Page 28 of Knocked Up By My Fated Alpha
It happened fast, so fast that all I could do was watch with lips parted in shock. One second, Elias was yelling; the next, Alpha Damien was standing over his prone figure, his hands curled into fists so tight his knuckles were white.
Towering over Elias, chest heaving as though barely restraining his fury, Alpha Damien was the very picture of a man protecting something, or someone, he cared for.
“You never talk about Raven like that again. You never talk about her period,” Alpha Damien commanded before making a gesture at the waiting security, whom I was only just noticing. “Escort my nephew and his date out.”
Elias tore his gaze from me long enough to give his uncle a scathing glare loaded with palpable hatred.
“You stole my woman. I won’t forgive this, Alpha,” Elias snarled, shrugging off the hold of the security guards that reached for him.
Alpha Damien’s shoulders tensed almost imperceptibly, but Elias was already walking away. Ivy cast one last withering glare at me, promising retribution before hurrying after him. An unfamiliar massive wolf with a buzz cut dressed in monochromatic black appeared at Alpha Damien’s side.
“Sinclair, confiscate all the surveillance and media from the press and get our team to contain this situation.”
“Yes, Alpha,” The wolf, Sinclair, bowed before heading towards the agitated crowd.
Murmurs swelled like a wave crashing through the event.
“Damien Blackwell is claiming her?”
“Is she involved with Elias as well—?”
Alpha Damien didn’t seem to care about the whispers, his arm settling around my waist once more.
“Come,” he said.
It wasn’t a question, and there was no way I could stay behind anyway with the hungry, curious gazes on me. My body moved on autopilot as Alpha Damien escorted me into the private suite I’d personally booked for him several floors above the banquet hall.
The moment the door was shut behind us, whatever hold I had on my emotions shattered.
“Your fiancée?” I rounded on Alpha Damien. “What the hell was that about?”
Alpha Damien fixed the astute gaze on me that never failed to render me defenseless.
“How long were you planning on hiding your pregnancy from me, Raven?”
Chapter Ten
Damien
“How long were you planning on hiding your pregnancy from me, Raven?”
Raven went completely still with shock at my words, color leaching from her rosy cheeks, her beautiful green eyes widened with panic, her defense coming slow and stilted.
“I don’t know what you are talking about,” Raven denied without meeting my gaze.
I nodded, unsurprised.
“You missed a message on your office line from Dr. Warner about your missed appointment,” I said casually, and Raven stiffened, but I wasn’t done yet.
I pulled out the pictures that had been taken over a month ago. My foggy memories had made me completely forget about the older woman who’d walked in on Raven and me at the elevator.
The older woman had a mini camera in her hands, vlogging her day when she’d happened upon us. The pictures were from an awkward angle, but it was unmistakable. Raven’s face stared back at us from the washed-out pictures, her body pressed against mine.
“Imagine my surprise when I did a cursory background check anddiscovered Raven Caine didn’t exist. Rather, I found Raven Nightbane, absconded alpha heir of the Ivory Moon Pack and ex-fiancée of my nephew.”
After that moment I had with Raven in my office, I’d been shocked by the rawness of my need for her and by how much I craved her after a single kiss. But most of all, I’d been struck with a sense of deja vu. An unshakable sense of familiarity. That was when the memory of the older woman had come to me in bits and pieces.
It hadn’t taken long to find the older lady, mostly because she’d taken special permission from the hotel to make her videos in exchange for a shoutout online. The pictures had come in alongside the background check I’d ordered on Raven during the anniversary celebration, and as I went through it all, I was overcome by all the lies I’d been fed.
