40 The Universe's Plans

Luca.

I could not believe what Emma kept from me. I held my mother, regretting my outburst. I did not want her to know why my father left her to avoid breaking her heart, but I had blurted it out, out of anger.

"Why didn't you tell me, Luca?" My mother cried while I held her.

"Because I didn't want to see you like this. I did not want to break you." I said, and she cried.

"Keeping it from me was wrong. I thought it was a tantrum and he would be back. But now I know he isn't coming back." She said and cried.

"Thirty-five years of loving and supporting him, and he did this to me," She wailed, and I decided to tell her the whole truth.

"He was with her before you, mom. I spoke to the woman yesterday, and she told me grandpa was the one that forced him to leave her. He threatened to disown him if he didn't leave her and mate with you. She was a Kappa from a poor family, and he had claimed her secretly. They had twins. Her sons are older than me." I said, and she was in shock. She wip