Kael’s POV
"And now that everything is clear and all the lies have been exposed, no one has the right to claim my son as theirs," I declared. "My son is mine."
"Eira," the old woman panicked. "Don’t listen to him. You can’t be with him. He will use you again and—"
Another slap echoed through the council hall.
The woman was thrown to the ground by the brutal force, coughing blood as her body shook violently.
"Didn’t I tell you to shut your mouth?" Lucian sneered, shaking his hand as if he had touched filth. "Or will you stop only when your disgusting soul leaves your body?"
He was a man with no mercy. If there ever had been any, he had already shown it by not killing her yet.
The old man rushed to his wife, then looked at Eira, who was leaning against me calmly.
"You are letting them hit your grandma? They—"
"They are my mates," Eira interrupted him. "They are more important than filth like you. Don’t ever call me your granddaughter."
The old man was about to counter, but Lucian shot him a warning glare.
We didn’t want to exhaust Eira by arguing when she was already tired. Maybe it was because of the sudden surge of anger she had experienced, and now her mind needed rest.
"I believe things are clear now. We are taking our child with us," I declared.
"You can’t," Asher said. "I assure you, today he is going with me. His dad who raised him."
The glint in his eyes and the smirk on his lips told me it wasn’t over yet.
I hadn’t expected anything else either.
"Kael, I have never come across another powerful Alpha who is as foolish and irresponsible as you," Asher said. "You allowed yourself to be tricked and drugged by a weak and idiotic woman? That’s such an insult to our kind. As a top-tier Alpha myself, I would never want to sit on the same rank as you. You forget all the teachings and training we are given, and how we are innately smart enough not to be fooled. But you proved otherwise. What a shame."
He turned to look at the council members and the other Alphas in the hall. "Am I wrong?"
No one answered him. They were waiting for him to get to the point.
"Kael, even if we set aside the drugging and assault incident, I cannot overlook the fact that you were completely unaware that the same she-wolf had given birth to your child and that he was being raised by another Alpha," Asher said. "That alone proves how irresponsible, ignorant, and weak you are. Just because he carries your blood does not mean you deserve to be his father. And neither does the she-wolf you call your mate deserve to be called his mother.
"Both of you failed that child by being weak enough to fall into someone else’s schemes. If Keiren were alive, I wouldn’t punish him. I would punish you two instead for being idiots."
He turned to the council.
"What I am trying to say is this. How can we hand over a pureblood child, the future of our werewolf world, to such irresponsible parents? What guarantee do we have that they won’t fail him again? What if someone plots to take him away once more? These pathetic parents wouldn’t be able to do anything."
He continued, his voice firm.
"We all know that this child carries the blood of a top-tier Alpha. That means he will grow into one as well. Who wouldn’t covet him? His life will always be in danger. For his safety and for his future, he should remain with me. Just as I have raised him until today, I will continue to do so.
"We must think about his future, which will be nothing but darkness if he stays with his biological parents."
He finished his speech and looked at us. "Don’t worry. I will take good care of him. You will thank me in the future."
His words struck hard, because part of what he said about my past mistakes was true. I had allowed myself to be trapped back then. But that was the past. There would be no place for such mistakes anymore.
"Asher, I have a question for you," I said.
"Go ahead," he replied confidently.
"Why does it seem like you are so obsessed with my child?" I asked. "What is the real reason?"
"I already told you. I care about the future of the werewolf world—"
"Of course you care," Lucian interrupted coldly. "But you can’t produce one yourself, so you covet another top-tier Alpha’s child. Isn’t that it?"
"Oh, Luke, how smart you are," Rafe chimed in, breaking his silence despite my earlier instruction for him to stay out of focus during council matters. "I think his dick doesn’t even function well enough to have a child of his own."


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