Chapter Sixty Nine
I wanted to hurt him so bad. And I knew I would regret my words, but I said it out anyway.
“Maybe that’s why Bella never wanted you; this was why you were never blessed by the moon goddess to have a mate that actually ‘stays alive‘ if you were more selfless, then you would have noticed that something was very wrong with her, but you loved the idea of your happiness so bad, you didn’t care.” I spit at him, immediately regretting it. It was a low jab, but I had been so angry at everything, and I wanted to hurt him so bad.
His eyes on me were cold as steel. I stared at the door, wondering how long it would take me to get there, but again, there were those scary–looking guards out there; they were not going to let me through if not permitted by ‘him‘. Thane pulls me flush to him–that I didn’t expect. He leaned, so his lips were against my ears. 1
“You are right, I didn’t want to look too deep, afraid I wouldn’t like what I saw, but aren’t you the same? There must be a reason your mother hates this pack, and yet you never bothered to find out either. You loved the little illusion of your very close to ‘perfect life,” he paused, and I noticed his hand trailing lower, just to my cunt, and abruptly, he grasped on the sensitive part, and I jumped. “You don’t want this to fade away,” he whispers into my ears, and when he lets go, I tumble to the ground, and he walks away.
I was left to find my way out of the dungeons alone; I headed straight to my mother’s room. I pounded on her door, and she opened it, alarmed. I pushed my way in without her consent and slammed the door shut.
“What happened, Riley?” she asked, the panicked look still in her eyes.
“I want to know the truth, mother.”
“What truth?, I am not hiding anything from you,” she says, her eyes staring into mine, but I knew it was a lie. I knew something did happen, something I suspected she was hiding from me, but just as Thane had said, I let it go, but not anymore, I wasn’t leaving here till I discovered the truth.
“Mother, I need you to tell me what exactly makes you hate this place so much. I knew something happened, and if you don’t tell me, I am willing to go the extra miles to find out.”
“What extra miles, Riley?” mother asked.
“I don’t care if I get hurt in the process, but I would discover the truth, because I know you are hiding something from me.”
She let out a breath, and finally she walked into her room. Her back turned to me, and I followed after. I was just about to yell at her or maybe ‘beg‘ her to tell me what exactly was going on. I couldn’t believe she could hide a secret of such magnitude from me, her only child for this long. I was enraged, but when she did turn to me, I saw the tears flowing down her
Chapter Sixty Nine
eyes. This was tears of pain. I knew that because I had experienced that too when I lost. child.
my
Thane hadn’t been the only selfish one; I was also selfish, selfish enough that I valued my own happiness over my mother, selfish enough that I hadn’t even noticed how much in pain she
was.
“You are right, Riley, I did keep a secret from you, a secret that has haunted me for years.”
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