"I'm just glad you're back." I heard him say after he exhaled a breath of relief that somewhat gave him the insurance that without Alexander around, I could maybe convince him that what him and mom were doing was not damn right.. However, I had to concentrate on a different subject. "Did you even look for me?" I started off, watching him lean back on his chair.. "Lana, this is not the first time you're being stubborn around something.. I knew you would would come back home.." Oh. So he didn't. "But this is the situation. You're gonna have to hear me out and just accept it." I frowned slightly. I did not have the time to hear him out. Christian was waiting for me. And Calliope. After the situation with my mother and the little chaos that managed to escalate with Alexander and I being in the same room.. I was not staying. It would only mean signing the wish for a willing destruction of me and my whole family.. My whole pack. And instead of at least trying to prove me wrong, Alexander decided to play around and throw a few lies in my face. His kindness was fake.. How could they not see that?! And I was the only one that was willing to prove it. "Well, I'm not here to stay. And maybe I'll think about it." I said, just so the subject would be closed. My voice was still slightly raspy, I was still angry at him. He was the one that had explaining to do, not me. "But I have other questions that you owe answers too." However, he seemed like he didn't even register my words, or he just chose not to take me seriously. "You look good. You haven't lost weight.. You don't look tired." He confirmed, still scanning my face. "Where are you staying?" "Dad. Please don't change the subject." I glanced on the side, unable to keep the deep puff that escaped me. Silence fell over for a few seconds. I could tell that he was trying to escape this conversation. I mean, he knew damn well how many stuff about our family could be found out in a different circle of people. The crazy part was, those things were well kept from us.. Me and my brothers.. Maybe even from my mom. "What do you want to know?" "About Jessica.." When I said those words, I realized how surreal it all sounded.. In that moment I thought, what if he confirms it? What then? I almost regretted asking.. I could not be direct with him, because I didn't know what this subject might mean to him. I watched the expression on his face obviously change. The frown caused something to turn on my stomach. "What do you know about Jessica?" That stern tone of his assured me that the subject was real and serious. And the simple idea of it pretty much terrified me. Again, it seemed like something was stuck in my throat. I was curious to know, but at the same time I wanted to round my direct questions. I cleared my throat, looking down at my hands before I carefully glanced back at him. "I know she was one of the most powerful clionas during the war.. And,-" "And she worked with the old king, just like I did. I think you know the story on how that ended." Right. I knew that story.. I was just starting to think that I only knew a part of it. He never told me that it was the three of them. I knew he had business with the old king, but.. Jessica? Everyone knew that the werewolves and the vampires used to be united before the war. We were supposed to rule together until the old king betrayed my father and attacked our people because he wanted all the power for himself. I just never knew that Jessica, who was apparently Amelia's mom, was involved in that pact as well.. Clionas were supposed to rule alongside us and the vampires? So the old king betrayed them as well. He almost extinct their kind. The witches probably as well.. It took me a few seconds to go through everything in my head.. It made more sense. So he knew Jessica.. How much did he know her though? "You sure you don't have anything that leads you back there.. Anything you two might have in common?" A child perhaps?