28

Aleena’s POV
.
In Evening!!
.
After Leia’s outburst, Mom didn’t come to my room again to check on me. When I finished packing my things, I realized I had six bags. Everything was packed except for a few things, which I had left here knowingly so that I could use them whenever I would come here.
I smelt dad’s scent near me, so I walked toward the door to open it, wondering what brought him here!
“I hope I didn’t disturb you.”, Dad said, seeing me opening the door.
“No. Come in.”, I muttered, stepping aside so that he could walk inside my room. He looked at my bags and chuckled.
“Yeah! Yeah! I know what you are thinking.”, I muttered under my breath.
“Really? Tell me what am I thinking.”, He asked. I looked at his face wondering if he was mocking me or was serious with his words. And it looked like he was serious with her words.
“That when Eva was leaving, she hardly had two bags while I have five. But you see, dad. I’m not Eva. If she wanted to spend all her life in just ten clothes, then it’s not my problem. Neither I’m plain like her. I loved using makeup, heels, short dresses, and to maintain my figure.”
He chuckled again before speaking, “You are talking like you have known me for years. That too from very closely. Can you remind me of the last time when we even spoke without any reason?” Dad asked with a smile.
I opened my mouth to answer it but then shut it. I didn’t remember any such moment between us.
“We don’t have any of such moments because you never had time for me. Your primary concern was always Eva, the girl who was not even your daughter.” I couldn’t help myself from pointing that out.
I would have pointed that out earlier, too, but just like he mentioned, we never talk to each other without any reason, so sharing the things which were in my heart always remained untouched.
“Complains the one who never had for me and always used to stay hidden behind her mother.”, he said, arching his brow.
“So, now you’re blaming me? Like seriously, dad? It’s my last day here, and all you want to do is pick a fight?”
“It is not your last day, sweetheart. This is also our home. Just because you got married, that doesn’t mean you no longer belong here. And trust me, I didn’t want to pick a fight with you, and it was why I never talked to you about it until today when Stephen told me what you think and feel about me loving Eva more than you.”
“He told you that?” I yelled. “I can’t believe him. Now I doubt that I can trust him with anything.”, I muttered under my breath, fuming in anger.
“Don’t curse him, Aleena. I’m thankful to him that he told me about it. Do you know what he said after sharing that part with me?” he asked if I would have heard their conversation. “When a man can love someone else daughter more than anything else, then there is no chance he can love his own daughter any less. He was sure that there would be some communication gap or something because of which you think in this way.”, he said, but it didn’t calm down my anger. And I wouldn’t calm down until I hit that Beta’s face.
I laughed, mocking him a little. “Only if he knew that there’s no such communication gap or misunderstanding between us.”, I scoffed.
“We will see that. How about we talk about everything by sitting on the bed?”
“Your words can’t change my thoughts for you, dad. I’m twenty-two, not a kid, so this brainwashing thing won’t work on me.” I remained with him.
“I know that you are young and smart now. But don’t you think even I should get a chance to explain myself before you frame me for loving one daughter and ignoring the second?” he asked. I stared at him for a while and then closed the door, and I returned back to sit on the bed and patted my hand on the bed near me so that he could sit there.”
“Fine! Let’s start with each complaint that you have for me.”, he said, sitting beside me.
“Did… did you really love me as much as you loved Eva?” I asked the very first question that always ran into my mind.
“If I will really have to tell my own daughter whether I loved her or not, then I failed as a father.”, he said, something which I didn’t want to hear.
“Seriously, dad? Is this the way we are going to sort out our problem between us? Then guess what, it will never work. Forget that I even asked something like that to you because I already know the answer to that question.”, he muttered. “My next complaint, what did you always ask me to be like Eva? Why couldn’t you just accept the way I was?”
He sighed before replying, “When I used to say to be like Eva, I meant to say cheerful, kind, generous, and friendly like her. It was not that I used to compare you both. I wanted you to have those qualities in you.”
I rolled my eyes, not believing him again, “You sent me to the boarding school in other packs while keeping your favorite daughter with you. Not just did you send me there, but you also asked the warden and teacher to be super strict with me. Why was that? ”
“I did that because you used to bully the kids of the pack members by showing the authority of being the daughter of Alpha. Each day I used to get complaints from the school and the pack members about you. For how long could I have ignored that part? I had to take strict against you for everyone and not to forget your better future. Being an Alpha kid is a responsibility, Aleena, because everyone looks up to you, thinking you will be their next leader. They have some expectations from you before you can even realize them. And a leader can’t lead the pack for long if the reason behind his or her leadership is FEAR.”
I laughed at his choice of words and mocked him, “If I would have been your place, dad, then I would have never done that to my pup. If he or she had been a bully at his or her young age, then first, I would have talked to my pup about it. Maybe this would have worked or not, I wasn’t sure about it, but I would have kept trying to make him or she understand this fact instead of pushing him or her far away from me and ordering unknown people to bring him or her into the right path.”, I resorted.
“I don’t know what you were thinking back then.”, I mumbled, shaking my head. “There is a high chance that a part of my pup’s behavior will be like mine, but unlike you, I won’t push him or her away; instead, I will spend more and more time with him or her to understand the reason my pup’s behavior, and if required I would have also arranged special classes if required. But I would never have to repeat the same thing which you did to me.”, I said with determination. “He or she will never be abandoned, or less loved ever in their life.”, I added.
“I’m glad to know your thoughts on it, and I can’t help but feel proud of you for having these thoughts. I wish I could do something to change what happened I did to you.”, he said, feeling sorry, and his voice was laced with guilt. “I wish I would never have heard your mother. I wish I had handled the things in another way. I wish…. but I know that’s impossible now.”, he muttered.
“Why did you say that ‘I would never have heard your mother’?” I asked, arching my brow.
“Because it was her suggestion.”, Dad replied. “Do you think that I could have taken the decision of keeping our pup away from us alone?” he asked as an obvious fact.
I narrowed my eyes but didn’t say a word about it.
As far as I remember, Mom told me that dad took this decision alone without consulting her and not just that he even threatened to reject her in case she went against his order!
It meant only one thing. Either of them was lying to me. To their own pup. To make their image good and ruin the image of others.
But why?
I knew I had to figure out that part without letting them know that I had already smelt something fishy, and for that, I knew which strategy should I use. Divide and Rule! First, break them into rules at them. I thought to use this one Daniel and Eva to create a misunderstanding between them and then break their relationship. Never did I think that I would use it on my parents. I knew one of the weaknesses of my parents. They used to keep a lot of things from each other, so filling their ears against each other was not a big deal.
“Mom told me you even used to physically abuse me when I was a kid. And the marks on my back are because you had beat the shit out of me.”, I lied smoothly.
“What?” Dad screamed in shock. I knew by saying all this, I was sending my dad into a pure shock state, but I had to do this to know the truth. I had felt all my life that dad never loved me as much as he did to Eva, but that didn’t mean he treated me like shit or abused me physically.
“Not only that, but she also told me that if she wouldn’t have saved me, then you could have killed me.”
.
#TBC