HER ALPHA'S CARNAL SINS
Chapter 203: You did this to him

Chapter 203: You did this to him

"Luna Ciara... " Luna Ciara who had been drinking, silently sitting down on her own glanced up to see Barton towering over her with a polite smile on his face.

"Barton... " She dropped her glass of wine, and her eyes suddenly turned misty on seeing what he held between his two hands. "I... I can’t"

"Please," he pushed it forward. "Just accept it."

Ciara got up before holding onto it, arms trembling.

It was a huge portrait of Dora, and hanging around the beautiful portrait was a medallion similar to the ones Koan and the rest had on.

Tears formed at the edge of her eyes as she stared at her carbon copy of her still in her teen age, youthful and gorgeous staring back at her with that gorgeous smile of hers.

Barton’s eyes reflected her teary expression before he held her hand, causing her to glance up at him. He smiled.

"She’s a hero too. She was my hero... "

Ciara chuckled sadly before managing a smile.

"I wish she had this around her neck now. I wish she was here... I .. "

"She’s no more, but that doesn’t mean she won’t live on in our hearts forever." He soothingly whispered, naturally reaching out to place a strand of her hair behind her ear.

She sobbed loudly before pushing her head against his chest, her tears flowing down her cheeks.

*

The party soon came to an end, and despite how late it was, everyone returned to their respective packs.

The Alphas and Lunas paid their respectable condolences to Luna Ciara and Luna Tessa who had lost their love ones, ensuring to promise them their prescence at the respectable funeral.

The farewell was sad, but the group of friends knew this wasn’t their last encounter together.

"Let’s do this sometime again guys... " John said as they rounded up to say their final farewells before leaving to their respective packs. "Except... it wouldn’t include using weapons and fighting for our lives?"

Everyone chuckled.

"We’ll keep that in mind," Nancy suddenly said before turning to Hakura. "Right Hakura?"

Hakura glanced up, surprised. She didn’t think they’d still want her around. After all, they had just needed her held. Were they friends now?

"Um... Yeah. Sure. I guess. Whenever I’m less busy."

Cardin rolled his eyes.

There was an impatient horn sounding off behind them, and they all turned to see Alpha Kris seated at the driver’s seat, an impatient frown etched on his face.

Jephthah suddenly clasped his hand around Talia’s.

"I’ll call you, okay?" He whispered, and there was a slight red hue on his face when she smiled.

"Okay."

"Goodnight Jephthah." Someone suddenly said and Jephthah would have kicked himself in the groin to check If he was dreaming If It was possible.

It was Cardin.

"Um... Good... night" He said awkwardly before jogging off.

"Goodnight guys!" John waved, already jogging back like his brother, his attention on the others who waved back. He suddenly winked. A type of wink which would leave a girl melting to the floor like ice cream. "Goodnight Naomi."

Everyone laughed when Daniel suddenly frowned and held onto Naomi’s waist like his arms were like an automatic protective vice.

*

Once John got into the back seat of the car and banged it shut, Alpha Kris remarked as he pulled back, switching gears.

"Took you long enough. Even I thought you’d spend the night here, considering there were a lot of ’beautiful’ women lingering about half-naked. Wondered why you didn’t hook up with one right on the spot?"

John frowned and Jephthah face palmed himself where he sat at the Passenger’s seat, knowing what was to come.

"I was saying goodbye to my friends, and you’re the one to talk. You’re no better, Dad." There was a slight hint of mock and mirth to the tone of his voice when he said ’Dad’.

"I’m an adult. I’ve turned my dreams into a reality," he boasted "I turned them into goals and I accomplished every single one of them. I’m a mogul In the business world... top of my company. Built from scratch till it’s the top 10 continentaly. I’m an Alpha of the third largest ever. So you see John, I’ve planned my future out, so I f**k around with any woman I want. You on the other hand... "

"What about me?" John impatiently snapped.

"Guys... " Jephthah starts saying, but Alpha Kris cut in. It’s always been like this.

