I was Kidnapped for Revenge by a Ruthless Alpha-Chapter 165: The First Meeting Pt 3

~ODETTE’S POV~

"Kalvin, I had hoped to talk to you personally, but I guess here will have to do." I started "Kalvin, we have never been in love, and I know that now, because I know what love feels like. I realized with time away, you also didn’t love me. You loved the idea of me."

I could see the hurt on his face with her words. But I needed this. I needed to speak my truth.

"You didn’t love me, you loved controlling me, you caged me, just like they did, I’ve spent so much of my life in a figurative cage I didn’t know what freedom looked like. I didn’t know any better. But I do now. I don’t love you Kalvin. But you know who does?" I asked and then shifted my eyes to Delilah, my cousin and childhood best friend "Delilah has been in love with you all our lives. You should give her a chance."

I smiled softly at Delilah. I saw how my best friend looked at him, and when was near me, I could smell her sent on him. In the kind of way I smelled like Ambrose, they had slept together. Recently. I guessed in the past, based off Delilah’s awkward behavior after Kalvin picked me. And today her scent and expression solidified it.

Kalvin instantly denied my claim, saying it all with his chest. "That’s not true at all. I love you. I’ve always loved you. I’ve never been with anyone else, now will I."

I furrowed my brows and narrowed my eyes at him "You dare lie to me? In my kingdom?"

I felt Ambrose’s rage as my own. I could feel it through me.

"I would never lie to you!" He pleaded to me, he looked compelling, really. I looked over to Delilah’s face, and the hurt written on it told me something very different.

Ambrose offered a solution. And his solution made me smile.

"I offer my beta for your service, my future queen. You see, he’s a human lie detector." Ambrose smirked looking right at Kalvin. Ambrose sense of smell was much stronger I know he can smell, Kalvin had fucked Delilah not long before they arrived here. He could smell their pheromones. Same as me.

Beta Damon walked in not long after Ambrose made the suggestion.

"Hello, Alpha King, you summoned me." Beta Damon bowed low to Ambrose who then told my family.

"This man claims he’s telling the truth would you mind demonstrating your ability before interrogating him?" Ambrose then looked at my father. "I need you to lie to him 5 things about you and he will answer which is a lie."

My fathered grinned, seemingly pleased. "I’ve killed many shifters. I love my all my brothers. I can lift a trailer. Run as fast as a cheetah. I am really into music."

Damon interrupted him. "I love all my brothers is a lie."

Ambrose looked at me, "Your turn."

I thought for a moment and then smiled. "I volunteer with my mother at an orphanage. I love to secretly dance in my room when no one is looking. I’m a terrible cook."

Damon paused her again, "That’s a lie."

Ambrose looked at Mammy and was about to say ’your turn’ but was interrupted by a man who looked strangely similar to Ezelreth.

"He speaks the truth he can hear lies and he can’t tell lies." The man raised his hand and held it up silencing us from going further.

"Okay proceed. Glad that’s cleared up, now, tell us again, do you love Odette."

Kalvin gulped, nervously and said "Yes."

Damon said "Truth."

Ambrose frowned "Let me rephrase. Are you in love with Odette?"

Kalvin looked more confident when he answered this time, "Yes. I am."

"Lie." Damon answered.

Before anyone could speak Ambrose smiled maliciously and asked "Have you ever fucked Delilah?"

The color on Kalvin’s face drained in an instant and the whole room looked at him. The question even made me a little uncomfortable being asked so flat out.

Delilah looked like she wanted to bury her head in the sand. Hide and disappear, never to be found.

Kalvin took a deep breath and confessed "Yes."

Damon answered "Truth."

My father frowned and rose from his seat and he moved in a blink over to Kalvin and punched him square in the face sending him flying out of his chair and into the wall behind him.

"You fucking cheated on my daughter. You shameful, slimy scumbag." My father slammed his foot into Kalvin’s chest. The sound of his ribs cracking echoed through the room.

I stood up and yelled "That’s enough father, I don’t care. And wasting any more time on him is futile."

I wanted to focus on the topic at hand, not on my cheating lying ex. I really don’t care about this shit right now. I had Ambrose. The love he filled my heart with was no comparison to what I had with Kalvin.

My Uncle Jeremy and Aunt Rosa sat in their seats speechless, both of them looking at their daughter with shame and disappointment. "I can’t believe you would do something so despicable. You are a disappointment, and I’ll deal with you later." Uncle Jeremy screamed at Delilah

Arya sat in her seat and hadn’t bothered to look or speak to Kalvin. She was so disgusted with him, she didn’t want anything to do with him at this moment.

Kalvin was in agony on the ground. His ribs broken, his nose matched. I could see every part of him ached and felt the sting of humiliation.

But I didn’t feel guilty.

I was a little hurt by Delilah’s betrayal, but I understood, she always loved him. I couldn’t blame him.

"As I was saying. Our alliance will be sealed through marriage, and together we will destroy the rising darkness, once and for all."

"We have been preparing for the war that is coming for some time, I’m sure you know your mother has been possessed by the evil and we need to find a way to free her. Arya has been working on a way to trap Ezelreth’s soul in a stone." My father mentions.

"That’s good to know. How did my mother become possessed by him anyways?" I asked.

"Her grief opened her up to his influence, giving him away into her, eventually consuming her." The man who looked like Ezelreth answered.

"Do we know how to free her yet?" I asked.

"No, but now that I think I solved the stone problem, we can work on a way to get him out and into the stone, freeing your mother from his clutches." Arya added.

My grandpa Vlad had been watching, I could tell he was analyzing everything, and recognition flashed across his face.

He’s seen all this before.