Chapter Twenty
“How did you get in here?” I questioned him.
“Let’s skip that part. I was hoping you would ask why I was here.”
“Well then, why are you here?” I asked him
“I needed to apologize.”
“It doesn’t work that way, and I don’t appreciate you showing up in my home, Bruce.
“I know, and if I will try not to do that next time–if there ever has to be a next time.
I didn’t handle things well when you came to visit; I had been too brash and… cold. For this reason, I ask for your forgiveness.
“Got it. You can leave now.”
“I know you wanted an explanation, but I didn’t give you one…
“Bruce, I don’t really care, not anymore; all I need is some time alone.”
“I would leave, but I went through a lot to be here, and so I need you to hear me out.”
“You have one minute, and your time starts now.”
“I do have an explanation; there is a reason I had to stay away from you, but the problem is I cannot tell it to you.”
“If I may ask, why?”
“I just can’t. But I want you to know that I did care for your mother; I cared for you
too.”
He took out something from his pocket and placed it on the table. They were pictures, pictures belonging to my mother and me.”
“How did you get these?”
“This was all I had to hold on to Riley. I loved your mother a lot, but I had to stay away from her.”
“You say you love her, but if you really did, then why doesn’t she remember you?”
“Because I made her not to.”
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Chapter Twenty
It finally dawned on me. “You made her… forget?” I asked.
“Yes. I know you will hate me after discovering the truth, but you have every right to know. I met your mother in this very same park many years ago. I watched her get maltreated by the Alpha King Slade, and I wanted to help her.
I wasn’t a member of this pack; I had been here on a mission; I was what you call a spy. When I was done with my mission, I helped your mother escape; even till today, she believed that the keys to her cell had just been lying there close to her reach. I had compelled the guards to do that, of course; killing them would’ve been a better choice, but I had to make sure Kate was safe first. I helped her out of this pack and took her far away, where Slade would never get his hands on her. Then I went back for the soldiers who had hurt her and I ended them all.
Kate was used to being treated badly, and so the little good I did for her was all she needed, and she fell in love, but I fell harder.”
“Then why did you leave? Why did you make her forget?” I asked him.
“I was putting her life in danger by keeping her with me. Let’s say I was running away from ‘someone,‘ and this person was very powerful. When she told me she was
‘he‘ found out about her, he pregnant with my child, I knew I had to let her go, 1 would kill her just to get back at me, and so I made her forget, I made her believe Slade was the father to her child.” I had thought she would finally be free, little did I know that she would be subjected once again to the life I tried to save her from.”
“This doesn’t explain why you abandoned us. Is this person still pursuing after you?”
“No. He found me, Riley. Of course I couldn’t hide forever, and he caught me. I couldn’t be with you and your mother because I was serving a sentence. That’s all I can tell you because the less you know, the better.”
