Chapter 0463

Her blue eyes shifted between me and Alexander before settling back on me.

"I saw the house." I gestured behind me. "Did this little brat have anything to do with it?"

She nodded while Alexander tried prying my fingers from his thin wrist. "Let go!" he shrieked. I simply rolled my eyes.

"You know I'm pregnant?" Athena asked with a frown.

I nodded. "I can see your soul clearly again." Alexander attempted to kick me. He had developed that nasty habit, so I lifted him off his feet. He dangled in the air, body swaying as he struggled. "That's why I left. I needed to figure out what was happening to me. Now the problem is solved."

She turned back to the dead Wolf. "I could have killed him."

*You could have. But that blade came too close to your stomach for my comfort."

She glanced down at her top, frowning as she touched the hole in the fabric.

"What should I do with this one?" I swung Alexander through the air deliberately. He whimpered instead of protesting.

Her gaze lingered on the boy. She knew punishment was necessary, yet she pitied him. That surprised me.

"Caleb is with Ryken." she murmured. "He's informing him about his son's actions."

"Then we'll go there." I pointed to the corpse. "I'll handle him later."

Caleb answered the door. A deep growl rumbled through him when he saw Alexander. "Bring him inside."

"Where's my Dad?" Alexander begged.

"I'm right here." Ryken replied as we entered the kitchen. I noticed Seraphina peeking through a slightly open door. It closed quietly when she saw me.

I dropped the brat into a chair. His gaze lowered immediately, eyes hardening as he asked for his mother.

"She isn't here right now. But she wants you to know she's disgusted by your behavior." Ryken told him, avoiding direct eye contact. "You blew up the packhouse. You destroyed the home of the pack that welcomed us. What were you thinking?"

"He wasn't." Athena muttered. I glanced over and saw her rubbing dried blood from her fingers.

"I'm sorry." Alexander whispered. He wasn't sorry at all. Not even a little bit.

"Are you, Alexander?" Caleb asked.

"Yes," Alexander whimpered.

"You can't stop lying, can you?" I sat on the kitchen counter. "When I look at you, I see no truth. Just a tangled web of lies. Where does it end? Where does it begin? It's impossible to tell."

Anger flashed in his brown eyes. His head was lowered, but I still saw it. "I suggest you start telling the truth."

"Asshole." he muttered under his breath. His arrogance for his age was astounding.

"ALEXANDER!" Ryken shouted.

Alexander crossed his arms and huffed, slumping in the chair.

"What did Levi want you to do?" I asked curiously.

He stared at me.

"Were you supposed to blow up the empty house? Or was that a mistake?"

He scrunched his face, still refusing to look at me.

"Answer the question." Athena snapped. She was ordering him to speak.

"He just said I'd know when the time was right."

"Was it the right time? Or did you panic because you got caught?" I pressed. My guess was panic. What was the point of setting off a bomb in an empty building?

"I..." His eyes moved to Athena. "I'm not supposed to say."

"Look around, you little shit." I snarled. "Do you think you're leaving here without talking?"

"To teach you a lesson." he blurted out. He shook his head, blonde ringlets bouncing. "He said to teach you a lesson. To show you that you don't have all the power." He started crying. Finally, fear set in. All it took was a small threat. I should have done this when he first upset my baby girl.

"Where were you going?" Athena asked him.

"He said he would wait for me." Alexander muttered between sniffles. "He wasn't there."