The sudden sound of glass breaking jolted her out of her tirade.

"Oh my goodness! C-Cyrus, are you out of your mind? Oh Luna, your hand!" Alex’s eyes widened as he watched the ooze from the pure-blood alpha's hand. 

As she was about to touch him again, Cyrus turned to face her with red, glowing eyes.

"Leave!" Cyrus’s voice is so frightening that it almost makes her fall to her Knees. 

But because she had already started luring the pure blood, Alex refused to submit and listen to him as she stood firm.

 "NO! Cyrus, you need help. Please let me help you. I know you are hurt and now your hand is….”

"I said leave now! Alex. Leave!." Cyrus says. 

He could feel blood dripping from his hand but he couldn't feel the pain at all. 

He knows that the alcohol in his system isn't numbing the pain in his hand. The truth is, the pain in his hand is nothing compared to the immense pain he feels from the hole in his heart.

"Cyrus, I said I will not leave you not when you need someone to at least lessen your pain." Alex pleads as she steps closer to pull Cyrus’s body close to her but the pure-blood alpha shoves her away and growls.

"Stop acting as if you could lessen the pain, Alex, you are not Aria. Now leave!" Cyrus’s voice boomed inside his mansion. 

He knows his baby is safe because Felicia was with her. 

He also knows he's being a dick to his friend right now but he couldn't tolerate how Alex was trying to seduce him when he already told her that he wasn’t interested.

Alex opens her mouth only to close it again when Cyrus points at the door. 

With a heavy heart and a shattered ego, Alex chose to surrender for the evening as she knew she wouldn't be able to convince the pure blood to listen to her, and she didn't want to upset him further.

"I may not be Aria, but Cyrus always remember that I will never leave your side as she did. Please do something about your hand. I'm leaving tonight but I'll come back tomorrow. Take care of yourself, Cyrus." Alex says 

She pretended like she wasn’t hurt by the pure-blood alpha's words. 

She knows Cyrus will be very difficult to convince that she was the right one for him but she doesn't have any plans of giving up anytime soon.

Cyrus let out a sigh after he made sure that Alex was gone. 

He looked at his wounded hand and noticed a tiny broken glass in his skin. 

He removes it and throws it on the floor

knowing that the maids would clean the mess after he leaves. 

Cyrus was shocked when he returned to the bar, and Felicia was already there.

"Felicia, what are you doing here? Where's Kiana? Did something happen?”

"She's in her room  peacefully sleeping not aware that her father just made a mess in the living room." Felicia cuts him off before she carefully moves closer to him.

Cyrus didn't move away when the older omega woman took his hand carefully.

 He doesn't know why but there's something about his daughter's nanny that makes him calm. 

It's as if she's the only one he could trust Kiana with even when he has to leave for a long period. 

Felicia starts to clean his wound and it's only then did he realizes that she brought out the first aid kit they kept at the bar area.

"You've been with us for a very long time but I never saw any of your family members. Do you still have a family?" Cyrus tried to start a conversation because there was something about the old woman's silence that made him uncomfortable. 

It's as if the old omega is purposely releasing pheromones that keep him on the edge.

Felicia didn't even bother to lift her head to look at her boss when she finally decided to speak.

"I have a family, sir. They're far away from here because I don't want them near any wealthy and powerful people. They're safer in our province." 

she says

 She starts patting the deep wounds with sterile cotton.

Cyrus frowns when he hears the older woman's reason.

 He knows that there are rich and powerful wolves who are evil but her words feel like it's not just a simple rich-poor situation so he decides to ask again because it's better to hear the woman's words than to get anxious with the silence between them.

"Why did you say it's safer that way? Did something happen before? I mean, are there any rich people who ever hurt your family?" Cyrus asks, his eyes following the old woman's hand on his own.

Felicia lifted her gaze. 

She wanted to say 

'YES! Your father will surely hurt my family the moment I tell you what is going on with Julius, Alex, and Aria.' instead, she just nods.

