Rejected Luna: Untamed Desire Of The Lycan Alpha novel Chapter 18

Chapter 18: Biased blindness

When Inez didn’t reply at once, Maria frowned and pressed on. "Did you not hear what I said, Inez?"

Trying to chew the toast as fast as she could, Inez replied, "I did."

"Then why are you not replying?" Maria questioned as she buttered up a toast and handed it to her husband like a good wife and mate.

"I don’t think that it is necessary, Mom. I am way past the age where I need my mommy to make the decisions for me," Inez remarked flippantly.

She had nothing against her mother. The woman made a mistake by falling in love with a man who swept her off her feet and then left her alone to fend for herself and their child.

It was only understandable that Maria hated Inez’s father for leaving her.

While she wanted a home and a family, Jared wanted to explore more of the sea and the ocean. At least that was what Maria told her.

’He wanted freedom and I needed a home,’ she had told six-year-old Inez when she asked where her father was for the first time.

Thus, Inez didn’t blame her mother for moving on with a man who gave her what she wanted. A family, the protection of a pack and a mate.

A warm home.

One who made her feel like a woman who was loved but Inez had enough.

She had done enough to keep the peace in the family.

And she couldn’t do it anymore.

While Maria was happy living in the small bubble she so adored, Inez was the one who was paying the cost for her peace.

Inez had held on till now because she knew that Maria had somewhere suffered because of her existence. She had been humiliated for trusting someone who did not belong to the pack, not to mention bullying. But her mother had never abandoned her.

True, she had often said that she never wanted to have her—but then her mother had hugged her and apologised to her as well.

Because of this, Inez had gritted her teeth and suffered all kinds of torment. She believed that she owed it to her mother and the sufferings that she had gone through.

Her love for her mother had stopped her from leaving the pack other than her fear. But more than her mother, Inez cared for her wolf.

Nia wanted to get out of this pack, so that was what Inez was going to do.

Maybe it was the little friction and tangles of the mate bond that made Nia so fond of Dominic and she had often stopped Inez from leaving the pack. Now that the two of them were of one mind, Inez didn’t want to listen to anyone and change her mind.

"Inez Sinclair!" Maria placed the bowl of butter on the table heavily and snapped. Her voice crackled like a whip over the dining table. "I am your mother and I have the right to know what’s going on with you."

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