The Four Beta Brothers – Chapter 125
JUNIPER
It felt like the entire room was spinning, even though I was sitting in a chair. My throat was dry, and no matter how many sips of water I took, it didn’t seem to help. Elijah sat on the opposite side of the table to me, and Asher and Axel said on either side of me.
JUNIPER
It felt like the entire room was spinning, even though I was sitting in a chair. My throat was dry, and no matter how many sips of water I took, it didn’t seem to help. Elijah sat on the opposite side of the table to me, and Asher and Axel said on either side of me.
er this.
anything, but I knew he was telling me he was here for me.
been appointed as the new alpha, barely a year prior. My father—the alpha before me—told me it was time to take a luna to help run the pack. It was an arranged marriage with another prestigious pack. I didn’t even meet Heline until the night before the ceremony.”
the most loyal people I knew, especially to my father—well, the man I thought had been my father.
ved her deeply.”
ioned.
se you cheated on her
in his voice. He knew what he did was wrong, but
d on my thigh. Their touch was keeping me from losing it, but ju
id you do it?” I asked.
th Bob.
right, of course, so we agreed to officially reject the mate bond.”
d like I was the result of a love affair?” I asked. Nothing made sense. Elijah couldn’t be my real father. Bob was the man who loved and raised me.
I watched her from afar, falling in true love with her every time I saw her. It was slow and agonizing, but I kept my feelings to myself. She was happy with Bob, and I was happy with Heline. I knew it was never meant to be.
far, but we woke up in bed together the next morning. Your mother avoided me like the plague after that. She told me to leave her alone, because what we did was wrong.
s pregnant. I had to know if you were my child.”
to get to the punchline now.
n families. She told me we would never be together, so I should just drop the topic.”
uch, and I was still a little drunk. I didn’t know how to process all of this.
her even if we weren’t together, I wanted to be a part of my child’s life. She told me you were Bob’s kid, and then she did whatever she could to keep me away from you. I tried to believe her, because believing you weren’t mine made everything easier.
it, until I heard about her car accident. It was barely a week after I got the letter.”
r, and then she died a week later. You didn’t stop to think there was something strange about that?” The numbness in my limbs started to melt as a spark of fire lit in my stomach.
ly right to take you in.
inced me we definitely couldn’t take you in after that.”
“
ught he was this amazing and kind alpha all the while he was the father who abandoned
I couldn’t hold back my anger anymore. “You could’ve come after me anyway. I was alone, and I grew up thinking I had no one. I could’ve had you. I could’ve had Winston. Instead, you decided to abandon me for the sake of your reputation.”
don’t even know if you are actually my daughter,” Elijah tried to a
nged. He looked me in the eyes, but he didn’t say anything. He couldn’t without lying. I stood up. “I can’t face yo
oor, knowing I couldn’t stand another second around the man who abandoned me. I heard Elijah say my name an
.”
d came face to face with Ethan. His eyebrows furrowed the second he saw my face.
t I couldn’t do that here. I still had a flame of rage fueling my actions, but I knew the moment I stopped, I’d fall apart.
, gesturing to Elijah. Then I slipped past Eth
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o caught up in my own thoughts that I barely heard the door when it happened.
e.”
rying to pull myself out of my thoughts.
ouder.
uch.”
id, “and we’ll do it.”
I had no one.
ship. That thought broke my heart, which didn’t make any sense. I barely knew the former alpha. It shouldn’t have mattered that he didn’t want me enough to rescue me, yet the pain was too real to ignore.
happened years ago.
I said. “That’s what I need from you.
grabbed my head, holding me as if I was about to shatter at any second. A moment later, Axel’s lips fo