The Temptation of Sin And The Lycan Princess

Chapter 96

12. Father to Daughter

I don’t like that look.

It’s a look I’ve seen in the mirror so many fucking times…

He looks away, as if not wanting me to know what he’s feeling.

A tense silence falls between us, and I hate where we’ve come to. I close my eyes, trying to calm down. Now I fucking feel guilty for saying that.

“Well… I’m sorry, that you felt like that… I…” He pauses as if trying to recollect his thoughts.

“Dad…” I exhale, opening my eyes and looking at him. “You don’t need to be sorry. You’re not responsible for the way I feel.”

“I kinda am when I’m your father. You being a Lycan is my fucking fault. I know how it feels to be isolated, wondering why the fuck I’m even alive when I don’t fit in anywhere… it wasn’t exactly the entire truth but it’s how I felt.” He says, his voice is quiet, and even though he’s trying to hide them, there are so many emotions in them.

I don’t know if I can do this. I feel too damn emotional, and he only makes it worse when he cups my face and looks into my eyes with eyes filled with emotions. I thought he wanted to hide.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen him this vulnerable since Kataleya was taken and he broke down… he didn’t know I saw him, but I did. That image of my father, the all-powerful king sitting there with his head in his hands, always remained…

I’m about to turn away, but he doesn’t let me, pressing his lips against my forehead before looking into my eyes.

“I know how it feels trying to fight the darkness that’s constantly trying to consume you. I’ve done things that I regret. I’ve killed people and hurt people, some that still carry those scars until this day. The guilt of it all won’t ever go away, but I’m trying every fucking day. I’m trying to be better.

Your mother is my tether. She pulled me from the darkness that was drowning me…” He stops, his eyes glinting and he closes his eyes.

“I see myself in you. The poisons, I’ve done the same. I’ve drunk bottles of wolfsbane to cope. At the age of thirteen, when I shifted, I killed my parents in rage. The scars on Maria’s back. I did that to her… I used to beat Raf to within an inch of his life just because I was fucking pissed off. I’ve done far worse…”

My heart thuds. Sure I knew Endora faked her own death, but we were also told it was at the cost of her mate… Dad did that? Everything he said from Uncle Rafael to the wolfsbane… it hits home.

“Did you really… kill them?”

was a victim of hers and I was the one who ended his life… instead of saving him from her spells and control, I ended his life.”

Just the thought sends

haunts me often enough that I’ll hurt someone I love to the

won’t.” He answers my unspoken thought, and I look up at

he had his brother who always supported him there for

shakes his head, letting go of my face as he wraps his arms around me tightly, hear his

the calm to your storm, just as Kiara is mine. You found yours sooner. I can’t imagine a life without her and I know even when I lose my shit, when I upset

Royce for me.” I

so vulnerable. I hide behind my attitude,

through my mind. What if you can’t cope with his loss? What if… what if you were gone too? Why did he have to mark you so

we tell ourselves

way I used to try to pinch his nipples when I could see the outlines of the little barbells and cackle when I succeeded. The way I used to play with his necklaces and memorise every

Sky, but like they say, when two people are so

talk to us, but we

You didn’t.

spill from my eyes, and when the first few fall,

going through so much, her nightmares and trauma. I had to do better… I didn’t want to be a burden but, in the end, I still became one. I was trying to deal with it my way. Fuck, I’m not

There I said it.

sadness as he

that… there was a time I wished I never had daughters because I feared the day, I’d have to give you to some

and I know this is also hard for

amazing than this.” I say weakly, pointing my thumb at

created the hot gene. I guess that’s

you’re good at this,”

“Then give me a chance, talk to me. You know that shit won’t go

“I know…” I say,

to me. I would fucking kill for the four of you. Yeah, you fuckers do grate on my fucking nerves, but at the end of

meet and I nod, he smirks, looking away, and I

says and I can’t help but chuckle

suffocate you, Grumpy Bear!” I say, squeezing his neck.