Forbidden Temptation My Mafia Fiance's Alpha Father

Chapter 48

Chapter 48

Brooklyn

I sit there sobbing on my bed, when I hear the door creak open. Hudson's dark head appears. "Brooklyn?" he calls, hesitating. "Can I come in?"

"Sure," I say, wiping at my eyes.

"Are you alright?" he asks, pressing the door closed and coming to sit next to me on the bed.

I nod, sniffing and working to contain myself.

"Just...looking through old pictures." I gesture towards the album.

Hudson picks it up and leafs through it.

"Wow," he says, looking between me and the woman on the page. "Brooklyn, she looks just like you."

"I know," I say, my eyes wide. "Obviously, I remember what she looks like, from when I was a kid, but...I didn't realize I'd grown to resemble her so much."

He nods, still leafing through. Then he looks at me. "I can see how this would be hard for you. I never, ever go through my mom's old albums."

I nod, reaching out a hand for his, understanding.

Life can be so hard, especially when you've lost a parent. It's a fine line between wanting to remember them and missing them so horribly that all you want to do is run from the feeling.

both

situation. I'm not

face in those albums, it feels like it's all happening,

really doomed to repeat it? Will I, too, find reason to flee from this world, to try everything I can to leave it

car accident, or is that too much of a coincidence? For a

going to die

fear and sorrow and

arms around my

miss her,

like if Hudson could love me the way I want someone

my head because he has it all wrong. I know it's okay to miss her. But that's not what

what I feel when the door opens again, this time

doorway, and I

asks, crossing his arms over his chest, taking in Hudson's morose expression

answer, but Hudson responds to

just having a hard day, dad,"

your

my head, sniffing again, working hard to stop crying. It's so embarrassing to cry in front of someone like Aden,

try to speak through my tears. "I'm not -"

are hungry," Aden says, his voice low and tinged with the Alpha

harder as he yells

overwhelmed. Even my wolf doesn't know how to handle me right

that!" he yells, pounding a fist against the