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Chapter 22 OUTTAKE

FIRST OFF... MY PRAYERS GO OUT TO THE NEPALI'S.

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The Present and Hearts Are Dropping Like Flies (Victoria POV)

Ten years ago, I had left everyone outside as they beat on Kaden, running to soothe Lana, feeling her pain, knowing what Kaden was doing to his mate was wrong, that my sister didn't deserve this. I had to go to her, when it came to this situation, Lana didn't come to any of us, we all just tended to be on the outside watching in, waiting for the moment where she would seek us out.

"How are you?" I asked and the minute the words are out, I just rolled my eyes, how did I think she was? "Sorry, you don't-"

"You don't have to do this for me," she said dryly, standing leaving me in my spot, before I blinked and went after her. Stepping outside on the porch, I took her hand, "I'm your sister, your twin, you think I don't know how much he's hurt you, even Jace is on your side Lana."

Her hand in mine, little did I know that our life would never be the same again; that the reason she never came to me was because I was just too close to the situation. "She isn't as perfect as you all think she is... this... me leaving is all her doing. She rejected me, for Jace. When I was thirteen years old, before she and Jace went off to school I shifted, and she knew all along that I was her mate but she told me she was in love with my brother. I begged her. Pleaded with her but all she could do was tell me how much she loved my brother..." Kaden shouted his eyes on Jace and the words, they didn't make sense to me, I dropped Lana's hand, my eyes going to Jace, what Kaden was saying couldn't have been real, he was only saying what would make him look like the injured party.

"She went away with you, stayed with you Jace..." Kaden continued, his shoulders deflating as he spoke, our family, my siblings, his all coming out to stand on that porch as he set the truth down at our feet.

'You're my first,' Jace had whispered to me, brought me comfort, each other's first time, the words echoed but drowned out by Kadens now.

"She broke me into a million pieces by the pond in England and left me out there and returned home, to your bed Jace." I couldn't believe it, but Jace... Lana... neither of them said a thing to defend themselves, to set the record straight.

"Lana knew for a year that I was her mate! A YEAR! But she loved you and rejected me. She cried, begged me to let her go so she could be with you, because she loved you and you loved her..."

'I met a guy here in England,' Lana told me when she first moved, the first time we would be separated, 'We have so many things in common, he isn't my true mate though, but - I love him,' she cried four months later, and I knew her, I knew that she didn't just fall in love blindly.

'When am I going to meet this guy?' I had asked her.

"You think of her like a daughter I know, but she broke me mom. She broke me so she could be with Jace... She told me that when we got to this age that we would get back together, that our children would play together and we would all be one happy family..." the sadness in his voice at that moment, what he had gone through, Lana staying away from the pack for years after she moved back. Me never meeting that guy that she loved, that she was willing to give up on her mate for...