Rejected Luna: Untamed Desire Of The Lycan Alpha

Chapter 18

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.

had done enough to keep the peace

she couldn’t do

adored,

now because she knew that Maria had somewhere suffered because of her existence. She had been humiliated for

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

all kinds of torment. She believed that she

the pack other than her fear. But more than her mother, Inez

get out of this pack, so that was what Inez

she had often stopped Inez from leaving the pack. Now that the two of them were of one mind, Inez didn’t want to listen to anyone and

snapped. Her voice crackled like a whip over the dining table.

not saying anything, Maria’s brows furrowed even more and she stated in

that you like to pretend that things are

blue eye to her mother and questioned, "You think this is fine? If so, I have more. You can count

her head away and shuddered when she saw the serious injuries on

lips tightly

word

back; getting to her feet, she commented, "By turning your gaze away, you cannot fool yourself into believing that

past the dining table without glancing at Henry,

going?" Ricky stayed quiet for half a minute before

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