Who Is Responsible??

Pearl smiled bitterly while looking at the pair on the altar taking vows of their lives. She had tears in her eyes, and the pain of betrayal was suffocating her to death, but she refused to cry now. She had cried the whole night alone in her room after Jonah rejected her, and her so-called loving family forced her to accept the rejection.

“I, Jonah Thompson, accept you, Emily Winters, as my chosen mate for the rest of my life.” Jonah announced proudly while holding Emily’s hands tightly. Emily grinned widely and took a deep breath. “I, Emily Winters, accept you, Jonah Thompson, as my chosen mate for the rest of my life.” She accepted him happily.

Both of them, then, embraced each other, but Emily glanced at Pearl with a smug expression on her face before tilting her head lightly so that Jonah could mark her. At last, she succeeded in snatching everything from Pearl. She now, had everything that belonged to Pearl once.

Both Jonah and Emily marked each other, and everyone present in the hall howled aloud to cheer the young mated couple in front of them. Pearl just blinked while looking at them blankly. She didn’t feel anything but hollowness inside her. She knew that everyone was glancing at her to see her reaction, but she didn’t give them any kind of satisfaction.

Her years of princess’ training didn’t let her cry like a normal person in front of those traitors. She trusted them with all her heart and in the end, they stabbed her brutally. She still wasn’t able to believe that Jonah was nothing but an opportunist who rejected her right after they learned that Pearl was not the real princess. But she had a question for the Moon Goddess What did she do wrong that the goddess played this cruel prank with her.

After crying for the whole night, she analyzed the whole situation the next day, staying inside her room the whole day, and had this hunch that something was not right with the whole scenario as they were different from humans but everything that happened in the past forty-eight hours of her life had put her in a state of trance.

She kept her head high with elegance when she saw Emily and Jonah coming towards her. Emily was still smiling shyly while Jonah was now holding her tightly as if she vanished if he loosened his grip on her. They stopped in front of Pearl like a lovey-dovey couple. Pearl felt a light squeeze in her chest when she saw disdain in Jonah’s eyes for her.

Those eyes had love and admiration for her a until two days ago. Now….. they had disdain for her….

What an irony…..

“I am sorry, Pearl….. I am really sorry…. You know how much I crave for family love and affection….. b.. but I never wished something like this.” Emily feigned innocence while trying to show how guilty she was for stealing Pearl’s mate and her family. The same sentence that she said to Pearl when she got the DNA report. Pearl didn’t reply to her but kept on looking at her smug face blankly.

“What are you saying, Emily?” Pearl raised her brows when she heard her adopted father’s voice, laced with anger and disgust. The corners of her mouth twitched while waiting for him to finish his performance. In two days, she saw their true faces so clearly that she doubted her whole existence once.

“I am saying the right thing, Dad….. I… I understand how it… it feel whe… when you have no one to rely on. You protected Pearl all her life…. A… and now…. h.. how will she survive?” Emily continued her melodrama, and Pearl just watched her marvelous performance while swirling the wine in the glass.

Emily was smug with Pearl’s situation now, but she forgot that they had been friends for more than four years, and Pearl could see through her just like seeing through the clear water of a pond. “She owes you for that, Emily…. Whatever she enjoyed all these years originally belonged to you. You shouldn’t feel sorry for her…. Instead, she must apologize to you for stealing everything from you.”

“Why should I feel sorry for her, Alpha, but not for myself?” Pearl asked him in a calm tone after her adoptive father once again berated her, still holding her chin high. Emily was stiffened by Pearl’s retaliation. Just like Pearl, she also knew Pearl’s personality very well.

Pearl never stood injustice for anyone else let alone for herself. She looked at Jonah and her father anxiously. She wanted everyone to hate Pearl for stealing her lavish life, but Pearl could change the face of stream at any time. This was her power.

