Kael’s POV
After shopping for a long ti, Raven had a lifeti’s worth of clothes with him that needed a different car just to put his shopping in.
Everyone bought different things for him as per their own likings, including Raven, who got everything according to his own choices.
I was glad he didn’t hesitate and bought everything he liked.
The entire ti we continued to wear the sa customized T-shirts I got for everyone. The reason? I wanted Raven and Eira to feel like one of us — like a family.
I had already planned dinner outside for my family. Roman had booked the entire restaurant, as it was his job.
Everyone enjoyed the tasty al, as everything was prepared according to each one of our tastes. Raven always ate what I preferred. Not sure if it was just a coincidence that his taste buds were the sa as mine, or if he just blindly followed what I did.
Mid-al, I got a call from Liam. I excused myself and went to the balcony area to talk, where once the glass door was shut behind, the others wouldn’t be able to hear what I said.
"I got the test reports," Liam told .
My heart was already racing to think about it — the DNA test result of Raven and Asher.
"What’s the result?" I asked and looked toward the dining table through the glass wall where Raven and Eira were still eating.
"DNA doesn’t match," Liam told . "Raven is not Asher’s son."
I felt like a huge weight on my chest had been lifted. I could live with the fact that Raven’s father had already died, just as Eira claid, rather than have soone alive whose blood Raven carried.
"Understood," I managed to say, unsure what else to say about it.
I hung up the call, and just then Lucian ca to . The other three sitting around the dining table had their attention on as well, but didn’t leave Raven and Eira alone.
"It’s out?" Lucian asked.
I humd. "He is not the father."I could tell Lucian was just as relieved as .
"Shall we expand our search to find the real bastard?" Lucian asked.
"If possible, get the DNA samples of every top-tier Alpha alive. Don’t even leave the rogue ones," I ordered. "Even if that fails, the day Eira is exposed to the world with her son, I’m sure whoever the bastard is will show up alive. No one will let go of his pureblood child. The bastard who abandoned Eira and her child must be so greedy asshole. He will co to get sothing in return for his son."
"Got it."
Lucian and I returned to the dining table. After dinner, we headed straight ho. The other three got to know the result of the test as well.
By the ti we reached ho, Raven had already fallen asleep. I carried him in my arms and headed upstairs to take him to my room.
"Can’t you let him stay with tonight?"
I heard a voice.
I stopped and turned to look at her, only to offer her the sa response as before. "You can co to my room."
Her soft gaze turned a little annoyed, but still in control.
"Will it hurt you to listen to at least once?" she asked.
"He needs at night," I said, my hand gently patting Raven’s back.
"I can take care of him as well," she insisted. "Trust ."
"You can, but he prefers ," I told her firmly, not showing any softness toward her pleading.
"How do you know he prefers you? I..."
"I’ll put him to sleep and return. Wait for here," I told her and turned to leave, ignoring her rising anger.
I glanced at my brothers. All of them were silent but were talking through the mindlink we shared.
’Seems like ti to face the storm.’
’She looks like she wants to kill Kael.’
’Don’t ddle in. I am sure Kael knows what he is doing.’
’If she gets angry, let her be.’
Hearing them talk, I entered the room and put Raven in the bed. Covering him with a warm blanket and making sure he was in deep sleep, I left the room.
My room was soundproof, so even if sothing happened outside, it wouldn’t disturb Raven’s sleep.
She was restless and pacing around, her eyes darting to the staircase, waiting for . The mont she saw , she stopped.
"Tell , why won’t you let him be with ?" she demanded impatiently as she stood facing , her eyes filled with anger. "Do you think I don’t see how all of you are always around when I am with Raven, keeping watch on ? Like I am going to harm him or run away with him. I am his mother, but you don’t trust ."
I simply looked at her calmly, standing in my place, unaffected by her anger.
"What do you want to do to let you know I can take care of him? Why won’t you let be with him alone, without being watched like hawks? Why won’t you...."
"Because you are not ntally fit to be with him. Your psychic condition is disturbed," I said without a tinge of emotion — as cold and heartless as I could co out as.
"Not ntally fit?" she asked, utterly shocked. "Are you saying it because I killed that woman? I was just trying to protect my son." She raised her voice. "I have been good to everyone, especially to Raven. And you say I am ntally unstable?"
"Yes! You are. And you need to acknowledge it so you can get better," I told her. "Until then, you won’t get to be alone with Raven. He needs a mother who is stable and safe to be raised with. He deserves soone he is not afraid of but looks forward to finding protection in. And, at this mont, you are not the one."
"So, you’re finding another excuse to torture , like what you did before wasn’t enough, huh?" Her eyes had turned teary, her breathing a little shallow as the anger was taking over her.
"It’s for Raven’s sake," I replied firmly, "and it will remain the sa till the day I feel you are stable enough to be his mother in every way, and not just on paper."
She clenched her fists, her chest heaving, looking helpless in front of .
I looked at the other four and warned them to stay in their places, despite how much they wished to go to her and calm her.
Especially Rafe. My gaze this ti was enough for him to know that he wasn’t allowed to disobey — and he resigned in silence.
She paced around a little, as if trying to find a way out, but I knew in front of she was only helpless. She shouldn’t be, but for now, it was the truth. Once she was all better, she would be allowed to make all of us helpless in front of her.
My brothers had their expressions tense, seeing her this way.
Finally, she picked up the paperweight from the center table she was pacing around and hurled it at without a tinge of hesitation.
I caught it effortlessly before it could even touch . I offered her an impassive gaze.
It angered her even more. Her faced of calmness was being teared up.
"You bastard, you call ntally stable?" She ca to and stood close, her hands clutching my T-shirt at the chest in a hateful hold, despite her shorter height than mine. Her red eyes glared into my calm ones. "And whose fault is it?"
I remained unshaken, simply looking into her eyes.
She tightened her hold. "It’s your fault I am like this. You are the one who caused harm and ruined entirely, and you bla for being ntally unstable? You bastard, why did you do it to ?"
She breathed heavily, her chest heaving. I didn’t answer her, eting her gaze calmly even now. I wished to know the extent of what was in her mind — the hateful part of it.
"If you hated , you could have killed when you ca to prison, but what did you do, huh?" she gritted her teeth angrily, tears rolling down her grief-filled eyes. "You ordered them to hurt , torture , rape . Why would you do it? Why didn’t you just tell them to kill ? Why?"
Her angry voice echoed in the drawing room, silencing even the air around.
My heart felt like it would burst at it. I never told them to hurt her that way... I never... I froze in my place. Who told her it was my order?
My brothers had the sa shock as . They looked at as if I truly did it.
"You even sold to the traffickers so I could suffer for life? You did it all. You are the reason I am like this, and now you bla ? You bastard, you are the one ntally unstable — a psychic monster who put a young girl through suffering in hell... You..." She choked finally on her tears and her anger-filled breathing.
Her body was shaking, her legs felt like they were giving up under the weight of her anger and emotional spell.
I held her to keep her steady.
She shrugged my hands away and looked at , her tear-filled red eyes full of pain and hatred.
"Don’t touch , you monster. All you ever did was hurt again and again, every chance you got. You ruined even back then. As if it wasn’t enough to hurt that night, you want to keep doing it. You...you are such a..."
She fell short of breath and collapsed to the ground on her knees, choking on her own tears.
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