Chapter 116 - Trinity-Grandfather's Visit Part 2
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Trinity
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"I think so." I was nodding my head. "He didn't say as much, but I think he was."
"I knew it. This was why I always had you escorted whenever you left the house. You were driven to school, and half of your professors were wolves in either our pack or an ally pack. When you made your three friends that were also from our pack, I was relieved. I knew with them around, you could live a more normal teenage life. They would help to protect you."
"You thought I would be attacked if I was ever alone?" I asked him.
"I suspected it, dreaded it."
"Why didn't you tell ?" I demanded. "Why didn't you tell what it was you feared this whole ti?" I was angry and hurt now. "Why did you make miss out on everything as a child? Why did you treat like an abomination, a pariah?"
"I didn't want you to worry." His face looked broken like he was about to break down, but his voice was sincere. "I didn't want you to look over your shoulder every ti you left the house. And I didn't treat you like a pariah. I wanted to protect you."
"By making avoid everyone? By hoschooling so I couldn't have any friends? By making skip halloween and all the other celebrations?"
"I didn't do that to be cruel, or an. Please believe Trinity. I didn't know what had happened to your mother. But I had you to protect, to care for. I didn't know if the enemy was close to ho or not. I didn't want to give the man who caused all of this access to you if he was closer than I was expecting. I was scared and paranoid. I suspected everyone for the longest ti. I didn't an to hurt you Trinity. I love you." I didn't rember Grandfather ever telling he loved before. He had never said those words. I gasped upon hearing them, the sound unfamiliar and alien coming from him.
"You should have talked to . As I got older at least, you should have told . I have thought that you hated my whole life." I was crying now, I could feel the stinging in my eyes and the wet trails the tears were leaving as they ran down my cheeks.
"I have never hated you, Trinity. I have loved you from the day you were born. I rember the first ti I held you after you were born. I cried. I was heartbroken about what had happened to Lily, but here was this tiny little baby that was pure innocence. You were not to bla for what happened. You were the blessing that we got out of the curse." He smiled at again as he cradled the side of my head once more. "I loved you so much in that mont that I knew I needed to protect you, to do a better job than I had done before. And when I lost your mother, when she was taken from this world too soon, it shattered , I didn't know how to go on at first. I had lost my wife and daughter." He was looking at intently while the tears flowed unhindered down his cheeks.
"Then, when you were taken, just a little older than your mother was all those years before, I thought I was being punished for not protecting you enough. I thought the universe was telling I had failed again. When I heard that you were gone, Trinity,I sobbed. I refused to stay ho. They had tried insisting that I was too old to help them rescue you, but I would not stay behind. I was going to co along, I was going to help, even if it killed ." I had never heard this type of conviction coming from him before.
"Grandfather." I said, my heart breaking from hearing the pain he had endured all these years. I wrapped my arms around him, squeezing him tight, trying to help him hold himself together.
"I love you, Trinity. I'm sorry that I ever made you feel otherwise. I have no excuse for how I treated you. I was just scared, and so very stupid." He wrapped his arms around and held close to him. It was sothing that I had longed for as a child, a loving embrace, a hug, from the only Grandfather I would ever know. To know that he loved as much as I had always loved him, despite thinking he had hated .
"I love you too, Grandfather."
We talked for a few monts longer before Grandfather excused himself. He said he needed to check on sothing, but I think he just wanted to clean himself up. He had been crying a lot, sothing he wasn't used to doing, and his face was red and blotchy. And, as I could hear Reece coming back down the hallway, I think he just didn't want to feel embarrassed. He hugged again before walking out the door just monts before Reece ca back in.
"Did you have a good visit Little Bunny?" He asked as he ca back in. But then he saw my face. He could clearly tell that I had been crying. "What's wrong? Did he say sothing cruel to you? He told before that he was going to explain himself to you." Reece rushed to my side and picked up, holding in his arms like a princess.
"What do you an, he told you he was going to explain himself?" I asked, confused.
"On Christmas, when I talked with him. He said he was going to explain everything to you."
"So, you've known these things longer than I have?" I gave him a sharp look. He stuttered for a mont.
"W-well I-I th-thought I should t-talk to him." He seed uncertain for a mont until I laughed. "Huh?" He was confused.
"I'm not mad Reece. Though I would like to know why you talked to him, that can wait. But to answer your question, no he was not cruel. However, we did talk about a lot of difficult things. We both cried today. And, not to ntion I cried when I talked to Uncle Wesley. I feel like I have been doing a lot of crying since you left."
"Should I have stayed? Maybe you wouldn't have cried." He looked upset.
"No, then I doubt we would have talked so freely. It was actually good. We got a lot of things out in the open, it was good for all of us." I smiled at him.
"Will you tell about it?" He asked.
"I'll have to, as I need to explain it all to you anyway."
"Explain what?" He was confused.
"What happened. Why I was taken, all that."
"I know you were taken to the Warlocks, and that you have a wolf and magic now. I've suspected for a while that you're father was likely a Warlock." His voice was so matter-of-fact that it shocked to my core. "Am I right?" I couldn't form words after what he said so I just nodded my head. "I thought so."
"How did you figure it out?" I asked him.
"Well, there was the attack at Riley's for one. You were the only one who could sll the Warlocks even though they were blocking their scents. And rember when you were watching them retreat, following them with your eyes?" I nodded to answer his question. "Well, your eyes had begun to glow and the inner two rings of color were twisting back as forth. They looked like a cara lens trying to focus. You were zooming in on them from over a mile away."
"I had no idea." Then there was the fact that each subsequent attack seed to have the aid of Warlocks in so way. I'm guessing even that first attack I saved you from when we first t was also aided by the Warlocks."
"So, you knew this whole ti?" I asked him, the shock was plain in my voice.
"Well, I suspected at least. I didn't know for certain obviously."
"That's one hell of a guess." I told him as he sat down on the sofa, snuggling into his chest.
"Well I'm not the alpha and head of a major corporation for nothing. I'm pretty smart myself." He smiled at .
"Really? I never would have guessed that with all the stupid shit you've said to ." I laughed. He growled playfully at .
"You rob of all my good judgent and sense." He smiled joyfully. "But I wouldn't change a thing." He told .
"Nothing?" I asked.
"Well, you could be fully healed and naked, but I can't change that right now, so no nothing."
"Perv." I laughed as I slapped his chest.
"Get used to it, you're stuck with forever." He leaned forward and kissed gently on the lips. I could still feel his repressed desire. He truly was holding himself back, but he didn't try to go any further.
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