Chapter 102
“I knew you’d come,” he said, and the certainty in his voice grated on my nerves. He knew I was going to dance to his tune, always.
I didn’t answer. What was there to say? He didn’t deserve an answer, not after everything he’d put me through. Not when he did to my daughter.
He chuckled, a sound that sent a shiver down my spine. “If you’re going to come with an attitude like that, Faith,” he drawled, “it seems you’re not really willing to get your daughter
back.”
I forced my lips into a smile “Is that okay?” I asked, my voice sweet as poison.
His eyes, dark and knowing, held mine. He stepped a little closer, and I instinctively stiffened. “It’s okay,” he said, his gaze lingering on my face. “Because I actually like you. That’s why I’ll let it slide.”
My fake smile vanished, replaced by a frown. “Why are you doing all of this?” I demanded, I genuinely need to know and most of all I want him to tell me if Alice is involved.
“This isn’t just about ‘liking‘ me, Kyle. You’re obsessed. There’s more to it, isn’t there?”
He tilted his head, that infuriating smirk returning. “Maybe you just don’t believe you’re good enough to have a man fighting for you, Faith. Your own mate is certainly incapable of doing
it.”
The words hit me hard, a cold, sharp stab right in the chest. Deep down, they sank in, twisting something inside me. It hurt because part of me resonated with the sentiment.
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I straightened my shoulders, forcing my expression blank.
I’m paying. I am paying the price for whatever is leading you to do this and I want to know what it is.” I asked because I deserve to know why I’m being punished.
“this is not about me but I really want to know what it’s about.” I was taking a wild guess but the look on his face told me that I wasn’t far from the truth.
He shrugged, casually, as if we were discussing the weather. “Maybe that’s a conversation you should have with your father, your father–in–law, and your mate.”
My confusion was instant and sharp. My head snapped back. “Why?” I practically yelled. I need whatever he said to be some kind of a joke because my family cannot be involved in whatever is wrong with him.
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“Why are you telling me to ask them? You’re a coward, Kyle! if you have the courage to do this to me then you should be man enough to tell me the reason yourself!”
His eyes narrowed, a flicker of something dark in their depths. “Will you be able to handle the truth, Faith?”
Nerves settled in my stomach, coiling tight. This was bigger than I thought. Much bigger. And the mention of my father, my father–in–law, and Astor. My mind raced, putting together pieces of a puzzle I didn’t want to solve.
I expected Alice but not them.
“I have handled bigger truths than that,” I shot back with my voice laced with venom. “You are keeping my daughter wherever she is. I haven’t even seen her face. I deserve to know why this is happening to me. Why I am paying for a crime I don’t even know I committed!” I leaned forward, my hands clenching into fists, frustration and fear brning in me. “Tell me! What crime am I paying for?”
Kyle’s gaze was piercing, digging into my very soul. “It’s a story that happened more than two decades ago,” he said with ease and calmness sitting back on the branch. “What do you know about the Fallen Pack?”
I frowned, racking my brain. The Fallen Pack. The name brought back old whispers, half–forgotten stories from my childhood. “The Fallen Pack…” I trailed off, shrugging my head. “That pack has become a myth over the years. So much has been said about it that no one knows what’s true or false anymore. But the known fact is, it was massacred over two decades ago.” I said because that’s genuinely the only thing I know about it.
But rumor has it that it was done by a group of Alphas who came together. They decided to put an end to the pack because its Alpha was a very bad man, doing very bad things. The only option left was to do what was done. But it was immoral. Innocent people lost their lives. Innocent kids. Adults.” A wave of sadness washed over me. Even as a child, the story had made my blood run cold. There was no justification for such an act.
Kyle laughed, a harsh, mocking sound that echoed in the room, making my skin crawl. “You, like everybody else, have forgotten,” he said, his eyes glittering with something dangerous. “But I will make everybody remember what happened.”
“Why are you asking about the Fallen Pack?” I pressed, ignoring his frightening words. My focus was still on my child, on the reason for all this pain. “The only thing I’m concerned about is my daughter. What’s the connection, Kyle?”
He stood tall but there was a subtle shift in his posture, in his very presence. His eyes, fixed on mine, held a cold, burning intensity that chilled me to the bone. “You are looking at the heir
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The words hit me like a physical blow, stealing the air from my lungs. My jaw dropped, my mind reeling. “What?” I gasped, shaking my head in disbelief. “That’s impossible! Nobody survived! People who went there after it happened said everything was burned to the ground, including the people! There’s no way you survived! How…?”
He finished the sentence for me, his voice a low growl, filled with venom. “Your father, their friends and allies and your father–in–law killed everybody. And most of all, they killed my father. My family.”
My world tilted, spun violently. My blood ran cold, then hot with utter disbelief. My father? My father was involved? No, that couldn’t be right. “No way,” I whispered, shaking my head vehemently, tears stinging my eyes. There’s no way my father was involved. The people who did that, had to be the most evil people in the world. They didn’t leave anyone alive! There is no justification for what was done to that pack”
Kyle gave me a taunting smile, a cruel twist of his lips that made my stomach churn. “Oh, your father was very much involved. And if you don’t believe me, why don’t you go and ask him? Or better yet, why don’t you go and ask your mate?”
My mind screamed. No way Astor knew this. He couldn’t. He couldn’t be part of something so monstrous. It was impossible.
“All along,” Kyle continued, his voice dripping with accusation, “you have been calling me a monster. While the real monster is your own father.”
His words unwillingly brought me back to a conversation I had with my father. He told me he did something very bad in the past. In the back of my mind, a terrible, sickening sense of clarity began to form. It just made sense. But I couldn’t bring myself to believe it. How could he? How could my father do something like that? He may not have given me the love and attention I deserved, he may have been distant, but he couldn’t be that much of a monster. He couldn’t have killed innocent children who had no part in whatever awful things their Alpha had done.
Kyle watched the realization dawn on my face, a grim satisfaction in his eyes. “It just made perfect sense to take revenge on the two people who killed my father,” he said, his voice hard, unyielding. “And what better way to do that than to take one thing that is common to both of them? And that is their granddaughter.”
My daughter. My innocent baby. “She is innocent” I cried, tears spilling down my cheeks. “She has no part in this! She’s a baby!”
“The children from my pack were innocent as well,” Kyle countered, his voice flat, devoid of
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emotion, a cold mirror reflecting my own pain back at me. “But that didn’t stop your father and all those Alphas from killing them.”
I know, I truly know, that no apology, no words of comfort, would ever make him feel better. What happened to his pack, to his family, was terrible. Unforgivable. But still, I had to try. For my daughter.
“I know,” I choked out, my voice raw with unshed tears, my throat tight. “I know that even if I said sorry, nothing would make you feel better. What happened was terrible. But please, I’m begging you. For her life. She is innocent.”
for
you, Faith,”
Kyle’s gaze lingered on my face, and for a fleeting moment. “I have a soft spot he said, his voice surprisingly gentle, yet still firm, holding an edge of steel. “So, I will give you a chance to make amends.”
My head shot up, hope, building in my chest. “What?” I whispered, my voice barely audible. “What do you want?”
He stepped closer, his shadow falling over me, engulfing me. “I want you to kill Alpha Sander. Your father–in–law. In return for your daughter.”
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