Chapter 18: Biased blindness

When Inez didn’t reply at once, Maria frowned and pressed on. "Did you not hear what I said, Inez?"

Trying to chew the toast as fast as she could, Inez replied, "I did."

"Then why are you not replying?" Maria questioned as she buttered up a toast and handed it to her husband like a good wife and mate.

"I don’t think that it is necessary, Mom. I am way past the age where I need my mommy to make the decisions for me," Inez remarked flippantly.

She had nothing against her mother. The woman made a mistake by falling in love with a man who swept her off her feet and then left her alone to fend for herself and their child.

It was only understandable that Maria hated Inez’s father for leaving her.

While she wanted a home and a family, Jared wanted to explore more of the sea and the ocean. At least that was what Maria told her.

’He wanted freedom and I needed a home,’ she had told six-year-old Inez when she asked where her father was for the first time.

Thus, Inez didn’t blame her mother for moving on with a man who gave her what she wanted. A family, the protection of a pack and a mate.

A warm home.

One who made her feel like a woman who was loved but Inez had enough.

done enough to keep the peace in the

couldn’t do it

small bubble she so adored, Inez was the one who

had been humiliated for trusting someone

had often said that she never wanted to have her—but then her mother had hugged

and suffered all kinds of torment. She believed that she owed it to her mother and the sufferings that she had

pack other than her fear. But

get out of this pack, so that was what Inez was going to

and she had often stopped Inez from leaving the pack. Now that the

on the table heavily and snapped. Her voice crackled like a whip over the dining table. "I am your mother and I have the right to know

was not saying anything, Maria’s brows furrowed even more and she stated in frustration, "Everything is going

and looked at her mother. "I know that you like to pretend that

her mother and questioned, "You think this is fine? If so, I have more. You can count them one by

away and shuddered when she saw the serious injuries on

her lips tightly and didn’t

a word of

her feet, she commented, "By turning your gaze away, you cannot fool yourself into believing that it’s

walked past the dining table without glancing at Henry,

Ricky stayed quiet for half a minute

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