Kit’s POV “Do you think he will like me?” Damian asks as we drive down the lane to my father’s estate, a place I was almost positive I would never set foot in again. “I am sure he will love you and be happy to finally meet you.” Alpha Jace tells him, as I remain silent looking out the window, nervous to see my father after all these years. In the seven years that I have been gone, I have refrained from having any communication with anyone back home, in fear that someone might find me, or worst yet find out that I had a son to their now Alpha. Not once in those years had anyone back home looked for me, that was until now, and I had to believe that it had something to do with the announcement of my engagement to Alpha Jace. I had told myself all those years that my father was probably happy to have gotten rid of the burden of me and the shame that I had brought to the family’s name. But here I was, coming back to the place
Kit’s POV “I’d like a moment alone with my father first.” I told Alpha Jace, as we stood outside my father’s bedroom door, because I feared what my father’s response would be seeing me for the first time after all these years, and I didn’t want to subject Alpha Jace to his cruelty to me. I didn’t want him to hear the foul remarks I was used to receiving from him, because I didn’t want Alpha Jace to think less of me. “I will give you a moment with him.” Alpha Jace said as he moved to take a seat on one of the chairs that sat in the grand hallway. Turning, I placed my hand on the doorknob, and I froze as I took a deep breath, praying to the Moon Goddess that this would go better than I foresee it going in my head, before I turn it, opening the door to my father’s bedroom. The room was eerily silent, as I stepped into the room and took a look around, until my eyes landed on my father laying on his bed, covered with a blanket up to his chin.
Kit’s POV “Katrina will do no such thing.” Alpha Jace said as he moved to my side, wrapping a protective arm around me, as he let his Alpha’s presence known to my father. My father’s eyes moved from mine to Alpha Jace, as he says, “I am sorry Alpha, but I do not know your reasonings to interfere with my daughter’s and my dealings, nor do I know who you are.” Alpha Jace lets out a low growl towards my father, obviously not liking the fact of what my father said, nor liking the fact that my father feels it’s none of his business. “Let me introduce myself. My name is Alpha Jace of the Mystic Shadow pack, and I am your daughter’s mate. Your dealings with her very much do concern me, and I will not allow you to disrespect her by asking her to prostitute her body out to Alpha Domonic for the sake of your family’s name, especially when she is mated to me.” My father’s eyes moved from Alpha Jace’s to my own, before his eyes moved
Kit’s POV Turning back once again to my father, I wonder what the other reasoning was that my father wanted to see me, as I couldn’t imagine that it could be anything good from our previous conversation. “What is it then father?” I asked him, wanting more than ever to just head back to my new home with Alpha Jace. “It seems your sister wants nothing to do with my affairs, nor does her husband. She has her hands full with her children and she is expecting another one. The responsibility now falls onto your shoulders, to make sure that my estate is taken care of once I pass.” My father tells me, giving me a hard blow, because I too want nothing to do with the estate either or this pack. “I’m sorry father, but my hands right now are full too. I also have a child, a pack, and a mate to attend too.” I told him, telling a partial lie because I wasn’t quite yet the Luna of the pack, but on the next blood moon I would be. My fath
Kit’s POV Alpha Jace sat with me in the hallway, as he held my hand, trying to comfort me, while I prayed to the Moon Goddess that my words hadn’t killed my father, making me have to live with another regret in my life. Even though I had hatred in my heart towards my father and the way he treated me, I didn’t want to be the means to the end of his life. The door to my father’s room at that moment opened, and Alpha Jace and I stood immediately as the pack doctor appeared with a look on his face that told me whatever news he had to tell us wasn’t going to be good. “Ms. Katrina, I hate to be the one to give you this news, but your father has only days to live, if that. His health has declined quite a bit since my last visit, as the disease has taken over most of his lungs.” “There’s nothing we can do for him?” I asked the pack doctor, as I held on tightly to Alpha Jace’s hand for support, after hearing what the pack doctor had just confesse
Kit’s POV “If you don’t feel safe here, I can send some of my men to protect you and Damian.” Alpha Jace says to me, as we stand outside by his vehicle, while he is getting ready to leave me here alone with my father. There was no threat that I felt that his men were needed here, that they could help me with. What I needed was moral support from my father, and that was just something that he could only give me. “No, I will be fine. There’s no need to send your men here.” I told him, secretly wishing that he could stay with me, because I felt safer from my father with him around, knowing that he would stand up for me against him. But with him leaving now, I didn’t have to worry about my father slipping up, telling him about the pills I took all those years ago to suppress my wolf. Alpha Jace leaned in and kissed me on the forehead, before telling me, “I will call you daily to make sure you are okay, but don’t hesitate to call me if you ne
Kit’s POV Days have gone by, and even though I am in my childhood home, I feel like a prisoner and a servant to my father, and I wondered if this was why he wanted me home to care for him. Did he want to see me beneath his feet acting as a servant to him in his dying days, making me feel like I was never going to amount to anything since I had gone against his wishes for me. I had already paid dearly for those mistakes that I had made, but he didn’t know that, and he also didn’t know that every day I lived with the reminder of those mistakes, as not a day goes by, that I don’t have regrets for what I have done. “Can you not do anything right?” My father asks me as he pulls his arm from me, that I am now being forced to bathe. “Your sister is so much better at this, than you are.” He then says, scolding me because for some reason it isn’t up to his standards, and reminding me that she is now his golden child, even though I had showed up h
Kit’s POV A few more days had passed, and my sister finally returned to see our father, and I decided to take the day and spend it outside with Damian, since we haven’t had much time together since we got here, but thankfully Damian had been very understanding of his grandfather's condition and has kept himself occupied. Today though, he looked happier than ever since my sister brought her son along, and I watched as the two of them played together as cousins should, outside on the playset and in the sandbox. The fresh air felt inviting, as the cool breeze tickled my skin, replenishing my lost energy from taking care of my father nonstop for days now, and my father hadn’t let up on his hurtful words and expressing his feelings towards me.After what Ms. Caroline told me, I found myself biting my tongue with my father, because I was the reason once again that caused my family’s name to be ruined. But this time it was Dom and not his father that had cause