After I Torched Alive, My Alpha Went crazy novel Chapter 26

I nodded. "Yes. We're not mates anymore. I want what’s rightfully mine. You can keep your apologies, Nathan. They don’t matter anymore."

For a moment, he froze, as if trying to comprehend the sudden shift in me. Then, slowly, he nodded, his voice broken. "Okay… I promise. I’ll give it back."

I knew Nathan held a grudge against both me and my mother.

He had always believed that my mother had only kept him around because of his talent, let him run our pack, which is weak because of our father's departure and our lack of alpha. He would laugh bitterly sometimes, calling himself the dog my mother had raised to do her bidding. She held the leash, and he resented her for it.

The truth, however, was far more painful. When my parents had ended their mate relationship, my father had been too wrapped up in his new lover to care about our family. He didn’t want anything to do with me, and he had outright refused to raise Nathan, abandoning us both. My mother had done her best to keep us together, but Nathan never saw that..

But now, with the looming of bond's break up, everything had to be accounted for. The problem was that our families’ interests had become so entangled over the years that separating them felt impossible. Still, it needed to be done.

Lately, I’d spent more time at Johnson Group than I ever had before. Once upon a time, I would’ve struggled to even get past the front door, but now I walked into Nathan’s office as easily as if it were my own.