FIA
"Even Hazel is here," he said, mentioning her name as if it should matter to me. Like that alone should be enough to make me drop everything and come running. "She's an Omega now, and she still showed up."
The words hit like a slap. I closed my eyes and counted to three before I trusted myself to speak.
"Isabel is not my mother." Each word came out measured and as controlled as I could muster. "She has never acted like one my whole life. Isabel is Hazel's mother, so of course Hazel showed up for her."
I drew a breath that burned in my chest.
"If I don't forget, you also fucking disowned me because I didn't let Hazel get away with her bullshit." The fury I'd tamped down rose hot and bitter in my throat. "Am I your daughter again?"
Silence stretched between us. Long enough that I wondered if he'd hung up.
"You know I didn't mean it." His voice had dropped quieter. Something that might have passed for regret in another man. "I was mad at you. For not sacrificing."
