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2024-10-10 11:44:29Few blocks from my house, I cleaned my tears and tried to hide the red angry bruises on my arms.
When I got home, the door was unlocked as usual but some of the things were missing in the living room, like the Tv and the tables.
"Mum?!" I called out for my mother but there was no reply.
"Mum?!"
I walked up the stairs to her room to look for her and get an explanation to what was going on in our house.
And my father was no where to be found.
Not that it mattered because he was rarely at home but it's been two months since I last saw him.
As the Beta of the pack , he was always busy but at night when I saw other fathers get home, I always wondered why mine never came back or even bothered calling.
When I got into my mother's room, the sight was worse than what I had met in the living room.
All her things were packed and her stuffs were labeled in different boxes on the floor.
"Mum, why is the... What's going on? Why are you packing? Are you giving your things out?" My questions came in plenty as I dreaded the reply I was going to get.
My mother only smiled and stretched her hand out for me to take.
I meekly walked to meet her on her bed and took her hand before settling into the bed with her.
“We’re leaving baby, I’ve packed our stuff and things you’ll need. We still have some few more days for you to get your remaining things together and say bye to your friends. I know Lucy would be sad to see you leave” she said and a tear dropped, she sniffed and tried to clean the tears hurriedly.
My eyes searched her face for the answer to my questions.
“Mum, why? Why are we leaving?” I asked as my chest tightened, my heart was already too weak to feel anything at the moment.
My mother sobbed a little, but quickly straightened and wiped her tears.
“Your father found someone else” she deadpanned and I suddenly found it difficult to breathe.
“What?” I didn't even know when the question came out.
“Yes baby, he’d sent me the divorce papers a week ago, I just didn’t know how to tell you.” More tears rolled down her cheeks and I could only stare at them.
I was of no use to her right now.
“Oh” I muttered softly.
“I signed them today” she says with small barely there nods.
"By next week, I'm guessing everything would be finalized. But I just wanted us out of here before that happens" she said
"Do we have to leave?" I asked her softly as I squeezed her hand to comfort her.
"Baby, he's the Beta and this is his assigned house for now. We have to leave for him and the other woman to start their family here" she says to me and everything around me slowed, except my mother and I.
“How did it happen?”
“Did you catch him cheating?”
“Did he hit you?”
“What really happened Mum?”
“And where is Dad?”
I was suffocating from saying a lot of things at the same time but that was the least of my worries.
My mother sighed and her shoulders slouched.
“Baby, there’s a whole lot to unpack but I was the unfortunate human who fell in love with an unmated werewolf. He found his mate” she said and forced a smile.
“Oh. Why didn’t he find her since” I was trying to understand why and how he fell out of love with my sweet mother.
She only chuckled bitterly and exhaled slowly, before cleaning her tears again.
“I guess fate has a way of playing tricks with us. And baby, according to them you don’t search for your mate. The mate pull brings you both together one way or the other” She said and patted my cheek.
“And you don’t have a mate?” I asked her, hoping she would tell me there's someone waiting for her out there that would love her as much as she deserved to be loved.
My mother smiled, a genuine one before brushing my hair lightly.
“I’m human baby, I’m free to love whoever I want” she said and my brows scrunched in confusion.
“Isn’t that how you ended up here?” I asked and she laughed.
"I fell in love, baby, I was not mated to him. And he was mateless then, so we seemed like the perfect match. But nothing lasts forever they say, so this is the end for us. I'm just sad you have to experience this" she said still smiling but I shook my head.
"You're sad and hurt, why are you pretending that you no longer love him?" I asked.
"I love him baby, but I have to let go. That's why it hurts more, I'm trying not to dwell on the fact that I'm dealing with unrequited love" My mum said and sighed before laying down on my lap.
We sat in silence, as I slowly brushed her red hair. The same genes I got from her but hers were arranged and very silky.
My mother was beautiful and very demure, while I was weak, with freckles all over my face and features that nobody liked to look at.
“I gave my life away to be with him, now I have nothing to return to” she said into the silence, the day slowly turning into night.
With what was happening right now, I could not tell her what had happened earlier on or what Caine had said to me.
But right there, I knew I hated two men in my life.
Caine Creek and Joseph Campbell.
"Should I make you dinner?" I asked my mother, trying to take her mind off what was going on in her life. "Tomorrow we'll continue packing"
I felt her smile as she gently rubbed my knee. "I'd like that honey," she replied.
When I went downstairs, my phone pinged with the alert of a notification.
One voicemail from my father.
"Hey Jazzy, I’m sorry I hurt your mum and I'm sorry I hurt you” he started and a deep long sigh followed.
"I can’t even look you in the eye right now to tell you how sorry I am, but I hope you forgive me."
He paused for a while and then continued “I hope you never find someone like me. I hope you get to live a beautiful life out there with someone who loves you enough to move mountains for you. I hope..."
The voicemail stopped playing immediately I deleted it
"Sure dad, I would never end up with someone like you”
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