Chapter Thirty-Eight

I texted Ethan and told him I desperately needed to talk to him and my dad, this wasn't about the town or any borders but a family matter. I know Ethan will come no matter what, even if my dad were to tell him not too. The problem was if my dad was gonna come, he might think this is some kind of trap or something. I just need to prepare for anything, with that thought in mind I start heading towards the border. This was the first time I was making this journey alone, thankfully I walked it a few times so I wouldn't get lost. As I reach the border, I spot Ethan and just dad stood were waiting for me at that side. I send a smile over at them as one of the border guards makes his way over. "The Alpha has informed us that you will having a talk with your family, we will be over there further away enough so we can't hear your private conversation, but close enough so if something happened we would be there to protect you" he informs me with a bow of his head, I smile but I knew they wouldn't need to protect me from Ethan or my dad. "Thank you so much" I smile before making my way over to where my dad and Ethan were, making sure I didn't cross over any borders. "We came as soon as we got your text, is everything okay?" Ethan asks all worried before I could even stop, my dad on the other hand didn't look too pleased. "Yes what it is, we have important things involving the town that we need to sort. You would know that if you didn't abandon us to live with your mate" my dad mumbles crossing his arms over his chest, this does kind of upset me not gonna lie. "Can you just stop with that please?! Do you really think I wanna be away from my family, living in a place where I know no one, apart from Martha and Reece? I want nothing more than to wake up in a morning, walk downstairs to see you two having an egg fight" I say tears pricking my eyes as I spoke, I didn't know I was gonna get this emotional, my mother isn't even here yet "I want my life to get to what it was before, but you dad have made that impossible for me. So please don't give me the cold shoulder and stop treating me like some kind traitor" I continue but turn so I could wipe the stupid tears that were the real traitors here, I take a deep breath before turning back around. "Then come home, walk straight over the border. No one in town will look down or blame you" my dad says reaching his hand out, how bad the urge to take his hand was, I didn't. "I can't and you know that, I'm with Cody, I'm mated to Cody. If I'm being honest, I love Cody" I say which was the first time I've ever said I loved Cody, but it felt right and I knew I did. "How could you love something like that?" My dad asks which not gonna lie, annoyed the heck outta me. "Cody isn't a thing, none of the people in the pack are things, maybe if you gave them a chance you'd see that" I say defending Cody and the whole pack, I couldn't just sit there and hear him bad mouth the people I care about "but me being with Cody isn't why I'm here, like I said before I've found mum well kind of, I knew she lived in the pack and that was it, but now I have her address" I say which immediately makes Ethan's face drop, I think were all secretly hoping she wouldn't be there. "I see what's happening, you and your mother have had a chat and now you're here to try and lure us into a trap. See I told you we shouldn't trust her" my dad said turning to Ethan while pointing at me, that wasn't it but was quite a good idea. "No that's not it at all, yes I have her address but I haven't spoken to her. I thought that's something we should do as a family, we lost her together we find her together" I say which does take my dad by surprise "trust me dad, I don't want to trick you into any trap" I say as their attention shifts from me to behind me, I turn around and spot Cody making his way over. He sends me a reassuring smile moving to the side slightly, low and behold my mother was making her way over. I avoid eye contact and turn back to my dad and Ethan, Ethan looked as though he was about to puke and my dad, he had a unreadable expression, I really didn't know what was going on in his mind right now. I move to the side a little so I was stood near Ethan, while Cody came to stand right beside me. He takes my hand a little telling me it was okay, I take a look at him smiling before turning to look back at Ethan. My mum comes to a complete stop just before the border, this is the closest we've been since she left. She hadn't changed much, her hair was still the same, her face had changed a tiny bit with age and her clothes. There was no way she'd wear clothes that looked that expensive, her new husband must be rolling in the dough! "Oh my twins, you guys look so grown up" she smiles looking between me and Ethan as she spoke, I look in Ethan's eyes and knew he was about to cry, maybe this is gonna be too much for him. "You would have seen them grow up like a mother should do, but you decided they weren't good enough for you to stay" my dad chimes