Chapter 33Lucien Thorne ~•~“Grimm, is everyone okay?” I asked, letting out a frustrated sigh. “Yes. He didn’t do anything.” Grimm said with a relieved sigh. “Where are you now?” He asked with a hint of concern in his voice. “Don’t worry about me. Just take care of the pack.” Grimm gasped. “What the hell are you talking about? Aren’t you coming back? Are you still with the girl?” He asked. I shook my head even though he couldn’t see me. “I’m not with Halle. She left with her father.” My jaw clenched with suppressed rage as I remembered that she actually left with that man. “Finally,” Grimm responded with a relieved sigh. “At least everything can go back to normal now.” I scoffed. “Everything can’t be normal until Wilder pays for his crimes.” “Just come back, we will figure something out.” I let out a wistful sigh. “I’ll be back in a few days. Take care.” Grimm was about to say something else but I ended the call and turned off my phone. After a few seconds, I started the ca
Chapter 32 Halle Wilder ~•~I felt a gentle tap on my shoulder.Letting out a loud yawn, my eyes fluttered open. As I blinked rapidly to adjust to the brightness, I realized that we had already arrived at my father’s compound. “You slept throughout the ride.” He said as he ushered me out of the car. I nodded. “Yes. I did. I was so exhausted.” I muttered, my voice slightly groggy. I rubbed my sleepy eyes with my hands and glanced through the compound. Everywhere still looked the same way it did when I left about a month ago. It felt so good to be back home. “How do you feel?” My father reached out for my hands as we walked side by side to the front door. “It feels good to finally have you back.” My lips curled into a small smile. “It feels good to be back too.” We continued chatting as we approached the front door, but before anyone could open the door, it swung open. My heart skipped a beat and I froze in my tracks when I saw Chloe step out of the house. I hadn’t seen her si
Chapter 31Halle Wilder ~•~As I got into the car, my father handed me a towel, his expression soft. “You did a good thing by sending me your location. You are safe now.” I managed a small smile, I was freezing from the cold and was completely wet. After drying most parts of my body with the towel, he pulled me into a tight hug. For the first time in a while, I felt comfort. My father’s arms were warm, and I was so happy to see him. Most importantly, I was happy that I wasn’t standing in the rain anymore. I was almost tempted to get into Lucien’s car because the weather wasn’t nice. But I tried my best to be patient until my father came to pick me up. Lucien must’ve been so devastated when the car pulled up. I didn’t even turn around to look at him. I didn’t want him to make me second-guess my decision to leave with my father. Or make me feel more guilty for leaving him. “Do you want a blanket? Or a hoodie?” My father’s gentle voice dragged me out of my thoughts. As I snapped
Chapter 30Lucien Thorne ~•~I could see the shock in Halle’s eyes when I asked her to get out of the car. She couldn’t believe I could say something like that to her. It was difficult for me to say, but I didn’t want to be the one to drive her to a trap. If she had a death wish, then I wanted her to choose it without dragging me into it.Her mouth opened slightly, as if she had something to say but didn’t know where to start. She clenched her fingers around the edge of her seat and glared at me. I prayed silently, hoping that she would come to her senses and change her mind. But she didn’t, she unbuckled her seatbelt and opened the car door. “You want me to leave, right? You’ve gotten what you want!” She snapped as she stepped out of the car. After taking one last glance at me, she slammed the door so hard. I couldn’t believe that she actually stepped out of the car. What was her plan? How did she expect to find her way back to her town? We were in the middle of nowhere. I clos
Chapter 29Halle Wilder~•~“Turn the car around and take me to my father or I’ll jump out.” Lucien gave me a hard look. Then he let out a heavy sigh and hit the brakes so hard that it screeched on the pavement. “Jump out of the car! If you want to die so badly. Leave the fucking car!” The car came to a stop, the seatbelt tightening across my chest. I flinched, staring at him in disbelief. “Are you out of your mind?” I asked, still trying to process what he just did. “Are you trying to kill us?” He scoffed bitterly, rolling his eyes. “Are you trying to kill yourself by going back to your father?” He asked, looking at me like I was the most ridiculous person on earth. To be honest, I thought Lucien would be happy that I was willing and ready to go back to my father. I thought I was doing him a favour by making sure there was peace in his pack. But he seemed so upset and angry. I was confused about why he didn’t want me to leave. I knew that we were mates, but we just met each o
Chapter 28Lucien Thorne ~•~“Take me back to him.”Halle’s words didn’t come as a surprise. As I listened to her phone conversation, I already knew that she would eventually let her father manipulate her into believing him. “Are you being serious right now?” I asked, my brows furrowed slightly in annoyance. “Have you forgotten about everything he has done?” Halle’s voice was quiet. “I just want peace to reign. And he says that he had no idea what happened at the border.” She defended her father like a girl defending her toxic boyfriend. “He’ll protect me and I miss him.” I genuinely didn’t know what to say to Halle. I was at a loss for words. “Why can’t you see right through him? You want to go back into a trap.” I said, my jaw tightened, trying to keep my emotions in check. Anybody with eyes would see that Halle’s father wasn’t being genuine. What kind of a father abandons his daughter even after being ambushed at their border? There was no way on earth that he was being hones