Before I left, though, my dad pulled me off to the side. "Son, this is hard for me to say, so I'm just going to say it. I'm sorry. I'm sorry that I pushed you to marry someone who wasn't your true mate. And I can honestly say that I have no clue as to why I did that. I've never wanted you kids to be with anyone except for your mates, your true mates. And the way that I have pressured you for all of these years was wrong. I know that your mother finally figured out what was really going on. We sat down while you were out checking the sleigh and talked about it. I know that the way that I treated you was because of the wizard and what he did to us. But I feel so damn bad about it. I never should have treated you like that. No matter what kind of spell that I was under," he had told me.
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