The color instantly drained from Daisy’s face and her heart skipped a hard beat. "Sera..." her voice trembled as she forced out a shaky smile. "What is wrong with you?"
Panic clawed at her chest so tightly she could barely keep her footing. Raul was a member of the pack, so of course he had shown up at the banquet.
Before they arrived, they had agreed to stay as far apart as possible and avoid even making eye contact. All their conversation ever since Ravyn began to keep her close or bound to the pack house, had been through mindlink.
The less attention they drew, the safer they would both be. Everything had gone according to plan. So how... how did Seraphine know about him?
Seraphine didn’t bother answering. She calmly scanned the crowd instead. "Raul." Her clear voice echoed through the hall. "Come out."
No one moved. The guests exchanged puzzled looks while searching the room, but Raul was nowhere to be seen. A faint smile tugged at Damon’s lips. Without attracting attention he quickly sent Corvine a text message. ’He’s under table nine.’
Corvine quietly read the message before making his way across the hall, footsteps slow and steady. When he reached table nine he grabbed the edge with one hand and, with barely any effort, lifted the entire table.
A frightened gasp escaped from underneath. Raul was curled into a ball beneath it, trembling like a scared chicken. The moment their eyes met, Raul knew there was no escape. "Beta Corvine..." his lips quivered. "Please... let me explain."
Corvine looked at him with pure disgust. "Stand up." His deep voice carried a greater authority than a beta. Raul hurried to his feet, legs shaking so badly they could barely support him.
Corvine dropped the table back into place before grabbing Raul by the collar. Ignoring the man’s desperate pleas, he dragged him across the floor toward the front of the hall while every guest watched in complete silence.
Daisy’s breathing turned uneven and the color disappeared from her face all over again. She looked ready to collapse at any second.
Seraphine slowly stepped forward, her calm expression somehow making everyone even more nervous. She looked directly at Ravyn. "Alpha Ravyn." Her voice remained steady. "This man..." she pointed at Raul, "is Bryan’s biological father."
The hall erupted. "What?"
"No way!"
"That’s impossible!"
"Did she really just say that?"
Whispers exploded from every corner. Raul felt his entire body go numb, mind completely blank. This wasn’t supposed to happen. Beta Damon had promised to keep his secret.
A few years more, and Bryan would have become the Alpha of the centenary pack and then he could claim back his Daisy from Alpha Ravyn but now, everything was ruined.
Ravyn never even glanced at the pathetic man kneeling on the floor. His expression stayed cold. To him this was nothing more than another one of Seraphine’s tricks, another attempt to humiliate Daisy in public.


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