Wild and Free

Chapter 43: Like You Wouldn't Believe

This is a terribly long chapter I apologize but I'm hoping that it's written well. Get the popcorn and the tissues ready because you're in for an emotional train-wreck :)

(Mason's POV)

The room was a frenzy, people everywhere arguing, yelling, out of their seats. My father stood still, stunned like the rest of us. I had played it over and over in my mind a thousand times.

First born daughter of Naomi and Bishop Wilde and the rightful born Alpha of the Wilde pack...

Had those words actually been spoken?

I got up from my seat and joined my father on the floor. He looked slightly displeased at my action but did not command me to return. He and the guards around the room silenced the confused pack members, managing to get everyone back to their seats so we could get an actual explanation.

He cleared his throat, trying to act calmer than he was, "This cannot be possible."

"Believe it," she answered, slightly out of breath. Her skin was flushed probably from the burning and the attention combined. But there was definitely no indication that she was in the kind of pain she would be if she was lying.

"There are so many reasons why your claim just cannot be true," Father refused to believe.

"Enlighten me," Auden muttered through gritted teeth.

"Well for starters, Naomi and Bishop did not have an older daughter," My father pointed out.

Auden shook her head, "That's just what they told everyone."

"How could they hide having another child?" I asked her.

"They did have another child but much later," My father said. "Too much later for it to have been you."

I nodded in agreement, "The Wilde pack was one of the most well known packs in history. It wouldn't have been possible for them to stay out of the public eye long enough to conceive and raise a child in secret."

She just scoffed and looked up at me, "Their so-called heir, do you recall his name?"

I thought about it but my father answered first, "Aspen Xavier Wilde."

"He was sixteen when he died and would have been nineteen now," I recalled, never breaking eye contact with the girl sitting in the chair.

She nodded in confirmation, "No one knew I was born because they were all focused on him. He was their coverup."

I knit my brows but I finally figured out what she meant, "So you guys were-"

"Twins," she finished for me, disgust in her voice.

"Not possible," My father repeated, shaking his head.

Auden just glared at him, "Don't you think you would know if I was lying? Isn't that what this whole stupid TS test is about?"

"Why wouldn't your parents tell everyone they had another child?" I asked, ignoring my father.

"You said it yourself, we were one of the most well known packs in history," she said. "I was born first, meaning that I would be the next Alpha. There's never been a female Alpha, ever. My parents didn't want to be humiliated if people knew that they had a girl, especially one that was their first born."

The whole room was silent, all the chatter and murmuring gone as everyone tried to process what they were being told.

William stood up from his seat and came to the floor, "So Naomi and Bishop, they just... well no one knew they had you, so what did they do with you?"