Lucian's POV.
I walk away from Velara at first - reeling from our conversation and yet another attempt on her part to justify her actions. I don't want to hear any of her excuses anymore. I don't want to know how she believes that she was only doing the right thing. I don't want to listen to her try and apologize only to ease her own guilty conscience.
She's already done enough. Caused enough heartache and pain. I don't owe her the courtesy of my time or my patients.
What she did is beyond reproach, and I don't give a damn what her reasons were. A parent should never turn their back on a child - no matter what the circumstances. If she really wanted to, she could have fought to keep me - could have tried to find a way to still be a part of my life even if she didn't want to be with my father, or be a part of his pack. But the painful truth - the truth that I have to live with every day - is that she wasn't interested. She simply saw an easy way out of a situation she never wanted to b
