Chapter 26: Confession Time [Part 1]

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FENRIS

"Tell us, son. Why this sudden visit? The presence of this witch here guarantees that there is some shit brewing," dad asks me after our meal.

Here goes nothing.

My mom and dad sit facing me and Alcina sits in the lone chair giving us space so that I can first explain my story.

"I found my mate," I start but as soon as I utter these words my adoptive mother is out of her seat and kissing my forehead whispering how lucky I am to find my mate so early in life. I sigh not knowing whether I should laugh or cry at the loss of my mate before I could even touch her.

"Why did you not bring her with you? We would've loved to meet our new daughter," says my mother looking at my father for confirmation who only nods his head with misty eyes. I wonder what caused such an emotion to surface on his face. I have never seen his face so expressive. I look at him questioningly but he quickly hides his expression and returns back to his stoic look.

"There must be some reason for why he didn't bring his mate home, isn't there?" he says to my mother but is looking at me.

I take a deep breath to begin with what is going to be the most harrowing conversation with my parents till now.

"Umm, she didn't accept me," I ignore their hurt and shocked expression and continue to spin a tale. "She is young, dad, not even 21. I was the one who recognized her as my mate and she said that she would like to wait till 21 for confirmation and then move ahead with the mating," I say and I sound like I am defending my mate's actions.

"How can she say that she wants to wait for confirmation? Didn't you shake hands or touch each other. The touch itself should have confirmed your claim," says my mother making my cheeks tingle at the word "touch each other." I wonder what would have happened if Sierra had accepted my claim the first time we met officially. I would have marked and mated with her by this time.

Pushing away those distracting thoughts, I say, "she accepts that I am her mate but for now she wants to focus on her training and not on me. I allowed her to take some time before accepting the bond because I do not want to overwhelm her into this mating."

My mother nods her head relieving me that I could convince her with my half-truths but one look at my father confirms that he detected the tiny lie about her accepting the bond. Not wanting to be stuck at this point and to move ahead with the conversation, I ignore his stare and continue with my story.

"A little while later she was kidnapped by some rogues and kept there for a week. No harm came to her as I saved her from the rogues' assault. But a week after that the elders received a letter saying that they want Sierra's mate to be surrendered to them and that Sierra is not some ordinary wolf." I end my story with a lot of loopholes but for now providing the gist of what happened in the last month. I also keep the information regarding my mother being a witch from mom and dad as I first want to extract as much information as I can from them.

I stare at my mother and she seems to be very sad at the news that my mate was hurt in any manner and confused about that letter. Her emotions appear to be genuine with a lot of concern and confusion so I turn my head towards my father to gauge his reaction. Sure enough, my father's face has turned white as if he has seen a ghost. He seems to be reliving some bad old memory and is slightly trembling. His emotions are all haywire but I can pick fear, panic and anger as the majority ones from the chaotic emotions.

He knows something and I feel betrayed that he hid things about my past from me. Should I confront him here in front of Alcina and mom. But it seems that mom doesn't know anything about my past. It would hurt her more that her mate hid something from her. I don't want to be the cause for her sadness.

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