Chapter 98: Take Your Daughter Back Home

Chapter ninety-eight: Take Your Daughter Back Home


Bernard

I had also wanted to speak with Helen at my parent's house but apparently, she wasn't there. She had gone into town to do some shopping. I knew what I had said to her would come back to haunt me. I shouldn't have asked her to stay, I should have just let the sleeping dog lie, now I had to take back my words. I knew that this was going to be a difficult one for her to swallow.

I don't know whether or not I should go out and look for her or at my parent's house and wait for her. I eventually decided to stay back, I needed to make an unpleasant call to Ronald. My mother was still a bit worked up, so I decided to distance myself from her and sit in the car. I would get the privacy I needed there, I knew she would get over it eventually.

I opened my phone and searched through the contact and when I stumbled upon his number, I mentally prepared myself for what I was about to do. There was no easy way around any of this, I was stuck between a rock and a hard place and I didn't know how to get out from it except through this. I clicked on his number and waited for it to ring.

"Bernard, to what do I owe the pleasure?"

"Ronald." I greeted.

"How are you?" I asked.

"Not well, seeing as you are bouncing my daughter around like some kind of yo-yo. What kind of man are you, Bernard? One minute you want her and the next you are throwing her away like trash." This was not going to get over well at all.

"She was set to come home last week and then all of sudden, she tells me that you asked her to stay. I hope that this is the last time you jerk her around, she is a rare kind and not one of your little playthings."

"That is actually what I wanted to speak to you about." I breathed a heavy sigh.

"I have found my true mate and have decided to accept my relationship with her. This obviously means that I cannot be with Helen anymore, seeing as she is not my destined mate." I waited for his response, all I could hear was his heavy breathing.

"And when did you find out about your mate"

I could either lie or tell the truth, lying would save me more trouble but then the truth would be more freeing for me. I was tired of having to hide and lie about my relationship with Elena like I was embarrassed by her. I am proud to have her as my mate and I wanted to show her off. I wanted the world to know our love story because it would be the greatest love story ever told.

"I met her two months ago when she crossed our borders as a rogue. Now she will be my Luna and I will marry her within the coming weeks."

"So, you knew you had a mate all of this time yet you chose to be silent and not say a thing?"

"We hadn't accepted each other then, I was still trying to navigate if I should keep my commitment to Helen or if I should go with my destined fate. It took me a while to see it but I realized that I could not give up my destined mate for an arranged one. It would serve me no real purpose and I would only suffer and also make my Pack suffer at the same time." I heard his low rumble growl.

"All this time, you could have informed us about this. We had been making preparations for a wedding and you could have told us instead, you allowed our daughter to be disrespectful and humiliated in the eyes of not only your Pack but here as well. What happened to your words, Bernard?"

"At the time of negotiations, we thought I would never find my mate and then I did." I tried to explain.

"Look, Ronald. I know I have put you into a real predicament here but I need to do what is best for me and my Pack. And the best for me and my Pack is Elena. She was born to be my Luna, Helen is an amazing girl and she will find someone to marry."

"That is not the point, Bernard! The point is you have shown me great disrespect by putting my daughter through this. What will the other Alpha think of you when they learn this?"

"I hope they will be understanding and give me some grace. I was a foolish man who tried to deny his true mate but now I have gained my wisdom and realized I was fighting a losing battle. I tried with your daughter but we are just not compatible."

"I will have your head for this, Bernard."

"You can do nothing to me, my contract has an escape clause. I protected myself in case situations such as this arose. I am sorry it all had to play out like this but there is nothing that I can offer Helen. I permit you to cross the border so you can come and take her but do not come way into the Pack. Stay within a hundred meters distance from the border, I will also get someone to help Helen pack her bags."

I didn't wait for him to respond because I knew he would only send anger my way, I hung up the call and waited for Helen to come home. I waited almost two hours for her to return. When she got out of my mother's car, I stepped out of mine. She was carrying shopping bags in both hands, she saw me and her face split into a beaming smile and I knew Ronald hadn't spoken to her. This is going to be a fun conversation to have.

"Hey." She greeted me as she walked up to me and surprised me by placing a kiss on my cheek.

"What a surprise to see you here, I was thinking since we hadn't gone on our first official date we could do something tonight since we are back on track with everything."

She sounded so genuinely excited and now I felt like kind of an asshole for giving her this hope for us again.

"Can we talk inside?" I gestured to the house.

"I can take your bags for you?"

She handed them to me gleefully and walked ahead of me. We walked into the foyer and made our way to the kitchen, I could see the extra kick in her steps and I was kicking myself because I knew what I needed to do next. She went to sit by the island and then gestured for me to sit by her. I sat down beside her and smiled a weak and tentative smile.

"So, I was thinking that we could have the wedding within the next month. I know it is short notice but I think given everything that has happened, there is no need to delay anymore."

"Helen, I need to talk to you about something."

"About what?" I let out a heavy sigh and then looked into her blue eyes.

"I am sorry that I have to do this to you again but we can't get married. This time, it is finally."

It fell eerily silent, no sound could be heard even the birds outside seemed to fall silent. She stared at me blankly with no expression on her face. For a moment, I was worried she had frozen and gone into shock.

"What do you mean we can't get married?" She finally spoke, her voice was weird and not like anything I had expected at all.

"Elena and I have decided to be together, she will be my Luna."

"So, you, coming to tell me to stay, what was that?" She looked me dead in the eyes.

"Was that just your way of taunting me? Was that your way of dangling the carrot in front of me before you ripped it away again?" I shook my head.

"When I had asked you to stay, I had all the intentions of working on us but after a lot of things were cleared up and squared away, I found myself back with Elena." I am so sorry…." I felt the slap before I heard it. Her hand collided with my skin in a loud smack.

I turned my face back to her and I rubbed the cheek she had just slapped and I could feel stinging. Usually, I would have raged about someone touching me in such a way but here I knew that I fully deserved what was coming to me.

"Don't you dare try and apologize and pretend to be the good guy." She stood up from her seat and stabbed me with her pointer finger.

"How much humiliation can I take, Bernard? I was ready to leave you, I was ready to walk away from all of this then you came in and you gave me this false hope. How is that fair?"

"It is not fair, Helen but I would have never asked you to stay had my mother not conjured up her stupid plan. At the time, I thought I was being smart but now, I knew I was just being impulsive."

"You can't play with people's emotions just like that. It is not okay, Bernard. Do you have any idea how I feel right now? She seethed.

"I felt like a large heap of shit, you have made me question everything about myself. You have me out here thinking why I am not good enough for someone like you when in fact I am the female equal to you."

I allowed her to rant because I knew she needed this. She could shout at me for as long as she needed to, she had every right to feel how she was feeling now.

"I hate you, Bernard Joseph. I hate you and the stupid witch of a mate of yours and you will rue the day that you ever went against me."

She brushed past me and headed to the stairs. I heard her stop her way up the stairs and slammed one of the upstairs bedroom doors. The confrontation was as difficult as I had imagined it to be but at least it was finally done now.

Ronald would come and take his daughter and I would be free to be with Elena. I knew I had hurt some people along the way to finding and being with Elena but I would do it all over if it meant I got her in the end.

When they said love is like a fire and you are bound to get burned, they were not lying. But the same fire that can burn you can also warm you and that was what Elena did for me. She warmed me.