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

couldn’t do it

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

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

often said that she never wanted to have her—but then her mother had

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

for her mother had stopped her from leaving 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

had often stopped Inez from leaving the pack. Now that the

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

brows furrowed even more and she stated in frustration, "Everything is going fine, so I do

and looked at her mother. "I know that you like to pretend that things are fine but

eyes and showed the swollen black and blue eye to her mother and questioned, "You think this is fine? If so, I have more. You

her head away and shuddered when she saw the serious injuries

tightly and didn’t say

word

her feet, she commented, "By turning your gaze

walked past the dining table without glancing at Henry, her

you going?" Ricky stayed quiet for half