Kids from One Alpha

Chapter 85: The Truth, At Last

Logan shook his head. He didn’t want to think that Serena’s actions had been justified. There was no way he could accept that! “The truth is, Logan, by the time I could tell you the truth, it was already too late,” she said. “You didn’t want to know the truth. You never even wanted kids. Remember telling me that in the maternity ward? You said you weren’t ready.” “It doesn’t matter what I said,” Logan argued. “The point is, I had the right to know the truth.” “Maybe you did,” Serena said, shaking her head. “In the long run, it only would have hurt Olivia and Oliver. If you love them at all, as a father or as a friend, you wouldn’t demand knowing the truth when you know it could hurt them.” Logan snarled, shaking his head. He leaned back against the wall of the tree house. It seemed so frail now that he was sober. He couldn’t remember why he had thought that the treehouse was a good place to take Serena when they had been partying together.

So long ago. It wasn’t just the alcohol that had taken his memories. It was time. Time had compromised how he viewed that night. Time and so many little changes in between. He felt like he had grown up so much since then, but the emotional impact was still so raw. “We can’t change the past,” Serena said. “I wouldn’t change it if I could.” “Why not?” Logan asked her. She shrugged.

“I love my kids. I love my career and who I have become,” she said. “I wouldn’t be any of that, nor would my kids, if I had done anything differently.” “It is easy to say that now, but you also can’t know what things would have been like,” Logan reminded her. “It is also easy to say that you would have wanted to be there, that knowing would be better,” she pointed out. “You were struggling with becoming Alpha, you had problems of your own. Would you really have wanted to raise kids along with all that?” Logan scoffed, looking away from Serena. Her questioning eyes were too much for him.

“I don’t know,” he admitted.

“I had my suspicions,“ Serena said. “About you being their father. Before I got the DNA results. There were things I noticed, like how Oliver looked like you when you were his age, how drawn to them you were and they to you.” “Why didn’t you say anything then?” he asked. “Why would I?” she asked. Logan growled again.

to keep your suspicions to yourself?” he asked.

And I was afraid.” “Afraid of what!?” Logan snapped. Serena cringed away from his temper. “That, for one thing,” she muttered. “I was afraid that if you learned they weren’t your kids, you wouldn’t treat them the same.” Logan scoffed, shaking his head. “You really don’t know me at all, then,” he said. “I would have

he’d eavesdropped on Serena’s conversation on the phone. She’d called a medical lab. He hadn’t known what the call was about before, but now he knew that she had been asking for the DNA results. “You took my blood when you did the annual exams,” he muttered. Serena nodded. “I wasn’t going to test it at first,” she admitted. “I really didn’t want to know because of all the implications that came with it. I decided I had to know though, and that the kids had to know. If the results proved you their father, I was planning on telling you.” “But you didn’t!” he reminded her vehemently. “No, I didn’t,” she said. “By that time, Holly was pregnant. Shortly after that, you admitted that you weren’t ready to be a parent. There wasn’t any reason to tell you.” “Except for basic decency! You should have given

would have become of the twins?” Serena asked. “You were right when you said you weren’t ready to be a father, because you can’t put the kids first. You can only whine and complain

Logan released her and turned his back on her. “You’re loving this, aren’t you?” he

“Were you just planning the perfect moment then? Waiting for the right time? There would never be a right time, Serena,” he said. Serena sighed, crossing her arms again. “Maybe

place, would he have done things differently? He would have liked to think so! “I don’t know,” he said finally. “All I know is that I feel a deep sense of betrayal and hurt. You lied to me.” “I didn’t

 so concerned about the wellbeing of the kids, and you never thought about what would happen when the truth did come out!” “What do you mean by

out the truth? You‘re right, I can’t be there for them the way I should be with Holly and another baby. Won’t

him. “I don’t know what

looked back out the window. A chilly wind rocked the treehouse. The branches around the treehouse creaked. Serena was