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“Give me Casey,” Andrei snarls, but I pull away. All I can do is stare at the angelic child in my arms. Rose was pregnant when I left?
“Daddy, did you—”
“Casey, enough, you were told to stay inside,” Andrei scolds her once again, trying to take her from me.
“Give me my granddaughter,” Andrei warns.
“You all didn’t think to fucking tell me I have a daughter?” I snarl furiously.
“Rose didn’t want you to know,” Sage buts in, and I scoff, glaring at her when I hear Rose’s familiar voice echo behind me.
“What in the hell is going on?” she demands, and I turn to face her. Rose looks just as beautiful as I remember when she steps out of the trees, furious. She storms toward me, and her aura is magnificent, she truly did become an Alpha. However, the moment she spots me, she freezes in her tracks, her eyes go to our daughter in my arms.
“Casey, come here,” Rose calls out, and she turns her little blonde head to look at her mother.
“Mommy,” she squeals, kicking her legs, wanting to be put down. I let her go and watch as she races toward her mother.
Rose is quick to snatch her up, ordering her to go inside. “But Daddy promised,” the little girl whines, and my brows furrow. She took a mate. Rose whispers something to her and nods for her mother. Sage instantly rushes in after her granddaughter.
“You need to leave, you’re not welcome here,” Rose says, pointing an accusing finger at me.
“You kept her from me,” I snap at her, and she growls at my challenge when I see the mark on her neck. My heart skips a beat as I take it in, and I swallow down the urge to hunt him down and kill him. Zyan howls in anguish in my head.
“Leave, now!” Rose demands.
“Just hear me out, I am not the only one that has explaining to do, but you.” I point at her house.“You kept my daughter from me.”
“She’s not yours, she doesn’t know, you weren’t here.”
“I would have been had I known!” I scream at her. She shakes her head, and I notice how the pack moves in around her, boxing us in. Rose rubs her temples in frustration.
“I don’t want to hear excuses, Casen. It is unforgivable what you did, and then to lie about it. To all of us!” she screams back at me.
Tears well in her eyes. “I loved you, loved Vince!” she screams.
“But you ruined everything,” she says, shaking her head. “I can’t trust you, not anymore, and certainly not with our daughter,” she snarls. Her words hurt, like she carved out my chest and ripped my heart out.
Hearing voices, everyone looks to the treeline, including Rose. A panicked look takes over her face, and I don’t miss the gasp that escapes her. I can’t take my eyes off the mark on her neck.
“Is that your new mate?” I snarl as we hear the voice grow nearer. She says nothing, and I growl, feeling Zyan shove forward furiously. He is outraged that she claimed another. That she let another man raiseourdaughter. I shove past her, moving toward the sound where men are talking, oblivious to what they’re walking into.
Hands suddenly grab me, and Zyan reacts, turning on his heel and hitting them. Andrei stumbles back, clutching his face as Rose shrieks and Andrei growls menacingly. His body ripples as he starts to shift. Rose, however, is quick to get between us.
When I hear her mate call out to her and the sound of footsteps growing closer. “Rose?” the voice says, and I try to remember where I’d heard that voice before.
“What’s going on?” people start murmuring and glancing behind me. I turn, a vicious snarl tearing out of me when I come face to face with her new mate.
I stagger back, horrified at what I am seeing when Casey squeals excitedly. Once again escaping Sage’s watch.
“Daddy, Daddy,” she squeals and he turns to face her.
“Back inside Case, go on,” she pauses, glancing between me and him. I can’t seem to wrap my head around it, can’t fathom what I am seeing. Goosebumps rush over my skin and it suddenly makes sense of why Malik is angry, why all of them hate me.
Casey looks up at me curiously, and the man she has called father for years.
“Rose take her,” he orders, and I take a step forward, looking at my own mirror reflection.
“Vince?” I murmur, my heart races in my chest. I shake my head. “No, you… you’re dead!”
