Chapter 86

My father stumbled back. Blood spurted from his broken nose but Valen swung again, knocking my father down before pouncing on him and raining blow after blow while my father tried to block his punches. My father’s warriors that chased me here raced toward Valen as he pummeled my father. My father snarled, blocking the next hit and punching Valen in the ribs, then splitting Valen’s eyebrow open with his next hit and my heart raced as my father’s wolves circled around us, trying to get to Valen without attacking my father. Valen punches my father again. When my father lifted his leg and kicked Valen in the chest, my mother screamed as they fought for supremacy. Valen is forced back and now an open target. The wolves charged toward him and I gasped, tossing myself in their way. “Stand down,” I screamed, and my aura erupted out. My aura washed over them, and they all froze. The realization that my command actually worked on them shocked me, however I was technically their true Alpha but still I thought for sure my command would have no effect on my father’s pack since I was no longer a member.

Valen snarls and my father went to tackle him when Ava shoved herself between them. Both of them were breathing heavily in their rage, and I can feel that Valen was on the verge of shifting. I grabbed his arm, pushing him away while Ava and my father stood off. She was tiny between the two Alphas and if they attacked each other again, she would get caught in the crossfire and so would I. Thankfully, my mother rushes down the steps, tears streaking her face as she grabs my father’s arm, tugging him back. “You knew I had a child?” Valen snarls behind me and tries to push me aside to get to my father again. My hand hits his chest as he goes to attack him. Yes, he had every right to be pissed at my father, but this wasn’t his fight. We are also severely outnumbered. This wasn’t supposed to happen, though the information was shocking that he knew all along. I didn’t want this to become a fight. Not for Valen, anyway. I came here, and I will not look weak by hiding behind my mate.

My father shrugs my mother’s hand off and wipes his nose with the back of his hand and spits blood on the ground. “Of course, I knew. I wasn’t about to hand over my daughter to the likes of you to use against me,” my father snarls. “But it’s alright that you try to palm your other daughter off to him years later,” I scoff.

“Yes, to clean up the mess you made! All you had to do was have the an, Everly. Instead, now you have put my entire pack at risk for breaking the treaty. How was I supposed to know Valen would turn out to be your mate!” my father snarls. “What f*g treaty? I had a baby! A son, a precious little boy, your grandson, you didn’t just punish me, you punished him! You punished my son because of who his father is?”

“Yes, because you were promised to another!” he bellowed. “Your future was planned out, and you ruined it all!” my father screams at me.

“John!” my mother gasps behind him.

“To who?” Valen demands with an angry growl. My father glares at him before turning his attention back to me. “You have done enough damage, Everly. Now get off my pack lands,” my father says, turning to walk inside.