“I had everything, loving parents, caring brother, even I found my fated mate who was supposed to love me and protect me for the rest of life until two days ago. Now….. I have nothing that I could say is mine. Why should I not feel sorry for me, Alpha, when I am the one who lost everything just like this?” Pearl questioned in a cracked tone, snapped her fingers in the end.

“You? How dare you speak against me?” Alpha Kyle yelled at the top of his lungs in anger. Pearl smiled bitterly while looking at him with tears in her eyes, but stayed calm and took a step forward towards him with grace. Alpha Kyle couldn’t help but feel her authoritative aura that she always held in herself. After all, he had groomed her for years, and he knew how calm she could be in any drastic situation, just like a real princess.

He knew Pearl’s personality like he knew the back of his hand. His mate, Luna Venessa, and their son, Ryder, also came to them, and stood up next to him while looking at Pearl with hostility. They all knew Pearl’s righteous personality. She promised them that she would not do anything to ruin Emily’s wedding, but this didn’t mean that Pearl would tolerate any injustice towards herself.

“Did I or Emily ask the culprit to swap us back then, Alpha Kyle?” Pearl asked the question in a very calm tone. They all trembled lightly while widening their eyes in shock. All the guests also looked at them with curiosity now.

“Dad…. Doesn’t mean that, Pearl.” Emily immediately defended her father anxiously, trembling so hard in Jonah’s embrace as if Pearl had pronounced death sentence for her.

“Relax, Emily…. Why are you so anxious, huh? I just asked a simple question to Alpha Kyle. I am not complaining about anything that happened in the past two days, not even about Jonah’s rejection. Then why are you so anxious, huh? Is the question so hard that he can’t answer on his own?” Pearl confronted Emily with a mocking smile on her lips.

“You…… you ungrateful brat.” Alpha Kyle yelled at her, unable to contain his shock and anger, and she slowly tilted her head while faking a surprise.

“How am I ungrateful, Alpha Kyle? I just asked you who between me and Emily asked the culprit to swap us. It was me or Emily?” Pearl once again repeated the same question, but it made everyone looked at Alpha Kyle skeptically.

“Enough, Pearl…. You promised us that you would not do anything to ruin Emily’s wedding.” Luna Vennessa scolded her this time. There was no hint of disdain in her tone, but she was also disappointed with what happened back then.

Pearl laughed this time while shaking her head lightly. They all stiffened once again when they saw her mocking expression while laughing.

“Yeah… I promised you, Luna Venessa and I kept my promise.” Pearl answered her in the same light tone. “Everyone present here can be my witness that I was standing at the same spot from the very beginning of the ceremony till now. Neither I go anywhere, nor I talk to anyone. I opened my mouth when you guys started taunting me, and questioning me. You didn't ask me to stay quiet no matter how you treat me tonight.” Pearl defended herself with such ease, throwing the mud back to them.

She was grateful to Luna Venessa for training her in how to handle these kinds of situations. Pearl, then, looked at Emily, who was trying hard to mask her anger, but it made her face twist badly. She hated Pearl for being so calm and rational. She hated Pearl to the bottom of her heart.

“Just you wait, Pearl….. you will cry blood when the twist of this plot opens in front of everyone.” Emily thought in her mind while glaring at Pearl. She not only wanted to snatch everything from Pearl, but also wanted to ruin her life completely.

“I was… what… a few hours or minutes old when they gave me to you, right?”

“I want you to investigate this matter, and find the culprit, Alpha Kyle, so that, just like Emily, I can return to my biological parents, and can punish the culprit to making Emily suffer all these years.” Pearl asked him in a calm tone.

They all widened their eyes in shock. Alpha Kyle and Luna Vanessa still had some lingering feelings towards Pearl because they raised her to be the lady that she was today, and her request seemed acceptable to them. They also wanted to find the culprit who made their real daughter suffer all these years.

But they didn’t think that Pearl would think about going back to her biological parents. They were not only the alpha couple, but also the royals. They thought that she would make a fuss as this was a dream life that anyone can dream. They couldn’t believe that she would want to leave this lavish life.