His Abused Mate, The Alpha's Redemption

Sins of the past

Chapter 4

Simon’s pov

So I am at the new Lycan King of the North’s crowning ceremony, as an Alpha, I am invited here. I am hoping that I will meet my mate tonight. Even more than that, I am hoping that my sister Sienna will be here, and I will get the chance to talk to her and apologise.

She still won’t take any of my calls, and Mum barely gets any contact with her it is mostly texts and the occasional call on special occasions. Stuart is in regular contact, so at least we know she is safe and well from him and through word of mouth about her skills and work in the elite squad. She has quickly worked her way up to the third spot as the strongest warrior. It is quite impressive.

I am sure she will be here the new Kings sister Rayne is her friend and the one who trained her so this is my best chance to see her. I finally spot her as there is a commotion going on with Rayne and her ex mate on the dance floor.

That Alpha will never learn, he keeps on making a fool out of himself since he rejected her then regretted it. Well, tough luck, it looks like she got a better mate on her second turn. I take the opportunity to have a word with her while everyone is occupied watching the show.

“Sienna please can I have a quick word with you?” I say pleadingly as I grasp her hand, looking desperate.

“Simon we have never had a relationship, I think it is best to keep it that way” she says coldly, looking at my hand that is holding hers.

“Please just 5 minutes, hear me out, and then if you want, you never have to see or speak to me again” I say, letting go and holding my hands up in surrender. She nodded to me to let me know to continue.

“Thank you, I know I have scr.ewed up so many times throughout our lives. I know no apology will be good enough for everything I have done and that there are no excuses to justify my behaviour but please just let me explain how it got to where it is” I say says upset as she stands there waiting for me to go on.

“When we were little, I was so excited to have a little sister, I had friends that had sisters, and they would always want to protect them and look after them. I felt the same way. I don’t know why dad did not like us being close, but when we got to a certain age, he became spiteful. As soon as Stuart was born, it got worse and worse” I say

“Well the closer we were, the more angry dad got, and he would raise his hands to me and then say it was your fault I was being punished. At such a young age, I started to believe him and feel resentment towards you. It just seemed like you were the cause of my pain, and I needed to make dad proud and move away from you so you would not keep hurting me” I say sadly.

“Now when you disappeared, I was worried about you, and I hated seeing the pain in mums and Stuart’s faces. I did try and talk to dad about it, but he brushed it off as you had run off with a guy, and he didn’t want to upset mum with the embarrassment of it. At the time, it sounded like a reasonable excuse, so I helped him cover up the fact we never searched for you and didn’t inform the council. I thought I was protecting Mum and Stuart” I explain emotionally.

“I have never felt so sick in my life when I found out what happened to you and I felt awful knowing maybe I could have helped if I had just spoken up once about what dad was doing. I never ever thought he was capable of putting anyone through that, let alone his own daughter” I say, sighing.

“It made me start to question his motives and move away from what he had been teaching me, when I found out what you had suffered through and he never even gave out the tiniest of emotions on your behalf. That was when I started to understand that he was not the man he made out to be, and I started to make my own way doing what I thought was right” I explain.

“I know that this is not an excuse for the way I behaved, but I would really like to build on our relationship again, mum is devastated about what happened and she blames herself all of the time for what happened to you. I hate to see our family so broken because of that sick and twisted man. If you don’t want to give me another chance, please at least think about having more of a relationship with Mum. I hate to see her so broken” I say, begging her with my eyes.

“I am not sure if I can ever forgive you both properly for what I went through. A mother is supposed to protect her children, but when it comes to mum, I guess that just meant her male children. As for you, well, I don’t blame you entirely for the way you acted as a child, but at some point, you became an adult and still let me suffer. You never cared if I was even dead when I went missing, and that could have easily been the case. Not all of us survived our sales. I needed you all years ago. Even a year and a half ago would have helped. Now I have people who actually care about me and what happens to me. Ones that will always have my back and be there no questions asked and would always search for me to the ends of the earth if I disappeared out of their lives. Stuart is the only one who was there for me in our fu.cked up family. He would always show me care and love no matter who was around. Mum would only care if we were alone. That is not how family acts” She says firmly.

“I understand. Just please think about what I have said and consider my words. We really do care about you and love you, I just wish we had seen the truth sooner and were there for you when you needed us. It will always be my biggest regret and mum’s too” I say sadly.

“At the moment I can not have you near me, it is just too much, and I can not think in this public setting or let my emotions run wild. Please just give me the space I need for now” she says, trying to keep her emotions in.

“I will respect your decision, just know we are there if you need us and from now on if you need anything at all we will always be there waiting for you to give you any support or help that you need” I says letting her go to think over things.

Well, that didn’t go great, but I could have gone a lot worse. At least she heard me out fully. Hopefully, if nothing else, it will help to improve her and mum’s relationship even if it does nothing for ours. I hate to see mum fading away because of all the guilt she feels.

The coronation was a bust for finding my mate but I had to stop at the Eclipse pack on my way home and as soon as I stepped into the packhouse I smelled the most delicious smell in the world as a gorgeous girl with look black curly hair and beautiful light mocha skin flees the room taking the scent with her Kain my wolf is going nuts wanting to chase me down as the former beta grabs me to stop me in my tracks.

I growl on impulse at him, stopping me from getting to my mate, before he calms me by telling me it is his daughter and explaining what she has been through. His son is there and says she should go with me. The mate bond could help.

I am not so sure about that. She may not be open to it if she knows who my father is. His dad reluctantly agrees after his little rant about her not trying hard enough to get better. He is being an a.sshole. He has no idea what they have been through. I can’t help but growl at his words.

My heart sinks as I realise that my beautiful mate has heard every one of his words and she calls him out on them all, before saying she will leave with me and then they won’t have to be in her life again. As if she has not suffered enough.

I don’t think the mate bond is going to work, I am pretty sure she hates me, and she knows Sienna, which is the reason she hates me. Kain is howling painfully in my head, terrified that our mate will never love us and that he can never be with her. He is angry at her brother for hurting her more than she already is.

Her brother looks broken by her words. Well, he maybe should have thought about that before he destroyed what little there was left of her. It is a bit late to worry about upsetting her now. She won’t even look at them as she walks to the car. I almost growl at my warrior as he makes her flinch, taking her bag off of her. He was only being helpful, and he looks like he feels bad enough as it is.

As I get in the car, I see her pressed right against the door to stay away from me. I try and keep as far over as I can to make her feel more comfortable with being stuck in the car with me for the next 45 minutes. I link my Gamma and warrior not to talk in case it makes her more uncomfortable and we have a very uneasy and quiet ride home.

I make sure that only mum will be at the packhouse entrance when we arrive. The last thing Harriet needs is to have the whole pack greeting her when she is used to being on her own. Mum being a Luna can help to keep her calm and help her to settle in, well that’s what I am hoping anyway.