The Alpha’s Hidden Heirs by Avery Rose

Chapter 86

Kane

Hearing Selene’s response, I scowled at her.

“Dead? How?” I demanded, stepping closer.

She didn’t flinch, showing no sign that my proximity unsettled her.

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The woman standing before me wasn’t broken. She wasn’t the same woman who used to stammer in my presence–she was strong now, unafraid, and defiant.

“You don’t need to know about him.”

I took another step forward, narrowing the space between us. Her gaze pierced through me, stirring something I couldn’t quite name.

How could she stand so confidently in front of me after everything she had done?

“You need to answer me before you leave. My mercy isn’t for everyone.”

I tried to intimidate her, hoping to pry the truth from her lips.

She glanced toward the room where Luna had just gone. I could see the fear flickering in her eyes–not for herself, but for her daughter.

What she didn’t realize was that I would never harm the girl. Something about her unsettled me all day. She was young but spoke with a striking confidence. And more than that, I felt a connection to her, just as I had with Leo. The thought that the boy didn’t like me irritated me more than I cared to admit. If it had been any other child, I wouldn’t have cared at all.

Lowering my voice, I murmured, “Could they be my children?”

“NO WAY,” Selene snapped, cutting me off.

But her expression betrayed her words.

A flicker of hope ignited in my chest. What if they were mine?

The thought alone sent a strange sensation through me.

“Are you hiding my children from me?” I studied her face, searching for the truth.

yours, Kane. They’re mine.”

me who their

“He’s dead.”

“How?”

But he’s gone.”

She wasn’t even a good

“Who was he?”

muttered under her breath, “I

against her ear. “So what? You just slept with some stranger? How

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pathetic.”

her

me, and spent your nights with other women. What did you expect me to do? Play the perfect wife

the truth? Had she

gripping them tightly, “So that gave you

was one night. If you could

been alone in my company’s apartment. It was true that I had once despised this woman,

that dared to touch my wife? Was he

cut through the air, landing hard

done it. I had let it slide before,

jaw, my glare sharp enough to wound. But when I saw the shimmer of unshed tears in her eyes, I froze.

quickening. I barely registered the slap anymore–1 only wanted to know the

are innocent. They are not that man’s children–they are only mine. I hate their father more than anything in this world.”

hit me harder

my answer. Now let me and my

stepped aside. Without hesitation, she rushed

like the feeling that settled in my chest as I

leave.

waved at me, clutching her mother’s neck

they

emptiness spread through me, like a part of me had been

of the room,

to your pack. If Alpha Magnus finds out we

could betray him, you could betray

turned

driver opened the car door for me, but my