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“You look worried,” Kalen states. He leans forward before standing up, then motions toward my chair. I walk over to it before taking my seat. Kalen takes the seat on the other side of my desk.
“No. I kind of expected it. You here to what? Threaten me about telling Valen about Valarie?” I ask while pulling my phone from my pocket and sitting it on the desk.
“You think that little of me?”
“Well, you did let your mate die, so what else should I think?”
“I never intended for that to happen. I loved Val, she… I was coming to claim her, and she always hid how bad it was.”
“Bullshit,” I say, hating him more and more by the minute.
“You think I wouldn't take it back if I could?”
I don’t care to hear his excuses, and I know Tatum must be lurking around, so if needed, I only have to call out to him.
“What do you want?” I ask him.
“Let Valen mark you.”
I fold my arms across my chest and sit back, I didn't expect that. “No.”
“Don't be stupid, Everly. Do you want to turn out like Valarie?”
“And whose fault is that?” I spit at him.
“Fucking stubborn woman. You're just like her. Set in your ways.”
“Marking me will solve nothing. Five years I lived with him screwing around. Am I supposed to forget that? Forget him kicking me out in the rain when I tried to tell him?”
Kalen scrubs a hand down his face. “My son won't take anyone besides his mate, and I need some kind of leverage against your father.”
“My father is not my issue.”
“Don't be so stupid. I am trying to stop a war,” he says.
“And you think I’m the answer to it? My father won't care if I marry Valen or mate and mark him. He hates me, and me having a kid with him will only make him hate me more if he finds out.”
“You have no idea what's at stake here.”
“For you or me?”
“Both.”
“Then tell me. I am not a damn mind reader. You need to either be transparent or get out of my office.”
“I know you don't trust me, Everly. But I am trying to do the right thing here,” he says.
“You're right, I don't, so cut to the chase; what is it you really want?”
“I want my son to be happy. I want my grandson to be a part of his life.” He pauses and sighs heavily. “I want to make up for the past. I want to do what's right by Valarie—what she would have wanted.”
“How does letting Valen mark me help you with my father?”
“Because when he does, you are going to announce whose daughter you are.”
“Excuse me?”
“Valen won't mark Ava now he knows he has a mate.”
