Breed Me, Daddy Alpha-Chapter 263

Damon

I know some of you are probably sitting there wondering why things are about to get a little bit interesting.

Well, you’re right. They are. My family is a whole lot, and when I say a whole lot, I mean the kind of people who can turn a simple dinner into a battlefield. That is one of the reasons why I never told Lyra about them.

Not because I was never going to, but because I had planned to do it on my own time. My plan was to tell her when the pups were at least two years old, when she had settled into her place as Luna, when nothing could shake her footing beside me.

But life doesn’t always wait for your perfect plan, does it? Things happen, and now we are here, at the front gates of my family’s home, with Lyra about to learn truths I had every intention of keeping buried for a little while longer.

We were more than twelve in the family before I left the house. Twelve siblings, cousins, the kind of number that makes a house feel like a pack within a pack.

That house was always loud, always full, always chaotic, and to escape it, I left for another country to build a family with Camilla. Looking back now, I can say it without hesitation: that was the worst decision I ever made.

Did my family like Camilla? Hell no. They never liked her. They didn’t like her sharp tongue, her arrogance, the way she carried herself like a queen when she was not one.

They didn’t even try to hide it. The judgment was always on their faces, and they didn’t bother to soften their words when she was in the room. But Tasha—Tasha was worse.

Even my own mother, her grandmother, did not like her. Not only because she had taken mostly Camilla’s genes, which made her more human than wolf, but because of what she did. Something despicable. Something unforgivable.

And now you might be wondering why Lilian, my sister, is standing there throwing tantrums, insulting Tasha to her face without hesitation, right in front of Lyra.

Well, let me burst your bubble. The reason she does it, the reason the hatred spills out of her so easily, is because Tasha slept with her son. Yes. Tasha slept with her cousin when she was fifteen.

Her cousin was the one who took her virginity card, and she knew he had a mate at the time. She was not innocent. She was not blindsided. She knew and still chose to spread her legs for him.

Would you call Tasha a whore? Absolutely, because that is what she has always been. Wild, reckless, shameless from the very start. Where did she get that trait from? It sure as hell was not from me. Maybe it came from her dead mother, because I know it did not come from my bloodline.

Now here we were, in front of the compound, and instead of walking in quietly like I had intended, Tasha had already opened her mouth and given Lilian a reason to explode. Lilian was already boiling, and then Tasha, in her stupidity, threw oil straight into the fire.

"Aunty Lilian, how many times do you want me to apologize to you?" Tasha’s voice was sharp, shaking, but loud enough that every wolf nearby turned their head. "I said I was sorry for what I did. I was fifteen. That was years ago. Just forgive me already and stop acting like a child."

The words came out fast and heavy, and I could feel Lyra stiffen beside me. She had no idea what this was about, but she knew it was about to turn ugly. Lilian’s lips curled back into something that was not a smile. It was pure disgust. 𝐟𝕣𝕖𝐞𝐰𝕖𝚋𝐧𝗼𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝗰𝐨𝐦

"You dare stand here in front of me, in front of my brother, and raise your voice at me as though you are the victim?"

"You ruined my family, you humiliated my son, and you destroyed his mate bond. And now you stand here and tell me to stop acting like a child?"

Tasha’s hand balled into fists at her sides, and I could see the tears burning in her eyes, but she still shouted back. "I said I was sorry! I said it over and over. Do you want me to cut myself open and bleed at your feet before you forgive me? I was fifteen! I was stupid! How much longer are you going to hold this over me?"

Lilian scoffed. "For the rest of my life. Because what you did is unforgivable. You were not just stupid. You were vile. You knew he had a mate and you still spread your legs. You destroyed a bond the Moon Goddess herself had blessed. And now you dare to raise your voice at me as though I am the problem?"

Tasha’s voice cracked as she screamed back, "You think I don’t regret it? You just want to keep punishing me so you can feel better about your perfect son who knew exactly what he was doing with me!"

"What he was doing to you?" Lilian hissed. "Do not twist the truth to paint yourself as a victim. You spiked his drink, you little brat. You forced yourself on him when he was vulnerable. You pretended you were his mate, whispered lies in his ear, and then had the audacity to act like it was mutual."