Chapter Thirty-Nine : Shrine

"Caspian, do you wonder why I was against your mating with Bailey?" the Alpha Lord asked as his eyes went far away, meeting the heavy traffic ceaselessly flowing up and down the massive expressway. After Bailey left earlier that morning with the oracle, Caspian got a call in her grandpa's office. Caspian remained quiet, letting the older man pour out everything he had been carrying since his precious granddaughter appeared. "Do you remember when I heard the news of my daughter's death?" the Alpha Lord questioned. "It's hard to forget. I was seven at that time. You had just picked me from the streets," Caspian said. "After my parents got killed mercilessly by the rogues," Caspian said in a tiny voice after a long pause. "Yes. I still wonder. Had I prevented my daughter from marrying her mate, would she have been alive? So many gangsters asked for her. Even the Black Snakes demonstrated their interest in my daughter. But I only wished for her to be happy," the grandpa said as r