Brken

Chapter 111: Scorned

Astrid’s POV

My composure crumbled, and I broke out into tears when Alpha Theron and the others finally left the room, leaving Drystan, Nova, and me behind.

Drystan stood silently by my side, his usually stoic expression softening with concern as he regarded me. Nova, ever the perceptive one, reached out and gave my hand a gentle squeeze.

“It’s going to be alright,” Nova murmured, her voice like a soothing balm.

Why did he have to say that? Why did he have to expose the truth now, after I just lost my child? Did he think that I would be happy to find out that he was my father? Did he think that I would run into his arms and forgive me like nothing happened by just showing remorse?

The only emotion I felt when I heard the truth was not joy but anger. Now that I finally knew the truth, I finally knew the amount of pain that my mother went through because of him.

As an omega mated to an Alpha, I know how it feels to be abused and oppressed because of discrimination because of the difference we had in our status.

Being mated to an Alpha wasn’t like a fairy tale. It wasn’t like Cinderella meeting her prince and getting her happily ever after.

For us omegas, being mated to an Alpha or falling in love with an Alpha is a nightmare.

When I married Killian, it wasn’t a rags–to–riches kind of story; when I married him, it was like experiencing the seven hells just being with him.

I couldn’t imagine how bad it was for my mother. She fell in love with an Alpha who promised her many things.

Alpha Theron even proposed her marriage using their family heirloom, yet in the end, he broke all the promises he made because his Pack was more important to him.

He impregnated my mother, and then he left her. My mother was pregnant and left on her own without a father to her unborn child.

Being an omega was already worse than it was. How much for getting pregnant without a father?

My mother lived in shame just because she chose to carry me instead of aborting me when she could avoid the shame she had received.

My mother raised me, and she loved me even though my father caused her pain and ruined her already pitiful life.

Alpha Theron abandoned me and my mother just because he chose his Pack? I would never accept that kind of reason.

For everything that he has done against my mother, I would never forgive him.

Alpha Theron is way worse than Killian.

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“I’m done here. We should leave,” I spoke coldly as I pushed the blankets off me and stepped off the bed.

However, my knees were too weak; they buckled, and I fell to the ground, unable to carry my own weight.

“Astrid!” Drystan yelled as he caught me perfectly in his arms, stopping my face from making contact with the floor.

Now that I know Alpha Theron is actually my father, don’t want to have any connection with him. He abandoned us, and I will never betray my mother, who never left me.

I could still remember the tears in her eyes before she slowly lost her breath. Even when she was dying, she was unwilling to let go. After raising me, she deserved to witness me grow and see what I would turn like. However, fate is cruel.

My mother battled with cancer, a disease that has no cure. It took her life away, including her hopes and dreams.

If the Shadowfang Pack could pull me from the brink of death, then they could have cured my mother so easily.

Alpha Theron did not let my mother down once, she let her down many times.

“Astrid, you haven’t fully recovered yet. You should stay on your bed,” Drystan scolded me as he placed me back on the mattress.

I shook my head and rested it on his shoulder. “No,” I replied. “We need to leave. I can’t stay here any longer. Drystan, please… take me out of here,” I pleaded as I fisted his shirt while tears welled in my

eyes.

Drystan didn’t say a word. Instead, he just hugged me, making my tears fall again.

“I know it’s hard, Astrid, but you have to hold on a little longer. You are the strongest person I know. Someday, this pain would be over, and there would only be happiness again,” Drystan whispered to me soothingly as he rubbed my back.

Nova just watched in silence as we embraced each other.

“I can’t take the pain anymore, Drystan. All my life, there’s been nothing but pain,” my voice croaked as I burrowed my head into his shoulder.

Drystan was momentarily silenced by my words. “The pain will be over soon, Astrid. There’s nothing that can’t be healed by time, but those people who caused your pain need to pay. You can’t give up like this and let them get away,” he reminded me.

1 nodded my head, my eyes narrowing into slits. Of course, I have never forgotten about that. That’s the only reason why I was resurrected back to life.

Those who had hurt me, those who killed my child, especially Giselle, I will make them all pay for what they have done.

I will never rest until they get what they deserve.