Chapter 29
Dominic’s POV
“Have you found her yet?”
My mother questioned as she came into my study, making me flinch in surprise. She sat across from me and her hands folded neatly in her lap, she had been hard on me ever since I lost my Luna — Samantha, though I knew there was still concern lurking behind her eyes, after all, I was her son. Mother was never one to press unnecessarily, but when she did, it was because she cared.
“Yes, but she doesn’t have to do anything with me anymore,” I muttered, leaning back in the chair and scrubbing a hand down my face.
Mother tilted her head, her piercing gaze pinning me in place, somehow, she reminded me of Dad, stern, yet Mom still had softness in her. “And why would that be, Dominic? Have you ever thought about why she would not want to see you?”
I stiffened, clenching my jaw. I did not need her to spell it out. The truth hung me like a noose, choking me as if punishing me for the crimes I had done. “I made mistakes,” I admitted gruffly. “I know that.”
“Mistakes,” she repeated softly, her tone was devoid of judgment but heavy with disappointment, as his son and as the Alpha of the pack she and my father had built. “Samantha did not just leave because of mistakes, Dominic. She left because she was broken. And do you know who broke her?”
Her words were like daggers piercing my chest, each one striking deeper than the last, and each stab waking me up with the harsh truth of the past. I swallowed hard, my hands clenching into fists. “I never meant to hurt her,” I said, my voice barely above a whisper.
“But you did.” her voice cracked slightly, betraying the emotions she tried to keep in check. “You hurt her by neglecting her, by not seeing her worth. That girl did everything for you, Dominic. For this pack. She loved you, truly and deeply, and you—” She stopped, exhaling shakily. “You pushed her away.”
I stood abruptly, the chair scraping against the floor. “I know, okay? I know I failed her!” My voice rose as frustration and guilt spilled over. “But I can’t change the past.”