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Chapter

Thirty-Five

Draco’s chest started seizing, making him grab his chest. Something was wrong and he didn’t know what it was.

He looked over at his team that was with him and noticed they were panicking about his reactions. They pulled him to the waiting vehicle, watching for anything that could be targeting him.

When he heard Leo’s phone ringing, his heart nearly gave out from worry. He’d never been scared of losing something his entire life.

Not even in war zones or missions. Now that he knew what having his true fated mate was like, he could not, would not lose it.

“Fuck! Get us to Pelo Grove Elementary, now ! Dana’s been shot. Medics are on the way there now.”

“Athena?” Draco asked, glaring at his best friend.

“Taken. Draco, she was kidnapped by Townie. He’s assisting the Maplewoods.”

“He’s fucking dead. I knew he took Shadow’s death hard. Never thought it was betrayal hard.”

Draco’s wolf wanted to come out and find his mate and annihilate anyone in his path, but he knew he had to play it calmly. He pulled out his phone and sent a message to his father to let him know what was going on.

Draco instructed his team to get to Dana ASAP at the school. His father was meeting them there with a guest who had just arrived at the home.

They sped through streets, taking turns at a high rate of speed. Thank the goddess no one was out or got in their way.

They flew into the school parking lot, tires squealing as they came to an abrupt stop. The ambulance, pack police, and his father all arrived at the same time they did.

“Arrow!” Draco yelled out as he rushed out of the SUV.

“I’m fine. The bullets are already out,” a disgruntled Arrow grumbled as she pushed hands away from her.

“Ma’am, you were shot with bullets specially designed to take out shifters. The fact you are still breathing is a miracle.” The medica huffed at her.

“Bullshit. If Townie wanted me dead, he would have killed me. That motherfucker never misses his targets.”

Draco pulled back at the news Arrow had just given them. Someone he’d trusted with his life had betrayed them.

He’d known that Townie was hurting and angry with him over Shades death. He had thought they’d worked past all of that when they had their talk.

“Athena?” Draco asked, his voice going tight.

“Townie took her. He had Rob and her fucking brother with him. Draco, they have someone in the Council on their payroll. It’s why they have not been punished for any of their actions so far.”

“Did they say who?” A man stepped forward, along with Draco’s father.

“No. Just know they said that this person was going to deny Draco as the Blackwood Pack’s Alpha and denounce the mating of Athena and Draco. They are declaring an all-out war between the two packs.”

“Who are you?” Draco asked the man standing next to his father.

“I am Douglas Amari, the High Lord of the Shifter Council. I believe you were already looking for me, young man. Considering your medical team was requesting access to my DNA profile.”

“Holy shit! Athena,” Leo murmured in shock from beside Draco.

Draco studied the man in front of him. He stood tall at six feet three inches, a stocky build with reddish brown hair. It was the eyes that made him stop in his tracks and took his breath away.

The blue green with sparkled whiskey flecks that always made his breath catch whenever she would look up at him with that smile that stole the air from his lungs. He knew without a shadow of a doubt this man was Athena’s biological father.

“Who is this Athena?” Douglas Amari asked as he crossed his arms across his chest.

“Well, Doug, based on the DNA test, your daughter. She’s never met her biological father. Her mother told her that you left them because you never wanted a daughter because she was unworthy to be your child,” Draco’s father informed the man, his eyes glowing with his wolf in anger.

“Who is her mother?” Douglas asked, his own eyes glowing with his wolf in anger.

“Delilah Chapman.”

“You’re telling me that Deliliah Chapman had my child, and I was never told about her?”

Draco had to fight the instinct to take a step back and bow his head at the anger that was echoing from the man’s voice. The man was the Alpha of all wolf shifter kind.

Douglas Amari was considered royalty in the shifter world. Others in the Council answered to him.

“You never knew about Athena?” Coren asked, the confusion evident in his voice.

Draco winced when he saw the man turn toward his father and glare. Yet his father never backed down from the man.

“No. Deliliah Chapman was a drunken weekend fling after high school, before I joined the military. I tried to reach out to her when I had come home for a visit shortly after basic training but found out she had gotten married. I never knew she had been pregnant nor that the child was mine.”

“Her and the man she married did have one child together. A son. He’s partnered with the Maplewood Pack. He sold your daughter to them for a place in their territory. The mother is a part of their conspiracy and abused toward my mate.”

“My daughter, she is your fated mate?”

Draco swallowed his fear of this man. He knew from reports that this was not a man to be fucked with.

“Yes, sir. She is my true fated mate.”

“Draco, I miss you so much. I don’t know if you can hear me this far away. I’m keeping the faith you will find me in time.”

“I’m here my love. Where are you? Where are they holding you?”

“Behind a wall in a basement somewhere. They kept a hood over my face so I couldn’t see where.

Draco, they have a man, someone from the Council.

A Jordan Roosevelt, who is going to declare our mating unlawful and allow the Maplewoods to declare war as retribution.

S-Sheila told them about our baby. They are executing me in the morning in a mockery of a trial in front of their whole pack. ”

Draco roared loudly and painfully. Those around him, with the exception of his father and Athena’s father, whimpered and lowered their heads in obedience.

Hell was going to reign on Earth tonight. The devil himself was getting new souls sent to him, express train and all.