Mated To My Obsessive Stepbrother

Chapter 278

Chapter 278

His hand fisted on the table, the old Alpha instincts rising in a man far too broken to bear them now.

I turned to him, tilting my head slightly and studying him like a new species of worm. "And what makes you think you have the power to tell me that, Dad?" My voice stayed even and patient, like a teacher correcting a very stupid child.

Jorja inhaled sharply, fighting for control.

"On the day of the transition," she began in a tight voice, "Jareel's daughter was mated to her step-cousin. And we the entire Council - made sure they rejected each other."

Her hands were trembling now as she gripped her wine glass. "Imagine what the pack will say when they learn that the same thing we condemned is happening in our own home."

I chuckled, "I never asked anyone to do my Alpha duties for me, Mother," I said, spearing another piece of meat with my fork. "That was your decision. Your guilt. Your belief. Your morals. Your need to appear righteous before sheep who'd stone you the moment you showed a crack. If you had consulted me before playing god with other people's lives, you wouldn't have this headache now." I explained casually, placing my hand on Kasmine's and intertwining our fingers where everyone could see.

Jorja's voice broke. "How could you say that?" she gasped, her rage finally spilling over. She slammed her palm onto the table, the plates and cutlery clattering. "This is absurd! It's an abomination! Incest! You are family!"

Moon Goddess isn't foolish, and she doesn't make mistakes. But you?

forbids such a union. It is... against everything we stand for," My Beta spoke for the first

slowly, letting my smile curdle

exactly decided that, Lance? My pack now

away, shame coloring

Good.

seemed to have made Jorja suddenly aware that the

next to me.

you want this. Don't tell

harder, enough that I felt her bones shift under my grip. "isn't that right, baby?" I asked, turning my eyes to her with

small, silent gulp. She looked at them before dropping her gaze quickly like a

She said nothing.

yell and tell everyone that she wasn't cut out for this. But I made

want to find out what I'd

something other than what you