Thor's POV
"General, your father is here to see you." Henrik, my most trusted Captain back in Denmark, entered my office to say.
I look up from the file I'm working on toward the clock hanging on the wall opposite my desk and see it's exactly ten hours after we arrived back in Los Angeles. I know the old wolf would investigate where I'm staying and come find me since I refused to go with the person he sent to pick me up at the airport
Why would I stay at the house my father prepared for me when I already bought my own mansion and made sure it was made ready for us before we arrive. I also brought along with me my staff since I don't intend to trust anybody that comes from my father's pack
"I kinda knew he would come but I never knew it would be this early," I say to Henrik, returning my attention to the file I was working on. "You can tell him I won't be able to see him right now because I'm still jet-lagged and having difficulty adjusting to the new time zone."
"He already said he wouldn't leave until you see him! I told Ella to prepare their rooms for the night."
"Them?" I ask with a raised brow. "Who are those with him?"
"He came with his Beta"
"What about Eric? Where is he?"
"He's with your father"
"Okay, I'll see him at dinner then... " I say and dismiss Henrik. There's no need to put our meeting off anymore since the duel is in two days, maybe he came to talk about that. But whatever it is he came to talk about can't happen when I just came from a fourteen hours flight and still have more important things to deal with than argue
A few minutes after Henrik left, I heard a knock on the door and I instantly knew it would be my dad.
"Come in" I answer and the door is pushed open to let in Eric, who helplessly shrugs immediately as he enters my office.
''Your dad is here, Thor" he announces out loud. With the look he's giving me, he does not need to tell me before I know my dad didn't accept the excuse Henrik gave him.
Eric indicates a chair for my dad and he sits down, looking straight at me
"You told your man to tell me to wait like I'm a stranger to you?" He says like he couldn't believe I would ever dismiss him in such a manner and I can tell from his tone of voice that he feels hurt.
I ignore his question and stand from my chair…
"Alpha"
I say in greeting, bowing respectfully like any werewolf is expected to greet his Alpha
"How long are you going to hate me for?" He asks, his face contorted in pain.
"I don't know what you're talking about. I don't hate you."
"Oh, you don't? I must have been mistaken when you addressed me, your father as just, Alpha!"
I snigger
"Well you're the Alpha, aren't you? And I can't call you daddy anymore since I no longer need a daddy. I mean, not like I want you to teach me how to ride a bicycle or I need you to shoot hoops with me! We already passed those stages. I'm a man now."
The room became quiet for a while after what I said, with both of us just looking into each other's eyes.
''Would things be a bit better between us if I apologize to you right now about everything?" He asks hopefully but I'm not biting.
"If your apology won't bring my mother back to life, then you don't need to," I say and see Eric from the corner of my eyes look at me as if I'd gone out of my mind. I don't care. After all the emotional and mental trauma he put my mom through, he can't just wake up, decide to apologize, and think his apology will fix everything and make me feel better.
"For goodness sake, Thor!... He says gloomily, "I'm sorry about your mother's death! I'm so sorry but the truth is, you don't know half of what went down between your mother and me..."
"Oh yeah?" I say sarcastically "You really think I don't know what went down between you and my mother!?..." I ask but he doesn't reply
"I know you got her pregnant and abandoned her.
I know you never checked on her all through her pregnancy.
I know you never did anything when she was humiliated by the members of your pack!
I know you fucking stood by and did nothing when your precious Luna and son called her a whore and I, a bastard right in your presence.
I know you don't give a flying fuck about us!
Should I continue!?..." I furiously ask with a raised eyebrow.
"The gall of you coming here and hoping I would call you father!?...
Where were you when I needed an actual father!? Nowhere! You never for once check on me, I only got to see you on tv. The first time I got to see my so-called father was when I was thirteen and even then what did you do? You got me expelled from school for beating up your son that called my mother a whore!
How could you come to my house after all that and guilt-tripped me about not calling you father when my mother died protecting me? Where were you then!? How could you sit in my house and tell me I don't know anything when I listened as my mother cried herself to sleep every night because of you! When I watched her and the real people that were there for us being ripped apart!... I witnessed it all and never forgets! Couldn't forget even if I wanted to, so don't come here and tell me I don't know!" I shout, shaking with anger.
But he just smile like my anger doesn't affect him.
"I never stopped loving her, you know..." He calmly says to my utmost shock.
"What!?" I say and laugh derisively "I can't believe this! So unbelievable!" I say and laugh again.
"You had no right to make a mockery of what you know nothing about!" He suddenly blows his top taking me by surprise
"What I know nothing about?" I shout back in disbelief. After everything I've said to him, I can't believe he would still say that to my face.
"Yes! What you know nothing about because you had no clue about what happened between your mother and me!...
Have you ever been in love, Thor!?
Do you know what it feels like to truly love a woman but have to stay away from her!?
Do you know how painful it is to watch the love of your life suffer, knowing you can't do anything about it? You can't even console her. You can only watch from afar. Do you know how painful it is to have her hate you but you would gladly have her hatred than see her dead!?
We glare at each other as he asks his questions.
"No, you don't know! You don't even know half of it! Perhaps you should walk in my shoes and find out how comfortable it is before you start judging me!... I know what my faults were, what I was guilty of... And I accept the fact that I am to blame for her death.
His voice cracked as he continue talking
"If I had just stayed away from her if we had not come back together, she would still be alive by now! She might still hate me but at least I would still be able to watch her from afar."
I watch in shock as my father, one of the strongest werewolves I know, rests his head on my desk and breaks down, weeping like a child. I would have felt sorry for him at that moment if not for the fact that I'm in shock. Did he just say they came back together!? He and my mom came back with each other before her death!?
I give him time to calm down and put himself together before I ask him about what he said but he suddenly gets up and leaves my office.