Alpha’s Rue: His Shunned Luna (Athena Enchanted) novel Chapter 324

Chapter 324
AELIANA
The last few days have been hectic.
Seraphine’s crying around the house, and to avoid her I’ve been at work almost every day.
Brandon’s family did come to fetch his body two days after the incident, but they weren’t allowed to purchase a casket here because we need ours for actual people. His body was out in the open for everyone to see, during those two days, Kingston refused to move it and said it was a warning to everyone who had any stupid idea of hurting me.
No morgue took him, I think that was also Kingston’s doing. Seraphine bought a fridge and kept him in their old house, which has finally been renovated. His parents eventually showed up with a casket they purchased from a nearby pack, but when it was time to leave, Sera was forbidden from going with them. She pleaded to tag along for the burial, but my father died on the hill of no, claiming she owed me loyalty and needed to choose me over that and I quote ‘overgrown pea-brained bastard she procreated with.’
My father and I also had the chance to talk after the meeting at my in-laws’ place. I winced him I finally saw him, Kingston beat him black and blue, but he didn’t seem to mind, and he apologised to me for not seeing things through. I accepted his apology along with the various ones that came from the rest of the pack council. They all treated me with respect and compassion, but what stuck with me was my father’s reaction.
Today, Kingston drove me to my therapy session, which I’m now having every day, thanks to that demon. When I walked into this room a few minutes ago, I was stunned, I actually thought I had entered the wrong room, but no. My father showed up at my therapy session after having gone behind my back and arranged it with Eleanor, my treacherous therapist who happens to be helping a bit.
“Aeliana doesn’t feel loved by you,” Doctor Eleanor tells my father, after minutes of me insisting there’s no need for him to be here, and Doctor Eleanor arguing that it’s good for the family to join in sometimes.
My father shifts, “Is that true?”
I look at Doctor Eleanor before I answer, and she nods. “Yes,” I tell him.
“But I do love her,” he says, not to me, but to Doctor Eleanor. “She’s the most precious thing I have.”
I pause, I would understand if we were around his peers, but we are not. This is my therapy session that he invaded, and he wants to lie? No, we don’t lie in her, not anymore. “So why have you never treated me as such?” I ask, days in this room are finally paying off when it comes to being outspoken. “You always scolded me.”
“I apologise, Ellie.” He swallows, seemingly nervous in his seat. My father doesn’t get nervous, but I guess unloading our dirty laundry in front of a stranger is weird. “But I was hard on you because I didn’t want your mother to ever be disappointed with how I raised you.” He says, his tone so soft it almost sickens me. “And when those tapes came out, it was confirmation that I had failed deeply. Freya raised your brother, he knew her, her values. Gareth barely spent any time with me, and he was a great kid, I wanted that for you.”
“By abandoning me?” I scoff, I’ve been waiting a long time to have this conversation, and I never thought it would happen, but here we are, and I’m not going to hold back. “You didn’t even like looking at me, Dad, it’s like the older I got, the angrier you got at me, and I just didn’t understand why.”
He pauses, pining with a blank stare. His eyes widen for a second the way they always do when he sees me, and something flashes there, but it disappears just as fast. “Do you have any idea how much you like your mother?”