Chapter 170: One Reason Why

Lex's POV

That question was not one that I demanded a response from, but he seemed interested in responding anyway.

"As much as you would like to do that, it's still not in your place to, and if you go ahead in this, you're only going to bring more problems for yourself, so I would advise that you let it be and only try to shield yourself from however this might want to affect you."

"Believe it or not, until my father begins to see the errors of his ways and if everyone around him keeps playing cool with him, he's never going to learn. I'm looking at the bigger picture. I seem to be the one who has the biggest advantage in fixing him, and I'm going to do that with your advice in mind, knowing that he is also worthy of redemption, but if he as much as gives me a tiny reason to want to take him out, I wouldn't hesitate," I said to him, still looking out of the window, but I could feel his gaze on me even as he drove.

The ride back to my father's house was not long, and as I walked into the living room, I could see the surprise on his face when he saw me.

"Didn't you say you were not coming here tonight?" He asked me, getting up from the couch where he sat watching reporters on the TV.

"You misquote me, Father. I said I had somewhere important to go to at that moment, but I never said I wouldn't be coming here tonight, only that I wouldn't like to see you," I said to him, and I couldn't tell why, but he seemed to find that amusing as he suddenly burst into laughter.

"You know, I was wondering; I must have missed what it is that has made you change so much to me, but now I realize that this is something I had been expecting a long time ago, and you seem to. I finally realize the power and authority your name holds, which is why you're being this way, isn't that?" he asked me, and I would have been lying if I said I completely understood what he was talking about, but then I was not giving him any chance to think he could confuse me.

"As much as I would love to have a father-son conversation with you, I came here because you invited me, and I suppose you have something very important to talk about with him by the invite because if it was what happened at school today, I don't want to talk about it," I said to him, completely pushing away the conversation and taking it back to the reason I was there.

Of course you know that is the reason I invited you here. How could you treat Selena like that? Have you forgotten that she's going to be your future partner? That you have no regards for your partner's life and the way people would begin to look at her from now?" He said to me, and I was having the strong urge to respond to him in the same way that he spoke, but something about the way he said those words made me hold on for a second as I stared at him intensely, something in me wondering what Selena told him that was making him speak that rubbish.

"I'm sorry, Father. Can you tell me exactly what she told you that is making you blame me like right now without even saying one thing that makes sense?" I asked him, not caring about the manner in which I had spoken to him because he, on the other hand, wouldn't hesitate to talk down to me the same way, and that was one thing I seemed to have gotten from him and was showing pretty well.

"How could you promise to take her to school and all of a sudden you're throwing her out in the middle of the road? What if something bad happens to her? I know we are wolves and we have super abilities, but it doesn't mean that you need to be so careless when handling a wolf, especially a female wolf."

He said to me, and this was my turn to laugh, so I couldn't hold it in for longer and suddenly burst into loud laughter. Staring at my father, I narrowed my eyes, wondering how he could be easily fooled by Selena to think that something like that would even happen between us. I mean, what will it mean to accept her as my partner for me to be taking her to school?

"Is it that you are so blinded by Selena or that there is something I do not know about? How do you keep believing all the lies she tells you every damn time and not for once have you stopped to ask if what she was saying could really happen? Look at me, Father. Do I look like I want to be in the same car with Selena for any reason? "Why then will you think that I will volunteer to take her to school? What happened to the fleet of cars her parents own?" I asked him, the anger within me rising pretty fast as I stared face-to-face with him, wondering how a grown-up like him could easily be fooled by a girl who was only playing him.

"I am not going to take your word for it, Lex, because you have never done anything that would make me believe you and stand by you. Whenever she was giving all of this report, you never even reported a thing. She is the one who is putting extra effort to make this work, and I'm not going to watch you ruin it, especially because this has a very huge significance to us and our business."

"Tell me, Father, apart from business, is there anything you care about? Anything at all? Maybe your son, maybe your family, anything?" I asked him now.