Page 38 of Knocked Up By My Fated Alpha
“Who the hell do you think you are to demand an explanation?” My voice shook with fury. “You want to know what was real? How dare you ask me that when you repaid my love and trust with betrayal? When you and Ivy played me for a fool for two years?”
“How dare you ask for an explanation when you never gave me one?” Tears of rage and pain and anger stung my eyes. “Even now, you’re just jealous because your uncle wants the toy you discarded!”
To my absolute horror, tears spilled down my cheeks.
In a way, this was the first time we’d spoken, really spoken, since that night I’d seen him with Ivy, and by the Goddess, it hurt as much as it made me enraged.
Elias seemed as thrown off as I was by my tears and hurriedly pulled out a handkerchief to wipe my tears.
“Raven, I’m sorry. I—”
My tears had always made him disoriented in the past, and the fact that it was the same now somehow made it all hurt even more.
I slapped the handkerchief out of his hand.
“Don’t fucking touch me!”
As Elias watched it fall to the ground, his hand fisted in anger.
“Why don’t you drop the innocent act?” he snapped. “How are you the victim in this situation when you are on my uncle’s arm, smothered in his scent barely three months after our separation?”
I let out a strangled gasp.
“Don’t you dare try to spin this on me—”
Elias didn’t let me speak.
“You claim you loved me, yet you seduced and drove a wedgebetween me and the only family I have left, even while we were still a couple.”
“I didn’t—”
Elias slammed his fist into the wall next to my head.
“Then fucking explain this situation to me!”
A dark, guttural snarl cut through the air. “Step away from her. Now.”
Elias stiffened, and then he spun to face Alpha Damien, who stood several steps away. Alpha Damien’s expression was so forbidding that it drove chills up my spine.
“Raven and I were having a conversation,” Elias challenged but his voice held a strain.
Alpha Damien prowled towards us, his eyes a molten gold, his wolf almost at the surface.
“What part about you aren’t allowed to talk to her did you forget since our last conversation?” He sounded like he was ready to remind Elias in excruciating detail.
Elias laughed, and it was a dark, lonely sound.
“You can have any woman you want, yet you steal mine, and now I’m not even allowed to talk to her?”
Alpha Damien stood in front of his nephew now.
“Raven is mine.”
My breath caught. The way he uttered those words, it almost sounded like he meant them. No. I was imagining things. I had to be.
“The council won’t stand for this,” Elias’s words were a bald threat. “I won’t stand for this.”
“This isn’t a democracy. You and the council fall under my authority as alpha,” Alpha Damien’s hand rested on Elias’s shoulder in a gesture that would have seemed paternal if Elias didn’t let out an almost muffled pained grunt. “If my decisions are unacceptable, leaving my pack is an option you can consider, but make no mistake, on my territory, insubordination will not be tolerated.”
