Madeline:
"That was just for show. We wanted it to seem like you had spent the night with us and that it was a wild night, I swear. We were just trying to set up a convincing scene."
As he tried to justify their actions as part of an act, disgust spread through my body, raising goosebumps on my skin.
"Look, you hate me, and I understand. I brought it on myself, but I do not hate you," he said, running his hands through his hair. "Everyone around me forced me to leave you. Do you think I wanted to leave you? Do you think I would be that desperate if I truly wanted to leave you? No, Madeline. I got carried away. I did it for Hailey and Hannah, because Silver was taking them from me. She said she would divorce me, and I would never get to see my daughters again."
As expected, he put all the blame on Silver and refused to take responsibility.
"Okay," I replied, shrugging my shoulders as I believed that an alpha was afraid his daughters would be taken away from him.
"What do you expect from me?" I continued. "Do you want me to accept you? To tell you it is okay and that I forgive you, and then we can be together again? No, I do not like you," I said, watching his face change color.
I lowered my hands and looked at him with disgust. "Can you please just drive to the hospital?"
He looked away and hit the steering wheel.
"Why don't you understand? I want to give you a life. I want us to start over. I want comfort for both of us. No one has to know."
As he spoke, he placed his hand on my thigh and moved closer.
That was enough. A tiger cannot change its stripes.
"I made a mistake trusting you again," I said, slapping him across the face and pushing his hand away.
He went silent and completely still for a second before he suddenly unbuckled his seatbelt and stormed out of the car.
The next thing I knew, he was rushing in my direction, and I began to wonder if he was going to take my daughter away from me.
It looked like he would, the way he moved so aggressively toward the car door.
He opened the door and grabbed my arm, dragging me out without caring that my foot got stuck and I fell onto the road.
That did not stop him. He dragged me around the car and then shoved me onto the sidewalk, leaving me there.
"No! Give me my daughter!" I screamed as I ran at him again and reached for the back seat, but he put his hand on my shoulder and pushed me back once more.
In those few seconds of struggling, I wondered if he would take my daughter, bring her to the hospital, treat her, and keep her with him.
I stood there, shivering from the cold, holding my daughter and listening to him say things he would never be able to take back.
"And you know what? I do not even want Elara as my daughter," he added.
I stayed silent. I wanted him to keep talking, to say everything, so I would remember every word the day he sat at my feet and begged for forgiveness.
As he kept speaking, I noticed the clouds shifting into strange shapes, almost as if something was listening to his words. The air felt different. He was too angry to notice, but I did.
"And Madeline, when I go home tonight, I will get into bed with my beautiful wife and forget you even exist. In fact, I thought about using you one more time," he said with a laugh.
Then he touched his cheek, likely remembering the slap I had given him.
"But you are not worth it," he finished.
The clouds shifted again and slowly turned red. His smile faded as he followed my gaze to the sky, then looked back at me.
"Look, Elgin," I said softly, a calm smile on my lips. "The moon goddess heard you."
The moment I said that, the color drained from his face.

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