Ascension of a Gamma novel Chapter 31

Chapter 31 Doubtful Vision

– Liam

Salina stood beside me, wearing short denim shorts and a long thin shirt with a deep V-neck. She had her hair loose past her shoulders, and I forced a smile on my face. She clung to my side; I let her be. This would be the last she gets this close with me. 2

“You were with her last night, weren’t you?” she asked quietly.

Unlike her usual chirpy self, she was quiet today as we waited for her father to arrive. “I waited for you, but you didn’t

come.”

“Don’t make it sound like you’re my wife,” I said as gently as I could.

All this time, she was beside me. She wasn’t a horrible person, just… clingy and too obedient, I guess. For the last two years, she spent her days here just because her father insisted that it’d be better for her to stay with me, her fiancé

until the given grace period expires. OO REDN C AI QUAD TI Ríully, I found Anna before it did.

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HY, ITUUTTU Anna before it can

“Can I stay?” she asked. “I don’t want to leave. I want to stay here.”

This was for the best. “She doesn’t want you here.”

“My family is here! I don’t want to leave Aunty J and Rigel.” 2

She removed her arm from mine and turned her back to me. I heard her taking deep breaths as if to calm herself.

“I’ll live with them. I’ll leave your room and won’t bother you.”

She faced me again, looking up at me with pleading eyes that I felt a pinch in m y heart.

“Please let me stay.”

“I’m sorry.”

“Can I come visit?”

“No. I’m sorry, Salina. The Blue Moon Pack won’t be welcome here after this.” 1

I didn’t have the right to take her away

from the Johnson’s. They were her REDMI Nether’s side of the family, and Aunty J Al Q would be heartbroken. Rigel might finally

have a more pressing reason to step down as Gamma.

“Don’t I mean anything at all to you, Liam?” she asked with a tone of anger, poking my chest as she rebuked me. “I know you kept me around because of her. Because I was a breathing, living reminder of her. Because I have her face, her body, and her scent. Because you could never forgive yourself for taking her away from me, from all of us.” 2

Her lips trembled and a tear slid down her cheek which she quickly wiped away with the back of her hand.

“What? Now that you found your second mate, you think everything will be alright for you? No… Her ghost will haunt you forever, Liam. My sister’s soul won’t rest until you’re miserable.”

“Is that all?” I asked through gritted teeth. I did use her. She made it easier for me to cope with the loss of Sarina because at the end of the day, I could still smell her… see her, even though I never

* touched her. Many times, I thought “Why OO REDMI NDer? Why did it have to be my Sarina?

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Those were horrible thoughts, but I couldn’t help it then. Over time, those thoughts were directed at me – “why not me?”

“You and I both know what your father’s after. You and I both know this day would eventually come. We were never anything, Salina,” I said, watching her eyes throw daggers at me. “You’re her sister. That’s all you will ever be to me.”

“Her sister who felt your dick pressed up against her last week,” she snide. 1

“That was a mistake.”

“Was it?” she asked, smirking. “Settle what you will with my father. If you ever need me, you know where to find me.”

Her lips pulled into a smile as a black SUV came into view, a convoy of three. They stopped in front of the mansion, and the driver of the car in the middle came out. H e was wearing a suit, his black shoes polished. He opened the door of the passenger seat and a trail of smoke

disappeared into the air as he stepped out. OO REDMI CO ATQUAD“Daddy!”

Salina squealed happily and skipped towards Alpha Myron. He opened his arms for her, and she jumped onto him, hugging him tightly. A hearty laugh came from him as his free hand, the left that wasn’t holding a stick of cig, patted the small of her back. “I missed you so much!” she screamed.

“I missed you too, sunshine,” he said as she pulled away. He held her arm as he looked her over with a grin on his face.” Look at you. Still as gorgeous as ever.”

“Only for you, Daddy,” she chirped, then pointed at me. “And my Alpha.”

I went over to them, plastering a smile on my face. If it wasn’t for his status, both in the werewolf community and in her life, I might’ve buried him alive already.

“Liam!” he exclaimed. “Glad to be here again. I see it hasn’t changed much.”

Take it all in because you won’t be stepping in here again.

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REDM He hugged Salina to his side, his arm AI QUAWEZAped around her waist like she was

apped around her waist like she was his girl, and I don’t mean his daughter. It was strange to me at first, but I was used t o it by now – they were really close. 2

REDMI NOShekeld the sides of her robe and VAI QUAD Curtsied before me.

the man who seeks redemption. Beware the man who seeks destruction. A flower gone, a flower blooms, the flower wilts, and another blossom.”