Kids from One Alpha

Chapter 85: The Truth, At Last

Logan shook his head. He didn’t want to think that Serena’s actions had been justified. There was no way he could accept that! “The truth is, Logan, by the time I could tell you the truth, it was already too late,” she said. “You didn’t want to know the truth. You never even wanted kids. Remember telling me that in the maternity ward? You said you weren’t ready.” “It doesn’t matter what I said,” Logan argued. “The point is, I had the right to know the truth.” “Maybe you did,” Serena said, shaking her head. “In the long run, it only would have hurt Olivia and Oliver. If you love them at all, as a father or as a friend, you wouldn’t demand knowing the truth when you know it could hurt them.” Logan snarled, shaking his head. He leaned back against the wall of the tree house. It seemed so frail now that he was sober. He couldn’t remember why he had thought that the treehouse was a good place to take Serena when they had been partying together.

So long ago. It wasn’t just the alcohol that had taken his memories. It was time. Time had compromised how he viewed that night. Time and so many little changes in between. He felt like he had grown up so much since then, but the emotional impact was still so raw. “We can’t change the past,” Serena said. “I wouldn’t change it if I could.” “Why not?” Logan asked her. She shrugged.

“I love my kids. I love my career and who I have become,” she said. “I wouldn’t be any of that, nor would my kids, if I had done anything differently.” “It is easy to say that now, but you also can’t know what things would have been like,” Logan reminded her. “It is also easy to say that you would have wanted to be there, that knowing would be better,” she pointed out. “You were struggling with becoming Alpha, you had problems of your own. Would you really have wanted to raise kids along with all that?” Logan scoffed, looking away from Serena. Her questioning eyes were too much for him.

“I don’t know,” he admitted.

“I had my suspicions,“ Serena said. “About you being their father. Before I got the DNA results. There were things I noticed, like how Oliver looked like you when you were his age, how drawn to them you were and they to you.” “Why didn’t you say anything then?” he asked. “Why would I?” she asked. Logan growled again.

was better to keep your suspicions

the kids through that, not when they had already grown attached to you. And I was afraid.” “Afraid of what!?” Logan snapped. Serena cringed away from his temper. “That, for one thing,” she muttered. “I was afraid that if you learned they weren’t your kids, you wouldn’t treat them the same.” Logan scoffed, shaking his head. “You really don’t know me at all, then,” he said. “I would have done right by them.” “There is no way you could,” Serena said. “Not with Holly. Not with Holly being pregnant. I didn’t get the DNA results until after she had blurted out

was pregnant. Shortly after that, you admitted that you weren’t ready to be a parent. There wasn’t any reason to tell you.” “Except for basic decency! You should have given me the choice! I should have been able to decide

consciousness and your girlfriend, what would have become of the twins?” Serena asked. “You were right when you said you weren’t ready to be a father, because you can’t put the kids first. You can only whine and complain about yourself!” Snarling,

her and turned his back on her. “You’re loving this, aren’t you?” he

 wanted you to find out? I‘ve imagined this moment over and over again, and this….this is the worst it could be!” “Were you just planning the perfect moment then? Waiting for the right time? There would never be a right time, Serena,” he said. Serena sighed, crossing her arms again. “Maybe not,” she said. “But you know the truth now. What are you going to do with it?” Logan looked out of the treehouse and down to the

to think so! “I don’t know,” he said finally. “All I know is that I

about the wellbeing of the kids, and you never thought about what would happen when the truth did come out!” “What do you mean by that?” Serena

find out the truth? You‘re right, I can’t be there for them the way I should be with Holly and another baby. Won’t it hurt them now to know the truth and have me be an absentee father?”

him. “I don’t know what to tell them,” she admitted, “I

said. He looked back out the window. A chilly wind rocked the treehouse. The branches around the treehouse creaked. Serena was