Chapter Fifty-Eight: My Mate

Her words are spoken with such sorrow that they laden my heart.

‘He is yet another to abandon us’.

Yet if she were to count me, then I would be among her numbers, among those that would leave her behind to suffer in loneliness.

But it was the relief of not caring for one who did not care about me that scared me; what kind of child is relieved at their parent’s death? A parent who could abandon them to live her fairy tale but didn’t.

But would it not have been easier if mother cut ties with me in the name of her mate? Maybe then I would not be as twisted as I am. Maybe then I would have been softer in my speech and mannerisms, but whom am I kidding?

If mother left me at Red Graw, I would be among Alpha Jax’s toys.

So then when…when will I feel saddened by her death because all I feel is guilt at not being sad.

I settle next to Kaisa; as much as I wish to comfort her, there is not much I can say to her statement except; ‘I know’ or ‘I was there’, so I say nothing, perhaps because the pa