Chapter 186

Jojo POV

I was seated on the hard concrete of the cell floor. Anytime I opened my nostrils to breathe, I sniffed in cobwebs and dust. It was hard to accept that the alpha's father had kept my mother in this terrible condition for days, while I spent my time in Rush trying to force myself to believe that she was okay. But my mother was far from alright, she was in pain, and it was all because of Alpha Cole.

I had sworn to myself that I would erase the feeling of hate from my heart, and try my best to forgive all those who had wronged me. But men like alpha Cole and my father, they brought out the worst in me, the very worst.

My mother's frail body leaned into a corner of the dusty room. She wrapped her hands around her knees and rested her right cheek on it. I wanted to call out to her, to let her rest her head on my thighs and try to get some sle