All Chapters of I Found My Alpha Mate’s Second Family: Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

Felicity stared at him. All the blood left her face at once."What did you say?"Julian's voice dropped very low. His eyes had turned amber, and he wasn't trying to stop them."Say it again, Dominic.""I said I'm rejecting her."There was nothing in his voice at all.Julian handed Noah to Felicity, carefully. Then he turned around and hit Dominic in the face."You son of a bitch!"Dominic went back two steps. The bruise came up purple, and it was already starting to fade by the time he got his balance.Noah screamed."Uncle Julian, stop! Don't hit Daddy! It hurts Daddy!""Stop it, please." Felicity grabbed her brother's arm. Then she looked at Dominic, and the tears spilled over. "I won't. Dominic, I won't accept it. We have Noah. He's three. He needs his mom and dad."Noah looked from one of them to the other and reached up to wipe her cheek with a small, clumsy hand."Don't cry, Mommy."His lower lip shook."Daddy, don't you want me and Mommy anymore? I'll be good. I won't make you m

Caleb's face grew heavy."For twenty-eight years, every time anyone said they'd seen a girl with that mark, we've gone. It didn't matter where it was. We went every time, and every time it was someone else."Then he smiled, and it took over his whole face."This time's different. I looked at your picture, and I just knew. You can call it blood, I don't care what you call it."I smiled back, and I thought about the moment he'd walked in that door.Theo stood up then and said he should go. Caleb didn't try to stop him. He gripped his shoulder hard. "You pulled my sister out of the water. When this is over, I'll find a way to thank you."After that, Caleb talked and I listened.He told me about Silver Bay. About a mother and father who'd been in love for thirty-five years. About how simple it was, just the four of them. No one had adopted another girl to fill the space. The whole family had only ever had one job, and that was finding me.We hadn't been talking very long before someone kno

I came in on my brother's arm with the whole room watching.Theo was already walking toward us. "Lia. It's been too long."I smiled, and I was about to answer when Felicity cut across the floor and planted herself in front of me."Mercy, what are you doing here?"Her eyes went to my hand on Caleb's arm, and a nasty light came into them."So you landed Caleb Hale. Is that what you've been doing for three years? Being somebody's kept woman?"Caleb's face went dark."A filthy mind sees filth everywhere. I knew you had the mind, Ms. Thorne. I didn't know you were blind as well."He tipped his head toward me."Look at her. Look at me. Anybody with eyes can see she's the Hale daughter.""That's impossible." Felicity's color went red and white and red again. She couldn't take her eyes off the necklace. "You can't be. There's been some mistake.""The Hales don't make that kind of mistake," Caleb said. "You, on the other hand, should watch your manners and keep your nose out of other people's b

The afternoon after the party, I got home from the office and found four people waiting outside the gates.They'd parked across the driveway. When I got out of my car, I saw that nothing about them had changed."Well, look at you, Mercy." Lillian got in first, with her eyes blazing. "Three years playing princess with the Hales, and you can't pick up a phone? After everything this family did for you, you ungrateful little bitch."Felicity's smile stopped well short of her eyes."You should think about it, Mercy. Mom and Dad took you out of an orphanage. Otherwise you'd have spent twenty-odd years cold and hungry. You really shouldn't forget that."Walter nodded heavily."Whatever else, we're still family. You've found the Hales, fine. Don't forget Greyridge. Come home more often."Julian held out a folder."This is a trade agreement. Give it to Caleb. You'll handle the Greyridge side from now on. Understand this, Mercy. The better we do, the better you'll look over there."I looked at t

When I got to the hospital, Dominic had just woken up. His face was still flushed from the fever, and there was an IV in his hand.He saw me, and his eyes lit up."Mer. You came. You finally came to see me."I stopped at the foot of his bed."Dominic, is this your idea of a plan? Getting yourself sick so I'd feel sorry for you?"The light went out. He was white to the lips."No. Mer, I'm sorry, I wasn't trying to make you come. I only wanted to see you a little longer."I looked down at him lying there hurting, and all I felt was tired, and a kind of stale irritation, like a song that won't stop."I didn't have to come here," I said. "I came because this big romantic gesture of yours has turned into a problem for me. I wasn't worried about you.""We've been apart for three years. I've let all of it go, Dominic. I want my life, the one I've got now.""I don't want to see you again."His mouth moved. There was so much pain in his face that it was hard to look at. Nothing came out of him.