Sold To The Alphas I Hate-Chapter 327: Let The Child Choose

Kael’s POV

"And now that everything is clear and all the lies have been exposed, no one has the right to claim my son as theirs," I declared. "My son is mine."

"Eira," the old woman panicked. "Don’t listen to him. You can’t be with him. He will use you again and—"

Another slap echoed through the council hall.

The woman was thrown to the ground by the brutal force, coughing blood as her body shook violently.

"Didn’t I tell you to shut your mouth?" Lucian sneered, shaking his hand as if he had touched filth. "Or will you stop only when your disgusting soul leaves your body?"

He was a man with no mercy. If there ever had been any, he had already shown it by not killing her yet.

The old man rushed to his wife, then looked at Eira, who was leaning against me calmly.

"You are letting them hit your grandma? They—"

"They are my mates," Eira interrupted him. "They are more important than filth like you. Don’t ever call me your granddaughter."

The old man was about to counter, but Lucian shot him a warning glare.

We didn’t want to exhaust Eira by arguing when she was already tired. Maybe it was because of the sudden surge of anger she had experienced, and now her mind needed rest.

"I believe things are clear now. We are taking our child with us," I declared.

"You can’t," Asher said. "I assure you, today he is going with me. His dad who raised him."

The glint in his eyes and the smirk on his lips told me it wasn’t over yet.

I hadn’t expected anything else either.

"Kael, I have never come across another powerful Alpha who is as foolish and irresponsible as you," Asher said. "You allowed yourself to be tricked and drugged by a weak and idiotic woman? That’s such an insult to our kind. As a top-tier Alpha myself, I would never want to sit on the same rank as you. You forget all the teachings and training we are given, and how we are innately smart enough not to be fooled. But you proved otherwise. What a shame."

He turned to look at the council members and the other Alphas in the hall. "Am I wrong?"

No one answered him. They were waiting for him to get to the point.

"Kael, even if we set aside the drugging and assault incident, I cannot overlook the fact that you were completely unaware that the same she-wolf had given birth to your child and that he was being raised by another Alpha," Asher said. "That alone proves how irresponsible, ignorant, and weak you are. Just because he carries your blood does not mean you deserve to be his father. And neither does the she-wolf you call your mate deserve to be called his mother.

"Both of you failed that child by being weak enough to fall into someone else’s schemes. If Keiren were alive, I wouldn’t punish him. I would punish you two instead for being idiots."

He turned to the council.

"What I am trying to say is this. How can we hand over a pureblood child, the future of our werewolf world, to such irresponsible parents? What guarantee do we have that they won’t fail him again? What if someone plots to take him away once more? These pathetic parents wouldn’t be able to do anything."

He continued, his voice firm.

"We all know that this child carries the blood of a top-tier Alpha. That means he will grow into one as well. Who wouldn’t covet him? His life will always be in danger. For his safety and for his future, he should remain with me. Just as I have raised him until today, I will continue to do so.

"We must think about his future, which will be nothing but darkness if he stays with his biological parents."

He finished his speech and looked at us. "Don’t worry. I will take good care of him. You will thank me in the future."

His words struck hard, because part of what he said about my past mistakes was true. I had allowed myself to be trapped back then. But that was the past. There would be no place for such mistakes anymore.

"Asher, I have a question for you," I said.

"Go ahead," he replied confidently.

"Why does it seem like you are so obsessed with my child?" I asked. "What is the real reason?"

"I already told you. I care about the future of the werewolf world—"

"Of course you care," Lucian interrupted coldly. "But you can’t produce one yourself, so you covet another top-tier Alpha’s child. Isn’t that it?"

"Oh, Luke, how smart you are," Rafe chimed in, breaking his silence despite my earlier instruction for him to stay out of focus during council matters. "I think his dick doesn’t even function well enough to have a child of his own."

Asher looked like he was about to lose his composure at my brother’s insult, but he forced a smile.

"Your snide remarks won’t stop me from caring for a child who needs a responsible adult by his side," Asher said. "Unlike foolish ones like you brothers."

"The same foolish ones are the ones the entire werewolf world fears enough to never mess with our pack," Roman chimed in. "Everyone knows what happens to those who even try. I am sure the examples of Alpha Keiren and his pack, and the recent one where someone dared to covet our shewolf, are still fresh in everyone’s mind."

"And you dare think the child is not safe with us?" Lucian scoffed, his gaze turning dark. "I dare anyone to even look at our mate and our child, and I will personally show them the way to hell within seconds."

Asher glanced at all of us, and then his gaze stopped at Raven, who was now looking at him.

"Why don’t we ask Raven what he wants?" Asher suggested calmly. "The child’s wish matters, and I am sure none of us should have an issue with that."

"We already know what he wants," Roman said as he moved to block Asher’s line of sight to Raven.

"You don’t trust him, do you?" Asher chuckled. "There are always two ways to decide matters. Peaceful or bloody. And here I am trying to buy it the peaceful way, so the child won’t have to witness bloodshed."

He turned to the council. "Shall we see what the child wants? That will make everything easier. If he comes to me despite spending time with his real parents, that means he wants me. That means I raised him well, and his future is with me."

We brothers looked at each other. Why was he so confident Raven would choose him? He wouldn’t have made this offer otherwise.

Eira visibly tensed in my arms and looked toward Raven, who appeared unusually calm, hiding whatever was in his mind.

With approval from several alphas, Jeffery said, "Let us hear the child’s choice."

"My child stays with me and he doesn’t have to choose," Eira snapped at Jeffery, fury blazing in her eyes. "Don’t forget the rule you created yourself. A mother has the first right over her child. I am his mother. I decide everything for him. No one makes my child choose."

"Are you scared he won’t choose you?" Asher mocked, his gaze sweeping over all of us. "And that rule you’re talking about comes with conditions. Conditions like yours, where you people weren’t even aware of his existence. His existence came to life with me."

Eira clenched her teeth. "If you had not taken my child away—"

"So you would have raised your child in a brothel?" Asher cut in coldly. "Watching his mother being fucked right in front of his eyes by countless men? That his mother is nothing but a whore?"

"Asher," my voice thundered through the council hall, deadly calm and laced with killing intent.

And in the very next moment, I was already in front of him.

He didn’t struggle. Instead, he smirked at me.

"Say another word about my mate, and I will kill you right here," I warned.

"You can’t. We are equally powerful," he replied. "And you are clearly afraid to see your son choose me while rejecting you."

"Shut up."

"Why don’t we try?" he suggested in a low voice. "If I win, we always have a way of bloodshed."

"Alpha Kael, let go of him," Jeffery warned. "If you intended to settle this by tearing each other apart, you could have done it outside. There was no point in coming to the council."

I released him.

I had my own reasons for coming here.

First, to introduce Eira to the werewolf world when all the important people were present.Second, to prove her innocence regarding the accusations against her, so no one would ever dare question her place as the Luna of my pack or insult her again. She had to reclaim the pride that had been stolen from her.

And lastly, to protect my son and face this bastard to uncover clues about what we were still unaware of. Clues about what truly happened six years ago.

We had not reached the full truth yet.

And Asher felt like nothing more than another pawn in someone else’s game.

"Bring the child forward," Jeffery ordered. "Let us see what the child desires."

Jason had already removed Raven’s headphones and told him what’s going on.

Raven was standing in the middle where we were standing to one side, while the that bastard Asher was standing to other side.

’He will come to us, I know. He is my son,’ I tried to assure myself, but there was that void that told otherwise.

All of us tensed while that bastard Asher was calm and delighted as if he was sure Raven would choose him.