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Axel let my mother in.
If only he knew that she was the last person | needed. “I would give you both sspace,” Axel said.
“Are you
here to givesmore lectures, mom? There’s nothing you say that would change the decision | had
already made, so maybe you could make this easy for the both of us and leave,” | said to her even before she
could say a thing. Maybe Axel hadn't picked up on the info the last time; my mother had been a total... | couldn't
call her a bitch, but she had acted very much so, makingfeel like | was a naive and ignorant child who
couldn't see that she was headed in the wrong direction. Yet she knew that all | did | did for her and for us.
“Will you
at least hearout?” My mother asked
“Depends on what you have to say, mother, if it’s along the lines of ‘he is too dangerous for you or your very
favourite, ‘a life of slavery back in the Windborne pack is better than a life here’, then I'm sorry-but not so sorry,
I wouldn't be interested in...”
“I am here to apologize,” she says, cuttingoff. “I had been so mad and angry at you, even if | knew you had
no faultin it; I should have tried communicating with you better; | should have made you understand, but | had
just expected you to know, and when you didn’t
understand things from my perspective, | turned against you too. You aren't at fault; life has put us in this
situation.”
“It is not a situation, mother; it is my life, and this is what it is going to look like for a while.”
“There are things going on here-things you do not know about, things he is not willing to tell you...“I cut her off.
man,
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“That's because | do not care to know; | don’t need to know. | know Thane is not a very good.
but he loves me.” | swallowed; | knew Thane didn’t love me, and so | lied. A part ofwondered if | would like
this little lie to beca reality. | wasn’t a dreamer; | knew that would never happen. He shouldn't love me, and
| wasn’t to love him either. “That's all that matters. What we share is more than you can ever comprehend. |
might not be happy, but | am surely getting there. Don’t ruin this for me, mother; don’t ruin this little happiness |
was finally privileged to have after all the pain | had suffered, you had toldonce that | deserved. to be happy,
this is as close as | could ever get to that.”
“I did not mean to cause you pain. I love you, and you know it.”
“I don’t. I don’t know if you loveanymore; if all this t| had been a fool, you could be like Ryker, but a
better actress.
“Do not compareto the monster, Riley.”
“The smonster you preferto go back with rather than stay here?”
“This is not why | am here; | am here to apologize for everything. | know you had done all this
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for me; you wanted us happy, and it is not your fault. | am sorry, Riley; please forgive me.
“You lie, mother. You chere asking for my forgiveness, but at least try to make it look. real. | know you,
mother, and | know you mean nothing of what you just said.”
“I just want to have my daughter back.”
“And | want to have my mother back too, but everything you've shownis a far cry from the mother 1 knew.
You abandoned me; at the time, | needed you the most, and yet you refused to tellwhy-why are you against
all this? | feel like there is something more you aren't telling me...”
“There is nothing more than what you
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Yet, | missed her. | missed having someone to talk to.
; she did
“We forget everything, and we move
on. You won't keep remindingof
the dangerous pad I've made
oRLRY row Ris is my only
choice.” | said to her, and she walked
to me, drawingin for a hug. |
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I knew things wouldn't be the same; she hated Thane and hated this place, but at least she would be by my side;
that was all that mattered for now.
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