Page 30 of The Alpha's Stolen Mate

His shocked reaction was justified and I gave him a minute to process. This hadn't been the way I wanted him to find out about Grayson.

“Is he… is that little boy…is he our son?” Gabriel asked, his voice unsteady and his face white.

His eyes stared intensely into mine.

“Yes, he’s our son,” I confirmed.

At this point, why would I lie?

“What the hell are you guys talking about?”

Gabriel and I spun around.

Axel stepped around the corner, his nostrils flared and his hands clenched at his sides.

“Oh, shit,” Gabriel breathed out. “Axel, I’m sorry. I forgot that we had a meeting tonight. Did you hear about what happened to Delta Theo—”

Axel cut his brother off.

“I don't give a shit about Delta Theodore,” he seethed.

I flinched.

How did I date Axel for two years?

I had looked past Axel’s selfish, cruel, and arrogant nature. Time seemed to have made his bad attributes even worse.

“Your secretary told me that I could find you at the hospital and when I saw you guys, I was about to call your name. Then I heard something veryinteresting,” Axel continued.

I swallowed nervously when I noticed his hands were shaking.

“When?” Axel demanded in a tight voice.

“What do you mean?” Gabriel asked, edging to the side, wanting to put himself between Axel and me.

“When did you knock her up?”

“Watch the way you talk about Summer,” Gabriel warned.

Axel let out a harsh laugh.

“You don't get to be the good guy here, Gabriel. You slept with my girlfriend. That's against bro code.”

“Axel, you're the one who cheated on me. And that was years ago. Why does it matter now?” I asked.

My words seemed to anger him more, but I didn't care. Axel was acting like I was his property. Like I was a car that he had loaned to his brother that Gabriel ended up crashing.

“When?” Axel asked his brother again. “When did you have sex?”

Gabriel didn't answer his question, but held his hands up.

“You're right. I'm not the good guy in this situation. There's a lot you don't know about the history between Summer and I, but I should have come to speak with you before anything happened with her. Why don't you and I go discuss this outside?” Gabriel said calmly and took a step toward Axel.

“It was the night you caught me in bed with Makala, wasn't it?” Axel said, his accusing gaze swinging toward me. “You left the party, went to my house, and then fucked Gabriel to get back at me. Didn't you?”

“Axel, that's not how it—”

But Axel was done with me. His right hand clenched into a fist and he raised it. His sole focus on Gabriel.

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