Chapter 171

"So what if he is your son?" Edira questioned with a hint of reproach in his voice. "Do you think that just because he is your son, you don t need to show him adequate respect?"

"I am his mother, and I "

"I know that you are my mother, but you too don t have the right to insult me or my woman," snapped Killian. "Now go back; you don t want to stay away from your pack, do you? You will hate it if others start to think that you are moving here, right? Wouldn t want to associate with my crazy self, right?" noveldrama

Molly gave him a look of sheer loathing. That s right, loathing. The woman hated him, and not in a light-hearted manner, but in a way an enemy would. Her gaze then shifted and turned to Inez. And the loathing within her eyes turned even more intense. Inez stared defiantly back without saying anything.

Seeing Inez staring back, Molly scoffed before turning around on her feet and walking past the two of them.

Killian watched the woman leave. His face was taut, and his jaw was tightly clenched as Molly stepped down the stairs.

"Kill, come with me," Edira spoke in a no-nonsense voice. It was clear that she was not going to let Killian slide or ignore her this time around, not that he had any intention to do so.

He turned to look at Inez, who stood next to him, and kissed her on the forehead before saying to her, "You can either stay here or go back. I will come to see you in a matter of a few minutes."

After he finished speaking, he followed Edira inside the main lodge. As he trudged past the door of the office, Edira closed it and walked to the end of the room, where she sat down on the couch. Not a good sign. Every time Edira had to sit down to discuss something, it was not a good thing.

"You have to stay away from Inez for the time being."

"I am sorry?"

Edira glared at him. "Don t act like you do not understand what I am trying to tell you. You know what kind of person your mother is, Kill. She is stubborn and highly controlling; do you think that she would just accept your rebellion? You know what she did to you the last time you tried to put your foot down?"

"Which one are you talking about?" Killian shrugged. There were countless times when his mother had attacked him, including the time when he refused to eat Percy s favourite bouillabaisse. That was when his mother realised that no matter how much she tried to convert him into Percy, he as an individual would always be different from the son that she had loved and lost.

One would hope that would stop Molly from trying to infuse all the likes and dislikes of Percy within Killian. But no, the woman, instead of giving up, searched for a witch and fed it to Killian in the hope that the boy would turn into her dead son.

Of course, the potion had turned out to be a dud, taking away Killian s ability to taste anything.

His mother had never felt guilty for it either. When Edira had confronted her, she had cried and made a fuss, saying that she just wanted to teach all the right things to Killian and that she never meant it to happen.

Nor did she stop after that.

She continued with such foolish plans, which forced Killian to escape her grasp once he turned eighteen.

Killian had hoped that his mother would stop trying to change him because she always believed that he needed her fixing after he built his own territory, but clearly, he was wrong; his mother had never once stopped. If anything, that woman had become even more insane after Killian killed the alpha of his previous pack.

That man, like his mother, didn t want his best enforcer to leave, but at the same time, the alpha had been scared of Killian s strength and alpha vibes. That would explain why he had tried to drug Killian and suppress him by humiliating him.

Death had been easier for that bastard.

But this had nothing to do with his mother, who adamantly refused to see sense and told him that he should have called for help. Like he had the time to do it. It was either slashing the throat of that bastard before the drugs made it to his system or being humiliated by him.

"The one where she tried to harm the woman with whom you got close the last time after Lyra. It was just a short fling, but you kept her around longer than the others. And what did your mother do? She sent a bunch of people to harass that woman until she stopped seeing you."

"I would hate something like that to happen to Inez. Not that your mother would pick the same plan. She has a flair for dramatics."

His grandmother was a stern woman who didn t accept someone in her life so easily, but when she did, she would look after them with everything that she had.

And though Killian understood Edira s concern, therein lay the reason why Killian s beast wanted to claw his own grandmother.

"Not to mention that she is already dealing with her own mess," Edira remarked as she stretched out her feet in front of her. "You know that with you protecting her like this, Molly is not going to like this. You already saw how she reacted when you tried to protect Inez just now. She would certainly see her as a thorn in her plan of betterment for you."

Killian clenched his fists. "I am not going to put my life on hold because of this." He hadn t let his own reservations keep him away from Inez, and now Edira wanted him to give this power to his mother. The one woman whom he had refused to control his life. Like hell, he would!