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My palm burned, and I hated myself for slapping him. Fuck, it hurt me more than it hurt him.
“Yana, you’re my mate, but Alistair is pack. That was his secret to tell.”
“No, that was a major thing you hid from me. This is what lies do. They hurt. They burn away healthy flesh and leave only a painful gap. I could understand why you refused to show yourself and preferred not to talk to me about our mating bond. But to hide that my father is alive, to have known it for all these years, is too much. You’re just like him. A liar. A wolf in sheep’s clothes.”
I pulled away from him.
“Leave me alone. I don’t want you. I reject you as my mate. I hate you and don’t want to see you again. I’m leaving and want you all gone when I return. I want you to leave me the fuck alone, you bunch of dirty liars.”
Soren said something, but I stormed away. I ran to the living room and grabbed my bag and my jacket. Before I knew it, I was in my car and driving. I wasn’t sure where. I needed something greasy and dripping with sauce and calories. Hunger, a deep hunger, burned the inside of my cells.
“Fuck you all. Fuck Soren. Fuck Alistair.”
I wasn’t as upset with the rest of the pack. They were not my mates and didn’t owe me anything.
“Fuck, fuck, fuck,” I screamed as I hit the wheel with my hand. “Fuck you, Soren.”
The screams filled the cabin of my old truck. I kept driving. The inside of the cabin was warm, and the night embraced me with darkness.
21
YANA
At some point, I stopped at a drive-through and ordered a big burger with a vanilla milkshake and a coffee. It was the same spot I had known since high school.
Two cars were in the parking lot, but I didn’t care about them. After stuffing my mouth with a handful of fries and a big bite of the burger, I allowed the sauce to drip onto my chin.
Fuck it. My clothes were already dirty.
I had to take this all in.
Alistair is my father.
My father is alive.
He was a shell, a drunk, but still a wolf.
He chose not to see me for so long. He was here all the time and preferred not to talk to me. He picked himself. He put his darkness and his pain first.
Tears filled my eyes.
I recalled all the other girls who had a father in their life. Why did I have to be the one who only had her elderly Granny in her life? Not that I didn’t love Granny, she did what she could for me. She loved me, but I missed my parents.
My father was alive all this time. Why didn’t he try to talk to me and be part of my life? I missed him so much. I missed having a daddy in my life.
Now that Alistair confessed this to me, old wounds that burned under thick scars broke again. They festered and hurt inside my broken self.
Closing my eyes, I tried to calm myself.
“You can’t act crazy, Yana.”
A soft knock on my window made me jump in my seat. I turned and saw Karl. He looked at me with those damn beady eyes, smiling like a fool.
Pushing my door open, I stared at him. “What do you want?”
“They’re coming, Yana. Your wolf can’t save you.”
“Did you sniff too much from your chemicals, Karl? What happened to your brain? Did you dip it in chloroform?”
