Sold To The Alphas I Hate-Chapter 323: Grandparents

Roman’s POV

Asher turned to look at Kael, his shocked gaze forcibly shifting from the screen, now cold.

"Alpha Kael, this is a security breach. No one is allowed to steal genetic data from another pack. Are you asking for an addition to your punishment on top of abducting my child?"

"Is stealing data from your pack the only way to obtain it?" Kael raised a brow with a smirk. "And do you have any proof we invaded that sacred data center of yours? Was there any report of a security breach from your people? If there was, shouldn’t you have already filed an investigation case with the council? But from the look on your face, I can tell there was no security breach alert that you or your people received."

Asher was left speechless.

Kael turned to Jeffery. "That child is not Asher’s."

Asher quickly regained his composure and kept his calm. "Kael, is sharing blood the only way to call someone your child? You of all people shouldn’t claim that only blood relations matter. If you do, then I doubt you truly consider your brothers as your own. Are they any less just because they don’t share the same blood as you?"

Asher chuckled and turned to Jeffery.

"Yes, Raven is my adoptive son. I have raised him since he was merely days old. I have given him everything a son deserves. Is it wrong to keep it from the world that we don’t share blood? It was my way of protecting him from others looking down on him when he took my place as Alpha of the RavenClaw pack. Am I the only Alpha who has ever adopted a child? In the past, there have been many such examples. More than we can even count on our fingers."

"You are right, Asher," Kael said, "but no one adopts a child after stealing them. Nor does anyone adopt and claim a child as their own without the consent of the parents."

Asher turned to look at him.

"I saw a parentless child and adopted him. I saved a life when his parents weren’t responsible enough for him," his gaze darkened. "Especially his father. Where was he when Raven’s mother was giving birth? Probably somewhere enjoying his own life, not even knowing he had a child. Such a pathetic man he must be, that he doesn’t deserve to have a child... especially one like Raven."

He was clearly throwing daggers at Kael with his cruel words. We all carried regret over it, but this bastard had to rub it in our faces. Well, we deserved it.

Ignoring him, Kael turned to Jeffery. "Raven is my son, my blood, and the heir of the Stormhowl pack."

Dead silence fell inside the council hall the moment he said it. Then murmurs followed, spreading through the room at this shocking revelation.

Jason and I looked at Raven, but he was calm even after hearing it. No shock and surprise on his face. Had Kael told him already?

"Alpha Kael, what are you talking about?" Jeffery acted shocked, as if trying to imply Kael was lying. "If that’s your child, what was he doing with Alpha Asher? That is something ridiculous I am hearing."

Kael turned to Asher. "Want proof of him being my son? And it won’t be some fake DNA report."

Asher smiled, as if this hadn’t been unexpected at all. This bastard had understood the moment we took Raven that we knew Raven was Kael’s son. But to his surprise, we didn’t know back then.

I wondered if they were aware of Eira’s presence with us. And whether she had been intentionally sent to us.

Today, we would get those answers.

"If you are his father, then as I said before, how irresponsible of you not to even know you had a child," Asher said. "You left his mother to rot somewhere while the child was up for sale... I mean, up for adoption? If that’s the case, do you really deserve to have such a precious child?"

He sneered. "And in this case, I can assure you, blood relation does not matter. He is better off with me than with an irresponsible father like you. I will raise him well and give him what you couldn’t. An unworthy father like you can’t."

Then he turned to the council and everyone present in the hall.

"If I had not adopted that pureblood child, don’t we all know what would have happened to him? I am the one who saved him, protected him from the worst, and gave him the position of son of a top-tier Alpha. His parents owe me for this. The security of pureblood children is the utmost priority in the werewolf world to protect our bloodline, and I carried it out with everything I had."

He turned to Kael.

"The very responsibility you failed, Kael" his voice rose, "which gives me every right to keep him with me. Raven is my child and will remain the same. I hope I made myself clear."

Kael simply looked at him wordlessly, showing no reaction at all.

"And I haven’t stolen the child," Asher turned back to everyone. "The child was handed over to me by his grandparents themselves in order to protect him. They were worried someone would kill the child. So it’s not stealing, but protecting."

Jason and I looked at each other. Finally, this bastard had come to the point.

"Handed over by grandparents, not by his mother?" Kael asked. "I am sure you must have protected the mother along with the child. After all, pureblood shewolves are the pillars of the werewolf world, and protecting them is of utmost priority. I wonder how you saved her. Did you accept her as your mate for the sake of her child? Or at least help her survive? Or did you plan to have more kids with her? Ones that are your own blood?"

I was sure Kael’s heart must have been on fire while saying this. But he had a reason. He was leading Asher somewhere.

Now we would know if Asher was aware of Eira being with us.

"When they brought the child to me, they said the mother had died," Asher said. "So I don’t have her. That means Raven is the only son I have, and I plan to keep it that way. There won’t be any other child but him."

"How would we know you’re telling the truth?" Kael countered. "Maybe you knew it was my child and stole him out of enmity toward me. Maybe you killed the mother and grandparents as well to hide the truth about my own son?"

"Grandparents are alive and well," Asher said. "They are here, and the council can hear everything from them."

I smiled inwardly. Finally, the old bastards will show up from hiding. Well done, Kael.