Bonds at War: The Untouched is Mine novel Chapter 298

Chapter 298 The Distant Alpha

Chapter 298 The Distant Alpha

ABEL

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It has been five years since I was handed this title. I didn’t think I would get attached to my job this much when I first started–attached in a way that I was doing my best to give the people of the West better governance.

Fuck, I didn’t even want this position in the first place.

It was my father’s dying wish.

For the longest time, I had lived in the distant West, tucked away in the mountains, where seeing my pack members felt like a once–a–year event. In that time, I earned the nickname “the untouchable Alpha.”

They knew I was a Trevane, and some of them had attempted to ask about my relationship with the main family. However, I never gave them an answer for the simplest reason.

We didn’t have a relationship.

My father, Axel Trevane, was cast away by the main family because of his “unique” traits. Honestly, I think they were just intimidated by him.

My father was a Lycan. Being the eldest in the family and the only one born to a different mother, he naturally inherited his mother’s bloodline of a Lycan.

Lycans were no different from werewolves except that they are more in touch with their inner wolves. Due to evolution, the difference had really dimmed a bit; however, because of this connection with our inner wolves, we possess our werewolf capabilities even in our human forms.

My father told me when I was young that I should learn how to stand on my own because the main family saw us as rubbish. He was cast away even when he was the eldest, and the True Alpha title was passed down to his younger brother.

So, growing up, I really didn’t give a shit about the main family. Everything in the mountains sustained us. I was happy to die in that place at any time. Although there was always a nagging feeling in the back of my mind–one that continued to pester me no matter how hard I tried to silence it.

My mother.

It was a topic my father never bothered to open up. Every time I brought it up, there would be

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a look of melancholy in his eyes, so I stopped asking after a while.

That was–until he finally explained it to me on his deathbed.

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My father was supposed to be a strong man. He was a Lycan, after all. However, he had been nursing a heart so broken for the longest time that his core had collapsed. I still remember our conversation back then.

“Your mother… was a human,” he muttered.

I frowned, not knowing what to make of his statement. He had kept the information on my mother for so long that I was convinced she didn’t exist at all–that I was born from a magical crate, like how fathers explained the concept of pregnancy to their “too–young” pups.

“My Reina,” he whispered, shaking his head as a tear slipped from his eyes. He was sweating all over, and I was wiping his body with a washcloth while he continued muttering her name over and over again.

“I’m sorry…,” he whispered at last.

“What happened, Dad?” I asked.

He opened his eyes and looked into mine. “We, half–blooded Lycans, are cursed.”

My brows furrowed. I was impatiently waiting for his next words, but I could tell he was struggling. I gave him time to form his sentences.

“Not being of pure–blood, our origin is contradictory,” he continued, holding onto my hand with the strength I didn’t know could still come from his weak body.

“They say that the Moon Goddess is sacred, but at times, I can’t help but think that she is cruel,” he chuckled, another tear escaping his eyes.

“I had met your mom, my mate, and we fell in love. However, since our blood is stronger, contradictory compared to those with pure blood, such pure bloods cannot take this contradiction.‘

“I loved Reina too much, and we had you,” he whispered. “However, that destroyed her body, and in the end, she died as the price of our love. I didn’t heed the warnings back then, but it was true.”

“Half–blooded Lycans can never form a family with pure bloods.”

“I thought I was merely loving her, but in the end, I was destroying her.”

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I looked down on him and felt a squeeze in my heart. The man who showed no weaknesses from the moment I was conscious of the world felt like the weakest man in the entire world on his deathbed.

“Now, I’ve raised you in seclusion because I was afraid you were going to live with the same pain. However, I was wrong, my son. There is so much more to this world than this mountain.”

I shook my head. “I am happy on this mountain,” I muttered. “I have everything to keep me alive here.”

I wet the towel again and continued wiping his face, which was already drenched with sweat despite the tepid bath I had just given him.

He held onto my hand once more, stopping my actions. “No man is an island,” he smiled. “You cannot live only for yourself, Abel. You are meant to do greater things for this country–for this world.”

“What can I possibly do?” I asked a rhetorical question. I wasn’t expecting an answer. It was already set in my mind that I was going to be here until I die.

“I heard from your distant aunt that the only son of the West–Jaxon Trevane–has been arrested,” he started off.

I frowned because I didn’t know where this story was going.

“There is no other family from the Trevanes to have a son of legal age that could replace him.

I believe they are looking for the closest kin, and you are that, my son.”

“You are a Trevane.”

“You need to help the people of the West.”

And that was how I found myself here in the West. These five years, I was the subject of both respect and resentment. However, in those five years, I realized something.

My father was right.

The West did need my help.