Alpha Enzo by Ls Barbosa

Chapter 128

Alaria:

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“Hey,” I said, smiling at Yasmin, who was laying on her bed.

She didn’t say a word for a moment, but then she forced herself to sit up and look at me. Her eyes, which held more pain th

she could describe, tried to avoid mine as she looked anywhere but into my eyes.

“Hi,” she said, finally responding as I approached the chair beside her bed.

She watched as I sat there, and I smiled, shaking my head in question.

“I thought that you would be coming to dinner? You know, the pack doctor said that you would need to eat to fully recover.” I said, and she looked away from me for a moment.

“I didn’t feel like eating. And it is not like I want to be recovering quickly. I am tired and I just want to go to bed. I want to rest for a while, and I really don’t want to be dealing with

ything more than the conflict that I was

forced to deal with and the…”

I said, and she looked away from me.

here to scold me too?” She asked, and I shook

thing that I am going to do is scold you, Yasmin. I know what it is to be scared and in pain,

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lead to that. I just wanted to go out and get some air. I was upset and in pain and 1. didn’t

said that you

her eyes. For a moment, I had to admit, I was curious about who she was talking about. But it didn’t take me long to realize that it was Leonardo. It was the reason why the two of them argued, it seemed. The man saw her as nothing

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and she looked away from me.

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said, and I took a deep breath. I knew not to press on the little girl. She was already upset as it was, adding salt on the wound wasn’t going

1. me.

when you are treated with love and protection, it doesn’t make you any less. If anything, it only means that you are loved, even more than you might think that you are.” I said, putting a hand on hers. “Sometimes being the pack’s teenager is the best thing that can happen. You are an adult,

I be free of this ‘protection‘? Because it makes others thin of me as a kid, and

I smiled.

wish that I was treated as a kid. It would make the responsibilities that I have a lot less hectic. But the older you grow, the more you realize that this protectiveness is an act of love. You are your father’s only daughter, the light of his day, and the one reminder of your mother.” I said, reminding her of the fact that though the man stood strong, he also lost someone dear to him: “Don’t break him with that. He might not be showing it,

I love doesn’t love me back?”

not mutual, it* doesn’t mean the end.” I said, my voice softening as I spoke to her. “It is only the beginning, and you are young and you have the right to find yourself falling in love over and over again. Eventually, you are going to love

worth it.” I said, smiling softly at

She asked, making me smile. I