Your Mistake, My Revenge

Chapter 26

Damien's POV (Brentin and Kip's father)

I know you are all wondering, why Kip? Why not Brentin? Why not keep them both? Why didn't we adopt them both out? Well, the thing is, I wanted to keep them both but didn't want Jasmine to feel weigh down with responsibilities. Which one we kept was up to her. But I will try to answer all the questions. Why Kip? Well, he was the younger of the two and we needed an alpha heir, so Kip was the one Jasmine decided to let go. Why not Brentin? Well, that's easy; he is/was the heir to alpha. Why didn't we keep them both? Jasmine didn't want all the responsibility that would come with raising twins and running a pack. Why didn't we adopt them both out? Well, we needed an alpha heir, of course, but we also wanted to keep one of our children. If I had it my way, I would have kept them both.

Was there something wrong with Kip? No, he was perfect. Just like Brentin was. But, what Jasmine wanted she got. She still does to this day. Do I regret getting rid of one child and not both? Of course I do. Brentin reminded us every day that we had another child out there. Not by words, but by his looks. Does Jasmine regret it? I think she does, but she doesn't want to appear 'weak' in front of others so she doesn't really let it show. Do we regret keeping it from Brentin? Yes, we do. He should have known the moment that he was old enough to understand. But, we never told him for our own selfish reasons. Since he found out, he hasn't talked to us or anything. Since the attack he has detached himself further from us. So now we have to work on fixing our relationship with our son.

What about Kip? He is still our son, but only by blood. We don't know anything about him. What does he like? What does he dislike? How was his childhood? Was he treated well? Did he get the love and attention he deserved? Was he pushed away because he wasn't their child? Was he bullied? Does he have any children? Who is his real mate? Did he pick a chosen mate in case he didn't find his true mate? What's his favorite food? Favorite drink? Favorite music genre? Favorite movie? Etc. We don't know anything about him besides his name, birthdate, adoptive parents and simple things like that. We didn't know the major things though.

I know that Aaryana has had him chained to a wall in one of the cells. I just never went down to visit because I don't think he would want to see me. But, I asked her earlier if I could go visit him, to explain things to him before he is killed or whatever is going to happen to him. Which is where I am heading now. To talk to a son that I only seen on birthdays. Hopefully he will listen to me and not hate me for all of eternity.

I slowly made my way down into the dungeon and to his cell. I looked in and saw him sitting on the floor, unable to move his legs because it looked like his knees were shattered. Who did that to him? I finished looking him over, checking for more injuries but seeing none, I looked up to meet his eyes. He looked at me with so much anger, hurt and disgust that it almost brought me to my knees. "What the hell are you doing here?" He sneered at me. I looked around and finally found a seat. I dragged it over to his cell and sat down.

"I came to explain everything to you." I told him. He looked at me in disbelief.

"Why? What things do you need to explain? What the fact that you were a piss poor father? The fact that you chose one child over the other? Or the fact that you now feel guilty about giving me up?" He snarled.

"All of it." I replied. When he didn't say anything, I continued. "I didn't want to give you up, but you mother couldn't handle the responsibilities of having two babies in the house and being a new Luna. We couldn't give both of you up because we needed an heir, so we kept Brentin. Do I regret adopting you out? Yes I do. I have every day for the past twenty-three years. But I couldn't force her to take on all that responsibility. That's why we came to your birthday. Every year we came to your birthday. We would sneak out of Brentin's and come to yours." I told him. He looked at me in utter disbelief.