Page 184 of His Sunshine Baby

“Are you sure it was Xavier and Taaron King? We have no business with the Gold Moon, and nobody reported such a meeting.”

“Positive,” we answer together.

“Fuck.”

My godfather stays silent for a moment, frowning and thinking. What now? He cannot confront Xavier on our accusations alone, I guess, but it would be dangerous to have him come to the meeting as well. My godfather sighs and turns to me.

“Elena, you stop him. I know you cannot fight in your condition, but as an alpha, you have enough authority to stop your uncle without it. I know Iris and Chris will support you, too. Let him know I don’t want him to come tomorrow, and you are there to say that.”

“Won’t he say I don’t have authority anymore?” I ask, flustered.

“So far, nothing has been decided,” explains Isabella. “To everyone, you’re still part of the pack, pending Clark’s decision. They don’t know about your child’s father either.”

“Does that mean you’ll go, Clark?” I ask my godfather.

He hesitates for a second, exchanging a glance with Isabella, but his Beta is already agreeing with me. He nods.

“Yeah. As you said, we owe them one, and I want to know if this witch theory is real. We haven’t seen one in ages, but our pack is one of the oldest in Silver City, we know there used to be witches in the area.”

I bet he would be in for a surprise if he met Sylviana.

“Moreover, if the Sapphire Moon clan goes too as you say, I do not want to miss that. I just don’t hold the Black brothers in high esteem. Especially now.”

Especially now that one got me pregnant, he means. Gosh, baby, you’re really complicating a lot of things around here. At least I convinced Clark to go and I get to deal with Xavier myself.

“Elena?” he calls to me when I’m about to leave.

“What is it?”

“You still… haven’t changed your mind, have you?”

I think for a second. Have I? I know Clark could turn a blind eye if I changed my mind and agreed to keep my baby’s biological father a secret, but…

“No. Sorry.”

“Don’t be sorry.”

I nod and leave behind Daniel.

I’m not going to lie. Whether Nathaniel believes me or not won’t change anything, he is this baby’s father. If I go back now, it will be like I lied this entire time, or I’m really confused about who I had this child with, and I’m not.

We rush to my uncle’s house, following other people’s directions as to where he is currently. I take deep breaths. This definitely won’t be easy. I have to confront my uncle without getting into a fight with him and persuade him, or keep him from going to the gathering. Isn’t Clark overestimating me?

I decide to mind-link my cousins to explain the situation on the way. Both Iris and Chris are shocked to hear what their father did. Iris is a bit more doubtful than her brother, but I expected so, she’s always respected her father more. We agree to meet up at his house, as Iris is driving from the clinic to join us, and Chris is almost there.

When we both arrive, it’s the evening already. Chris walks up to me, but despite his smile, my heart breaks upon the sight of his missing arm. I can’t believe those damn vampires did that. He was such a strong fighter. Now everything from his shoulder down has disappeared; they cut it off after it became obvious the vampire’s venom had filled his whole arm.

Yet, Chris is about the same as before. He runs up to me and gives me a hug.

“I missed ya, Elena! I’m so glad you’re okay.”

“Thanks, Chris, I’m… I’m sorry I couldn’t see you earlier.”

“Hey, no big deal. Seriously, they gave me so many drugs I couldn’t remember my own name for two weeks, let aloneremember who visited me! It takes forever to get vampire venom out of your system, did you know that? Moreover, you had a good reason, didn’t you?”

He asks while pointing at my tummy, making me blush.

“Chris, you…”

---