Sophia’s POV
“What did you do?” I mumbled quietly.
My mom looked at my dad and sighed.
“Alpha Nathan insisted on getting to know me, so we had dinner together,” my mom said. “I always knew that your dad was my Goddess-given mate. I didn’t need to get to know Alpha Nathan. My heart knew.”
“Why didn’t you mark her for the second time immediately, dad?” Lex asked.
Dad pulled mom into his arms. He hugged her tightly and took a deep breath.
“I was scared,” dad mumbled as he buried his nose into my mom’s hair. “I was so scared that she would die.”
My dad closed his eyes.
He adored my mom. It was hard for me to believe that there was a time when he didn’t want her. I couldn’t imagine my dad rejecting my mom. It was surreal.
“Why did you even go to dinner with him, mom?” Lex asked her. “Why didn’t you just throw him out of the pack?”
“We were trying to avoid a war,” my mom sighed. “Back then, Alpha Nathan was under the influence of his crazy father, who was working with rogues. We didn’t want innocent people to get killed. I couldn’t let our pack members suffer because of me.”
I understood that. I would do the same thing.
“So what happened?” Lex asked. “How did you find out who the cursed mate was?”
My dad let my mom go. She looked at uncle Andrew.
“Alpha Nathan went crazy,” my mom mumbled. “He wanted to force me to leave the pack with him. He took your aunt Daisy hostage and threatened to kill her. She was pregnant with Mason then.”
My eyes widened. Lex growled loudly.
I looked at my uncle, who had a pissed-off look on his face.
“I am still pissed as fuck about it even though it happened 18 years ago,” my uncle sighed.
“Of course you are,” Lex said angrily. “He threatened your mate and your child. I would have killed him.”
I squeezed Lex’s hand. He was always very protective of our family. It was a value our parents taught us. Family and mates always came first.
“What happened next?” I asked, making my parents and uncle look back at me.
My dad looked at my mom and smiled.
“Your badass mom found her magic and saved Daisy,” dad said proudly.
“That’s how you found your magic?” I asked, raising my eyebrows.
“Yes,” my mom nodded. “Anna said that I would get my magic only after I was marked by my Goddess-given mate, but I guess the anger I felt unlocked it.”
“She was amazing, but she almost gave me a heart attack,” my uncle chuckled, looking at my mom.
My uncle was incredibly protective of my mom. He practically raised her because my grandparents were working a lot. Sometimes he acted more like her dad than her brother.
“Why?” I asked.
“I fought Nathan using my magic, but it was still so new and I didn’t really have control over it, so he almost won a couple of times,” mom said, chuckling and shaking her head.
“It wasn’t funny, Emma,” uncle Andrew said sternly. “I thought that you were dead.”
I gasped.
“Dead?” Lex growled.
“I blasted us both with magic,” mom explained. “I don’t know how, but we passed out and talked to the Moon Goddess. The curse broke in the blast and after we woke up, we weren’t mates anymore.”
My head was going to explode.
My mom talked to the Moon Goddess?
“You talked to the Moon Goddess?” Lex mumbled.
“We did,” my mom nodded.
My brain felt like it was going to explode. Lex shook his head and took a deep breath.
“Why didn’t you kill Alpha Nathan?” Lex asked angrily. “Why did you let the fucker live? I would have killed him. I want to kill him.”
“Oh, believe me, bud, I wanted to kill him,” dad said. “Your uncle wanted to kill him.”
“But?” Lex asked.
“But he is an Alpha,” our dad sighed. “If we killed him, his father would have a very good reason to attack our pack. We did everything we could to avoid a war. Your aunt Daisy was pregnant. Your mom and I were finally mated for the second time. None of us wanted to risk our happiness for some crazy fucker.”
Lex gulped and tightened his jaw.
“I made Alpha Nathan promise to cut ties with his father,” my mom said. “I made him promise to listen to his wolf more. As far as I am aware, he did all of that. He exiled his father and he became a great Alpha.”
“And now you know everything,” my dad said quietly.
I looked at him and my heart clenched. He looked so sad and worried.
“Why didn’t you tell us sooner?” I asked, making my dad look at me. “Why now?”
“Well, this is the first time in 18 years that the Alpha of the Blood Moon Pack will attend the Alpha gathering at our pack,” dad said. “We forbade Alpha Nathan from coming to our pack, but his son took over and your mom and I believe that it wouldn’t be okay if we forbade his son from attending.”
The Alpha gathering was a yearly event. Each year a different pack was hosting it. This year’s Alpha gathering was at our pack. It was an opportunity for Alphas to talk and make new allies. It was an interesting event and I was excited for it to start.
“I would forbid his son from coming as well,” Lex mumbled.
“I know, bud,” dad said. “But we can’t punish him for his father’s mistakes.”
Lex sighed.
Dad looked at me and gulped.
“I am sorry,” dad said. “I should have told you the truth sooner, but I was scared.”
“Of what?” I asked, furrowing my eyebrows.
“Of losing you two,” dad said. “I am scared that you will hate me for what I did.”
My heart broke.
“We could never hate you, dad,” Lex sighed. “I am pissed as fuck, but I could never hate you.”
“Me neither, dad,” I said. “You made a mistake, but I could never hate you. I love you.”
Dad stood up and approached us. He pulled both of us into a tight hug.
“Oh, thank Goddess,” he mumbled as he kissed my temple. “I love you both so much.”
I wrapped my free arm around my dad. I saw my mom and my uncle smiling at us.
I was angry at my dad, but I could never hate him. I loved him so much. He made a mistake, but it didn’t define him. He was still the best dad I could have asked for.
