Chapter 83 - The Secret (2/2)

Meredith let out a low chuckle, ”Yes I'm not. We are just related but not blood related. It's all complicated and I don't know how to explain it. I'm afraid you're going to think I'm crazy.”

Atlas leaned against the chair and stared at her in silence. He narrowed his eyes at her. He got a feeling that there was something she wasn't telling him.

”Does it have to do with people coming for you and the secrets you can't tell me?”

Meredith's jaw flexed, ”I was hoping to wait when everything makes sense before I tell you but you're too smart for your own good.”

Atlas nodded, ”Just tell me. Remember no matter what you're still my Angel and I can't protect you if I don't know what is going on.”

Meredith stared at him for a while before she sighed.

”Your mother is not who you think she is….”

Atlas's heart stopped.

”She is not from here meaning she is not from earth. She comes from the city of Arkaans where supernatural beings live.” Meredith spoke slowly as if she was speaking to a small child.

They stared at each other from across the bed.

Atlas mouth opened but it remained soundless.

”What?” Atlas stared at her, in loss of words.

”Yes she is a werewolf and if your mom is a werewolf than you're also a hybrid, half human, half werewolf.”

Atlas swallowed the lump in his throat and his stomach twisted from the shock that was settling in. The calm mask on his face was slipping. He gazed into her eyes to see if she was joking but sincere eyes stared back at him.

Werewolf. Hybrid.

Suddenly, he shot to his feet. His chair fell over, slamming noisily on the floor behind him. Nerves fluttered in his belly.

An Iv fluid was secured on Meredith's hand so she just stared at him, concern bubbled on her face.

Atlas began to pace around the room his hands on his waist. Did he believe what she was saying? Yes because he had his mom's diary. She wrote she had a secret that she was too scared to tell her kids and one day when they grow up she would tell them but she never did.

Atlas had been curious about his mom's secret for years. He thought she had a child somewhere that's why he had panicked when Meredith's face paled when she saw his mom. But a werewolf?

He snorted. That was crazy.

”Atlas I know this is a lot to digest, which is why exactly why I didn't want to tell you yet until I was sure. I'm sorry I told you something this heavy.”

Atlas paused and glanced at her. ”How sure are you? Where did you get this information? What proof do you have? Sorry Angel..it's not that I don't believe you but it's kinda hard to believe that my mom..the woman whom I loved more than anything isn't even whom she claimed to be and now I'm some monster?”

Meredith flinched at his harsh tone and he let out a breath.

”Sorry it just all of this...it's too much to take in.”

Meredith nodded in understanding.

”I know just sit down I will explain everything to you then we will know where to go from there.”