She gulped and took a deep breath. She looked at me and I saw fear in her eyes.

“You don’t have to tell him, Maddie,” I said as I caressed her cheek. “He doesn’t need to know.”

I didn’t want him to know. Becoming a Lycan was his obsession for many years. He abandoned his family because of it. I wasn’t sure how he would react knowing that Maddie was a Lycan and he wasn’t.

“I have to, Dimitri,” Maddie said, shaking her head. “He can’t find out from someone else. I have to tell him.”

“He won’t find out, Mads,” Will said and she looked at him. “We are all under the Alpha order. We can’t tell anyone.”

Maddie shook her head.

“It will come out eventually,” she said. “We will have to tell the pack eventually. I don’t want him to find out like that.”

She was right. Eventually, everyone would find out who she was. Not before I made sure that she was safe, though. Not before we knew what it all meant.

She looked back at me and gulped.

“I want to tell him now,” she added.

I took a deep breath and released it slowly.

“Okay, princess,” I said and caressed her cheek. “We will tell him now.”

CHAPTER FOUR – How Will He React?

Dimitri's POV

Maddie was shaking from top to bottom and I started doubting my decision to let her tell him.

“We don’t have to do it, Maddie,” I said as I rubbed her back gently. “He doesn’t have to know yet.”

She looked at me and shook her head.

“He has to know, Dimitri,” she said. “He deserves to know. I can’t keep this from him.”

I sighed and glanced at Will. He was looking at Maddie with a mixture of worry and anger on his face. I could tell that he wasn’t too happy with her decision. I wasn’t happy with it either, but I didn’t want to be a jerk. Mike was her dad and if she wanted him to know, I wasn’t going to do anything to stop her.

But I wasn’t sure about his reaction. How would he react once he found out that she was a Lycan?

I was sure that Mike would never hurt her. I would never let her tell him if there was even a small part of me that thought he was a danger to her. Mike was a lot of things and he made a lot of mistakes, but he would never hurt his daughter. I was so fucking sure of that.

But would he get angry? Would he get depressed? I had no fucking idea.

I could hear him approaching the office. Maddie started bouncing her leg up and down. I placed a hand on her thing and raised an eyebrow at her.

“It’s still not too late,” I said.

She shook her head and looked at the door. Mike walked in with a smile that disappeared as soon as he looked at Maddie.

“What happened?” he asked worriedly. “Why are you so pale?”

He closed the door and started approaching her.

“Hi, Michael,” Oliver spoke, making Mike stop and look at him.

His eyes widened.

“Oliver?” he mumbled quietly.