I sighed. “Yes. It’s fine.” Iplaced a hand on Kai’s arm. The veins were popping out of his neck. Not a goodsign.
“Your mother has made yourfavorite dish. Why don’t you go meet her in the kitchen and we will be rightthere.”
Kai stared into his father’s eyesfor a good long while. “Don’t scare my mate.”
His father stared back, notanswering. Kai walked out closing the doors behind him.
“He is my favorite son. Alwayshas been. He’s a leader and a lover and a fighter. He is respectful and kindand takes care of his pack.”
The admission caught me offguard. “Why don’t you tell him that?”
“Because to tell him would makeme feel weak. I’m anything but weak, Aurora.” His face looked stern.
“What did you want to talk to meabout?”
His father rubbed the spotbetween his thumb and pointer finger and creased his brow. Did werewolves getheadaches?
“There is no way to put thislightly.”
Oh God. I backed up slowly andfound a couch that I half fell into.
“What is it?”
“Don’t marry my son. For the sakeof yourself, of our entire race. Don’t you dare go through with the matingceremony with my son.”
My hand immediately went to theengagement ring around my neck.
“Why would you say something likethat to me? I thought you wanted this?”
His father looked pained. “I did.The council and I have been working on an intel project. We have a double agentinside of RAIDOS. We also have been questioning the vampires, like you sawtoday. All of this has led to some pretty startling intel.”
A double agent inside RAIDOS?They KNEW about RAIDOS. Who was it? I hadn’t smelled a werewolf when I metthem. Maybe I hadn’t met that agent yet.
His father stood over me. “Thevampire, Layla, has not become pregnant, nor will she. As long as you stayinfertile, so does your blood. If you take the mating ceremony with my son andSpirit blesses you with fertility, then any vampire that drinks your blood willhave the ability to become pregnant.”
“NO! You can’t know this forsure.”
His hand rested on my shoulder. “Iadmit it’s a theory but a strong one. The vampires have created a device. Abloodletting device just for you. It will drain just enough blood to keep youalive. Then the blood is bottled and SOLD to the highest female vampire bidder.RAIDOS has the intel about your blood. They took a sample from the fight at thewater treatment plant when you were injured. They tested it and they say you’reinfertile.”
He walked to a desk in the cornerand retrieved a paper, and handed it to me.
TOP SECRET
Aurora
Class:Werewolf, Second in Command.
Age:Unknown (Early twenties)
Pack:Portland, Mount Hood, Oregon. (UnitedStates)
Mate:Kai, Alpha (Indian Origin). Matingceremony has not taken place yet.
Known Abilities:Matefinder. Magicuser. Silver Immunity. Extremely Fast Shifter.
Blood tested:FSH, Prolactin,Luteinizing, Estradiol, Serum Progesterone.
Results:Infertile.
