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.

keep the peace in the

couldn’t do it

was happy living in the small bubble she so adored,

been humiliated for trusting someone who did not belong to the pack, not

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

She believed that she owed it to

leaving the pack other than her

to get out of this pack, so that was what

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 want to listen to

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

and she stated in frustration, "Everything is going fine, so I

she raised her head and looked at her mother. "I know that you like to pretend that things are

is fine? If so, I have more. You can count them one by one and then look at me in the eye and say that it is fucking

and shuddered when

lips tightly

a word of

put her sunglasses back; getting to her feet, she commented, "By turning your gaze away,

walked past the dining table without glancing at Henry,

going?" Ricky stayed quiet for half a minute before turning