The DarkNess Within Him | ✔

Chapter Sixty Four

A/N: Soooo I have a huge announcement below so please read my author's note at the end. Thank youuuuu🙏.

Also, if you read the first book - The DarkNess That Draws Me, then FINALLY, this chapter answers the cliffhanger I left off when I ended that book. If you didn't read it then still continue on ahead because well yea...Anywayyy, Now Enjoy...

"Holy shit," Rochelle exclaims. "Talk about brain fucked. What the fuck is going on here?"

Despite Rochelle's outburst and basically expressing exactly what I have been thinking since this whole fiasco started, my eyes are unable to drift away from this girl who looks exactly like Lorena and holding a child who I assume is Lorena's son in her arms.

Once again, I do a once-over between Lorena and this girl. The words "woah," escape my lips involuntarily.

The same slightly wavy brown hair, light grey eyes, nose, lips, skin tone, body, everything. Am I dreaming? The only thing that differs is their clothes.

Then the child starts to wail.

He is a toddler of no more than two years old and he is reaching his arms out towards Lorena, away from the girl who is holding him.

Despite the wailing of the child, Lorena, or at least I think she's Lorena beside me doesn't move, her eyes are only fixed on the other Lorena. Then the second Lorena soothes the child. He's very cute with huge brown eyes and he cries against 'Lorena'? There are two Lorenas'. Are they......?

"Nessa," it's Matthew who breathes the name out and it brings me back to reality. When I look at Matthew, he's trying to sit up as I assume the effects of the poison are beginning to wear off on him considering he's an Alpha.

"Hello Matt, it's been a while," The girl I now identity as Nessa speaks and no surprise, her voice sounds exactly like Lorena's. The child stops wailing and seems to fall asleep against her.

"Wait, hold up," Rochelle interrupts, raising her hands in the air. "First of all, isn't your name Freya? And secondly, you and Alpha Matthew know each other?"

For once, I'm grateful to Rochelle because she took a question right out of my brain before I even thought it. If that even makes any sense.

Nessa's eyes find mine when she says, "He's my ex. We had lots of fun together until well, we didn't,"

I don't know what to feel. Is there anything about Matthew that I actually knew? My eyes can't leave Nessa's whose gaze is hollow but then it travels back to Lorena's to look at her. Lorena looks like she isn't breathing.

"So Matthew, you're telling me you fucked a girl who looks exactly like your sister-in-law?" Rochelle exclaims, her voice ringing through the whole woods as she laughs. "Oh my moon, this shit is so good!"

I look at Matthew who isn't looking at me but her. He finally manages to sit up. Lorena beside me is still silent and for some reason, so is my brother who just stands here quietly and watches all this unfold. The ever foreboding presence, honestly.

"In my-" Matthew coughs, gasping for air as he bends over, his pupils are still dilated and then he sits up again. His voice is hoarse and his sentences are sluggish but he manages to say "defence, she didn't look like that,"

"What do you mean by that?" I'm the one that questions him this time, not understanding a thing of what's even going on here. How does Matthew know this girl? Who is this girl? And what is Matthew even saying?

"Did you get a good look at me yet, Lorena?" Nessa asks clinging onto Lorena's son and Lorena looks directly at her, lips hanging but nothing coming out of her mouth.