Promised To The Alpha Twins – Chapter 23

“Your father has come,” echoed Lia’s words in my mind.

I had to process them as if they came from a fantasy tale trying to make me believe it was real.

The word “father” seemed more fantastical to me than “dragon,” “elf,” or “fairy.” I simply couldn’t find it in my repertoire of real, existing things.

oice.

jealous?

not knowing what else to say.

know how, but the social worker managed to conta

nt because my mind was troubled by whatever had arrived home that morning.

the beating Chloe had given me. None of that entered my mind at that moment because I wandered down that hallway that would lead me to see the face of the

on them, and they prefer to walk away.

t is. There was nothing more to ex

ad never stopped loving me, never stopped carrying me in his memories. But all of that unraveled as the days and nights passed without him doing anything, and I finally came to understand that it would never happen.

d.

foreign appearance. Tall, broad-shouldered, and with thick arms. He was dressed in a formal, gray suit. His face was tough, wide, with a thick nose and full lips, broad and bushy eyebrows, well-groomed dark hair. Handsome for his age, and just by looking at him, I recognized the resemblance he had with me

already too late. There was nothing left of the little girl who would have acted that way.

I asked, unable to control my words, hearing mysel

id that man who introduced himself as such while stroking his chin with his hand. “My name is Axel.”

said, crossing my arms ov

n his perfect face. His clear eyes momentarily turned dark, perhaps troubled because he expected a better reaction from me, but I wasn’t willing to giv

xpression, but his eyes did, shining with some contained anger.

didn’t feel rushed to answer, because I wouldn’t tell them anything about it anyway. “I suppose she won’t tell you either.”

’s attention, even in the presence of Dub, who watched us from the couch where he always watched TV.

me what happened to y

ow it turned out that both of them cared about what happened to me and even seemed determined to form the family we had never been, after seventeen years of absence and nights marked by the pain of abandonment, as if nothing had happened and I was going to throw myself into their arms to forgive them in exchange for their affection.

!

,” I replied, clenching my fists.

ced him when I raised my hand.

lated in those few seconds.

my plans, I didn’t know exactly how, but I knew that his presence made my escape more difficult.

d started coming to my head since the night of the party crumble, perhaps overwhelmed by the anger that shook every fiber of my being.

last,” s

n me.

Axel.

t to see because Axel’s gaze transformed, shifting from that of a man trying to earn my trust with soft, honeyed eyes, to the harsh gaze that perhaps accompanies him in his day-to-day life.

lable anger.

such a thing.

am was by his side.

wins’ gaze, watching me with a touch of tender unease in their eyes.

I felt that the wall of sanity I had tried to build to silence the inner voice had crumbled, and the culprit was right in front of me, once again observing me with his kind fatherly eyes, and somehow, the swollen eye

that something h