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.

enough to keep

couldn’t do it

Maria was happy living in the small bubble she so adored,

had held on till now because she knew that Maria had somewhere suffered because of her existence. She had been humiliated for trusting someone

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

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

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

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

stopped Inez from leaving the pack.

crackled like a whip over the dining table. "I am your mother and I have the right to

brows furrowed even more and she stated in frustration, "Everything is going

questioned with an innocent expression as she raised her head and looked at her mother. "I know that you like to

"You think this is fine? If so, I have

when she saw the serious injuries on Inez’s

her lips tightly and

word of

had expected it. She sighed and put her sunglasses back; getting to her feet, she commented, "By turning

the dining table without glancing at Henry, her

half a minute before

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