Chapter 37
ELLA POV
I stood there staring at Dean, not knowing what the hell to say to the man. He's my father and he has been watching over me all these years. He's been sending me money that my mother stole, and Celie has obviously been telling him everything that there is to know about me.
Why didn't he ever once come to see me? Why didn't he try to save me from the hell that I was living? He had to know everything. I can't imagine Celie keeping all of that to herself when he was giving her money to send to me. They were obviously in on it together.
He just sat back and watched me suffer, for all those years and he did nothing.
Dean was looking at me with an expectant look on his face and I moved to the other side of the room to get around him and I started walking towards the door. "Ella." Dean said, causing me to stop and I slowly turned around to look at him. "Don't ever look for me again." I simply said before turning back around attempting to leave the apartment.
Dean ran to me a lot faster than I realized he could and he closed the door in front of me. Only making me angrier. I didn't even want to look at him right now.
He saw me suffering for all those years and now he wants to be a part of my life. After all of this cloak and dagger bullshit. He tricked me into giving me a job.
"Please, don't go. I can explain." He said.
"Explain what? How you just sat back and watched the way Marilyn and Jack treated me? Or how about all of Marilyn's other boyfriends before she married Jack? How the hell can you explain that?" I said, not even looking at him. I kept my eyes fixed on the door. Really wishing that he would get out of the way so I could leave. I didn't want to be anywhere near him right now.
If he just came out and told me who he was, then I probably would be acting a little differently right now. But he wanted to play these stupid ass games and I'm not going to just forgive him for that.
"Ella. Please, just listen to me. Your mother and I were in love. We really were. But there were a lot of problems during our relationship. She didn't know who I really was and it caused a lot of problems with us. And then I found my fated mate. I couldn't ignore that. I know that you are probably confused by that, so I left. But Marilyn never told me that she was pregnant. She hid it from me so when I left I had no idea that you even existed at the time." He explained, trying desperately to get me to understand. But I looked at my hand on the door handle as it started shaking. But this time, I didn't know if it was nerves or anger that was making me shake. I was really conflicted right now. How could I possibly know if he was telling me the truth?
"You found out about me eventually." I said.
"Celie moved in next door to Marilyn. She knew that we had been dating and I never told Celie to move in there. But she did and she saw that Marilyn had a baby. A baby with the same eyes as me. The piercing blue eyes with flecks of green in them. Something that you don't see anywhere else. Not like ours." Dean explained, pulling out a baby photo that he showed me.
It was a really old photo but it looked pretty worn. He kept it in his wallet and I guess that was to carry me around with him all the time.
But who cares? A lot of parents do that. It doesn't mean they actually care.
"I wanted to insist on you coming back to me, but Celie didn't think it was a good idea. Because there were other factors that we needed to consider." Dean continued.
"You said that you were the head of the Heartstone group. You mean you're the Alpha of the pack?" I asked. And he looked at me curiously. He didn't know that I knew about werewolves.
I only just found out before I left Alaska. The twins had shown me and made it perfectly clear what they were and that I was their mate. I knew all about werewolves and that explained the voice I was always hearing in my head. So I really wasn't crazy. There really is something else living in my head, the voice wasn't just my imagination because I was desperate for a friend. She was real and she was a wolf.
"I know about Ava. Celie told me that you started hearing that voice in your head when you were 14. So, I should have known that you had some sort of understanding of werewolves." He said.
"I only found out about werewolves when my supposed mates showed me that they were wolves just before I left Alaska." I said.
"You have mates? More than one?" He asked, curiously and thinking pretty deeply about that.noveldrama
"You know what, I can't do this. Just stay the hell away from me. I came here to get the hell away from all that crap. I don't want any part of this werewolf bullshit. I don't want any part of this world. I have lived my whole life just fine without it. I'll be fine on my own. I've been taking care of myself for as long as I can remember. So, just leave me alone." I said, pushing past him and finally opening the door and I left the apartments and walked down the stairs and through the cafe and out to the street.
I started walking around the neighborhood and when I went back to the hostel, I had been gone for too long and because I never leave my bag of stuff in my room because things get stolen too easily, my bed was already gone to someone else.
I was only gone for a couple of hours and it was already given away. I couldn't believe how fast they moved.
I walked around for a bit longer when I realized I was getting pretty hungry so I stopped at a burger joint and I ordered a burger and soda and I sat at a table next to the window, looking out at the street to eat it.
I looked in my backpack, which was all I had now that had all of my possessions
in it and I had just spent the last of my money on this food.
I stared out the window looking at the busy street of Seattle, wondering what I
was going to do now. I knew that I was in a pretty horrible situation right now, but there wasn't anything that I could do about it. I guess I would be spending the night on the street.
And the sad part is, it's not the worst night I would have spent on my own.
While I was sitting there trying to figure out where I was going to go I saw a man stop in front of the window on the footpath and he was staring straight at me. It wasn't the first time he passed me and he started smiling lewdly at me. I could just imagine what was going through his head, so I tried to ignore him. But that became impossible when I saw his body start to shift and change and suddenly there was a large wolf standing on the footpath instead of that man.
He jumped straight through the window of that shop. The owner hid behind the counter and I was knocked off of my stool but I got up and ran for the door.
I ran out to the footpath and I started running as fast as my legs could take me and going by the screams coming from people on the sidewalk, could tell that the wolf was following me.
I could see in the distance that I was getting to the edge of the city. I could see the forest in the distance and I knew that's where I needed to go. Right now. Before anyone else got hurt while this monster was chasing me.
Somehow I managed to get to the forest without that maniac catching me, I was still a little unsure of how I managed to do that, but I did it and the humans were safe. They weren't going to get caught up as collateral damage.
I stopped when I was far enough in the woods and I knew that this was obviously not a friendly wolf. And I knew that this was it. I was done for. I didn't stand a chance against a wolf. I was going to die at the hands of a wolf that I didn't know and I didn't know why he was after me.
Just as he lunged through the air to attack me, I used my arms to cover my face when I heard a second growl and then a loud thud.
I looked up and there was a second wolf that had tackled that first wolf to the ground and the second wolf had his jaw around the first one's neck, ripping it to shreds.
When my attacker was dead, the other one was dead and the second wolf turned to look at me and I instantly recognised him.
"Dean." I said, shocked.
He shifted back and looked at me, but I had to look away, since he was naked and
I now knew that he was my father. That wasn't really something that I wanted to look at.
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