Chapter 243: His voice sounds so familiar
The following day, Raine had lunch with her father. It was far from what she wanted to do at the moment, but it wasn’t as if she had anything better to do.
"Now that I’m back, you can choose to stay here in the safety of the mansion instead of gallivanting all over the place," her father suggested. Though it sounded more like a command. "Also, there’s no need for you to hole yourself up in your private residence, especially now that Yun’s gone." It was a foregone conclusion. He knew that she and his brother just couldn’t get along well. And of course, it resulted in her acquiring own private place to stay at.
"I’ll move back in about three days at most. I still have a lot to wrap up with my squad, Father," Raine casually replied, not bothering to raise her head. "You do know that I lost some of my old members, seeing as I’m already training up new recruits to replace them." She then turned to him and asked, "What are your plans now for the Convel Society?"
Hearing the question, Marcus’s spoon paused in his plate as he met her gaze. "What else? I’ll proceed with what I’ve always planned on doing, Raine. And you better not be holding any more feelings for that monster. You two don’t belong with one another," Marcus casually threatened.
"I’m already working on how we can remove his mark on you, so hang in there and don’t do anything stupid. Also, I already promised Janus your hand in marriage, so all you need to do now is focus on spending more time with him and working out your relationship before the wedding!"
"...I understand, Father," Raine answered, maintaining her usual casual expression in front of her father.
There was a moment of silence as they continued eating. After a few beats of awkward quietness, Raine finally gathered the courage to break it by asking, "I would like to resume my operations, Father."
"Absolutely not. You will stay within our territory, and you won’t be allowed to go out unless I say so," Marcus firmly denied. "I’m doing this for your own good. The Mate Pull is strong, and I won’t risk you roaming around knowing that that monster is just out there looking for my daughter. No... I don’t want you to have the same fate as your mother," he stated with a dark expression.
Curiously, Raine looked at him and asked, "What exactly happened to her? You never elaborated on the subject... Didn’t you say she died giving birth to me?" She was never interested in her past before, but after all the things she had just experienced... There were just too many loose ends still hanging around her. How could she not ask a lot of questions?
There was a long pause, and Raine’s gaze didn’t stray from her father’s. With a silent resolve, she let him know that she wasn’t leaving with her question still unanswered.
"Your mother was killed by a werewolf... The werewolf who took her away from me," his father answered, his voice coming out almost as a gasp that Raine could barely hear his words properly.
"I... I don’t get it..." she weakly whispered.