in spitefully at her, I hope she wasn't expecting any welcoming committee. "Richard you know that's not true, I loved and still love the twins so much. I didn't want to leave but there was really no other way" my mum says trying to defend herself, just a heads up our parents when growing up used to call us the twins, so you might hear that a lot. "Ha now thats the funniest joke I've heard since, well this one cracked a good one the other week" my dad says pointing over to Cody, who immediately tensed. "I'm gonna let that one go, I know you're going through some stuff right now" he says looking my dad dead in the eye before looking away. "Why did you let us believe you died mum?" Ethan asks stopping an argument that was inevitably going to happen, my mum sighs looking down before she spoke. "I really meant it when I said I didn't want to leave, why would I want to leave my two children and the man I married. But you won't understand the feeling I get when I'm around Raymond, it's the worst feeling in the world when I have to be away from him for a long period of time, it's like something is cutting deep into me. The only one of you who would understand that feeling is Erika, now she's found her mate" she says looking over at me and Cody, I once again avoid eye contact with her and turn my attention to the floor. "Before I left, you won't believe the amount of hours I spent going over a plan to take you two with me. It's only the night before I decided to keep you with your father, I couldn't take his whole life away from him in a second. So as much as it really hurt me to leave, I did it for you" she says but I shake my head, I wasn't buying a single word she said. "All you can talk about is yourself, how much it hurt YOU to leave, how hard it was for YOU. You don't even stop to think about the trauma you put us through, you're just interested in your new life with your mate and that's something I don't understand. Because when I have kids, there's nothing on this planet that would make me abandon them because I know what that feels like" I say looking my mum in the eye for the first time in this encounter "do you wanna know everything that happened while you were living it up with your new family? Dad nearly killed himself looking for you. He spent every waking hour he could searching, he spent weeks away from home just trying to bring our mum back. Ethan now has intense PTSD and anxiety due to you, he oppresses over making sure none of his family members ever go missing again, he won't fall to sleep at night unless he's done multiple head counts of us just in case. So you're gonna stand there and claim how it was so hard for YOU to deal with, you'll never know what that feels like that" I say Cody grabbing both of my arms so I don't swing for her, that's all I felt like doing in that moment, a part of me was so angry and I could feel surfacing and couldn't stop it. "It's your luna side, just try to calm down" Cody mind-linked me answering my question, calming down was easier said than done. "You are your fathers daughter" my dad smiles from beside me, I kind of overlooked that comment for the moment. "Maybe this wasn't a good idea, maybe it was better when we all thought you were dead but than again, the person we knew is dead, all I see is a heartless bitch stood of me!" I say before walking away and back towards the pack, I didn't need this stress in my life. Cody soon catches up with me taking my hand in his, I don't speak and just continue on my journey to our house. Once we reach them, Martha and Scott were stood outside like they were waiting. "How did it go?" He asks as we reach the gate, I just shake my head while Cody explains a little "well you have to go and talk to her, that's the only way we're gonna sort the mess with the town and the pack out" he says as I open the gate, but once he says that I freeze turning to look at him. "If it wasn't for you and the lies your mate told you, we wouldn't be in this mess. You caused this mess, you can sort it out" I say looking him dead in the eye, Martha gets pretty defensive beside him. "I didn't lie about anything, I've told Scott what happened at the lake that day and told him what your ex boyfriend tried to do!" She screams trying to get into my face, I just smirk looking her dead in the eyes as I went. "But have you told him why?" I ask looking at her as I hear Reece leave his house behind me, Martha looks at Scott than at the floor "I didn't think you would, do you want me to explain, I promise I won't leave out any details?" I ask looking at her with a look of disgust, the feelings I felt when it happened appeared in my mind again. "The facts will be backed by me" Reece says standing right beside me, Martha looks terrified looking between me and Reece. "What are you guys talking about?" Scott asks looking at us than back at Martha, who was trying to take his head and pull him away. "Oh Scotty-boy, it appears you don't know your mate as well as you thought you did" I say smiling sweetly at him.