SWNOVELS Chapter 115
Chapter 115: Father Figure
Astrid’s POV
The temperature inside the room lowered, casting a chill on everyone who was present when Alpha Theron suddenly barged inside the room.
All eyes instantly turned to him, and they instinctively bowed their heads in deference as he strode purposefully towards my side.
“Are you alright?” he pressed, his voice tinged with a rare note of worry, but I refused to meet his gaze.
Someone must have informed him of what happened. The news traveled to him so fast. I only turned my head away stubbornly.
Hurt flashed across Alpha Theron’s eyes upon my rejection, but it was gone the second it was there as if my eyes had just played tricks on me.
Alpha Theron’s brows furrowed, a storm brewing behind his piercing eyes. “What happened here?” he demanded, the weight of his authority filling the room.
Silence hung heavy in the air, no one daring to speak up and incur the wrath of the powerful Alpha.
Suddenly, the doctor spoke and explained her diagnosis of me to him. “It’s a panic attack, Alpha. Miss Astrid’s health is completely fine, she was completely healed by the Lunar Elixir. To help deal with her PTSD, she will need to have a consultation with a therapist.”
Alpha Theron’s gaze turned hard at her words like a father who really cared about her daughter.
“Where is Asha?” He questioned, his brows firmly pressed together. “Why is she not here?”
My eyes turned hard at his words. Asha clearly didn’t like me, yet he was forcing her to take care of me.
Just like how I was surprised to find that I have a half–sister, Asha must have felt more surprised and even betrayed about it, too.
I couldn’t imagine how she felt to find out that the perfect family she had wasn’t really perfect at all. It’s normal for her to have a hard time accepting that she has a half–sister she never knew about who is even older than her.
Asha was supposed to be the only daughter. She was spoiled like a princess because of it, only to find out that she wasn’t the only daughter of her father.
“Someone call Asha,” Alpha Theron ordered, oblivious to the fact that her daughter didn’t want to have any connection with me. “Her patient was in danger and she is not even aware of it!” he snapped, his face also turning red. “I told her to take care of Astrid” he also added.
I fell silent, refusing to turn my head to face him.
He abandoned me and my mother. He chose to be the Pack’s righteous Alpha than to be a father to me. It’s too late for him to act in his role of being my father.
It only angers me so much to see him trying to act like a father when he hasn’t been for many years.
“How could she have a panic attack in her room?” Alpha Theron asked with confusion etched on his features as he turned back his attention to us.
Drystan stepped forward. It was his turn to explain. “We were about to leave. I was about to go to your office to tell you that we were going back.
“Leave?!” Alpha Theron blurted out. “Can’t you see what Astrid’s condition is? It’s too early for her to leave.”
Drystan glanced at me. “Astrid insisted it.”
“She can’t leave this place until she’s healed. I won’t allow you to put my daughter in danger,” Theron spoke firmly, his eyes narrowing as he locked gazes with Drystan.
I scoffed at his words. Unable to take it in, a bitter laugh escaped my lips. “I’m not your daughter,” I hissed after he finally caught my attention. “I don’t have a father. I lost my father ever since he decided to abandon us,” I spoke bitterly.
I don’t want to hear him calling me his daughter again because I am not! I will never consider him as my father.
Alpha Theron swallowed hard when he heard my words. Although he was hurt, he never said anything. “I am the Alpha of the Shadowfang Pack and Astrid has my blood,” Alpha Theron spoke.
His gaze is on Drystan as if he is only addressing his words to him. “If something bad happens to my daughter, everyone responsible will have to face me.”
Drystan lowered his head even though he had done nothing but protect me and keep me from harm. “Anyone who offends her is equivalent to offending me. Do you all understand?”
Asha, as it turns out, had already arrived at the front door and had heard everything that her father had said.
She stood at the doorway like a deer caught in headlights. She couldn’t believe just how much her father cared about his illegitimate child, who was never there in their lives.
Hatred burned in her heart when she witnessed just how eager her father was to accept Astrid into their family to make up for the things he failed to do in her life.
Asha stormed out of the place once again. She had already calmed her heart down before she went here until she heard her father’s words again.
“No,” I shook my head, “I don’t want to have any connection with you in my life!” I snapped at him.
“Leave us alone. I need to talk to my daughter in private,” Alpha Theron spoke to the people around us.