Jason’s POV
She continued, trying to control herself from crying more, "I didn’t remember how long I was in prison before you two came to see me. I longed to see at least one person I knew and wanted to tell them that I didn’t mean to kill her. That it happened by mistake. I wanted plead for someone to believe me, but no one ever showed up.
"And when I saw you finally, I wanted to say it all. But... but you didn’t ask. You stayed silent."
Tears rushed down her cheeks, her voice choked.
"I knew I had truly killed your sister, and I deserved all the hate and punishment for it. But I still wanted you to hear me say that it was a mistake, that please don’t hate me for it. But I never got a chance to say it. No one ever asked, not even you."
With so much regret in my heart, once more I could only apologise to her. "I am sorry. I am truly sorry."
She opened her teary eyes to look at me. "Why didn’t you ask? Why did you stay silent? I always wondered why?"
"Will it help if I tell you?" I asked.
She offered a nod. "I might hate you less."
Just a while ago, she said she didn’t hate me, but now, hearing her, I felt better. I deserved to be hated for failing her.
I began, "When I saw the proof that you truly shot Alice and killed her, it was a great shock. I couldn’t believe the girl I loved could kill my family member. I didn’t want to believe it at all. But then that video of you shooting her, and the video with Keiren, and what he told us about how you helped him get the secrets of the pack and killed our people, destroyed almost the entire pack... it was the greatest betrayal I could ever feel. I loved you, but... it was useless before the betrayal and hurt I felt."
My voice broke. "Then, suppressing the pain of Alice’s death, I went to battle with that asshole Keiren’s pack. Even when he was dying, he said the same thing, about how he used you to destroy our pack, about how he enjoyed fucking you..." my words trailed off, "all kinds of bullshit he said, as if he was determined to turn us against you, even at the cost of his life. Then Sophia said the same thing as you. And there were the proofs we couldn’t deny anymore. We were so much in pain, that nothing felt right anymore."
"When I returned after we killed Keiren, Jennifer died as well. Her death was what killed every emotion inside me. Jennifer was everything to me, more than just being my mother. She made sacrifices for my sake, just so I could live. My own mother could never do what she had done. With her, she took away the life she had put in me."
Tears made my vision blurry, my voice choked. "Jennifer was so important to me, Eira. She was everything. I lived just so I could be what she wanted me to be. If there was a day I had to choose between you and her, I would have chosen her. If not for her, I wouldn’t be living anymore to even meet you. I can never forget her sacrifices, the poison she had to swallow just to protect me who wasn’t even her flesh and blood."
I didn’t know how much Eira understood from it, but I just wanted to say it all.



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