Kael’s POV
Liam was truly pleased at how Eira was ready to get back at us, but the bastard didn’t know we were waiting just for that. We wanted her to take out all that bitterness she had been holding in for years.
"And you shouldn’t shift when you are pregnant," I heard Liam tell her. "There’s a chance to hurt a baby as your body goes through the critical anatomical changes when you shift."
"I won’t," she assured.
The more I looked at her, the more I could see she was determined to do everything to protect her child... our child.
"There are so rare cases when strong purebloods like you had to shift to protect themselves and it didn’t affect their child, but it’s always good to not shift to avoid any risk," Liam added.
As they talked about shifting, I had questions in mind which I ant to ask her for a while now.
"Eira," I called.
She looked at .
"As you have never shifted before and never truly connected with your wolf, how did you know the kind of wolf you are," I asked, leaving another question to be asked once she answered this.
We all waited for her answer, but she looked a little lost.
"How did I know?" she mumbled as if trying to rember it.
"For every werewolf, only after our first shift we get to know what we are," Liam told her, "your first shift happened recently, but you already knew you were pureblood she-wolf, not a hybrid. How?"
She simply stared at Liam blankly as if letting his words sink in.
"Have you shifted before?" Liam asked, "Was the recent one not your first shift?"
Her expressions turned even more confused and lost.
I felt sothing was off.
I looked at Rafe who was sitting next to her. Both of us shared gazes and Rafe wrapped his hand around her.
"Are you alright, Caldwell? If you want, we can stop asking you these questions if you don’t want to answer yet."
She looked at him, her expressions a mix of sadness and confusion. She shook her head and said, "I never shifted before...But don’t really rember how I know it... I just sohow know for sure that I am pureblood..."
As expected. Nothing about her was so easy to find out thanks to the scheming bastard who had set her up.
Rafe tried to coax her as he rubbed her hand gently.
"It’s alright. We believe you if you say this recent shift was your first," I assured her.
"Just like other things, we will find the truth behind it as well. Just know that we believe in you and everything you say," Roman added.
We wanted to show our trust in her. She wasn’t a liar.
Though unsure, she humd anyway.
"Kael is right, don’t force yourself," Liam said.
"There is sothing else," I said, "That night I ca to et you in the prison, were you aware of your wolf’s truth? That you are a pureblood she-wolf?"
It was a hurting night for both of us when I had rejected her and it pained both of us like our hearts burning in hellfire. But I had to ask about it keeping aside the wrong I had done.
She thought about it for a while and shook her head. "All I know when I saw you, my wolf said mate. And I was shocked. Shocked that you were my mate, and that I heard my wolf for the first ti. I don’t know how that happened."
I humd. "Then, after that when did you understand it? In prison or when you were with traffickers?" I asked, hiding my emotions.
"I think... I knew it since my days in prison after eting you?" she said, "It ca to like a sudden realisation and I was shocked at myself. Shocked that I am a pureblood, that’s it. But how I realised it, I never thought about it. As if it skipped my mind like it wasn’t anything important or I had always known it... I am not sure...."
I let her absorb the shock for a few monts before I continued, "We are going to talk about your birthdate. It’s really important to talk about it, alright?"
She humd, waiting to hear . God knew how many shocking revelations we were going to have just in a day.
"The day I ca to see you in the prison, according to your docunted birthdate, you were still a minor," I said, "But you could recognise as your mate, that ans you were already an adult. That ans your docunted birthday is fake."
"Fake?" she mumbled. "I had no track of ti or dates in the prison."
"Your real birthday should be during your ti in prison until I ca to et you there," I explained, "Because a week before you were sent to prison, we..." Damn, I had to remind her again, "We were together. Even if I was drugged, I, my soul, would have felt the presence of my mate, but I didn’t. So you were a minor that night."
A silence fell over the room to be reminded of that incident. Her being minor made it even worse.
"So, her right date of birth is between this duration," Lucian broke the silence.
"I am sure we can find it out," Jason comnted.
The two brothers already had a plan.
I humd and instructed them, "Do it."
Eira looked at us in surprise. "How will you find it?"
I looked back at her to et her gaze. "We will have to check the footage in the prison to check if you had shifted there, but for so reason you don’t rember it. If that’s not the case, then soone must have told you what you are and we need to find that soone."
"I don’t rember soone telling it to ," she said.
"I know," I assured her, "But that soone can make you forget it. Just like how I don’t rember that night as if that part had completely vanished from my life. As if it never happened."
Rafe continued to rub her hand gently, while Roman said, "If soone can play with Kael’s mories, then they can do it with you as well."
Now she understood. I could feel the sadness and hurt she was feeling.
"But Caldwell, you are not doing what I had been asking you to," Rafe said again.
She looked at him, "What?"
"I told you to use your brain and ask the right questions," he said, "And here is your chance. Use your brain and ask the right question on what we just talked about. You better not disappoint , or I will stop my lessons for you."
Her brows knitted and she gave it a thought. After a few monts of silence, she questioned, but to herself, "Why is my birth date fake?"
"Smart girl," he said and pecked on her head.
His coaxing, forcing her to think and comforting her, kept her level headed.
"My grandparents and I always celebrated it on that sa day I had always known," she said. "Why did they tell a fake date?"
"That we need to ask your grandparents," Rafe told her.
"I don’t know where they have been. They never ca to see in prison nor I...." Her voice felt choked, tears in her eyes as her only family mbers didn’t care for her.
"We will find them soon and you can ask them yourself," Lucian told her.
She humd as once again tears rolled down her eyes.
"Eira, I am sorry, but another question I need to ask you," I said, trying to not let my resolve lt in front of her tears.
I should truly be punished for asking her questions instead of coaxing her at this mont.
She wiped her tears and humd.
"Since when do you rember being with your grandparents?" I asked, "The oldest mories you had with them."
"I rember being with them always," she replied. "Grandpa even had a video of when they celebrated my first birthday. Not only first, but they recorded my every birthday celebration with them. Only three of us in it."
So she had been with them when she was a baby. But, one this I was sure as hell that they weren’t her real grandparents.
"We should go and check who ca to et her in the prison," Jason said, "If there is any footage left of it."
We were sure there might not be any as our enemies were being careful, but we had to give it a try.
As Jason and Lucian were about to leave, I connected with my brothers through the mind link. We had to talk, without Eira listening to us. No need to stress her over sothing she didn’t have any answers about.
"Find out if any powerful Alpha or Luna had ever lost a daughter two decades back. Follow the tiline from when Eira was born and afterwards," I instructed the two.
"I am sure a pureblood like her is definitely a child of strong purebloods," Roman comnted, agreeing to my claim.
"Don’t worry, I will ask my people to get the information of every lost child during a certain tiline," Lucian assured.
Both of them left.
Now we had to find Eira’s parents if they still existed. Finding her origin will help us solve why our enemy hated one innocent girl who never wronged anyone. Such cruelty could only be the outco of so deep seated grudges.
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