Unclaimed (Xianwang)

Unspoken Emotions (2)

Wen Ning

I stared at my sister, her face pale as she sat beside me on the sofa, wringing her hands as she was telling me what had happened. I'd gone blank the moment she told me she was at Jiang Cheng's apartment. My heart felt like it'd dropped into my stomach.

"And A-Cheng went to the mansion," she said quietly. She looked so tense, eyes clouded with fear whenever she even mentioned Zhao Ming's name. Oh God, what did my sister end up in? Wen Qing only seemed relaxed or even smiled a little when she said about Jiang Cheng. My sister was once so lively, it was hard to recognize her as the same Wen Qing who once lit up every room she walked into. Wen Qing used to be our family's princess, the youngest and the only omega, the one who always got what she wanted. We protected her, looked out for her. I hate seeing her like this, it broke me.

We were the closest as we weren't much years apart. I knew it...I knew all along that Jiang Cheng had feelings for her. But I wanted her to have the freedom to choose her own life. He'd been a reckless kid then, and I didn't think he'd be the right one for her. Wen Qing was special for us, too special for to just with anyone.

Everyone except Wen Qing knew about his feelings.....

I was so angry when I came to know he confessed to her the night before the wedding day. The Wei's had taken pretty good care of us, Jiang Cheng's family was very nice to her, she was like their own daughter for them and they were very close until her wedding. I was worried that confession might end up making her confused but it didn't. Everyone at the Wei family had thought Wen Qing would be Jiang Cheng's omega and that was even my dad's backup plan. Her marriage with Zhao Ming was an unexpected turn of events for everyone, especially Jiang Cheng.

After marriage, I once visited her and when I noticed a bruise on her left cheek, I knew something was wrong. She tried to hide it, refused to tell me what had happened, but I wasn't blind. It wasn't hard to guess so I went to confront Zhao Ming though she begged me not to ask him, I asked about it and he just brushed me off. He looked me in the eyes and said, "She is your sister, but she is my wife now, she is my omega. I'm the one responsible for her, I take care of her and this is a matter between couples, it's right brothers to interfere but only until marriage so...." meaning I had to just shut up and I couldn't believe it. When I told Dad, he said the same, that it was a private matter between Wen Qing and her husband. "We had married her off, now it's between the couple and you shouldn't interfere". I'd never felt so powerless. And I knew the moment I walked out of that house, Zhao Ming would have made her pay for me questioning him, he would have taken out his anger on my poor A-qing..... And that's when I first thought 'if it would have been Jiang Cheng beside her'. I couldn't see her hurting like this but I had no choice.

After she had the twins, things got worse and we weren't welcome into that house. When I knew Cheng was visiting her, I wanted to stop him as I knew her alpha would take out his wrath on her but whenever Jiang Cheng visited her, I saw that it brought her relief. Those short visits were like a lifeline for her, a small window where she could breathe. And she was even ready to face Zhao Ming's anger for those visits. Zhao Ming's anger was terrible, and I worried about her facing it every time, but I couldn't take away that one thing that brought her a little peace. Only if Zhao Ming hadn't appeared in her life back then...only if it was Jiang Cheng...

I looked at my sister who was begging me crying, her shoulders shaking as tears streamed down her face, she was begged me not to take her back to him saying she was scared of her alpha and he didn't particularly need a reason to raise his hand at her. I knew all these too "But Dad....."

"Please, Gege. I don't want to go back..... please, I can't go back. I'm scared, I'm so done with this."

Her words shattered something in me. I wrapped my arms around her, pulling her close as she cried. But I knew, deep down, that the moment Dad found out she was here, he'd drag her and kids back to that prison of a house. Dad's word was law and brothers always stood by his decision.