"Someone hurt your family?"

"My brother was killed while he was working with a wealthy and powerful family." She said with sadness in her voice.

Cyrus froze upon hearing that.

"Did you get justice for him? Did you sue the family of his boss?" he asked because if they didn't, then he'd make sure they would get it now.

Felicia smiled bitterly as she shook her head.

"We didn't sue the family of their boss because they were all killed the same night my brother was killed too."

"Wait, all of them?"

"Yes, all of them, including their infant."

Cyrus froze upon hearing the old woman's revelation. 

He mentally scolded himself for being too worked up about the whole thing when it probably happened a long time ago. 

But then he still found himself asking her question again as if it was a little boy or a girl, very eager to know the ending of the story.

 "Did you find out who did it to them?"

Felicia took a deep breath this time. She could still remember how her whole family begged to reopen the case and investigate the tragic fire that killed her brother and the family of his boss but their cries and pleas only fell on deaf ears.

"No. Unfortunately, the investigation said that the fire was an accident. 

Probably started by the daughter of my brother's boss because the poor child’s body was burned almost into ashes. 

Our whole family grieved the poor family's tragic fate, and ever since then, I don't want any of my family members to come near any of the rich people. They are scary." Felicia ended her story as she ended up putting the bandage on his wounded hand.

Cyrus lifted his hand and saw how neat the bandage was. He smiled before he turned to face the old woman.

"How come you're not scared of me then?" he asked, genuinely curious of the old woman's answer.

"Because you're not a monster like them Mr Cyrus. I used to see warmth in your eyes so I hope I'll see them again. It might not be today or tomorrow but I hope to see them again someday." Felicia said with a warm smile this time.

Cyrus felt his heart clench at the older woman's words. 

He didn’t know why but that night he felt his emotions were in shambles that he didn't even realize when he was already voicing out his thoughts.

"Do you also believe them? I mean, do you also believe that my mate… Aria... Do you believe that she left us for another man?" Cyrus asked, his voice low as if he was so scared to know the answer.

Felicia froze. 

She knew she could not say anything to him but when she repeated the question in her mind, she slowly smiled to herself.

 The question is if she 'believes' Aria left for another man and not if she 'knows' it.

"Not at all Mr. Cyrus I've watched you both happy together. I've seen the way he looks at you like you light up the sky with stars for her. I don't know what happened between both of you, but I'm certain...Mrs Aria did not leave you and her daughter or another man. And I hope you know that after all...you're the one carrying her mark." Felicia said before she finally left to check on Kiana in her room.

That night, Cyrus went into his bedroom, his head a chaos of thoughts, and as he was about to sleep when he remembered the conversation he had with the older omega woman.

"At least we are still alive, we could still make everything right.”

23 Years Ago

"I don't think we can hide her from them, Henry. They'll find her no matter what," Naomi trembles while holding the little girl in her arms.

The young Mistress of the house Von Dorn is still unconscious after they barely save her from the fire.

"Darling, you have to save her no matter what. Remember, we owe our lives to her parents. She doesn't need a luxurious life, but this little omega deserves to live. Fate will make a way for her to return home, but for now, she has to go. Don't look back, just go." Henry said while looking at the daughter of his employers.

His employers are now probably dead.

Naomi sobs as she kisses her husband one more time. 

She knows they could just turn a blind eye so they could both live in peace but Henry learned to love the girl in her arms.

 And she knows that her husband would do anything to make sure the young Mistress is alive.

"Promise me then Henry, you will follow us. You will come and find us." Naomi said, crying.

The alpha didn't say anything anymore as he pushed his mate away together with the little pup in her arms.

"Take care of her as if she's our own child," Henry said before running back inside to check on the other boy's condition.

Naomi managed to escape the building. 

She doesn't even know how she managed to escape without being seen by the police or the people responsible for the tragedy of the Von Dorn family. But at that moment, she is just grateful that she was able to flee with their young mistress.

