Untamed: The Alpha

228 HER PLACE IS NOT HERE

“For what you have done to me eight years ago and the hell that you forced me to go through?” Lise talked calmly, but her eyes were so empty. “For the way you forced yourself on me? For the way you threatened me?”

Gael’s expression became darker with every word that came out of Lise’s lips. He said nothing and didn’t argue with her about what he had done.

“River is the only thing that I am grateful for what you have put me through,” Lise said. “So, bring me back my daughter and maybe I will forgive you for that.”

“River is my daughter too,” Gael pointed out. He knew that there was a time when Lise looked like she had accepted him, but there would be times when she would snap at him and look at him with anger in her eyes too.

And one such time was now. Gael could see hatred in her eyes. Maybe it was because Lise was not emotionally stable as they lost their daughter and that fact messed up with her emotions.

But, what Anne said the other night really ate him alive, it gnawed at him and made it hard for Gael to think about something else, aside from the fact how disgusted he was with himself.

“Figures. I would not have gotten pregnant if it had not been for you!” Lise snapped, but then she averted her eyes and then turned around. She covered her face with both of her hands, as she spoke tiredly. “Please go, I don’t want to talk about this.”

Lise tried to put everything behind her and lock it away at the back of her mind, so Gael should have just acted like he did the same and never brought up this topic ever again.

However, he chose to ask for forgiveness now.

.....

Forgiveness? For what?

Her emotions were all over the place, she didn’t think this was the right time or situation to bring up the past.

She didn’t want to hear the word forgiveness, she just wanted to move on.

Yet, Gael didn’t think the same. He walked across the room and hugged her from behind. He rested his chin on her shoulder and whispered into her ear softly.

“Forgive me for hurting you. Forgive me for leaving you when you need me the most. Forgive me for letting you down. Forgive me for not being a good father for our daughter...”

Gael thought Lise would push him away when he hugged her, but instead, she turned around and hugged him back. She cried so hard against his chest.

It was not Lise’s intention at all, she didn’t want to cry in front of Gael. She wasn’t even in such a distraught, emotional state when Gael saved her from the facility.

However, when Gael hugged her and whispered those words, it felt like the walls that she had carefully built around her heart all this time started crumbling.

After Gael had gone, leaving her with their daughter, Lise had to always toughen up herself, reminding herself that she had River and she was not allowed to look weak. It was just her and her daughter against the world.

She had to be strong for both of them and couldn’t really rely on anyone.

Lise didn’t know how long she had been like that, which made her heart become so cold.

But, when her daughter was taken away from her, her world crumbled. She felt helpless and no one was there to understand her.

However, Gael is here now. He was River’s father. He could understand her and Lise could finally rely on someone...

On the other hand, this upset her because this man was the very man that put her through hell, yet he was the only person that she had a strong connection with. Someone to rely on...

“I am sorry for leaving you alone and failing to protect both of you,” Gael said softly and gently, he was true to his words, he was remorseful for all of the things that he had done to her. “I love you, Lise, even though I know I am not right for you, I still love you.”

Lise hadn’t cried this hard for years. She felt she could become vulnerable in front of Gael and the exhaustion of being so strong for years had left her without any strength.

But, she couldn’t return the same sentiment. She was not in love with Gael, she simply couldn’t feel it. The only feeling that she felt right now for having him beside her was; being relieved.

And Gael knew there was no way for Lise to love him back...

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Eros started his training this morning and when he went to the dining room. There were two long tables in the middle of the room with a lot of food, more food than he had ever seen on a dining table. His eyes skimmed the room briefly and he went back to the door.

“Where are you going?” Liam asked when he found the little boy walking out of the dining room. He met him at the door. “Did you forget something?”

“Emily is not there,” Eros said simply. His voice was firm for a kid his age, it almost looked like he had matured enough to have an important conversation with someone older than him.

“Yes, I know,” Liam said, his voice didn’t change at all.

Eros frowned slightly, but he didn’t ask anymore about it as he walked past him. For a kid like him, he surely had an attitude.

“She is not allowed to eat in the dining room,” Liam said and watched as Eros stopped walking and turned around. His dark blue eyes glared at him sharply.

Even when he saw him for the first time, he knew that this young lycan would be a challenge for him, but he took him in anyway.

“Why?” Eros asked coldly.

“Because she is a human and her place is not here with us.” Liam smiled at him.

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