Chapter 48: Chapter 48

: Secrets and Goodbyes

Matteo's Pov

I can't believe what I just hear from my father, some part of me wanted to deny it but his words have already gotten in my head.

His threats have completely won over me. I did not know my mother elopes with someone else who was not an Alpha.

I always thought she chose another by coming clean to my father yet that wasn't the case at all.

Precisely the prisoner namely James who escapes from the cell was the one who tries to elope with my mother.

Hadassah's father was best friends with those two. Another surprising info for me.

My father said my mother brought her friends from her old packs. He didn't approve of it but she made him do it.

She made him believe and blindly he trusted her as she was his Mate. So they were all accepted and stays together in the packhouse without him knowing my mother's evil scheme behind his back.

She has planned to betray him and the pack. The three of them were also willing to sell them off to the rogues and hunters who have been planning on conquering their lands.

The three were going to escape when the massacre occurs but it was the gamma that found out about the scheme and told my dad about it before it happens.

On the proposed night of the massacre, they pretend to know nothing about it so they watch every move they make and when the rogues attack they knew what to do.

His Beta and others deal with the fight while he chases after my mother.

Yet once they arrived there was another fight that already broke out there and my mother's lifeless body was on the ground.

Lyndon kills almost one hundred wolves consisting of hunters and rogues cold-heartedly and James was no near to be found.

So they took the traitor in and announced him as his top warrior instead of being the traitor.

I asked him why but only told me that Adassah's father is a special wolf and as a future Alpha I might need his strength to protect our pack.

I know now that my father is only using Adassah's father. So I try my luck and beg him I want to try my relationship with Adassah but he dismissed me cold-heartedly.

He didn't want me, his son to be friends with a traitor’s daughter that's why he always asks me whenever he saw us around each other.

Indeed, once he found out we're Mate he even hates them more. He completely bans me from mating her or choosing her as my mate.

My dad threatened me that he's going to expose Lyndon's doing to everyone including his identity that he won't even tell me at all.

He also reminded me of what happened to the traitors. This I clench my fist tighter.

For anyone who brands as a traitor would be executed and not him but his whole family will be slaughtered and I don't want that to happen

"You wouldn't want that right Matteo?" I sat there staring at him not knowing what to do.

"Then consider me not your son anymore. Stripped me off of my birth rights into this family" my father scoffs.

"You see I can't Matteo now make a choice," I sat there wishing that this wasn't real.

"Matteo" he kept on repeating my name while I sat there thinking deeply.

I just promised Adassah to be a better mate for her. My eyes shut and I was hoping this is just a nightmare unfortunately it is not.

"Matteo, time is ticking and you know our Beta with our warriors are waiting outside of her house for my orders. One wrong choice and she is long gone Matteo along with her grandma" my eyes widen.

My father looks at me with amusement and I snarl at him.

"Everyone in that house will die if you don't make the right choice now Matteo" he grabs his whisky bottle and drinks it.

"1" he counted" two"

"Fine I'll take the deal, I won't be her mate" he smiles at me with sinister then I felt something twist around my leg.

I look to find an anklet that I didn't know existed not until now when it twists around and locks on my right leg automatically.

"What's this?"

"To keep tracks of your whereabouts," he said like it was nothing. That what he's doing to me now is nothing.

I despise my dad now, how could he do this to his son. I hated him officially and all the bullshit he told me. I won't even believe it until I confirmed it with my own eyes.

I wanted to challenge him so badly but Thunder told me I wasn't ready besides I have to think of Adassah and her family.

Hate keeps billing up in me cursing the man I used to idolize. Today he officially crosses the line and until death, I'll never want to call him my father.

"How could you do this to your son" I spat at him and standing up I made my way to the door

"I hope you won't try anything funny Matteo" he calls out to me but I shut it in his face.

I never slept that night because in my head I was only thinking of Adassah.

When morning comes here I am at her home hiding from the woods and waiting for the time she comes out to leave.

After four hours I finally get to see her with her bags and suitcases being put inside the car.

I wanted to be there and hug her one last time but I couldn't.

"Adassah"

I whisper repeating her name over and over again. Hoping the wind would carry it to her and for her to hear me out.

I watch her leave in the car waving goodbye to her parents, friends, and nana Gloria.

I wanted to be there, I so desperately want to be the last person she hugs before she goes. If I knew yesterday was my last day near her I would have held onto her tight while she sleeps.

The car moves and my legs move with it. I was still in the woods hiding from everyone.

I try and catch up with the car, I sped up my speed ready to pounce on it. Stopping her from leaving and kidnapping her right here but the alarm of the anklet stops me.

The reminder that I cannot go near her or do what I'm about to do.

Will she ever forgive me if I let her parents die I thought aside then I stopped myself from running?

Tears welled up in my eyes as the car began to get further away from my vision.

"Goodbye Adassah"

I couldn't control my emotions and I ended up breaking down into tears and fell on my knees.

Thunder claws at our walls trying to push through but he couldn't. We howl one last time for our mate before I walk away with my heart breaking into pieces and my tears never stop falling from my eyes.

I know I am going to break her heart again once she returns but it's either that or she dies.

She will degrade me as a liar or even worse kill me for my lies but I know one thing is not a lie

And that my heart now beats and only long for Adassah.