells me how he had a family, until one day his wife was insane and took their newborn baby away. She sent it away so no one would ever find it. He barely escaped the destruction of his city with his two children, and he has been searching for his long-lost baby since that dreadful night. Everything he tells me some how strikes my core with sorrow. I do not know why but, something is telling me to listen to him. I feel connected to him could I be this daughter he is searching for?
I tell him about my life, my family. I tell him how I was adopted with no origin but, I worked hard to build a life for myself. I do not know why I am sharing so much with a stranger, there is just some part of me that wants to know him.
He listens to me with interest, never asking a question. I see his eyes grow sad when he hears the disdain in my voice about “being left in the woods” and how I love my adopted family, I blurt out how they saved me from becoming food for animals because apparently my real family would rather leave me in the woods to die. I was not meaning to say that, it just slipped out however, I can see the man is fighting back tears.
Before I can inquire of him what his sadness is for, I notice that we have walked all the way back to my uncles place. My uncle comes out of the house like he is searching for me. He calls out my name and stops abruptly as he spots me with the man. I do not understand my uncles look, he looks worried, perhaps he knows him? The two men eye each other and the man next to me speaks
“Hector, it’s been a long time” my uncles gulps nervously as he nods his head, leaving me utterly confused. My uncle Fredrick ushers us inside. I set the food down and surprisingly, he asks me to go to my room. Saying he has to speak to this man who I had just met. Perplexed, I head walk up the stairs and head to my room. Once of out of sight, I open the door to my room, and close it without going inside, I stay by the stairs hoping I had fooled them.
I believe it worked cause, I start to hear them talk.
“it has been a long time since I had last seen you” Fredrick said
“I know, I have been searching the world for her, I had no idea where Ephany and her mother took her, I was so enraged that day, I would have punished Helena myself if Hades had not of shown up
“I do not care anymore what happened, that was long ago, I have a different life now, so does she, she does not know you, and my family has raised her just how I know you would have wanted but, that does not mean you get to find her and play daddy dearest”
My hand flew to my mouth in shock, what were they talking about? Was this man my father? What had my family been keeping from me?
“Hector, don’t you think I know that? Do you know how long I have been searching? I had no idea that the two maidens would send her to you and your family. You left our world, I should have known though, you are Ephany’s uncle”
My eyes grew wide at this news, I felt like my world was spinning on its axis. I had no idea what they were talking about, suddenly, I felt like I did not know my family anymore.
“Patullos, it was complete miracle that happened, I don’t think my sister Istara even knew where our family was located in America. Shereba had been away from the Greek empire in this realm for years since college. She found her way to America for a new life after our father died. So, whatever you think you know, you don’t, and she is our child now. I am sorry man but, she is not the daughter you would know, or raised. She is completely different. She became a queen in her own right. She is highly successful and needs no one.”
I heard the man break down crying, my soul ached for him. Some part of me recognized the truth, I was stolen from my home and my family by Ephany’s mother. This man was a father who had been searching the world for his daughter, and somehow, I knew that daughter was me.
I got up, walked downstairs, and looked them in the eye. My uncle Fredrick looked at me in fear, he knew I had heard everything. I walked towards the man I head met and embraced him. As I did, it was like I felt something deep in my soul relax and a part of me clicked together like a missing puzzle piece. We held each other and we cried. I could see my uncle scratching his hands through his hair. I looked up at him with an angry glare. I think it was time for some answers, not just him but my entire family!

Escaping the Alpha
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