My Two Alphas by Jessica Hall

Author:Jessica Hall
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Jessica Hall
Published: 2022-05-30T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter fifty-two

I watched as she pressed her lips together, and my breathing hitched, wondering if she knew what Josie and Melana had done. It was the only explanation for how those photos got out. Even banished, we no longer cast rogues out, they were still allowed to join other packs. They just had to get off the turf of the pack they were banished from. I couldn’t see my mother or Ryker accepting them into the pack, making me wonder how they got into this territory unnoticed, let alone on the school grounds. Judging by the look on my mother’s face, she knew exactly what they did as her eyes softened and turned teary.

She reached over, gripping my hand that was by my face before kissing it and holding it tight. Her hand was warm as she brushed her thumb over my fingers softly.

“You don’t let them win. What happened, happened and it’s not who you are. You are not the things that happen to you Lucy. So don’t keep giving them control,” she whispered. A lump formed in my throat as emotion tried to choke me.

“Everyone knows, mom. Everyone saw it,” I told her. Shame crushed me. Everyone knew now. My secret was out, and my agony was on display for them all to judge and see.

“Let them see you survived what they couldn’t. People break for less, Lucy. You learned to live. You will learn again. You know what I see?” she asked, her eyes holding mine, and I swallowed, wondering if she saw the same sharp shards of my soul that were jutting through my flesh and slowly killing me. I wondered if she saw me the same way I saw myself, disgustingly weak and naive. The foolish girl that walked into a monster’s den and let him almost destroy her.

“I see my daughter. I see the little girl who grew up in a glass cage surrounded by people who tried to break her but couldn’t. I watched you die, but then I watched you live. It was hard, but you did it. You rebuilt yourself to become the woman that you are. You fought so goddamn hard to put that place behind you and live a normal life. If they couldn’t break you in that place, don’t let one man do it. You survived hunters as a child. You survived your own death. And you will survive this, because I know my daughter, and I see you, and you will not break. So don’t give them that satisfaction. A lesser person would break, but not my Lucy. My Lucy is a survivor,” she said before wiping my tears.

I sniffled and nodded, trying to force myself to believe her words. This was the woman I missed. Even when everything happened, even when I knew we weren’t on the best terms, all I could think was that I needed my mom. Mom could fix this, she would make it go away. Now I realized she couldn’t, but she wouldn’t let me fall either.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.