Alexander’s POV
Waiting for my uncle to wake up was the longest four hours of my life.
I wanted to wake him up immediately. I wanted to scream and tell them all that Anna was insane.
Because she was.
There was no fucking way that my mom would have to fight my dad. No fucking way.
What did Anna even think would happen? Did she think that my parents would even want that? Did she think that my dad would willingly fight my mom? He would surrender immediately. He would never hurt her, not even if it cost him his life. But why did Anna think that my mom would just accept that? Did she really think that my mom would hurt my dad? She gave herself to The Rogue King to save everyone, including my dad! There was no fucking way my mom would hurt him. No fucking way.
“Lex…,” Fia spoke, but I interrupted her when I looked at her sternly.
“I don’t want to hear it, Fia,” I said as I continued pacing around the office. “She is wrong.”
“I could be wrong, Alex,” Anna sighed. “But something is telling me that I am not.”
I growled at Anna.
She was wrong. She had to be wrong. Not only she was wrong, but she was insane too.
The door opened and I turned around abruptly, ready to scream at my uncle and tell him that Anna was fucking crazy.
It wasn’t my uncle, though. It was Hunter.
I rolled my eyes and continued pacing around the office.
“What happened?” Hunter asked as he approached Fia. “I could feel Alex’s Alpha aura even before I entered the room.”
He was glancing at me worriedly, but I couldn’t give a shit about that. Where the fuck was my uncle?
“Why is it taking him so long?” I growled as I ran my fingers through my hair.
“He will be here in a few minutes, Lex,” Fia said with a small sigh. “He was sleeping. He should still be sleeping. The only reason Aunt Daisy woke him up was because you wouldn’t stop pressing her to do so.”
I rolled my eyes at her.
“Will someone explain to me what is going on?” Hunter asked with annoyance in his voice.
I continued pacing around. I wasn’t going to explain anything because there was nothing to explain. Anna was wrong. She was so fucking wrong.
“Well, Anna thinks…,” Fia began explaining, but she was interrupted when the door opened.
My uncle, aunt, Mason, and Jake walked inside. My uncle looked exhausted and regret washed over me. Maybe I should have left him to sleep for a little while longer.
But we had more important things to do. He would sleep later.
“What’s going on, Alex?” my uncle asked as he sat on the couch.
“I think that I know what Emma needs to do to get rid of the darkness forever,” Anna said, making my uncle jump off the couch abruptly.
“What?!” my uncle exclaimed loudly.
Aunt Daisy gasped and a smile spread across her face. I could see small glimpses of excitement on Mason and Jake’s faces.
“Don’t be so excited,” I said, glancing at Anna angrily. “It’s not true.”
“Just because you don’t want it to be true, it doesn’t mean that it’s not,” Fia said with a small sigh.
I growled at her and Hunter immediately growled back at me. I rolled my eyes at him.
“Talk, Anna,” my uncle said sternly as he sat back down.
Anna took a deep breath and began explaining to them what she told Fia and me earlier. I shut her out completely. I couldn’t listen to that again. I couldn’t even imagine it. It just couldn’t be true. It was just one irrelevant sentence in an ancient book. What were the odds of that one sentence mattering so fucking much? The odds were minimal. They were non-existent. They had to be.
“Hold on,” my uncle said, interrupting Anna and pulling my attention back to them. “You think that Emma will have to fight Logan?”
I growled and continued pacing around the office. I could feel the tension in the air increasing.
“Yes,” Anna nodded. “I am not sure how, but I think that she will have to fight him.”
The room was silent. I looked at my uncle and saw a mixture of shock and anger on his face.
“She won’t be able to do that,” Aunt Daisy mumbled. “She will never be able to hurt him.”
I swallowed the lump in my throat and tried to take a deep breath.
“Will she have to fight me too?” my uncle mumbled, making us all look at him.
He rubbed his palms against his jeans and shook his head.
“I was on Logan’s side when he rejected her,” my uncle said. “I hurt her too. Will she have to fight me too?”
My eyes widened and I looked at Fia immediately. She was staring at our uncle with shock and fear written on her face.
Would my mom have to fight her brother too? She could never hurt him as well. My mom loved her brother so much.
I didn’t see how she would win. I didn’t even see her try. She was going to give up if Anna’s theory was true. I would lose my mom.
“What if it’s not them who mom needs to fight, but only versions of them who hurt her?” Fia mumbled, breaking the silence.
We all looked at her. Her eyebrows were furrowed and she was staring in front of herself.
“What do you mean?” Anna asked her.
Fia stood up and started pacing around the room.
“Well, we believe that Mom is fighting Sienna right now,” Fia said. “She is somewhere else. Her mind is stuck somewhere else. What if all those battles are meant to happen there? What if she doesn’t have to fight Dad and Uncle Andrew right here? What if she has to fight them in that place instead?”
Fia stopped walking and looked at Anna.
“Maybe she has to face that small part of my dad that hurt her,” Fia continued. “That part of my dad died the moment he regretted rejecting my mom. Maybe that part of him is at that place and maybe my mom has to face him, not my dad as he is now.”
The room was silent again.
Fia could have been right. It made sense and it was easier to accept than having to watch my mom and dad in a real fight.
But I knew that my mom wouldn’t be able to hurt even that part of my dad. She loved him and accepted him with all of his flaws. How the hell would she be able to destroy a part of him?
