After that whole thing happened and Icy confessed to noticing Silas feeling the mate bond, I threw up out of fright and anxiousness.I could feel the fever in my body. The condition turned so bad that I couldn’t even walk to my room and lie down in peace.I fainted right on my spot and on the cold floor of the living room.“Mommy! What happened to you? Please wake up,” I woke up to the dying cries of my daughter and her gentle hands over my arms.She was trying to shake me into waking up from the floor. I must be gone for hours because she had returned home, but then who brought her home because recently, I have been picking her up from the school myself.“My mommy is not getting up, something has happened to her,” she rushed towards the door to shout and get the attention of the person who had dropped her at the door and had turned around to leave in haste.“Octavia!” it was Silas’ voice.

The next two days went by peacefully, and it was going to be like that. Now that I have enrolled Hope in the morning time, I expected Silas and Roxanne to give their demands a rest. Hope also didn’t bring them up as she was too busy in the school’s activity, but I feared what will happen once the activity was over? She will be back at her usual stubbornness over visiting the park and spending time with them.Desmond would call and speak to home for at least two hours and, for some reason, I wasn’t comfortable with it anymore the way I used to be before.It was almost like I didn’t trust his intentions for her anymore.“Finish this and the---,” I have placed lunch in front of Hope when I heard a knock on the door, “Finish this,” I eyed her before attending the door.“Oh! Alpha King Silas!” I said in a very sarcastic tone. I did not like seeing his face after he had spat utter bullshi* towards me.

“What? how was it my fault? I lost my brother as well and even got accused of his death.” I forgot I was at their mansion and they were staring at us from afar. Obviously, they couldn’t hear us, but they could see that we were indulged in a heated argument.“No! you killed my son,” she pointed her finger at my face and accused me of it again.Every time I have tried to pick up the broken pieces of me and mend myself, she had reminded me of Oliver and had blamed me for his death as if she hadn’t hated me before that.“I ---,” I got up on my feet in tears and looked around to acknowledge my daughter watching my face in concern.“Mommy!” she broke free from Roxanne’s arm when she tried to prevent her from leaving her and rushed towards me.“I did--- n---,” I tried talking but it didn’t work. The world around me was swirling and all I could see is blood, Oliver’s

 I cried coming home because of the things said about me to my face, but the pain was gone in the next few hours when Icy told me how good the outcome would be for me.They will finally leave me and my daughter alone and, by the looks of it, I am now certain that Tessa would never accept my daughter's truth to be found out by Silas.Now that they weren't coming into Hope's sight, she hadn't asked about them as well. I was making sure Desmond stays connected with her so that she has someone she is getting attached to."Are we going to the park today?" Hope asked, following me to the kitchen, and my body shuddered out of fright.What if she throws another tantrum?"Umm, well, I have another surprise, but you get to decide what you want to do," I tricked her and started doing my dishes."Surprise? What is it?" she giggled and clapped her hands as she expressed her joy hearing the word surprise."I have planned a game for you," I sai

After father had spent some time with her, he sat down whilst Hope got distracted with the swings and the slides ahead of us. There were other pack members in the park as well, so Hope was busy with the kids.“She is very creative and social,” Dad complimented her, watching her play, “She must have got it from you. You were never shy of spilling your thoughts, always ready to argue for your rights and others,” he recalled the memories from my childhood and laughed a little.“I remember you---,” I was unconsciously going to indulge in the conversation when my heart split open at the reminder of our past and last memories together.“You can share your heart and thoughts with me, you know!” Father held my hand and kissed the back of it. I felt his tears touching my skin, tears of regret. Well, it made me teary-eyed.“I did once, remember?” It was so hard to say those few words, “I --- I didn&r