41-A Comfort Kiss
Thankfully, he didn’t hit me but him raising his hand at me had upset me enough into pushing him back.
– “My father might be a little too loose on his eyes, but he will never lay his hands on his son’s mate,” the delusion in his voice
saddened me.
“He is my family, he would never hurt me like this,” the tears in his eyes and the popping of his veins explained the uncertainty in his statement.
He must have been aware of his father’s shameless acts but refused to acknowledge them because then that would mean he has to believe that his only family doesn’t even care about him.
“I am taking a stroll,” I didn’t feel like arguing with him. He was broken himself, wanting his father to be aware of his loneliness and act as a good parent to him.
He was a young alpha, who had probably faced all the hurdles alone and learned things by himself.
Even I was now curious why he was shunned to the academy for two years.
…I have walked out of the mansion and left for the road to get some fresh air.
‘We should have fought to stay back in the academy,’ I grumpily huffed.
*Do you not remember Mr. Tripper lives there,’ Nia questioned my memory and I rolled my eyes at how miserable my life is.
Everywhere I go, I find people who want to slit my throat.
‘Do you think it’s something we do wrong?’ I inquired from Nia since she knew exactly how we react and act around people.
“Nope! It is people that try to control us. When they realize they are unable to make us do whatever they want us to, they hurt us.’ she made a good point, ‘But I must say, I feel heavily for Lazlo. He is getting manipulated and gaslighted by his father,’ she added once she explained how much sorrow and sadness she felt in Lazlo’s wolf today.
“I think he needs to say whatever is in his heart to his father. Lord Yale will never stop until the new Alpha stops him. Lazlo needs
to realize he is not a pup anymore who cares about his parent’s attention and approval. He is the Alpha of the pack; many people i look at him. I had only started talking about what he should do when Nia felt his scent behind us.
I focused behind me and heard his footsteps too. The moment he caught up with me, instead of saying anything, he wrapped his long coat around my shoulders.
I didn’t slap his hand away or anything. It was itself big of him to come forward himself instead of making me apologize to him.
“I am sorry!” he whispered while matching pace with mine, “I shouldn’t have reacted the way I did,” he didn’t raise his face from the ground. I was now beginning to feel like he did all that because it wasn’t easy for him to admit his father was a scum.
“It is okay, I shouldn’t have said all those things too,” I admitted cheekily. It was a shame that we argued like kids when the real culprit has fled.
“I know you have seen his eyes wander to the wrong places. And I get it that it makes you uncomfortable but tell me what can | do? He is my father, it just hurts to think he is this way,” he was walking with me but he hadn’t been able to look above.
He was truly hurt and ashamed of his father’s actions but clueless about how to deal with them.
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