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I smirked when my grandfather began to sputter.
Served him right.
I was practically gleeful when King Constantine stepped forward, crossed his arms, and glared at my father's family. "Are we going to have the same problems?"
"Of course not!" my grandfather bristled. "None of my clan would leave under these circumstances. They are far better behaved than this."
Just then, one of the young men standing next to my grandparents stepped forward. "Sir, I'd like to leave my clan."
"Sergei?" my father asked. "You've grown so much."
Sergei?
"Hello, brother," the young man said.
I had an uncle?
"Why do you want to leave your clan, Sergei?" the king asked. "Do you have a true mate out there somewhere?"
"I sincerely hope so, sir, but I haven't found him or her yet. I just can't stand how repressive they are. They refuse to join the modern age. I want to go to the university to get my degree in IT, but they insist that I have to stay with the clan and learn to be the next alpha. I hate it. I don't want to be an alpha."
He wasn't an alpha. Even I could see that. How could they force him to be the next alpha? His personality was more like Pierre's. He seemed soft spoken and shy. He clearly wasn't alpha material.
The king sighed and shook his head. Sergei's face paled and he started to take a step back when the king spoke. "You cannot force someone to be the alpha of a clan. If your son truly wants to go to the university, you should let him."
"You can't tell me what to do with my own son!"
"I can, actually. Sergei is over the legal age. He can make his own choices in life, and if he chooses to go to the university, then I support him."
"I won't pay for it!"
The king shrugged.
"I'll pay for him to go to the university," my father said. "It's important that our young people have the opportunities we did not."
King Nicolae raised an eyebrow. "I know your family left your clan when you mated Antoinette. Do you accept your brother back into the clan?"
"If that's what he wants," my father said. "I'll still pay for his tuition no matter what clan he joins."
"You are welcome to join our clan as well," Alessandro said.
Sergei smiled weakly. "I'd actually like to get to know my older brother if that's okay."
King Nicolae smiled indulgently. "Of course it is."
"No, you can't have him!" my grandfather shouted.
"Give it up, Carlos," the woman next to him snapped. "I lost one son because of you. I refuse to lose another one."
"Maria!"
"You forced us to leave the clan I grew up in because you didn't want your son to mate Antoinette simply because she was a vampire. So what? There's nothing wrong with being a vampire just like there is nothing wrong with being a gryphons."
"You really want your son mated to...to..." He pointed at Pierre. "To that?"
"Oh, stuff it, Carlos," the older woman shouted before marching over to stand next to Sergei. The younger man smiled at her and grabbed her hand.
My jaw dropped.
