Chapter 28. Relief

Tristan

The shock simmered, surrounding the entire room. I couldn't feel the weight of my words resound across everyone.

But I wouldn't take them back.

“Alpha…Tristan, what is the meaning of this,” her father gaped.

My jaw clenched in response as I tore my eyes away from Valerie’s greens to stare at her father's. Something in me lurched at their pale faces, but it wasn't worry.

As far as concerned, they were my family. They had been the ones to raise me after my parents died and treated me like their own son.

I had always tried to please them the best I could, even when the realisation of what we had collectively done to Valerie came to me.

Even as I felt like screaming at how they so blatantly treated Valerie. In spite of those scathing words I'd overheard them say about her in Alyn's room and every other time. In spite of everything I'd felt about how they'd treated her.

After all, I couldn't hate them as much as I loathed