Chapter 0055

“I’ve known you for a while, Judy. You can’t bullshit me.”

“What do you expect me to say, Ethan? That I’m not okay? That my mother is depressed and barely eats? Isn’t this what you wanted? For me to suffer? So why are you acting like you care right now when we both know you don’t!”

“Judy!” My mother shrieked from the doorway, her eyes large and alert. “How dare you speak to him like that!”

“Mom…”

“He’s

going to be our Alpha, and he deserves our respect,” my mother continued to scold.

“It’s okay, Mrs. Montague. How about you go and sit on the couch? I’ll cook you some dinner,” Ethan offered.

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My mother beamed at him; the first smile I had seen from her in a while. Ethan always had a way bringing that out of her.

“How very thoughtful of you, Ethan,” she said sweetly. “Thank you.”

She gave me another look before she turned and left the kitchen. I spun around on my heel to glare at

him.

asked him,

you like this too, Judy. Go into the living room and spend time with her. I’ll cook you both dinner and

exhausted to think too much about it, so I sighed and walked out of the kitchen. I didn’t bother telling him that I already ate dinner

was curled up on the couch, staring at a picture of my father with tears in

can’t you just do what he wants so we can get your father back?” She asked me, taking me

her in disbelief; if only she knew what

don’t need his help, Mom,” I told her for the hundredth time. “I have

is hardly enough to pay off your father’s debt,” my mother told me, her

hands with mine, trying to provide

will,” I assured her.

the room was filled with the scent of garlic from the pasta sauce. Had Ethan made pasta

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sauce from scratch?

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I just needed my mother to have a little something in her system. I, on the other hand, wasn’t hungry because I had already

on the table, and then he handed my mother one. My suspicions were confirmed when

of that,” I told him. “The

his eyes.

feed that to a

eat,” my mother admitted, staring at the

try,” Ethan asked her, sitting on the seat across from the couch. “It

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