Roman’s POV
Kael’s words, laced with warning, had clearly rattled Jeffery. I could see it in the shift of his expression, from smug to cold.
"Alpha Kael, are you threatening in my own council?" Jeffery asked, his tone icy.
"Not the first ti for , or for you either," Kael countered smoothly. "And if the council head himself forgets his own limits, then others can do the sa. So you better stick to your role instead of passing judgent before listening to both sides fairly."
Kael looked at everyone. "I am sure everyone prefers it the way it should be."
It wasn’t a request. It was an order.
Before anyone else could speak, Asher did.
"I agree with you as well, Alpha Kael," he said, then looked at Jeffery. "Please let Alpha Kael present his side, so there will be no doubt left for him to accept the punishnt the council bestows on him."
Punishnt? It would be him receiving it from us later.
Still, we couldn’t see him as anything less than us. He clearly had more cards up his sleeve than he was showing to call for this council eting. That ant he believed he could win for sure.
But we were no less prepared. And as long as Kael stood there, there was no way we would lose. Losing had never been our Alpha’s forte.
Now all that remained was to wait for this bastard to reveal his cards, and then we would crush him.
Yet I couldn’t deny that in one corner of my heart, I was nervous. Nervous for Raven. And nervous for all of us.
Because even when you are confident, you can’t stop that tiny voice of worry inside. It’s human nature.
I was sure Kael felt the sa sowhere deep in his mind.
"Jeffery, you should start already with the fair proceedings and not waste our ti," we heard Alpha Gerald’s authoritative voice.
Jeffery finally turned to Kael and said, "Please provide us with the explanation on why you have abducted Alpha Asher’s child, Alpha Kael? We all know you have a pureblood with you to produce your own pureblood child and heir to your pack."
"Having a pureblood with to produce more kids has nothing to do with this matter, so I hope you do not ntion her here," Kael looked straight in his eyes with a warning, "And about the abducted Asher child, I have done nothing like that. I have not abducted his child."
Jeffery glanced towards Raven who was sitting between Jason and . "That child there, you brought him here that ans you admit this matter is about him. And from all the proofs here we can see he is Alpha Asher child," he looked at the council staff, "Kindly show pictures on the screen for everyone to see."
On the screen, the pictures of Raven from when he was a baby to now he was a five year old kid were being played, and in each of them, Asher was with him.
There was affection between them, the kind a father and son should have, but they were together.
Those pictures showed Asher was holding baby Raven in his hands, then watching him when he had his first walk, both of them eating at the dining table together, sitting in the car to go to the school, Raven playing blocks puzzle and Asher watching him, and so on.
Fuck it!
It burned my heart, and I was sure Kael and Jason hated to see it.
Raven was our child, but the first five years of his life he had spent with so bastard who pretended to be his father and stole those precious monts from our lives.
Damn it! How I wished to beat the shit out of him.
I watched as Kael had clenched his fists on the side as he watched those pictures. I wonder how he was able to swallow that bitterness and stay calm even in this situation instead of going for the throat of that bastard Asher.
But as cruel and rciless Kael could be, he knew when to be rational and wait for the ti when he could land a blow that his enemy wouldn’t be able to handle. He was a perfect planner, and for his son’s sake, he had to be at the mont.
"We can see this is the sa boy with you, Alpha Kael, that we see in the pictures with Alpha Asher," Jeffery said.
"Yes, he is," Kael admitted haughtily, and then looked at Asher, "But he is not your son, nor the heir of RavenClaw pack. You know it better."
"You hadn’t just abducted my son, you even claim he is not mine at all?" Asher raised a brow, "How audacious!"
"Claiming soone else’s child as yours, is what we call utterly audacious," Kael countered as both of them faced each other, their gazes locked into silent war.
"So are you going to claim next that he is your child?" Asher laughed, "What now? You have prepared a fake DNA report to prove it?"
"I sure have one," Kael said.
I stood up and handed over the docunt to council staff to show on the screen.
"But not my DNA report with him," Kael added.
Everyone looked at the screen, and Kael said, "The DNA report shows he is not your son, Asher. And if you think it’s fake, we can have your genetic sequence matched with the one in this report and also conduct the DNA test all over again."
Asher’s gaze changed, clearly surprised at it. He must have thought we got Kael’s DNA report with Raven, but had it otherwise. It was a big sha as DNA sequencing of any pack alpha was classified information of that pack.
Instead of showing Kael’s report, we did it as a warning for Asher to show nothing was impossible for us. And we could get him in his own territory. So whatever cards he was planning to reveal, he would have to be careful with it.
His gaze swept from the screen towards us. Must be thinking how we got his DNA sequencing.
Well, he had to ask his dear friend Kaizan who sold him in exchange for one disgusting bitch.
My gaze moved to Kaizan who was sitting among other alphas. Our gazes t, a quiet smirk playing on his lips. The bastard was clearly enjoying it and didn’t look like he regretted deceiving Asher.
This damn wreck wasn’t to be trusted anymore. Once we hand that bitch Sophia to him, we will have nothing to do with him.
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