Help! Five Beast Alphas Want To Breed Me!!(BL)-Chapter 294: Amber And Sofia

King Wilhelm;

My footsteps echo as I pace back and forth in the solitude of my room.

I’ve paced so long, my legs ache. But stopping is not something I find myself physically able to do.

My hands tremble when I let them loose, so I’m forced to hold them clenched behind my back.

In the suffocating loneliness that has currently enveloped my heart, the memories I have spent years suppressing come rushing back to me.

Amber... and Sofia...

My daughters.

The thought of them hits me like a blade shoved between my ribs to kill me on impact.

I close my eyes as the suffocating pain, and the nightmarish memories return.

I remember it vividly... like it just happened.

The memory of them standing across from me, both of them taller than I remember... I wondered when that happened.

When my little girls grew into women with eyes so sharp they cut deep into my heart?

Amber’s fists are clenched at her sides as she glares at me, andSofia’s jaw trembles with fury barely contained behind tears she refuses to let fall.

I am on my knees. A father reduced to begging the same children he spent his life nurturing.

"Please," I beg, and my voice cracks so badly it barely sounds like mine.

"Please listen to me. Just—just listen." I try to reason with them, but Amber cuts me off.

"Why should we!?" She spits with a voice so cold I barely recognise it.

"So you can lie to us again?" She adds, and my heart shatters.

Lie to them?? When have I ever done that!??

I shake my head violently, as I hold out my hands helplessly. Trying to reach the women I raised with the same hands.

"I never lied to you. Never. Everything I did, everything I’ve ever done since you were born was for you both." I reply honestly, and Sofia laughs, sharp... and humourless.

"For us? For us, Father!? You call abandoning our mother, and stealing us away from her... for us?" She demands, and my jaw drops.

The words hit me like stones, andI struggle to wrap my head around the absurd accusation.

"I did not abandon her!" I rage in disbelief as I stare at the witch standing in the corner behind my daughters.

What did she tell them!??

Tears blur my vision, but I do not wipe them away. I want them to see. Let them see how much this hurts me.

How could they believe the mother who was NEVER in their lives... over the man who gave up his entire life so they could have theirs.

"She’s the one who left me! She chose to walk away because I wasn’t financially where she wanted. She chose herself over you. And you’re blaming me for—" I begin, but Amber cuts me off.

"That’s a lie!" She screams.

Her voice echoes off the walls, turning the space into something hostile... and accusatory.

I flinch like I have been struck across the face and she just glares at me.

"She told us everything," Sofia says, her voice quieter now. And somehow that’s worse, because I hear the disappointment in it. She truly believes what that woman told them??

"She told us how you broke her. How you were abusive, and when she asked for a divorce, you chose to take us away from her as punishment. How you—" Sofia’s voice fractures as she explains the horrendous lies they were told, and my jaw drops.

"How you didn’t even let her find or see us... You didn’t even try to keep us together!" She adds, and the words weaken me so much, I fall on my hands.

I crawl forward a step, unable to hold myself up.

"I tried," I sob— broken, and shameless.

"God, I tried. I bled for this family. I bled so you both would never go hungry, never sleep cold, never fear the world the way I did. And this bitch is lying to you... She’s the one who left me for another man! I didn’t let her find you because I was trying to protect you, girls! The asshole she dumped me for was rich. I was scared she’d come back one day to take you from me!" I cry shamelessly as my fingers dig into the carpet beneath me.

"I gave sweat and blood so you could grow up safe," I choke.

"Every scar on my body exists because I chose you. Every night I slept with one eye open was for you." I add weakly, and Amber turns away from me like the sight of me disgusts her. 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶

"Stop," she says, with her voice shaking.

"Just stop. You sound pathetic." She says, and I scoff.

I am! I am pathetic! I don’t want to lose my daughters. That’d be losing my whole world.

Sofia wipes her face angrily as he glares at me.

"It’s disgusting how you can’t even take responsibility for your actions. She said it. She warned us that you would show no remorse. I can’t believe we thought we knew you, when you’ve just been a monster in disguise!" She yells, and my heart bursts open with grief.

"No," I whisper.

"She told you lies." And that does it.

Amber spins to glare at me, eyes blazing.

"How dare you!?" She screams, and I freeze.

"How dare you call our mother a liar," Sofia snarls, and I’m appalled.

How many lies did this woman tell them?

"I am not saying she didn’t suffer," I say desperately.

"I am saying she made choices too. She left you. She left me. I would have given up the world—" I begin, but I’m cut off again.

"Liar!" Amber screams.

The word shatters something inside my chest, and I fall silent.

"You are vile," Sofia says, with her voice trembling in disgust.

"Wicked. You kneel there and pretend you’re a martyr, but all I see is a man who destroyed his own family." She adds, and my jaw drops.

Amber’s eyes are wet now, but her expression is merciless like she’s already made up her mind on something and no matter how bad she feels about it, she won’t change her mind.

"I am ashamed to call you my father." She spits, and those words end me.

Something caves in. Something vital. Something I will never get back.

I bow forward, forehead pressing against the floor as a sob rips out of me, raw and undignified.

Years... years of easing them. Protecting them... loving them... and this woman just comes out of the blue and easily unravels everything I’ve done for them??

So easily!??

"I love you," I whisper into the cold.

"I have always loved you." I croak. Neither of them answers.

The memory bleeds back into the present, and my chest burns like I ran for miles.

My eyes are wet with tears.

I’ve been crying a lot these days. Pathetic.

Just as I make to wipe it, the door to my room bursts open.