Alpha Kris and John would start arguing, and Jephthah would stay in between, his attempts to stop the exchange of words, futile.

"What about you?? Do you need to ask that question?? The only thing you’ve ever done to make me proud is to stay sober for a whole week. If I hadn’t stopped you in time back in middle school, you’d have also become a drug addict like your pathetic friends. I can say you’ve f**ked every single female in the entire werewolf territory because you can’t keep that thing of yours in place. Why can’t you be like your brother here? Why are you like this?"

"Dad stop." Jephthah suddenly growled. "John has his flaws and I also have mine. You don’t need to bully him everytime. He’s well past eighteen. He’s an adult. You’re making him feel bad... "

"He’s supposed to feel bad. He’s so useless, I don’t even know why he still roams the pack when he knows accurately well that he’s not going to be Alpha and that’s that. He can start off by working as my P.A in my company, but I guess he isn’t done bending women over and... "

Screeeeeech!!!!

John had violently begun fumbling with the car door, causing Alpha Kris to abruptly stop when he abruptly pulled his door open and step out in the middle of nowhere, walking away after banging the door shut.

"That a**hole," Alpha Kris hissed before he poked his head out the car. "Get the f**k in here or I’ll let you walk back home."

"John, please come in... let’s talk."

"I rather walk to end of earth than stay in that car with him." John spat as he kept moving forward.

"Fine then. I hope you get attacked by rogues on the way, maybe you’d learn to be grateful for the small things I try to willing do for you. I’ve had enough."

Jephthah’s eyes widened when he noticed that his father had already turned the ignition, ready to actually leave without John.

"Dad please. We can’t leave him out here... "

"I’ve tried Jephthah," Jephthah saw the genuine sadness and tiredness in his eyes which he was used to concealing with anger. "I have tried and tried, but it seems as though he wants to truly remain useless for the rest of his life. I have truly had enough."

"You’ve been trying the wrong way. John thinks you hate him. Of course he’s bound to act like this. You two have never listened to me and that’s why you two ended up misunderstanding each other... till now "

"I... I... don’t hate John."

"That’s what he said... and... " Jephthah glanced down to an invisible stain on his hand, it wanting to meet with his father’s gaze. "And I believed him."

"What?" There was shock and disbelief in his eyes as he stared at Jephthah like it was his first time seeing him.

"I get it... I get that after the incident you wanted me to forget about it, so you made sure I got everything I wanted. You did your best to make sure I felt happy once again, you gave me all your love and attention, but Dad," Jephthah clasped his hand together and closed his eyes. "You forgot about John... "

"I didn’t f... "

"You did. I noticed it, but I was selfish then. Thinking about it now, I realized how selfish I was. I was so occupied with trying to forget all that happened, that I didn’t notice how left out John always felt when he saw us together. He tried to get even a single second of your time... he did literally everything. He did well at school, he brought home good grades and he trained really well just to become the potential Alpha you wanted. He studied marketing strategic business In school, just because he wanted to work with you at your company. Just because he wanted to spend more time with you. But nothing he ever did was good enough for you, because you didn’t notice him. You forgot he ever existed."

Alpha Kris slowly turned off the ignition as his head dropped on the wheel, his knuckles turning white as he squeezed the wheel tightly. He was trembling.

"And... " As Jephthah kept speaking, he began to understand John more and more, and he hated himself for ever judging him. "He so badly wanted your attention, that he did the opposite of what he previously did. He brought bad grades, he smoked, he drank alcohol, he went out for parties and made sure you knew every single girl he had ever slept with... all these was because he wanted to gain just one second of attention. He no longer cared If you turned to him with a loving look in your eyes... he just wanted your attention dad. He was never the time to show his feelings, but he missed you and still does." He chuckled painfully. "And he did gain your attention, he got the attention he finally wanted, but you ended up misunderstanding him... just like I did, and you hated him and made him feel worse than he already was."

He finally opened his eyes and stared ahead.

"You did this to him, dad. You caused this... "