The Silent Alpha (Natalia)

Read The Silent Alpha by Stephanie Light Chapter 79 – Secrets

*** Trigger Warning: Physical and emotional child-abuse ahead***

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It feels strange to see the man I’ve feared for so long kneel before me, trembling like all the times I stood before him while I recited my poems. But even as he bleeds, even as he sits at my mercy, I still see the look of disgust flicker in his eyes when I speak to him for the first time in almost 20 years.

“H-Hello, father,” I snarl, my fists clenching at my sides as I fight to contain my anger. Enter title… How can he hate his own son so much!? Around me, the Scarlett Haven wolves gawk at me, unable to believe I just called their Alpha, ‘father’.

“You’re….You’re no son of mine,” Sebastian pants, his brown eyes turning blue as the wolf within takes over. “You’re nothing more than a weak, pathetic-” I swing my arm back, punching him in the jaw and nearly knocking him flat on his back before he can finish his sentence.

“E-Enough!” I growl, my father’s mouth clamping shut while his eyes widen in shock that my commands work on him. “T-that’s enough! Y-you think y-you’re so strong and so t-tough? W-well look at y-you now, father! Wh-what good is y-your strength now?” “How dare you speak to me that way!” Sebastian roars.

“y-you have silenced m-me all of my life. Y-you do not get to silence m-me before my own p-pack!” “Your pack?” He scoffs.

The Ravenstone wolves growl at his disrespect, proving that they are now loyal to me. “My p-pack,” I repeat.

“De-despite how little y-you think of me, not only did I-I find a p-pack that accepts m-me as I-I am, but I-I also managed to ou-outlive m-my replacement.”

Sebastian laughs and opens his mouth to speak only to be silenced by a slap to the face as Grayson takes over.

“Did I say you could speak?” Grayson roars, Sebastian’s eyes widening in shock at Grayson’s confidence.

A cold amused smile curls on Sebastain’s l*ps. “Pack?” he laughs.

“The man who stands beside you killed your mother and your brother and yet you proudly show your loyalty to him,” my father scoffs.

“H-he didn’t k-kill Jonathan-” That’s when I see it, the flicker of fear in his eyes when I mention my dead brother. He’s hiding something…Lowering my walls, I allow the river of thoughts to flow between us.

He can’t know about Jonathan. There’s no possible way he would know! I hear him say to his wolf. “W-what don’t I know?” I ask, my father stiffening with surprise that I know what he’s thinking.

This Novel Is Provided BY AllWorldBeauty.com “What?” he asks, bemused by my question. “I -I said, ‘W-What don’t I-I know about Jonathan?” I repeat, this time taking a menacing step forward.

My father tries to crawl back but winces when he tries to move his legs. “W-What don’t I-I know about Jonathan?” I snarl, dread settling in the pit of my stomach.

My father stares back defiantly at me, refusing to speak so I take matters into my own hands. Closing my eyes, I listen in to his subconscious, following the voices in his memories.

A coldness envelops me in the darkness before a bright light blinds me for a moment. Like a movie projection, Sebastian’s memories begin to unfold on the dock in front of him for all to see.

Scarlett Haven and Ravenstone wolves alike fall silent to watch, allowing me to focus on the many rivers of thought trying to drown me.

In the first memory I find, all I see is Sebastian sitting at his desk, staring at a hairbrush in his hand.He does not use it, just carefully caresses it for a few moments before stuffing it into a drawer and returning to his work.

For a moment, he almost looks human…until he carefully hides all his pain behind a mask of stone.

I dig a little deeper, unlocking another memory where my father berates Wyatt for questioning him.

“Zane will not take the title because he doesn’t have what it takes to look his opponent in the eye and lead his soldiers in war,” he snarls.

“He will always be weak…He’s useless…I showed mercy to him as a favor for Elenore. He was her son, but he was never mine.”

Despite the venom in his voice as he says those things, I feel a smile curl on my face and a sense of relief wash over me as I realize something amazing.

His words no longer hurt me and I am now free of the chains that bound me to him.

