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Katya POV
“What was that about?” my father asks as I watch Mateo leave. I turn to face him and I feel Kora leave now that Mateo was out of the room.
“Pardon?” I ask.
“You and Mateo, what’s going on with you two and where is Ezra?” My father asks.
“Oh nothing, and Ezra is doing training today” I tell him, walking over to the kettle before holding it up to him, he nods and I turn it on, grabbing some mugs down.
Turning back to my father he was watching me and I looked away, uneasy by his gaze like he was studying some science project.
“Are you sleeping with Mateo?” He asks suddenly, making my jaw drop.
“What no, I have a mate” I tell him shocked he would even ask that.
“But you like him, does Ezra know?” he asks.
‘And we thought mum was observant’ Kora says listening in.
‘I never said I like Mateo’ I tell her.
‘You also never said you didn’t’ She retorts.
‘We have a mate and Maddox would kill him,” I tell her and she shuts up.
“What are you arguing over with your wolf?” My father asks, his eyes scrutinising my face. I turn around making coffee, anything to get away from his gaze. Why did Ezra have to say the things he said this morning, his actions confusing me and I was confusing myself now as well.
“Spill I know you’re hiding something” My father says.
“I will when you do, what’s going on with you and mum?” I ask him, and my father sighs.
“I moved back home, but I am staying in the spare room. We are trying to work things out, I just don’t know if I can forgive her” He says. I nod, I felt caught in the middle of them, it was hard knowing there was a chance they may not get back to the way they were or not all.
“Where is mum?”
“At home, she wanted to come but I asked her to stay home so I could spend time with you” He says.
“And she was okay with that?” I ask and he nods.
“So what is going on with you and Mateo?” My father asks and I hand him his mug before sipping my own.
“Nothing, but Ezra was asking me some weird questions this morning and now it feels awkward” I tell him.
“About what?” My father asks, pushing the chair out with his foot and I walk over to it and sit down.
“Asking if I like Mateo, I think he was trying to find out if I wanted Mateo” I answered, my face heating at what I was telling my father, though he and I were close I could tell him anything, yet that didn’t seem to make it easier to tell him. But for some strange reason dad just happens to be around when things turn awkward.
“Okay, did he seem angry but more importantly do you want Mateo too?” my father asks.
“Ezra no, just different and I have a mate” I tell him and my father shrugs.
“You can love two people at once, I did” He says.
“Ezra is straight dad” I tell him.
“But I am guessing Mateo is not. So say you didn’t have a mate and Ezra didn’t exist. Would you choose Mateo?” He asks, his lips turning up deviously.
“Well…”
“Answer the question I won’t judge you know that” He says.
“If that were the case then yes” I tell him before letting out a breath.
“Okay, next question, say Ezra wasn’t your mate, who would you choose out of them?”
“Dad?”
“Humour me” He says and I think, though the answer isn’t straight forward I liked them both for different reasons.
“I wouldn’t be able to, if Ezra wasn’t my mate. I wouldn’t be able to choose”
“And that’s because you love Mateo too” My father says with a shrug.
“It’s not a bad thing Kat, but it does make me wonder why Ezra was asking, I know he is straight, but why would he ask you if he didnt think you did love him, or is there another motive behind why he is asking?” My father says.
“He knows I wont leave him Dad, I have told him that already”
“Then why ask? Maybe you should ask your mate, especially if it is making you feel this way, maybe he intentionally made you question yourself and from what I can tell you are doing that” He says. Hmm maybe I thought.
“Was it weird having two mates?” I ask him.
“No, for your mothers it was but we kept everything separate, Kathrine was fine sharing clearly your mother wasn’t. But for a while it was working.”
“Do you believe mum killed her deliberately?”
“No, I know she never intentionally did it Kat, don’t doubt that. Your mother loved her sister, tossed her entire life away to protect her, that’s why she was always training, so she could protect her. And also because she wanted to be recognised by her father, he never treated your mother the way he did Kathrine. Kathrine was special, Shirley had to earn his attention but nothing she ever did gained her the same treatment, your mother was always treated as the soldier the protector, it was expected of her, Kathrine was her best friend, only friend growing up. But whenever Shirley fought with her father Katherine was always on her side. They had a bond being twins, like two halves of a whole, both opposite but the same” He explains.
“Everyone snaps,” I tell him and he nods.
“Yes they just need the right trigger” my father says before he looks at his hands. I grab his hand, squeezing it.
“Do you think you can forgive her?’ I ask him.
“Yes but what’s that make me if I do though, Katherine was my mate”
“And so is mum, if Katherine…if my mum was really as close with her as you say she was, then she wouldn’t expect you to turn her away, she would just want you both to be happy” I tell him.
“I know she would but that doesn’t make it any easier, she killed somebody. I know it isn’t a big deal she has killed plenty of people but Katherine, she was mine Kat, she was mine first and she killed her”
The door opens in the foyer and we both look to the door and Mateo walks in before washing his hands, turning back to my father. He had a silly smirk on his face before he wiggled his eyebrows at me,I rolled my eyes at him and he slapped my hand.
“Hate when you do that” He says.
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