The Alpha King Is My Second Chance Mate

“Don’t you want to hear it? Her punishment I mean?”

Quinn looked back up at the podium, nodding once with an anxious gulp. "Y-Yes.”

“Let's wait then...”

They both stopped by a tree on the meeting grounds, watching as Jeo walked back on forth on the stage, trying to figure out what would be a fitting punishment for a woman Quinn once regarded as her mom. “Kathrine Francis...are the allegations made against you the truth?”

Kathrine looked up at him, nodding once, and the crowd became noisy immediately. Quinn couldn't decipher what they were saying, her ears aren't as useful as they once were. “And may I ask why you'd do such a thing? Quinn is the beta of this pack, she'd protected it on numerous occasions, why would you poison your own daughter?”

“For a cause none of you would see valid.”

“I see...and do you regret it?"

“l don't..."

With her watery eyes, she watched as her father staggered forward in the dark, looking disheveled, anxious and heartbroken. “Quinn I...'m sorry.”

Quinn blinked away her tears as she hopped onto Zayd's back. “Goodbye father.”

Zayd got the message that wasn't said out loud. He slowly rose to his feet, speeding off into the woods, even as Derrick screamed his daughter's name.

Quinn didn't look back, she couldn't. Her head was spinning, her eyes were burning. She felt so lost and so stupid.

She couldn't believe it, even after everything, Delilah still betrayed her again. She'd spoken to her that day, Quinn had smiled at her, comforted her, held her...and yet still...

Quinn wanted to reach for her aching chest, but if her arms loosened around Zayd's neck, she'd only fall. So she held on tighter, soaking his mostly black fur in her tears. It was painful, knowing that true betrayal could only come from the people closest to you...

Jeo...

Her so-called mother...

Her sister...

Zayd...

And lastly her...ner own father.

She didn't get it though...if Kathrine wasn't her real mother, was Derrick not her real father as well...? And if it was so, then who exactly were her real parents?

oA