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AXEL

“Boys! The throne room, immediately!”

I knew I had triggered my dad by being so openly disobedient to him. But I was not moved. I would stand up to him over and over if it was the only way to make him understand that I was no longer a kid. I would do anything to prove to him that I'm not the teenager he used to order around and speak to in demeaning words.

I needed him to know that I failed myself by letting him treat my mother so badly. Now, I had become a man and I was ready to prove that to me every single day.

His wolf eyes twitched with rage. There was only one wolf that could make me pause in caution and that was my father! He had a rage as bad as a volcano. I remember as a kid, I would run to hide whenever he was angry. His eyes would change first, then his face would become extremely tense.

He almost ruined my courage. But thanks to my wolf, I bounced back just as fiercely.

We gathered in the throne room watching my dad. His chest rose and fell, threatening to tear open.