Novel & Cerita The Betrayal: A Father's Secret

I had tried several times and never anything happened. "Sanchi, I need you to calm down." His hand grasped mine but I kicked it. It wasn't some joke. He had no idea how I felt. How I bath in guilt and regret every night. How everything around me tormented me. How I hide the real me by my armor. Every morning I betrayed myself believing I wouldn't feel any regret. I betrayed myself believing my life was perfect. I wanted to live in this betray even if it killed me. "Bear calm down. I'm here." He touched my hand softly and squeezed it. "I'll go with you. I'm with you."

I raised my eyebrows and looked at her in disbelief. “Her father made me swear to her that I wouldn't say anything, or he'd fire me,” Beth said with tears in her eyes. "Clare made me forget it when she noticed the button while I was cleaning, but I just remembered it all. Your father told me not to tell you about the secret passage until you had found it yourself." I saw the surprise in Beth's voice, and she sighed as nothing happened to her. In that instant I knew what she was saying was true.

His name had been forged in blood and fire. He should have been the sole heir to the family, inheriting his father's name. However, due to rumors that he brought misfortune—his birth supposedly causing his mother's early death and later dooming his fiancées—his father had only ever treated him as a tool to expand the family's power, rather than as the rightful successor. In the end, Ivan’s father, Vincent Vittorio, had passed the inheritance to his current wife's son, Leonardo, a pampered young man who had never been tainted by bloodshed.

"You still love him. I know you still love us." I bit my lips, taking my eyes off him. "Sweetheart..." "If you didn't love him, you wouldn't have worked in his company. You wouldn't have kissed him..." I was shocked, "H..How did you know?" "You have to forgive daddy." "Ianth, I can't. He betrayed me." "Even if I end up dying?" I frowned. "What are you talking about? You are not dying." "Promise me, mommy." He insisted, "Promise me you are going to forgive him."

To sum it all I felt the worst of myself, including a Betrayal. "I'm so sorry. It was never my intention to come between father and daughter. No matter what happens now that we both know the truth, I'll have to tell Isabelle about it and I'm certain she would want nothing to do with me afterwards." "I'm the worst person on earth." "What makes you think I wouldn't want anything to do with you anymore?" Samuel asked. "Please don't make this harder, Sam" She sniffed. "Your reaction said it all. Besides, why would you want anything to do with your daughter's best friend. I don't even think I have the strength to continue this relationship after knowing you're Isabelle's father."

I couldn't shake off the feeling that a new battle had just begun. My father was the one who orchestrated the betrayal , Alpha Hayes. Behind the rogues, behind the destruction. Each fight, loss and sacrifice had been a show of power with him. My father. Throughout this war, the man who had deserted me, from whom I had long sought acceptance. Was instrumental. How could he do this? What led to the failure of his endeavors? But as this truth sank in, I felt another emotion bubbling under my skin. "... A need for answers. What was his endgame? How much of an impact had he made on this?

Dante’s lip curled in disdain, but his silence spoke volumes. Antonio leaned in, his faint British accent cutting through the tension like a blade. “The truth hurts, doesn’t it? Your stiff taxes, your insatiable thirst for blood—it’s alienated the family. You’ve turned allies into enemies, Dante. It wasn’t hard to convince the others that change was necessary.” Dante’s eyes burned with hatred, his fists trembling. “You betrayed me! You sold me out for what? To prop up a boy who thinks he’s ready to rule?”

It took him a few seconds to find his voice under the murderous look I was giving him. “Because I can’t….. Betray you like this. Not after I have gotten to know you all for real. I never had a family before. It was always just me and my father. And he was always busy at work, I was always left alone. I never knew the true meaning of family. The warmth I felt between you was something I never experienced before. The way you stand up for each other, protect each other, even take bullets for each other, it was the way my father was supposed to protect his brother instead of murdering him, just like the way I saw Lucas take a bullet for you. He became so close to me, like a true brother, and I l

I couldn’t finish. Damien moved then, crossing the room in two strides. He gripped my shoulders hard enough to anchor me. “Listen to me, Adrian. He’s expecting us to lose our heads. He wants you broken. If you run into this blind plan, you’ll lose her. You’ll lose everything Including yourself.” I hated that he was right. But that didn’t change the truth battling inside me: my father had betrayed me. Betrayed Clara, Betrayed Evelyn. And maybe he’d been planning it all along,