Mother’s Love

My gaze lingered on Ulmer for a little too long. It still irked me that this was the woman my father placed in my mother's place. She had tried so hard to fill those shoes, too.

I remembered how she rarely wore dresses when she newly arrived here but ever since her marriage to my Dad, she'd been wearing luxury dresses even though she rarely ever went out of the mansion.

Speaking of which, the way everyone referred to her as 'Luna' during the mating ceremony, completely forgetting about my mother's existence, made my blood boil to this day.

Anyway, Ulmer spoke up with a smile. "May I come in?"

I scoffed, not hiding my irritation in the slightest. "What do you want, Ulmer? If this is one of my father's tricks to get me to accept you into this family, into MY family... Then you can go tell him that I'll not be a pawn in his little game."

Ulmer drew in a deep breath, seemingly hurt by my words. I low-key felt bad for her, oddly enough.

But I didn't let that erase the fact that I detes