Return of the Father

I stared at him; I am not sure whether I should tell him exactly what I saw in that room. I clam up. He stares me down, and I begin to walk away, I am a stubborn she-wolf. I’m not going to answer him, and he’s realizing it.

“Tabitha! Tell me what you know!” he demands. I roll my eyes and continue to ignore him. I don’t give a shit if he is my father, I’m not going to give in easily. I do not need him puking again on the floor, I’d rather keep the information to myself.

“Tabitha, tell me right now!” He commands me, his Alpha tone radiating forward. I almost buckle at the command. After so many years, he still is an Alpha, and apparently still my Alpha. He’s my fucking father, and his effect still works on me. Fuck, I buckle under the weight of his command. His authority spilling over me like the kings blood that still flows through his veins.

“Kayla! Just tell him what you saw!” I grit my teeth. Feeling the power wash over me as his Alpha dominance returns. I emotionally give up. His power retracks, feeling my willingness to obey.

“Lucius tried to stab me and throw me into a room, filled with burnt human remains, it was a small room that look like an extra-large bedroom, it was down a hallway, passed a room that kept giving me flash backs of Minerva and I. I think it was my old room. The charred room was down the hallway. The whole room inside was black like it had been burnt out and it smelled of death.” I told him. The look on his face was horrifying. He was crying while shaking, his face turned pale like a ghost.

“That was my old room” he said in a broken tone.

“Moms charred remains, and the remains of our siblings who were butchered lying rotting away in there, they kept them like a trophy.” I said trying to keep myself from breaking.

“Lucius told me they were buried in the ceremonial forest. He said they were killed during the attack, cause they were unfortunate casualties, I always had a feeling he was lying but, I learned along time ago, a Luna does not question her Alpha, she does not speak against him, she is to be quiet, obedient, reserved and completely submissive.” Verona whispered to the room.

“That is a fucking crock of SHIT! You were like your mother, you were sassy and outspoken, I loved that about your mother, she kept me on my toes.”

“With the Luthor’s it’s a death sentence” I told him. “This is what they do!” I ripped Verona’s back open to reveal numerous scars where she had been beaten, whipped and bitten. She shrank away from me but I held her still and showed the damage to Carter. He roared in fury and pain.

“I will boil them in oil and tear them apart! They will beg for death before I am done with them my daughters!”

“You should have listened to me Vera! I told you to wait for your fated mate!” She lowered her head in submission.

“Lucius killed him, you would’ve known if you listened to me. Axel came to you for permission, and the day Lucius came to visit with his father, Axel went missing after he asked for her hand. Remember how much we looked. I tried to tell you that I saw Lucius with blood all over him but, when you saw him he was clean so you didn’t believe me! He killed her mate and took your daughter for his own personal sex slave!” Luna Raven snarled at him.

“This is all my fault!” he said in a broken tone not sounding like an Alpha.

Right as I was about to speak Verona grabbed her heart and started to scream. Alpha Carter had a look horror on face, he was crying watching us. Seeing everything that was happening. Verona continued to scream.

“Raven, open this fucking door!” Carter shouted at her while looking at his oldest daughter writhing in agony. Luna Raven looked hesitant but ordered the guards to open the door. They unlocked the prison door. He attacked the guards killing them. Raven and I stood over Verona protecting her and he stalked towards me.

“Move Tabitha!” Shocked filled me as I saw recognition in his eyes

“I want to make sure that the ‘mad Alpha Carter’ wont hurt her, we’ve all been hurt enough!” I told him in a cold voice while I glare at him. He glares at me as I stand my ground against him, my wolf showing through right as his wolf does.

“I may not have seen you in years, I am sorry also for not even knowing my own daughter. I can’t take back everything that has happened, I have been a piece of shit, and honestly, I don’t think I would have been pulled out of it if not for Raven and Damien. Know this, I may no longer be an Alpha, I am still your father, and I swear, challenge me again and I will spank your ass now, give me my eldest child so I can see what’s wrong!” he roared at me. I stepped aside. He knelt down and cradled her in his lap as she groaned in pain and her body shook. She kept grabbing her chest.

“I know what’s wrong, and I swear to goddess! I am going to find that bastard, this time I am ripping him apart. I won’t just knock him out this time. He’ll feel my wrath, and how you don’t fuck with my siblings! Verona fucking him reject him NOW while he’s still getting his dick wet with some slutty bitch! Stop making excuses for him and do it! Stop torturing Devin your real mate and finally be happy.

“Lucius is sleeping with another she wolf Carter, and from what she said it’s not the first time he’s done it.” Carter grit his teeth for the next hour and howled in rage.

“Moon Goddess! End my agony” Verona cried out in a sobs. “Please kill my son! I would rather see him dead than be a carbon copy of his father! Lucius Luthor, I Verona Luthor REJECT YOU!” She screamed. She cried out in more pain as the connection to her chosen mate snapped, afterwards, Verona passed out from the pain. He kept staring at me like he wanted to say something pain, written all over his face.

“Save it! I don’t need a father, Joseph was a bastard enough after what you both did, I just want to go back to College with Damien and live my life.” I walked away and ignored the broken look on his face. He cradled Verona, he was giving her a kiss on the forehead, petting her hair and begging her forgiveness for everything that happened.

“You’re right Tabitha, I fucked up really bad, I couldn’t even recognize you, I was so blind. I want a chance to make this right.”

“Make it right by helping us kill these sick twisted freaks! Which you should have done a lifetime ago!” I told him. Carter nodded his head in resignation.

He laid Verona down on the cot in the cell. He walked towards me cautiously. He nodded his head; he acted very slowly like he was trying to see if I would fight him. He was beginning to look at me with warm eyes. He was coming back to the man who he was. His eyes were also haunted with the ghosts of his past. I knew he had lost his mind, and I knew why. I think anyone would have fallen into chaos with what he went through. I continued to glare at him until I just could not stop myself anymore. I held in so many emotions the past two days stress and trauma finally crushing me. I cracked, I back towards the wall and let myself slide downwards to the floor crying my eyes out. My head rolled back, and I opened my mouth in a silent scream, and let the tears fall. Carter looked torn apart, he walked over pulled me into his arms, cradling me while sobbing and begging my forgiveness. I sobbed more and clutched him tightly. I never realized how much I had missed the warm loving touch of my father that I remember, until this moment. He held me and rocked me as I sobbed hard. I found comfort, and relief in the arms of my real father.