Chapter 98

"Shush! Keep your voice down!" I hissed at him, glancing around.

"You can't bloody shift! The challenge is not tomorrow but the next day," my father growls, forgetting what he came here for, though I knew it has to do with the news.

"Challenge is still going ahead. I am not backing down," I tell him.

"You can't shift, Everly! Why would you challenge me when you are pregnant?" he growls.

"I only just found out today, but it changes nothing,"

"Like fuck it doesn't! Iam not fighting a pregnant woman!" he snarls.

"Then stand down!" I tell him.

"No! It is my pack. I can't even if I wanted to," he says making my brows furrow before I shake my head. :

"Then I will see you in two days," I tell him, snatching my bags up. Valarian comes out the doors, looking at us.

"Does Valen know?" he asks as I start to head inside.

"No, and you will keep your mouth shut until after the challenge," I tell him he scoffs and shakes his head.

"It's my birthright! I'm the rightful heir! Do the right thing, dad. Hand me my title," he says nothing, and I start walking off when he chases me, stopping me again.

"Mum?" Valerian calls out, looking at me worriedly. Guards start moving in, but I wave them off.

"Your mother will be with you in a second, Val. Wait inside. It is cold," my father tells him, and Valarian looks at me. I nod for him to goin, and he does, standing just inside the doors.

to look back at my

"You fucked up,"

"I don't care about the photos of me. I will deal with that. It's Nixon, he will fucking come for you for what you did. You need

not leaving the city," my father grabs

he knew something that he was trying to keep hidden. ' "Like what?" I ask. He says nothing and curses. "This is about your debt?" I ask, and his head snaps back to

...bloody Ava."

to do with the rogues

mean?" I

need to leave

anything but I found documentation on a hard drive Nixon left at the council one morning. He is building an army to take down Valen's pack and the Night Slasher Pack. That's why I tried to marry Ava off to Valen. Not just to absolve my debt, but to ensure Valen holds rein over the city. If he married Ava, I would

want Valen to remain in control?" I asked a

takes down Valen's pack and the

pack. You aren't making sense!"

Nixon is behind it, and he is building a fucking army out of them!" I stumble

My father shakes

Alpha. Nixon dug me out. And now, I owe him. I will work that

you telling me?"

He found a way to replicate the venom." dad says, and my eyes widen in horror. "And you're helping him kill rogues?"

that's not me. I... can't..

want my help? You fucking speak." I snarl trying to figure out what it is he is

the pack in debt. I made

pay it back or hand my firstborn over. I was going to find the money, but when you said you were pregnant, I knew you wouldn't get rid of your son and Nixon was pushing for you to marry Carter. So I made you a rogue to cover up the fact I faked your death. If Nixon knew you were pregnant he would have used Valarian against Valen," he explains, and my head was swimming with all this information. I had so

why are you helping

Ava either and when I refused, he kidnapped your mother. It is why

ask,

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