Chapter 53

Third Person's P.O.V


"What?! Jasmine is Lord Fredrick's Daughter?" Micheal's eyes widened in shock, he couldn't believe what he was nearing nor anyone else in the room could.

It was so sudden that it left everyone in disbelief and somehow in denial.

"Yes, she is," Martha said, "She is the princess of the Vaidel dynasty whom none had ever seen, the only daughter of Lord Fredrick and Queen Katherine— Jasmine Doloris Winchester. "

"What the hell are you talking about? The princess was found dead beside Queen Katherine's body." Elijah decided to speak.

"The girl found beside Queen Katherine's body was not her daughter," Martha let out, "That night of the attack, Queen Katherine and lord Fredrick were the main targets of those rouges after they'd killed everybody. Saving Jasmine was impossible but her parents saved her with their great sacrifice, That was who was found beside queen Katherine was an already dead girl whom queen Katherine intentionally took in her arms and ran to distract those rouges so that I could run away with Jasmine. She did it to save her daughter, she sacrificed her own life."

The silence stretched across the room, and what Martha said replayed in Elijah's mind. He was dumbstruck once again, after that I didn't he had always thought just because Katherine was a human and failed to save her daughter but as today he was faced with the truth, his guilt increased even more.

Lucien, Micheal, and Archer; All three of the brothers were having a hard time processing everything.

The truth was so shocking and almost hard to believe, they had never in their wildest dreams imagined Jasmine's past could be so tragic, it was wholly unpredictable.

"If Jasmine is their daughter, how come she is human?" Lucien questioned, seemingly unaware of the entire truth.

"She is not a human, she never was," Martha finally disclosed the truth, "I transformed her into a human because it was her parent's last wish; They did not want her to know about her identity, nothing about the horrendous past and get involved into anything that could risk her life once again. They did not want to face those same difficulties they had faced, all they wanted was to give her a normal life."

No words left Lucien's mouth in return, he was once again left speechless.

Their mate they have known as a human all these days was actually not a human— The truth was hard to accept nonetheless it was the truth.

She was just living a life that was never hers.

"So I did it, I transformed her into one. Wiped every trace of the memory from her mind, and kept her in the delusion so that she can never find out the truth. Queen Katherine and Lord Fredrick have helped me in every step of my life, they gave me a new life," Martha wept.

"When my own parents threw me away because of considering me not strong enough and a curse for the family, they kept me and gave me the place of a family member, they never let me feel that I was an outsider, and even till this day I don't know that if I would ever be able to pay off even the slightest amount of the debt of favors they have on me."

Everyone could understand Martha's grief and the helplessness that was the reason behind everything she did but...

The fact that Jasmine had to face the loss of her parents at such a young age pained them, and it hurt them even more than all this time she had a smile on her face, living like a human and even considering herself one, she was not even aware of what tragedy was laid in her past.

All these years, she deserved to know the truth but she didn't have the nearest amount of idea about her own identity.

"Jasmine grew up in front of me, after queen Katherine and Lord Fredrick she is all I have. And I can sacrifice my own life without any hesitation to protect her but I got so busy in the thought of protecting her that I couldn't realize that I was constantly betraying her." Martha sighed remembering all the times she had lied to Jasmine, how every time she had changed the topic when Jasmine used to come up with her doubts.

The guilt was becoming more and more evident on Martha's face; She knew what she had done was wrong and now she was the one who had to fix it all.

Forcing destiny to change its route and the time to flow in a different direction was never a wise choice.

And what is oppressed and done against the rules of the universe could never bring any good to anyone.

"I even kept her parents' pictures locked away, even her locket in which she put her parents' picture in by her own little hands then. I'd hurt her a lot, she trusted me more than anyone but I broke her trust in return but now I need to fix everything," She wiped her tears, "I will fix everything."

"Can you bring her back?" Helena was the one to question, her voice held expectance.

The hopeful gazes of Archer, Lucien, and Micheal got fixed on Martha.

After all these, the last thing they wanted to hear was a No.

They did not want to hear a No. They did not want to lose her; They wanted their mate back.

They wanted her back in their arms, with a smile on her face just like the one she always flashed and enchanted them every time.

"Yes, I can," Martha nodded, "I need to reverse the spell I had put around her years ago and chained down her feral before it could even evolve, I need to reverse it so that she can once again be who she was and always meant to be. A vampire, the daughter of the strongest vampires to ever exist in the world— Jasmine Doloris Winchester."