We are not family, just two strangers at war.  I continue scouring his memories, stumbling upon memory after memory of him ignoring the cruelty of his own pack against Agnes and I.

I travel back many years until I find myself seeing the night of my mother’s death through his own eyes.

I stand back and watch my mother leave the car to grab a snack for me, trailing behind Sebastian as they enter the King’s party.

Together they greet guests and slowly make their way towards the snack bar, smiling and laughing like the perfect couple.

To an outsider, they look like your average, happily married Alpha and Luna, but on the inside, I know my mother was screaming.

she grabs a plate of food

why my mother never left Sebastian, believing perhaps their bond was just too hard to break

someone hurting your child.I was hidden away partially for fear of me being hurt by

feared I would be hurt without Scarlett Haven’s

just like Jonathan.

of pride washes over me as I recognize my mother’s strength to choose me over her pack and title. It could not have been

things that I need and nothing

expect any of your money

so why start now?” I see the anger seething in Sebastian’s brown eyes and he walks away, my mother turning back in the direction of the car, only to be pulled into a conversation with a pack of

after, the attack begins and as the memory drifts away, I hear the most blood curdling scream, a scream that both shatters my heart and fills my soul with

cheek and runs in the opposite direction,

the projection, unable to understand how Sebastian could abandon his mate when she called his name. “y-you heard her scream,” I mumble, fighting back

trails off as I try to contain my rage. All these years of suffering without my mother…could have ended had Sebastian only protected his mate like he promised to the day he married her.I could have lived a

beautiful life. Sebastian stares back emotionlessly, not an ounce of regret for what he

Wyatt’s responsibility,” Sebastian retorts in a low snarl. “Besides, who are you to judge me? You stand with the

no

just a spineless-” Grayson pushes through to the surface, taking over control as I

commands, Sebastian watching in horror as his hands

No!” He says through gritted teeth, attempting to disobey the command but failing, his fingers plunging into the

strained agony, blood pouring from

sneers, Sebastian’s face seething with rage

weakness.Isn’t that what you always say to me, Father?” Sebastian growls in response, his breaths ragged as he holds back his screams

snarls, taking a step back

again, I get down on one knee so that our

rage through clenched teeth. “And I-I never will be.” I close my eyes, once again finding myself in the depths of my father’s

cruel and vile, but I stumbled upon one I have no memory of

Alexander, snarls as he looks down

trembles in the presence of the old Alpha, his face contorted in disgust

me

of yours how to address an Alpha,” my grandfather snarls. “Unless you want me to do it for you.” There is terror in

He hides it well behind an emotionless face, storming over to my

front of me protectively. “You

wife’s behavior.” My grandfather only grunts in response, an unamused look on his face. “Make sure it never happens again.” “Yes sir,” Sebastian bows before

afraid my whole life to notice Sebastian had his own fears. “Boy, come here,” my grandfather’s voice booms, my

her away from me, hissing in her ear, “If you care

watching my younger self tremble as I take timid steps

my grandfather snaps, younger me opening my

snarls, tears springing to my eyes. “He-hello, gran-gran-grandpa-” The color drains from Sebastian’s face

suddenly begins to scream, my little hands clawing at my arms and begging

pleads as I collapse on the floor, writhing and kicking from

Alpha Alexander to let me

says, getting

fix him.Just let the kid go.” My younger self suddenly stops screaming, passed out from all the

elder Alpha stares coldly at his kneeling son, disgusted by his behavior.

Alpha never kneels, EVER!” The walls rattle with his booming voice, and

I see that boy,” he says over his shoulder. “He better be fixed.” The memory fades away into mist, morphing

while little Jonathan plays with a crinkly

old cottage by the

himself onto his feet and crawling over to his father to greet him with

Sebastian whispers over his

into the back seat, excitement dancing in his youthful

had long forgotten there was once a man

watching my older brother play with a rattle in

the three wolves standing in the middle of

road and into a ditch, the truck flipping over

in the air. Dazed and confused, Sebastian

face as he screams. Outside, the wolves circle