"What did you do Drake?"
"That woman was Damien Decrescent's mother, I helped her band rogues together to start a war on the Crescent Pack, Lily and Damien's Pack, Lana's aunty. I didn't know she was involved with Kade. She told me she just wanted her son back, we needed to start fresh, so I introduced her to some rogues that lived in packs, I didn't know the money came from hunters I just wanted to help my father, Dad found out after news went out about them looking for an escapee, asked if I knew anything. So, I told him, dad covered it up for me, dad knew Abel and when he found out he was dead he said we had to cover it up, Damien hunted down every rogue that ever helped his mother, I was one of them. Dad helped him track them down and kill them so they wouldn't speak and tell him about me"
"You helped Kade start a war on the Crescent Pack?"
"I didn't know who she was until after Kade escaped, I never would have helped her, she just told me she needed to find rogues to help her with something, I believed her, I didn't realise she wanted them to bust him out and take over Damien's pack. When I confronted her, she told me she wanted her son back but by then it was too late and no matter what I did I would have looked guilty the money had already been used to buy this place, Dad had become Alpha. He sent back for Chase only to find out my stepmother was in fact his second chance mate, go figure moon goddess really fucked up there"
"Lana will forgive you, you didn't know" I tell him. He chuckles shaking his head.
"Well now isn't that an interesting story" Says a voice from behind me. Both of us spin around, how had I not noticed anyone sneaking up behind us.
"Great, just fucking great" Drake says.
"Go on Aria, get it over with" He says looking to her. She was livid, as I looked her up and down standing in the broken doorway. She moves into the room.
"Arial called" She says. Drake growls and I could feel his hatred towards her matching my own.
"Where is Lana?" Neither of us say anything.
"Where is my daughter Tate?" She asks looking at me, her Alpha aura rushing over me.
"She is at home" I say through gritted teeth, she drops the demand and I pant trying to catch my breath.
"Now what am I going to do with you" She says looking at Drake. I could feel the burning anger behind her eyes, she was seething.
Lana's POV
Blood is thicker than water that's the saying right? Didn't realise how much thicker it truly was till time and time again you are put in a position where you have to choose between who has had your back the longest and that will always be family, but when does it become alright to cut your ties to family, at what point do you need to reach before you break it, and even if you do they still have a hold on you, no matter what you think, how much you think you don't need them they are the home the one place you know the door is always open because blood is thicker than water.
My actions have proven that time and time again and so has Drake's, no matter how toxic his father is, he still went running back to him, just like no matter how much my sister has ruined things, I would choose her not because it's right, no but because at the end of the day she was with me from the start, watched my sufferings like I watched hers, we shared the same memories, only siblings have a bond like that. Sometimes I think it is even stronger than the bond I have with my mother, because even as much as she loves us, she always had a projection of what we should be, who we should be, where as siblings expect nothing of you but you, accept you even in your downfalls not that my parents don't but only a sibling truly understands what growing up with the parents you have because you didn't just live with that expectation, so did they.
She hurt me, no she destroyed my one chance at truly feeling like I have a place of belonging, but at the end of the day I never would have had that chance, of feeling that if she didn't pull me back from the brink. And no doubt she will be there, no matter how much I claim I don't want her, she will wait just like I would wait for her.
I don't even remember the run home, like I was on auto pilot. Fight or flight kicking in and this time I chose flight. I couldn't bear to watch as Tate begs Drake because I knew he would. I felt for him, he was now bound to both of us, while we were only bound by him. Stuck in the middle, his heart forever to be torn in two. I couldn't live with knowing that the pain he was going to be forced to endure would be my hands and Drakes, so instead I made the decision for him, because how do you choose, how do you ask someone to choose? I won't ask nor will I expect it from him, so the decision came easy as I stepped into our room.
Grabbing my suitcase, I zipped around grabbing all my belongings and chucked them in, I needed out. I need to get away from the destruction that is now my life. Chase and my sister walking into the house downstairs. I hear their soft whispers as they look for me before they walk into the room.
My sister looking around her face dropping when she saw that I am packing.
"What are you doing?"
"What's it look like I am doing" I tell her chucking my clothes in before retrieving my hair straightener and tossing it in.
"Lana, Drake will calm down, this can still be fixed think of Tate, you can't just leave"
"I am thinking of Tate Arial, you think I want this. I won't make him choose"
"So what you're just going to choose for him" She argues.
"Why are you suddenly defending him, you hated him yesterday" I scream at her.
"I am just trying to help Lana, I fucked up. I know that but"
"You want to help me, help me pack I am going home"
"Lana this is your home" Chase says stepping into the room.
"No chase it was my home, it isn't anymore" I tell him grabbing my makeup bag and tossing it in before zipping it up. I grab my phone and charger before grabbing my bag and walking out only to run into Tate on the stairs. His eyes going to the bag in my hand.