Pride's Lonely Road 8

Cael stood up and held his daughter on his side and said with a glare, “You did not even try to contact us and got it into your head that we would be busy? Parisa, we would have tried our best to make it. In the least you should have contacted us to find out.”

“Do not play innocent with me. If you saw us as family, you would have told us that my father is your mate. Why did you hide it?” Parisa said grieved.

“Want to know something terrible?” Cael asked with a smile.

“What?” Parisa asked with a raised brow.

“Imagine loving someone who ignored you most of the time and rejected you. Do you know how that feels? Being rejected by your mate?” Cael asked.

Parisa looked at him confused, “What?”

Cael scoffed, “I am telling you that before Avery came, I almost died from being rejected by my mate! Not only did I live with him for over a year before I confessed, and when I did, I almost died. If your father never mated with