Chapter 273: Grace
“Kinsley,” I responded, forcing myself to keep my voice calm as two of her gooney’s walked in behind her, and both Leon and Caleb flanked me.
“It’s so cute that you thought you could play hero,” She smiled coldly.
It was hard to believe we were really sisters. When we were younger, I used to want to be her friend. I wanted to be like real siblings. And Luna Ava did try to include me in those early days. But as we got older, everything got progressively worse. I don’t think Luna Ava ever truly saw the truth about her daughter. She didn’t see that she was a bully to everyone who she deemed below her. It wasn’t a secret, but it wasn’t out yet either. My dad never even tried to act like I was his. I think he felt guilty about having the affair. I always wondered if he had ever really had feelings for my mother at all. If maybe when he looked at me, she was what he saw, and it was too painful. But maybe Maizie had been right. Maybe I had been an experiment. I would never know, and at this point it really didn’t matter. The only thing that mattered was my future. And I would not let Kinsley take that from me too.
“It’s not playing if I actually am the hero.” I retorted.
For the first time in my life, I wasn’t afraid of my sister. She had done so many horrible things in our time together, but I didn’t have to live like that anymore.
“You?” She scoffed. “You are nothing.”
“No.” I smiled slightly, letting my Lycan aura come through a little. “I’m so much more than you ever gave me credit for. And I am done hiding, Kinsley. Why do you hate me so much?”
To my surprise, Kinsley laughed. The coldness in it’s tone took me by surprise.
“Hate you?” She finally managed, the laughter still in her tone, but her voice rising with her anger. “You get fucking everything!”
I frowned. “What are you talking about?”
“As if you don’t already know,” She huffed. “You had the family. The life that was meant for me and MY mother.”
“Look, I’m sorry,” I responded, still feeling confused. “But I didn’t have a say to come into this world or not. I never tried to take anything away from you.”
“And you didn’t.” She replied coldly, and I could see the coldness in her eyes. She was ready to end this, the same way I was. “You never even suspected it. You never realized the truth that was right in front of you. I made sure you never doubted your place. I don’t hate you. But I would never let you take what was rightfully mine.”
I frowned. “I don’t understand... You had the perfect family. You were the legitimate daughter. You didn’t need to do all that...”
“I did.” She answered with a slight smirk. “Because if I hadn’t you would have felt the connection with them, and I couldn’t have that. And now, it’s time for you to meet your dear old mummy and dad who were just as easy to trick.”
I froze.
“I thought you needed me.” I told her, but my mind was reeling. What did she mean she tricked my parents?
“Adrian needed you. But he’s not here now, is he? And I just don’t care anymore. They’ll just have to learn how to respond to me.”
“I don’t understand.” I said softer than I intended, but she wasn’t making sense...
“You’re slower than your dear old parents.” She laughed manically.
“What did you do to them?” I demanded.
“To them, to you,” She was so casual about it as if nothing ever mattered. “Oh Grace, I didn’t do it, but once I knew, I made sure no one would ever think about you again. You might have belonged to Ava and Andrew, but I made sure they never thought about you.”
I reeled back as if she had actually hit me. I belonged to Luna Ava and Alpha Andrew? Did they know? I doubted they did based on how things had gone... Luna Ava had always been kind even if it was an afterthought. She always tried.
“How?” I finally managed.
“The maid? Kathy, who ‘raised’ you, was my mom, Louanne’s best friend. She helped my mom switch us when we were just itty bitty babies. You came early. So you were tiny. When I was born, we were practically the same size. The switch was easy. We both sort of resembled dear old dad. And newborns, it’s hard to really tell a difference anyway. Nobody noticed. My mom was smart and the second you started to showing your Lycan side, she had you bound. She didn’t hesitate. She did what she had to do to give me the best life.”
I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. This was crazy. There was no way this was all true... But a part of me knew it was. It made sense. Kinsley was always trying to be something she wasn’t. It’s why she had made my life so miserable. She couldn’t let me rise into my true power.
Anger surged through me, my power rising to just below the surface. But I refused to lose control like I had with Ethan. No matter what she said.
“Next your going to tell me that you killed my mother,” I retorted bitterly.
“I did.” She admitted to my surprise. “She was doting on you too much. She was considering letting you go to the same school as me. So, I poisoned her. It was so easy. It was my word against yours, and no one even batted an eye. It was two for one really, you got imprisoned, and the Luna was gone. She wasn’t my mom, but she was going to give me her title.”
I didn’t respond. There were no words for how cruel and insane the things she admitted to doing were, and she didn’t even seem like she cared at all. There was no remorse. And I honestly didn’t care anymore about what she had to do.
I had practiced my powers. Not extensively. Not nearly as much as I would have liked, but the Lycan part of me knew exactly what to do. Leon and Caleb could handle her goons, but she was mine.
I twisted my hand, and the air in the room began to swirl again. There was no hesitation on my end. I understood what Rhys meant. Sometimes the ends justified the means. My winds forced Kinsley back against the wall as chaos broke out around me, but I didn’t lose my focus. I threw Kinsley into the wall with everything I had. Her body hit the ground with a sickening thud. But I didn’t stop there. I knew I had to be sure she was dead.
I took my knife, and slit her throat. This was personal. She would never hurt another person for a long as I lived, and it was hard to hurt someone when your dead.
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