CHAPTER 205: THE BITCH IN ROMAN’S LIFE

Kael’s POV

During the day, Eira took care of Raven. I busied myself with office work while keeping an eye on the two. The best sight to see was when Raven fell asleep with Eira on that mattress by the window side.

I couldn’t help but stop working and go to them. He had snuggled in her embrace with her hand wrapped around him. They looked like mother and child—exactly what they were.

Jason, who came out of his room to go out, came to me and watched them as well.

I fixed the sheets on them, while Jason instructed Fluffy to keep quiet. The hamster, cat Vixen, and her three kittens were napping as well.

It felt like this corner of the home was the most peaceful and probably a sleeping heaven. Only if we could be a part of it, but we had things to do.

Finally, evening was there, but Roman and Lucian hadn’t returned yet.

Jason informed me that Lucian was caught up with some important matters related to the RavenClaw pack. He was busy planning and planting clues that could divert their attention from our pack in their quest of finding Raven.

About Roman, when I called him, his mobile was turned off the entire day and he wasn’t even in the office. This guy has started to worry me now.

Before dinner time, at least Lucian returned home. He looked entirely worn out as if he had been running between hell and heaven.

"Everything went fine?" I asked him.

"Enough to buy us more time," he answered, not saying anything clearly in front of Raven and Eira, who were watching TV while sitting on the sofa.

Both of them had been glued to each other the entire day—playing with pets, sleeping, spending time in the garden, watching TV, playing whatever games we had bought for them. They were busy in their own world.

When all of us sat at the dining table for dinner, Roman was still missing.

"Did you check where Roman is?" I asked.

"He didn’t tell where he is, but messaged me saying he won’t be returning tonight," Jason informed. "He said not to worry about him. He is fine."

The frown on my forehead deepened. "If he doesn’t return by morning, go after him despite whatever he says," I instructed.

Jason hummed, while Lucian said, "Something is going on with him. The bastard won’t tell."

"Even in the hospital, he looked lost somewhere," Jason said. "At one point he turned off his mobile after reading something. He looked annoyed."

"Something happened in the hospital?" I asked, but then sensed Eira looking at me at that moment.

I looked back at her. Her eyes were as if they knew something.

But then she lowered her gaze and focused on eating.

Once dinner was over, and Eira and Raven went outside into the garden, I told Jason, "Check the hospital footage from the time when Eira and Roman were together in the hospital."

Soon, we got the footage and Jason showed us something that we didn’t expect to happen.

"That bitch— is she the one?" Rafe asked.

I hummed. So this is why he was troubled.

"Who is she?" Jason and Lucian asked. They hadn’t been with us during that time in our childhood when Roman and Rafe were living as orphans in the orphanage my mother ran. They hadn’t seen this woman.

"His mother," I told them.

"The bitch is a piece of shit," Rafe spat out, clearly angry at the sight.

Jason and Lucian were aware of what this woman had done to Roman, so without even knowing her personally, they already hated her.

"Why is she even alive?" Lucian said angrily. "Let’s get rid of her."

"That’s his mother. If he wants to kill her, he will do it on his own," Kael said. "We can keep her away from him, but we won’t be killers of our brother’s mother unless he wants us to. Though we are worried for him, there are the things we need to maintain boundaries with."

As an Alpha of the pack, I could do anything and no one would question me, but the matter was what Roman wanted and it was his personal matter for us to meddle in mindlessly.

"I am sure he wants to kill her more than anyone, but he is holding back," Jason added. "Just one word from him, and we will feed her to wild wolves."

"Poor wolves," Rafe sighed. "Don’t spoil their mouths’ taste with that shit. Just burn her alive — that would be more satisfying."

"Calm down. Once he returns, we will see what to do," I suggested and looked toward the garden where Eira and Raven were playing with Fluffy. If not for her looking at me right at that moment, I would have doubted anything had happened in the hospital.

She clearly wanted to say something, but didn’t. Maybe Roman had told her not to mention anything about it to us. That’s surely what he would do.

When it was time to go to bed, once more I picked up Raven in my arms to take him to my room.

"He slept with you last night," Eira said. "He can sleep with me tonight."

I looked at her calmly. "You are always welcome to sleep in my room."

She gritted her teeth, not willing to give up in front of me. "Don’t forget we signed to be his parents. I am his mother."

"That makes it even more right for you to sleep with us," I told her, unaffected by her words. "A child needs to sleep with his parents until he is six at least. So we have one more year before we give him a separate room."

"When and who made that rule?" she asked, clearly annoyed.

"I did just now," I replied coolly. "As an Alpha of this pack, each of my words is the rule here."

She clenched her fists, clearly wanting to throw a few punches at me. I raised a brow as if asking her to dare, but she could only stay in her place.

"Coming with us?" I asked her once more.

She stomped in anger and headed to Roman’s room. The next moment the loud sound of the door slamming echoed through the home. Her anger was really something.

Even after we mated, she didn’t want to be close to me, and I couldn’t force her.

I looked at Lucian. "Roman is not home. Sleep with her tonight."

She wouldn’t come to sleep in my room, Rafe wouldn’t sleep with her, Jason looked like he wouldn’t either, so Lucian was the only one left. We couldn’t leave her alone the entire night. I was worried about what kind of stunt she would pull.

And tomorrow was that day — the day that had changed all our lives. It was going to be a difficult day tomorrow with her by our side.