The Alpha’s Little Rogue

Chapter 91
Alessia’s POV
My throat closes up as I stand in front of the big black door. The only thing standing between me and my father. A man that I’ve never met yet has influenced every area of my life.
I stall, anxiety curling up in a ball inside of me and making my knuckles stop mid-air. Through the door, I pick up
the scent from within the room and it curls my stomach, making me feel like I have to throw up. How does a person who’s still alive have the smell of someone dying?
“You don’t have to go in if you aren’t ready,” Caden mutters softly behind me and places a hand on my shoulder, giving me a reassuring squeeze. “We can come back at any time. It doesn’t have to be today.”
We both know that to be a lie. It has to be today.
From the little Caden has told me, my father is severely ill, and postponing this meeting any further is out of the question. Apparently, Jude has been feeding him the deadly venom in tiny dosages each day, killing him slowly. They found the pack doctor that had been working for Jude but the irreversible damage had already been done.

My father barely has a week left to leave and if I don’t do this now, it may be too late by the time I finally mutter up the strength to go through with it.
“I’m fine. I can do this.” I nod determinedly and knock twice on the door, holding my breath as I wait to hear the sound of my father’s voice for the very first time.
“Come in,” a sickly voice says and it ends in a cough. I feel tears well up in my eyes. I didn’t expect him to sound that bad. It sounds like even that small sentence has taken a lot out of him.
“Alessia.” Caden turns me around with a hand on my shoulder. His face softens once he sees the unshed. tears in my eyes. “You might not like what you see on that bed once you walk in and I want you to be very sure that you can handle it.”
In what state is my father for Caden to be giving me such a heads up? I ponder over his suggestion for a moment but then shake myself out of it. I can’t keep putting this off. It has been going in for days now but today is the day I plant my feet in the ground and say no more. I’m just going to walk in there, talk to the man, tell him what I have to say, and then walk back out of the room.
“I can do this, I repeat, adding strength to my words so that I can believe them myself.
Caden looks at me skeptically but drops his hand away from my shoulder and points to the door. “Your father is waiting for you in there and I’ll be right out here. We’ll leave when you’re ready to go.”
I nod, appreciating the kindness and support that he has been showing to me ever since he dropped this bomb on me. A surprise, given that he probably has his crises that he’s battling himself. Finding out about Jude didn’t only turn my world on its axis. It did the same to Caden. I can’t even imagine how he must feel to have found out that Jude got away. The man that he had been chasing for half his life was so close to him but yet managed to slip through his fingers.
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We haven’t talked about the other thing he said that day. No words have been mentioned about how Jude is the same man who ordered the attack that had his previous mate killed. He took away his first mate and drove a second mate into his arms. It’s a blanket that hangs in the air and covers over us. I haven’t brought since then and we both came to a silent agreement to ignore the connection between our lives.
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