“Thank you.” Draco kissed her lips softly.
“Your wolf, what is his name?”
Draco hesitated to answer since he knew about her dog that she had lost to the Maplewoods. But his wolf was pushing him to tell her his name.
“His name is Shadow.”
“S-Shadow? A-and he’s black. Like my Shadow was,” Athena stammered as she looked at him in shock.
“Yes. Is that ok? I know that has to be hard for you.”
“Ye…no. I think fate had its reason for sending you to me. Shadow was my baby in so many ways. Your wolf is what he would have looked like when he got older. I like to think that he guided us together so that I wouldn’t be lonely anymore. Don’t get me wrong, your sister is an amazing friend, but the loneliness is still there when I think about him.”
“I get it. And my sister can be a pain in the ass.” Draco laughed, tapping her nose with his finger. “That isn’t the reason I was telling you about him.” Draco cleared his throat.
“Okay. So, you say you two can communicate. What is he saying to you about me?”
Damn his woman was smart as hell. He didn’t have to tell her it was about her.
“Well, a shifter’s sense of sight, smell, and sound are more heightened than a regular human’s. Shadow says part of your smell is familiar to him. Not in a bad way and he’s not saying you stink so don’t think that. What I mean is, part of your scent is that of a wolf. We know you can’t shift. You’ve confirmed that. It’s not uncommon for a shifter and human to have either a shifter or non-shifter offspring. It’s usually fifty-fifty on that chance. It’s higher the offspring is a shifter if the female as shifter DNA in her bloodline.”
“Wait, you’re saying Shadow says she can smell a shifter scent on me? I’ve been around you and your family. Couldn’t that be what he is smelling?” Athena asked, biting her lower lip as she thought about everyone she’d been around.
“That’s what I was thinking, but he says no. Would you be willing to do a DNA test with one of our shifter doctors we have? They can run it through our database, and we can see if he is in there. It’s up to you. If it’s true, then it could help us protect you against the Maplewoods and whatever they are planning,” Draco asked softly, rubbing his thumb over her cheekbone.
“What if what my mother said was true, that he wanted nothing to do with me?”
Draco hated the vulnerability in her voice. He really wanted to beat that woman’s ass for causing such doubt in this beautiful woman’s eyes.
“Then it is his loss. You have my father and mother to love you enough for both of them.”
Chapter
Twenty-Six
Athena sat nervouslyin the chair as the nurse swabbed her mouth. Draco, his parents, and Deidra stood nearby as her support team.
Could it be possible that her father didn’t know about her? She had never met her father, and her mother never talked about him.
“Okay, all done.” The nurse smiled down at her as she stepped back.
“How long will it take to get the information we are looking for?” Athena asked, trying her best not to get her hopes up.
“Hopefully not long. If he’s a shifter then he should be in our database.”
“Are all shifters in the database?” Athena asked the room, looking at everyone curiously.
“Most. If they are Alphas, Betas, part of the Council, or have joined the military, become rogue or arrested in any way, then yes. If they aren’t in the database, then we likely have a family member who is in it in somehow so we can find him one way or the other if he’s a shifter,” Draco answered for her.
“What if he isn’t a shifter? Is there a chance that Shadow could be wrong?” Athena hesitantly asked, biting her lower lip.
“I don’t think Draco’s wolf is wrong,” Coren answered for Draco. “I thought you were a she-wolf myself the first time I met you. Deidra told us you were human, but we thought you’d never been taught to access your wolf. As time moved on, we realized you were just human, so we had assumed you were close with another wolf we didn’t know about.”
“I had to tell them they were stupid on that aspect since I knew you were a virgin and guys tended to scare you in college because of the hell your mother, brother, and Rob put you through while we were in college.” Deidra smirked over at her parents as she rolled her eyes.
“You knew she was a virgin?” Draco asked, his glare going toward his sister.
“Yep!” Deidra grinned as she popped her ‘p’.