Back at the headquarters of the biggest political party in the country, Henry found his boss lying on the ground while holding his mate.

 He carefully walks towards them only to find out that the couple are both bleeding.

 He isn't stupid he knows that something is going on.

 He was about to run away when he was blocked by a few alpha and beta.

"W-who are you?" Henry asked but no one dared to answer until he heard a crying woman being dragged by a familiar man. 

His eyes widened with horror when he recognized the two.

He attempted to remain calm since he was unsure of who the mated couple was or why they were there. He eventually realized something.

"Julius, please... Please find him! He was just here with the omega girl. Please...." the woman begged her mate but Julius just continued to drag her out.

"I told you not to come here, especially not today! You Fucking dragged your weak beta son here so who's fault it is now that he's gone?!" Julius yelled at the woman before he shoved her inside their car.

At some point, Henry thought he was out of their radar only to be surprised when one of Julius' men kicked him to the ground.

"Sorry man, just cleaning up for my boss." the beta who looks like a goon said before pulling the trigger of his gun that ended Henry's life.

It was chaos, but Julius was very pleased knowing that the biggest obstacle in his position as Assemblyman had finally been removed.

 Desmond Von Dorn was the leader of the party list he wanted to belong to but the same leader refused to accept him into their group.

He tried everything in his power just to be with the party list but Desmond seemed to have a different morals with him. 

The pure-blood alpha didn’t want to accept bribes and gifts. 

He believes in high morals and good values that for Julius, would only slow down his success.

That is why he plotted this evil plan to terminate the leader of the party. 

The only flaw in his plan was when he didn't anticipate his mate's plan to visit her friend who's coincidentally Desmond's wife.

It was a horrible day but Julius was determined to make his plan work. 

Desmond and everyone in the building needed to die.

He didn't even grieve for the loss of his son because he immediately replaced him with someone he thought would be more deserving to be his son.

"Stop crying, why don't you bring our son to his room," Julius said while smiling at the little boy with a doe eye who was staring at him.

Mrs. Carter turned to look at her mate. 

She couldn't believe that it was her mate talking to her because Julius seemed to be a monster to her now.

"Julius, how could you do this to our son?! Cyrus isn't someone you could just replace with anyone! My son died in that building and we couldn't even bury him…”

SLAP!

Mrs. Carter was beyond shocked when her husband slapped her. 

Good thing that one of their maids already took the little pure blood away so he wasn't able to witness what happened between the mates.

"I told you, our son is not dead! Stop talking crap like that or else, you'll end up like him!" Julius gritted his teeth when he grabbed his mate's neck.

Mrs. Carter is trembling. 

She couldn't believe that her husband was capable of such a horrible crime. 

Julius managed to take their son’s body but they weren't able to give him a proper burial because, to her horror, Julius took another child to replace their son immediately.

She's about to leave the country with the little boy who's now their son; it's the reason.

PRESENT

"Can you explain? The Prime Minister wouldn't want his son to pursue a career in politics!" Julius exclaimed loudly in his office when one of his employees informed him of the news that would also impact Cyrus's future position.

"I'm sorry Mr. Carter but our source is certain that the party of the Prime Minister is already preparing for Knight Ashbourne. They might announce it before the filing of candidacy three months from now." the beta replied to their boss who's now really furious because of the turn of events.

He never expected the Prime Minister to involve his son in politics. That's why he was very confident that Cyrus had a big chance of getting the position once they got the approval from the president.

"Call Cyrus now! Tell him I need to talk to him!" Julius ordered his secretary who immediately did it as told she didn’t want to be on his bad side.

At Knight's office, Justin just ended a call with their informant from the opposition party list.

"They already got the news Knight but please can you enlighten me on what's going on now?!" Justin asked his boss and best friend.

Knight has been acting strange in the past few days. 

He also received a lot of weird calls from a lot of people and every time he tried to ask Knight, all he said to him was, 'You'll know in time.'

