“Well, Doug, based on the DNA test, your daughter. She’s never met her biological father. Her mother told her that you left them because you never wanted a daughter because she was unworthy to be your child,” Draco’s father informed the man, his eyes glowing with his wolf in anger.
“Who is her mother?” Douglas asked, his own eyes glowing with his wolf in anger.
“Delilah Chapman.”
“You’re telling me that Deliliah Chapman had my child, and I was never told about her?”
Draco had to fight the instinct to take a step back and bow his head at the anger that was echoing from the man’s voice. The man was the Alpha of all wolf shifter kind.
Douglas Amari was considered royalty in the shifter world. Others in the Council answered to him.
“You never knew about Athena?” Coren asked, the confusion evident in his voice.
Draco winced when he saw the man turn toward his father and glare. Yet his father never backed down from the man.
“No. Deliliah Chapman was a drunken weekend fling after high school, before I joined the military. I tried to reach out to her when I had come home for a visit shortly after basic training but found out she had gotten married. I never knew she had been pregnant nor that the child was mine.”
“Her and the man she married did have one child together. A son. He’s partnered with the Maplewood Pack. He sold your daughter to them for a place in their territory. The mother is a part of their conspiracy and abused toward my mate.”
“My daughter, she is your fated mate?”
Draco swallowed his fear of this man. He knew from reports that this was not a man to be fucked with.
“Yes, sir. She is my true fated mate.”
“Draco, I miss you so much. I don’t know if you can hear me this far away. I’m keeping the faith you will find me in time.”
“I’m here my love. Where are you? Where are they holding you?”
“Behind a wall in a basement somewhere. They kept a hood over my face so I couldn’t see where. Draco, they have a man, someone from the Council. A Jordan Roosevelt, who is going to declare our mating unlawful and allow the Maplewoods to declare war as retribution. S-Sheila told them about our baby. They are executing me in the morning in a mockery of a trial in front of their whole pack.”
Draco roared loudly and painfully. Those around him, with the exception of his father and Athena’s father, whimpered and lowered their heads in obedience.
Hell was going to reign on Earth tonight. The devil himself was getting new souls sent to him, express train and all.
Chapter
Thirty-Six
Athena couldn’t helpthe relief she felt when the connection between her and Draco actually worked. When they said they were going to be executing her for her betrayal of Rob, she lost all composure.
She’d started out in tearful prayer for Draco to find her quickly and nearly crumbled in relief when he responded to her. She’d completely forgotten in all of the chaos they could reach out with each other telepathically.
She relayed everything she knew to help him find her. Now all she could do was wait and pray to every deity in the Universe that they got to her in time.
She’d just fallen asleep when rough hands gripped her hair, jerking her wide awake while they unshackled her hands from the wall. She was dragged from the room she had been held in, through the building and through the vast yard.
She was shoved outside toward a circle and into a chair, to which they zip tied her hands to the chair. When she looked at her surroundings, she saw her captors along with most of the Maplewood Pack surrounding them, glaring at her.
Standing next to Claude Maplewood was a man who appeared to be in his late thirties or early forty’s, sneering at her as if she was a pebble in his shoe. She stared at him for several seconds before she rolled her eyes at him.
The man obviously thought he was better than everyone currently present. She guessed him being part of the Council made him so.
The man was tall, lanky in build with his dark hair slicked back with a lot of hair product. The wind was blowing slightly outside and not a single hair on his head moved with the wind like hers did.
The man’s eyes were another story all together. She didn’t even bother to look at them to see the color because all she could see was the crazy in them.
The man was obviously cray cray in the head. She reached out to Draco in a panic when the strange man sneered an evil smirk her way.
