Chapter 328: 2-1

Chapter 37.2 Carla Ryan POV (Kieran’s mother) For the first time in years I slept under the roof with all my children, in human form that is. Leaving the bed I went to the kitchen, quietly heading to make some of Kieran’s old favorites, while still fuming and grateful, all my emotions running high. I looked into the fridge, reaching to the eggs, I stepped back hitting a form that wasn’t there before. Startled, I spin to face my husband, Tony. “What are you doing awake?” he mumbles, eyeing he egg in my hands. “Making breakfast for Kieran.” “How do you know he wants to eat?” Tony asked dryly, going to the stool, while I made him a cup of coffee. I shrug, moving about, “I don’t, but we – I – he,” I stumble not sure how to even begin to state how I feel or how badly we had dropped the ball when it came to our family. “Can you wake Dominic and Connor?” I said wanting to get this done with, we had walked on eggshells last night after the gathering with the Luna and Alpha. I began cracking eggs into a bowl, listening to my mate waking my two sons, then the three of them coming into the kitchen, “What’s the deal dad?” Connor asked plopping his self at the table, Dominic following silently. Turning I faced them, “You two are going to share a-” Connor growled, his father canceling him out with his own. “Don’t be disrespectful to your mother!” “Why? You think Kieran is going to stay here?” Connor asked, “I don’t think he’s going to be staying here, he will be staying here if he wants.” “So you’re just pushing us aside for him after all he’s done?” I scoffed, the anger I went to sleep with hitting full force once again, “What about what you’ve done? Bullying your own brother? Letting us all think that he attacked that girl out of nowhere, we condemned our own child because of that lying-” Connor let a snarl out. “Watch it!” I snapped again, “You and Dominic and her sisters teased Kieran-” “He made himself a target mom, he comes here and there’s no danger yet he stays in wolf form?” Connor ridiculed. “And you all thought that teasing him and annihilating him would be the best thing to do?” my lip shook. “Your mate got what she deserved, had me bending over backwards trying to make her feel welcomed when all along you all were the reason she’s-” “So what she touched him Mom? He nearly killed her; he tore into her good she will never be able to…” he swallowed shaking his head, slamming his palm down on the table, making Dominic flinch, “She got what she deserved, what happened to her was a consequence of her actions, something I’ve been teaching you all since they day you were born… after everything he’s gone thro-” “Mom it’s not always about him! We left and lost everything because of Kieran! He got taken because he didn’t listen to you, he went out alone and got kidnapped this isn’t something that was done just to him. It was done to all of us-” he didn’t get to finish, Tony tackled our son, his fist connecting a resounding crack echoing in the room. Dominic stood quickly; taking a step back away from his brother and father, “Stop!” I said moving forward to pull Tony from Connor, Dominic assisting me. “What is wrong with all of you?” Tera – my youngest – said blinking her eyes wide and watery. “Honey go back to be-” “No daddy. Why are you fighting? He’s here… in human form. And – and you two, I told you not to let them tease him. Mom is right. Your mate got what was coming to her! And you’re still fighting? Don’t you know how – how lucky you are? The Luna could have killed you! Did you forget that Oakley is her little sister, our Princess! You tried to hit her, I thought for sure something worse was going to come Connor!” she moved hair from her face, saying all the things that had been running around my mind the minute Luna Chelsea left us at the gathering. The utter fear that she would remember that neither she nor the Alpha had really punished Connor for trying to strike a young girl. “You’re delusional Connor. You seem to think that Taryn did nothing wrong, like Kieran was drowning or something and she saved his life. That’s not what happened. He was minding his own business when she got close enough and thought brilliantly in that small brain of hers-” Connor growled at the insult, Tony slapped a hand on his shoulder, “what are you going to hit me too?” she spat, “She was wrong. It wasn’t right. He couldn’t help it and she knew that… he attacked us and we learned but – but… you didn’t even care what she did until you figured out that she was your mate then you went whining and crying about what you lost and how he hurt her…” Tera panted. “Just stop. Keep your head down and stop making us a target! Oakley’s my friend, I’m going to invite her over again, you’d better get yourself together. She isn’t the one wrong here. Everything she said was true. You’re as stupid as Taryn, but it’s worse, because before she was your mate, Kieran was your brother,” I shake my head. My normally quiet daughter was shaking angrily in her spot, “If you can’t be nice to Kieran then you should just leave Connor. Maybe you’re the one that should go live on the mountain, take stupid with you!” Her eyes flashed light blue, the tone of her voice changing, becoming eerily calm, despite her quickly rising chest. “Honey – Tera – sweetheart, cool down – lower your voice,” Tony said trying to calm Tera, as she seemed to only get angrier. “Why? It’s not like Kieran is here – which I guess is a good thing since even though you learn the truth about what happened you’re all still blaming him,” she shrieked back. My eyes widened, “yes he-” she shook her head and for a minute I listened, her heart beat racing, Tony’s just as fast, picking up, Dominic and then Connor… but no Kieran.