Knight sighed. 

He couldn't believe he managed to hide everything about his plan from his best friend. 

At first, he thought of asking Justin for help about plans but since he knew that Justin would just scold him, he tried to move alone first. But with the look his best friend is giving him, he already knows he couldn't lie to him.

"I'm helping Aria."

"Wow, that's great! So Aria will be running in politics now? Because last time I checked, she was busy preparing for her album because she had decided to debut as a singer. Now tell me the truth Knight, why are we constantly receiving calls from anonymous people and what does it have to do with Aria? Does she even know you're doing this?" Justin asked, his eyes were a little scarier than usual but as a pure-blood alpha, Knight remained unfazed.

"Justin, Aria’s daughter is alive!" Knight said and for a moment he thought Justin was going to have a heart attack because he saw how the alpha froze.

"H-how?” 

“Knight! Stop messing with the little angel! This isn't a funny joke! I hope you didn't tell Aria that because if you did, then you're an asshole!" 

Justin said when he finally got his voice back.

"Unfortunately, I did. But I.” 

"What?!"

"Wait, listen to me first. So yeah, I did tell her about that since we met the kid during the grand ball. I saw the girl and you wouldn't believe it Justin, she looks exactly like Aria! But the thing is, there's this Alex chick who told Aria that the kid is hers and Cyrus so I decided to have my own investigation done. The kid, Kiana, is not Alex's daughter because she's Aria’s!" Knight explained.

Justin fell into silence he walked towards his best friend and hit him with the book he saw on his table.

"Ouch! What is that for?" Knight asked with wide eyes.

"You're crazy! Why the Fuck would you do that?" Justin asked, still can't believe Knight acted like that.

He has known him since they were in university and the pure blood never acted impulsively, let alone dip his finger in anyone's business.

"It's Aria and…”

"Exactly! It's Aria’s life and you don't have the right to go snooping around behind her back. Does she even know you're doing this?"

"No, but Justin please listen to me. Aria’s life is still in danger. Someone wanted her out of the picture and based on Cyrus’s reaction when we saw him, it's not him." Knight said with furrowed brows.

It's been two weeks since he decided to investigate Aria’s past just to know what happened to her and her daughter and to be honest, he is still in the process of understanding everything because it seems like the people around Aria before she left the country were the same people who set her up.

"Knight this isn't you! Why are you doing this?" Justin asked all of a sudden because he realized how deep of a hole his best friend was digging for himself.

"Aria means so much to me Justin and if one day she accepts my courting, then I'd like her not to have any regrets of her past. I hope you understand. even if you don't, I'll do this alone." Knight said this time he's speaking not just as Justin’s boss but as his best friend.

The two stared at each other before Justin finally nodded, indicating that he'd support him no matter what.

"As long as you are happy, I got you," he said with a smile. Knight thanked his best friend with a tight hug before he went back to his chair.

"So, what's the plan? Why are we involved in the political party? Does it mean the Prime Minister has something to do with this?" Justin asked.

"The Prime Minister doesn't have anything to do with it but I did ask his permission if I could spread a rumor that I'll be joining the party soon."

"And why would you do that? you hate politics Knight!" Justin exclaimed.

"I do hate politics and there are people who aren't scared of shedding blood for it. I need them to present themselves to me, also...I need to speak to Cyrus without raising any suspicion. If my guess is right, he's as clueless as Aria." Knight said.

"Woah, hold up! this isn't just any game you're developing! This is real-life Knight! You can't just make conclusions based on your guesses because you might Fuck someone else's life up." Justin reminded his best friend but Knight just shook his head.

"As long as it's not Aria’s, besides I believe that Carter also deserves to know the truth. I need more information from him too because the closer I get to him, the closer I'll get to the truth." Knight said with determination in his voice.

Justin nods in understanding. He knows Knight so well and he knows that he won't stop until he learns the truth.