Chapter 71 (a)
Freya
“You are my son.” The Lycan rogue said. I looked at Matteo and I didn’t think that he could still understand everything that this man in front of us was saying. Calvin and James were shocked as well. I mean all of us were. Just what in the world was happening? I looked at the man again and I saw nothing but sorrow on his face.
I looked at Camila to check whether she knew anything about this but by the shocked look on her face as well. I could tell that she had no idea about it. Only Rapha knew this and he didn’t tell Matteo. He even worked with the king, whom he had a good relationship with.
Goddess, King Marco trusted him!
“This is hard for you, I know that,” the man continued. “But believe it
or not, I have no intention of harming any of you.”
“What kind of joke are you pulling?” Matteo said angrily
“I am telling the truth,” the man replied,
“What makes you think that we’re going to believe you?” Calvin couldn’t help but asked,
“You would have been dead by now if I had been lying. Do you actually think that I am going to invite you here just to talk if I wanted to harm you?” He has a point. No one in their right mind would do something like that. I could feel the rogue’s presence but I didn’t feel unsafe at all.
“What’s the point of telling us or Matteo this?” I asked.
“To let you know that you are wasting your time trying to catch me when your enemy is right under your nose,” he answered.
“Dad is not our enemy.”
“Are you sure about that?”
“You’re the one who captures the pups. I don’t think you have the right to point at someone else,” I said,
“Yes, princess. I don’t deny that,” he replied, and that angered Matteo, so I had to calm him down. “But only to save them from Marco. Your king was the one who started it, he was amassing some forces and he thought that all those pups who came from the first wolf would join forces with me and take him down.” he added.
“Isn’t that the truth?” Matteo asked. He was a little calmer now.
“At some point, yes. But I am not going to let them go to war at such a young age.”
“Why take them?”
“To train them and keep them away from Marco. Once he catches any of them, he will kill them.” the man replied,
“Why would my dad do that?” Matteo asked,
“I am your father and not him!” The Lycan rogue said angrily. “You are my son with my mate. You don’t know how much it pained me when you called that greedy Marco your father.”
“I grew up calling him that!” my mate replied angrily.
“Does your mother ever address him as your father? Isn’t she always telling you to go to the king, or ask the king, tell the king? She never
told you to go to your father, didn’t she?” Matteo didn’t say anything.
as if thinking. Then shock was all over his face. Maybe he remembered that his mother really never addressed King Marco as his father. “See? She never, because he is not your father!” the rogue said,
“Why would she stay there?” Matteo asked, confused. Even the others who were with us started to think too. Calvin and James had been with him ever since and surely, they had heard the previous queen talking to her mate and talking about her father.
“Because of you! Because she believes that you are the rightful king. Have you ever wondered why Marco needs to wait for your 100th birthday before he transfers the crown to you?”
“It was a tradition, he had his crown on his 100th birthday as well.” he replied,
“It was only a coincidence, but there’s no such thing. You can become king once you’re ready. And I am telling you, you were ready long ago. You can defeat him if you challenge him and that’s what he was scared about. That’s why he was telling you that bullshit.”
“You’re only telling me this because you wanted the throne yourself.”
