Chapter 49: Turmoil II

***Zane***

After declaring that I would fight alongside Ravenstone and translating the events to Agnes, she, Rionna, and Talia do their best to convince me otherwise, but I hear none of it.

Scarlett Haven has already taken so much from me and it appears they are not yet done taking from me.But no more.This war ends now.

Despite their best efforts, no one is able to convince me out of my decision, Queen Aurora calling for a recess and asking us all to go home and rest before making any more decisions.

Rionna asks for a room separate from Toran in the pack house and storms off but not before asking to see me again in the morning for breakfast.

“I…”

I stammer, looking over at Agnes, who appears uncomfortable with my mother’s presence.

“Just breakfast…” Rionna smiles meekly.

“Please…I have so many questions…So many things I don’t know about you or myself…I just…I just want to know who I was and who you are…I nod silently, Rionna sighing with relief and stepping in for a hug, but I flinch away from her involuntarily.I feel bad almost instantly, but she seems to understand my reaction.We are strangers after all and she doesn’t know who I am “

“I look forward to breakfast…” She murmurs.

” Goodnight.”

An omega comes to collect her and I watch her walk away, unable to believe she is actually still alive…still here after all these years.

With the meeting over, we collect Kota who is fast asleep with Evan, both of them snoring away in the middle of the floor surrounded by toy trucks.

Talia is silent as we walk back to the guest house, carefully holding Dakota’s head against her shoulder as he sleeps.

She ignores me when I try to hold her hand, anger radiating off of her as she picks up her pace and walks ahead of me.

Agnes can’t even look at me, staring ahead and pretending I don’t exist.I can hardly understand my own emotions at the moment, but Agnes and Talia’s silent treatments are not helping me sort them out any faster.

the house, Agnes storms off to her bedroom, slamming the door shut behind her and not

him in for the night and leaving me alone in our bedroom.My emotions finally start to pour out of

as though it might explode from all the thoughts ricocheting like bullets against my skull, The drumming of my heartbeat grows louder and louder against my ears until all I hear is incessant thumping

my throat feels as though it’s closing up

Grayson inhales

him and we both slowly let out the breath, repeating

I had believed my mother was gone, her soul resting in the Kingdom of the Moon Goddess for all

sneak off to visit my mother’s grave on our birthdays, leaving flowers for her on Mother’s day and speaking to her tombstone for hours in hopes that she was

died.I had no one else to speak with freely,

what

my life, offering a sliver of

me as

pain shine through though, giving me all smiles and laughs when

lie…Her only

and you know it , Grayson growls defensively, wanting to

man who

had no choice in and you cannot hold it against her when she

angry that she didn’t tell you sooner but she has likely been fighting every day with her conscience about

Not after all the love she

voice broken. She bends over to grab the pillow again and throws it at me. “Kota called you Dad!” She snarls, tears rolling down her cheeks. “Did that mean nothing to you?” I stare atherdumbfounded. It meant everything to me… How could she not see that? throwing it at me. “Then how could you?” she pants angrily. “How could you offer yourself up for war like that? After claiming Kota…How could you leave him like that?” she cries. “Tell me! Tell me how?” I swallow the lump in my throat, trying to form the words in my head but nothing spilling out of my mouth. “I trusted you…” She whines, wiping her tears aggressively. “I trusted you with my heart.With Kota’s heart.What am I supposed to tell him now?” She cries. “What am I supposed to say? That you’re just leaving us for some war we have nothing to do with? That there’s a chance you might never come back? What am I supposed to do!” She shrieks. “You are supposed to be his Dad.That is what you made me believe.How can you just leave him? He won’t understand it, Zane.He won’t understand why one minute he has a Dad and then the next minute, he doesn’t!” She weeps into her hands, her shoulders shaking violently with every sob. I try to pull her into my arms and comfort her

my fingers on

don’t want to r-run…I-I don’t

running,” she

go somewhere far away.Somewhere where no one can find us.We can be

I shake my

li-life I-1 want for y-you

“But-”

my heart in my throat as I confess eyes filling with

love y-you and K-Kota.But I-I can’t love y-you in fe-fear.I-I can’t do th-that to you.P-p-please, p-please

The Novel will be updated daily. Come back and continue reading tomorrow, everyone!

Comments ()

0/255