Chapter 0680

Broad shoulders, jet black hair streaked with silver-

"Dad?" I exclaimed.

He looked much more tired than when I had seen him last, with more pronounced wrinkles across his forehead and around his striking eyes. He looked as if he hadn't slept in days. Those same eyes looked at me now with profound warmth and... was that regret?

"Hello, Nina. Tyler. Angelica." My dad's voice still resonated through the room with alpha authority, although today, it carried a softer tone than I had heard in a while.

"Aldric," my mother breathed, slowly rising from her chair with narrowed eyes. "What are you doing here?"

My father sighed. He glanced back and forth between all of us, and then his shoulders slumped a bit.

approached slowly. My dad watched me, uncertainty clouding those familiar, steely

even vulnerable. "I'm so sorry about what happened. I've been thinking a lot

around my heart. I collapsed into his

you," I whispered into his

newfound light in his eyes. "I really am sorry," he said softly, then turned to address all of us. "I'm sorry to all of you. And you, Angelica, my

paused, her arms folded across her chest. Her

"You don't get to berate my daughter and then give

"Angelica-"

can go ahead and live your sad, lonely life in that mansion all by yourself." The room was silent, the only sound that

father's face. "You're a firecracker, Angelica," he murmured. "A real firecracker." My mother scoffed, but I could see the light dancing in her

the room and pulled my mom into his broad arms. Tyler and I watched from the sidelines, smirking at each other. It was so unlike our mother to be this

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