CHAPTER 277: TELL THE TURTH, RENN.

"I don’t want to ever see you again, do you understand?" Renn said for the last time. He wasn’t going to repeat himself again. "We are strangers from today. Forget the blood that runs through our veins. My mother is dead and gone."

"W-why would you say that?" Principal Valois managed to ask, her voice trembling. She wished he would let her explain. "Everything I did was for a reason. Do you think—"

"Look at her," Renn turned to the others, his voice cold. "Can you hear her? She said she did everything for a reason. Let’s hear the reason now."

Alex, still in shock from finding out that Renn’s mother was the principal, could only nod in agreement.

"Go on, tell me," Renn said bitterly. "Tell us what the reason was all about." He had almost no patience left. If only she knew, she would have spoken faster.

"I did it for you, Renn. I wanted to keep us safe," Miss Valois said as tears rolled down her cheeks. Her voice broke with fear that he would never believe her—not after everything she had done to him and his brothers.

"You did what for who?" Renn asked, disbelief filling his face. It sounded like a bad joke. Did she really have nothing better to say? "You shot me twice without even giving me a reason. What if I had died?"

"I knew you would survive," she said quickly. "That’s why I called your cousin to come get you."

Renn’s heart burned with anger. She still didn’t see it...the risk, the pain. What if Dr. Dave had been late? What if the poison had spread? Did she ever stop to think that he could have died before help came?

"I lack what to say to you right now," he shook his head. It was foolish of him to ever think of giving her a chance after she abandoned him when he was a child. "Do you know I don’t even blame you?"

"Don’t say that," she stammered, her eyes already wet.

"No, you are not to blame," Renn said, taking a step back. He shrugged as he spoke, his voice shaking with anger and pain. "I don’t blame you because you made your decision clear from the beginning when you left me with my father. You didn’t want anything to do with me. I shouldn’t have searched for you. I shouldn’t have thought you would change someday and act like a mother."

"No, Renn..." she whispered softly, her voice breaking.

"Yes. I should have closed that door a long time ago because if I did, I wouldn’t have gone that day to meet up with you," he shouted, his voice echoing. "You wouldn’t have been able to harm my mate. You knew if anything happened to Angela, I wouldn’t survive, yet you went after her without caring about your son."

"I didn’t mean..." she tried to explain but her words got lost in tears.

"I don’t care anymore, Miss Valois," Renn said coldly. "Today is the last day you will ever see me. I am leaving this academy forever. If possible, I will leave Mistvale too before you drown me in your river of problems."

"Where will you go? You can’t just leave like that," Miss Valois said, finding it hard to believe what he was saying. "You are taking your final exams next semester. You don’t have to leave, Renn."

"I am leaving and you have no right to stop me," Renn said with tears forming in his eyes. His heart was aching, yet his mother didn’t seem to care. "What you did killed me. I can’t even face my mate or my brothers. You made me a dead person, do you know that? Wait, you don’t care. I don’t want to see your face again and if it means leaving everything behind, then I don’t care. Just stay away from me, my brothers, and my mate."

He didn’t wait for her to fake an apology. Renn walked to his car, opened the door, and got in. The others followed quietly, and they drove off immediately. He was so angry that none of them dared to ask a single question.

The drive out of the academy was silent but fast. Alex looked at Stales. From his expression, he could tell that Stales had a lot to say, but he didn’t dare to open his mouth. He was afraid that any question might provoke his Alpha even more.

In an hour, the car came to a stop in front of Marcus’s house. Renn got out of the car and Bellezza came after him. She barely stopped the car before jumping out.

"We have to talk, Renn," she said, standing right in front of him.

"I don’t feel like talking," he told her, his voice low and cold.

"We are going to talk about it. I don’t care how you feel," Bellezza said with a frown, refusing to back down.

"But I said I don’t want to talk," Renn growled, his eyes glowing as he spoke.

"You don’t scare me, so put that alpha stuff aside and let’s talk," Bellezza said sharply. She was never the one to give up. Renn crossed the road to the other side but she followed him. "That evil woman is your mother? The same woman who did terrible things to us?"

Renn didn’t say a word. His mind was already aching from everything that had happened. He was already living through hell and didn’t need any reminder about it.

"How come we never guessed it?" she asked, still shocked. "Does Angela know?"

"No," Renn said softly, lowering his head. He had not told her because he knew she would react badly. That woman had done nothing but bring pain to Angela, so surely she was going to be very angry.

"Shit," Bellezza muttered as she paced back and forth. "How could you hide something like this from your mate?"

"I was not supposed to tell anyone that Miss Valois was my mother. Everyone believed she was dead. I only found out a few years ago that she was my mother. She didn’t want me. She didn’t want anyone to know about us, so I went with the flow. And when I knew the kind of woman she truly was, I was even more happy to keep her secret," Renn said slowly. "I don’t even know what to say, Bellezza. I failed, that’s all I know."

Taking a deep breath, she placed her hand on his shoulder and said gently, "You didn’t fail, Renn. But, Angela is going to be mad when she finds out about this."

"I’m scared she might not forgive me," he said with a trembling voice.

"What can I say? Anyone in her place would react the same way," Bellezza said quietly. "Your mother is one of the suspects in her mother’s death. Not only that, she went ahead and planned her kidnap, then sold her off to the Patriarch."

Renn nodded slowly and leaned against the tree behind him. "She has every right not to forgive me. And that’s why I’m scared of telling her," he admitted.

"Don’t be," Bellezza said softly. "You have no other choice now. Tell her everything, including your decision to leave the academy."

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