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.

done enough to keep the

she couldn’t do it

living in the small bubble she so adored, Inez was the

suffered because of her existence. She had been humiliated for trusting someone who did not belong to the pack,

have her—but

of torment. She believed that she owed it

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

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

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

of butter on the table heavily and snapped. Her voice crackled like a whip over the dining table. "I am

that Inez was not saying anything, Maria’s brows furrowed even more and she stated in frustration, "Everything is going fine, so I do not understand

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

this is fine? If so, I have

shuddered when she saw the serious injuries on Inez’s

her lips tightly and

a word

her feet, she commented, "By turning your gaze

dining table without glancing at

half a minute before turning to look

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