Rejected Luna: Untamed Desire Of The Lycan Alpha

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

living in the small bubble she so adored, Inez was the one who was paying the cost for

She had been humiliated for trusting someone who did not belong to

have her—but then her mother had hugged her and apologised

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

mother had stopped her from leaving the pack other than her fear. But more than her mother, Inez cared for

so that was what Inez was going

bond that made Nia so fond of Dominic and she had often stopped Inez from leaving the pack. Now that the two of them were of one mind, Inez didn’t

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

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

him?" Inez questioned with an innocent expression as she raised her head and looked at her mother. "I know that you like to pretend that things are fine but come on, there is a limit

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

when she saw

pursed her lips tightly and didn’t

a word of

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

dining table without

half a minute before turning to look