Chapter 85
“Father…” As I went as fast as I could, I met my father’s pale face and came to his side.
My heart sank, seeing his condition but I still shed a calm smile.
“Chloe… seeing you these days… it reminds me a lot of your mother.” Father looked at me with a
nostalgic expression as his eyes seemed to have been reliving something in his memory.
“Mother… what did she look like back then?” I held my father’s hand and asked a question that had
always been in my mind.
I have no memory of my mother and there’s no one in the pack that could even tell me what she was
like when she was alive. Perhaps, it would only be Father who could tell me those things, so I asked it
without thinking much.
“Your mother… back then she had the same disposition as you right now. She is always calm and
collected. She is courageous but also knows restraint.”
“Although she is feisty on the inside, her knowledge is vast and deep. She also helps whenever she
could, that made her a very fine luna back then… with her sheer efforts.”
“It is amazing that I still had a chance to see how you slowly grow and be more and more like
your mother when she is alive.”
“The way you think through things, the way you insist on your own decisions once you have already set
your mind on something… leaves me helpless.”
My father had a smile that genuinely said the same thing as the words he was mumbling at the
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moment.
His eyes were full of affection and longing, something I never saw him making even when he was with
Lisa for many years as his second wife. It left me wondering, did father still love mother back then?
Then he moved his fingers slowly, as if to caress my hand and wake me from my thoughts as he
continued.
“I am pretty sure that ke would have felt helpless as well.” He smiled, while his words made me stiff.
I looked away not wanting to meet my father’s eyes out of guilt. I felt like I was being exposed by his
thoughts and words, especially when he mentioned ke at the moment.
“Chloe… hear me out… I already knew about ke’s identity way before…”
His words effectively caught my attention as I looked back at my father in surprise.
I saw my father let out a weak chuckle as he continued, “Do not be surprised… In my years of being an
Alpha, it is not hard for me to recognize such a legendary Alpha as him.”
“Even so, Chloe… ke is someone who is worth entrusting you and my grandchild’s life for… I hope
you bear that in mind…”
“Father… but…” I opened my mouth to speak, but it seems like father still had a lot to say at the
moment.
“Chloe… my daughter… The reason why I insisted on changing your mate back then is that I knew that
ke is trustworthy…”
“I know that he would be able to protect you from anyone especially when I am no longer around.”
Father looked at me with a serious look as if he was giving me an order that is not an order, yet his
insistence was so strong that I could not ignore nor reject it outrightly.
“I did not specifically know about why you chose to run from him nor refuse to see him. In fact at first, I
thought that you came back here because of my mind link…”
“But when I heard about your decision to hide the fact that you are pregnant with ke, I suddenly had
a hunch about what happened.”
“Chloe… do not me ke too much.” My father’s hand gripped my tightly, but it was not painful.
Instead it was warm.
“It was actually me, who told ke about the detoxification method for the poison on your wolf… I am
sorry… I did not know that I would lead to something like this… But I was clueless and out of options…”
“For many years, I tried to find a solution to the poison in your wolf, but to no avail. The only thing that I
was able to get was that same method I told ke…”
“Chloe… my daughter… sorry for being a useless and cruel father toward you…” As he said these
words, my father’s hand trembled and warm tears rolled on his colorless face as he looked at me with
guilt.
“Father… say no more please…” I could no longer take the heartbreak of seeing my father’s state at
his moment and so I immediately bent down and assured him that I no longer hold any resentment
towards everything that happened.
The moment I epted him again in my heart, I have already let bygones be bygones. I no longer
carry any resentment toward him and I only wish to spend the days with him in peace and harmony.
Suddenly, the door slowly opened, and an apologetic Lisa came inside and looked at me with
remorseful eyes.
“Chloe… I apologize for every wrong thing I did toward you… I know I do not deserve your forgiveness
at the moment, but I only want you to know that I regret the things I did back then…” She looked at me,
with her hands sped together in nervousness, looking at me and father with a guilty expression.
I paused and suddenly did not know how to react at the moment. As far as I know… Lisa and I did not
have an amicable rtionship, though she did not cause trouble to me as well.
But before I could find the words to say in response to Lisa’s sudden apology, I heard my father
suddenly burst into a loud cough.
“Father!” I immediately panicked and forgot about Lisa’s apology and saw the thick amount of blood
“Dean!” Lisa also panicked as she went to Father’s bedside and cried.
“Chloe… it''s a shame… that I would no longer see my grandchild in this world…” Father uttered weakly
as the hand that held me tightly since I came to him earlier slowly loosened.
“Father… Dad! Don’t! Please!!!” I looked at his deep eyes and saw that it was slowly fading.
I cried out to him many times but it seems that his stare no longer had any life.
“Dean!!” Lisa knelt and copsed on the ground.
While I trembled and stretched out my other hand and gently closed his lifeless eyes.
Then I knelt on his bedside and held his hand, kissed it softly as I drowned in my muffled sobs of
pleading and sorrow.
My father… the only family I had in this world, has left me alone…
Once more…