Page 67 of The Forbidden Alpha

“I-I was just thinking about my father,” I finally said.

His eyes narrowed. “Your father?”

I nodded. Once more, I took another deep breath. “Lucas…can I ask you something?”

He looked more confused because of what I said. “Go, spill it,” he urged me.

This is my chance to ask him about my father. I can’t believe he would allow me to ask him any questions at all. A genuine smile suddenly crept into my lips. Alright, it’s now or never.

“Lucas… what really happened during the ambush? The one when Crest Moon and Blood Moon fought,” I asked.

I saw how Lucas’ face turned sour when he heard that. “What do you mean?” he asked. The darkness in his eyes came back. It was as if the gentleness earlier faded and was replaced with his usual cold demeanor. “What do you want to know?”

I swallowed hard. I bit my lip and avoided his gaze. “It’s already clear to me that we were deceived by the Crest Moon pack before. They twisted the story of that ambush to make it look like you were the bad people, but information reached me that it wasn’t you who ambushed them. It was the other way around….” I started. He kept his eyes on me. He didn’t say anything as if he was just waiting for me to finish. “I…my father….” I stopped when I felt my eyes watering. I blinked multiple times just to contain the tears. “My father was a part of the wolves that were in that ambush. He was killed, Lucas, and I was told that it was the Blood Moon who killed him. But then, with the new information that I got, it just doesn’t seem to add up,” I let out a sigh and closed my eyes for a bit. I needed to breathe first before continuing.

“Lucas, I remembered that he told me that he was about to end something that day. I-I didn’t know what. I… I don’t know. I didn’t pay attention to that… and I wish I did because now….” I closed my eyes tightly when I felt tears flowing down my cheeks already. Oh, damn it. I took one last breath before I harshly wiped the tears from my cheeks. “Now I want to know what happened,” I opened my eyes and stared at Lucas. “My father was the former beta of Crest Moon, and he died that day….” I sniffed.

I saw how his mouth parted with that.

“Your father is the former beta of Crest Moon?” he asked like he could not believe what I had just said. I nodded. He gasped and looked at me intently. It was his turn to avoid my gaze. He kept on whispering something, but I couldn’t hear him already. I heard him gasp again. “You are his daughter. Fuck. You are Cecilio’s daughter,” he said unbelievably.

I was stunned for a bit.

“What? Y-You know him?” I asked, my eyes widened in surprise.

He harshly looked at me. His jaw was clenched. “Your father wanted peace and did not want to engage in a war, unlike what the Crest Moon wants, Celine. Because of that, their pack betrayed him. It wasn’t us who killed him. It was the Crest Moon’s alpha. It’s also the reason why the supposed meeting turned into a bloody ambush. It was Crest Moon all along.”

I was dumbfounded. I didn’t know what to say. The truth about my father’s death came crashing down on me like a descending arrow… directly penetrating my heart and shattering it into pieces. The Crest Moon pack has lied to me all these years. They made me look like a fool. The thought of being blind to the truth behind my father’s death made my whole body weak.

The tears that threatened to fall from my eyes finally trickled down my cheeks. My knees got a week that I fell on the floor as I mourned for my late father.

“Celine!” Lucas immediately attended to me, but my head was clouded with pain and anger. I covered my face and cried harder.

Lucas cursed under his breath. “Fuck, Celine…” he said, unable to know what to do.

I sobbed harder as the innocent face of my father flashed in my mind.

Father, they betrayed you… they betrayed us.

I was in the middle of crying when I suddenly felt two firm arms lift me from the floor. My bloodshot eyes darted at Lucas, who was currently supporting me with his arms, almost hugging me. But I couldn’t care less. My tears would continue to flow. My mind was clouded by grief that I couldn’t think of anything else but my father’s death.

“Shh…shh…” He consoled me while caressing my back.

Fuck. Is this happening? My pack! The pack that we served all our life betrayed us! So that’s why they didn’t hesitate to banish me, huh? Because it wasn’t even hard for them to kill my father, too! Damn it.

My fists clenched, and I gritted my teeth. “I-I hate them…I fucking hate them,” I said angrily.

“I know. I know. We both hate them, Celine.”

I cried even more. “I can’t believe they fooled me,” I said in between sobs.

I heard him sigh.

“They’re not going to fool you again…not anymore.”

I bit my lip and closed my eyes tightly. I felt my body weakening as he held me to rest on his chest. That’s when I dared to hug him, too.

I didn’t know for how long we were in that position. All I knew was after I poured up all my emotion, I was just there, staring at nothingness. Lucas was just beside me, still caressing my back to calm me down.

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