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My heart aches, and a sob leaves my throat as I cling to Calix. “Did he kill him?”

Calix stiffens. “In a way, but it was me who ended his life. I know you may hate me for that, but he would never have been the same again. Those men were tainted with evil, corrupted and?—”

I lift my head and stare at him.

“You killed him because of what he did to me. But you have to know he saved me too.”

Calix bows his head. “I’m sorry.”

But as much as I weep for my brother, I know Calix is right. Leon had to fight so hard against the darkness within him to get me out. It would’ve eaten away at him. Leon wasn’t dark—he was goodness and light. He deserves to be at peace.

With Mom and Dad.

Chapter Forty-Six

CALIX

My mother is waiting for me in her cabin after refusing to step foot in the packhouse ever again. She looks more relaxed now, but there’s something about her face I can’t help but detest; it’s like she’s haunted. Haunted by the ghosts of those bastards and what they did to her.

“Hey,” I say as she smiles and opens her arms to me, her familiar scent now back, without theirs tainting it.

Thank the Goddess.

“How are you settling back in?”

She’s started knitting again, something she used to do in the evenings, something my dad and brother teased her relentlessly about. She’d laugh and roll her eyes, telling my brother that one day she would be knitting booties for his kids. That shut him up.

The memory stings.

“I’m doing alright, Calix.” Mom waves her hand around the cabin. “This is perfect for me, right by the lake too.”

Grey glimmers in her hair, the wrinkles on her pale skin forming when she frowns. “I’m not used to the daylight yet, though.”

I scowl and sit on her sofa, rubbing my chin. I want to ask her about the baby she was forced to have, but I can’t bring myself to say it.

There’s a soft knock at the door, and her eyes widen in fear before Blair pokes her beautiful head in.

“Hi! I hope you don’t mind the intrusion, but I made cookies with Soren.” She walks in, placing a plate of warm cookies onto the counter as my mom hugs her tight.

They’d bonded in captivity, something I never thought I’d say. But I love them both, and the fact they love each other? Icing on the cake.

“It’s never an intrusion, Luna Blair.” My mom smiles and studies her. “Have you eaten?”

My heart stammers at my mother calling my mate Luna. I never imagined I’d have a mate, nor a mother again…fuck.

Blair laughs and pats her stomach. “Only a hundred cookies.”

We laugh, and it feels good. Different, but good. I study Blair and wonder how soon I can fill her with my babies. She catches me looking at her and grins, rolling her eyes when she hears my voice in her mind telling her I want her bent over our bed tonight.

I haven’t had her since she’s come back to me, not in the way I need, and I worry it’s because I killed Leon. He was her brother, after all, and I know how much she loved him. The only ‘family’ she had left, and I’d taken him away from her.

He’d hurt her. He could’ve killed her,my wolf reminds me, growling lowly.We did the right thing.

It doesn’t matter though; Istillfeel guilty. Blair gazes at me, her eyes softening when she sees the guilt in mine.

It’s okay, Calix.

She hasn’t once said she forgives me, and I won’t ask for it. I can’t expect that of her.