Fate's Dark Side Chapter 565

While leaving, I asked the kappas to publicly deal with the selected omegas and make a spectacle of them. They should also announce their crimes to advise other pack members who might be thinking along the same line. It was necessary.

Amelia understood my reasons without me expressing myself and let it be. She wasn't pushy, and she never tried to get her way. Her qualities were unending. But I will let her have her way next time.

After breakfast, Casper linked me that Alexei had arrived.

It was ten minutes to nine, and I admired his punctuality. Still, he was a foe, and I planned on being careful with him.

I did not tell Max and Kyle Alexei was around, but I told Amelia.

I also told her not to follow me to the office in case things got bloody. She wanted to come because of the silver thing, but I doubted Alexei would be stupid enough to attack me. Marcel, Theo and I would have subdued our attacker had his peers not joined. Knowing that alone gave me confidence.

I walked to my office and saw Alexei waiting patiently in the reception. The moment I entered, he stood up and greeted me respectfully. He wasn't arrogant like he was at the eastern council meeting. It was as if I was dealing with a different person.

I ushered him into my office, and he followed quietly.

"Punctual," I said, sitting on my chair, and he smiled.

"I dare not keep the head Alpha waiting," he said, and I nodded with approval.

I stared at him briefly and decided to cut to the chase.

"Why the attacks, Alexei? Is Hill Valley not enough? Did you have to try to take Brentwood too?" I asked, and he sighed.

"There are things I am not at liberty to explain, Alpha, and, unfortunately, you are caught in the middle of it, but I had no choice but to try to take Brentwood," He said and I frowned at him.

He sighed and leaned forward.

"As you see, I have come here alone because I mean well. Initially, I had no respect for you, but seeing that you are family now, I have no choice but to tell you somethings that only family are to know," he said, and I frowned at him.

I was tempted to check his vitals and be sure he was well.

I did not let the shock or confusion show on my face. I just leaned back in my chair to listen to what he had to say.

"Explain," I said, and he sighed.

He looked at me for a while and then used his hand close to his eyes. I wondered if he wanted to gouge them out, but to my surprise, he took out his contacts, and I was shocked at what I saw. His eyes were exactly like Amelia's.

"What!" I exclaimed, and he smiled.

"Amelia is my baby half-sister." He confessed, and I was stunned.

"Clay Newton is also my half-brother. The three of us share the same father but different mothers. Our mothers are dead, but Amelia's mother is alive," He said, and I was stuck in my seat.

The shock was intense that I did not know what to say.

"We are the true descendants of the Stepanov bloodline, but we have relatives here too. Unlike the popular tales, some Stepanovs escaped the massacre. My father's line is the direct descendant of Adrik Stepanov, the true heir to the lordship at the time of his murder. Unknown to Dimitri, Adrik's secret lover and mate, Ariana Ivanov, was pregnant with his child. She ran to the east to settle in Hayland.

That was where she gave birth to our father, Luis Ivanov." He said, and I was attentive.

"Unlike our relative that ran away, our family stayed away from the government; we did not want any part of it. But our father had inherited the superior genes, so they wanted him on board.

He didn't want a part but played along for a while.

He mated with my mother, Ingrid Kuznetsov and had me.

Then things got out of hand; he asked her to run away with me to the north.

She raised me for a bit before she was hunted down and killed by the Stepanovs. I grew up on the streets, hiding away. Hair dye and contact lenses were my best friends.

My father got with Clay's mother, Emma Newton, so he could blend in. He told my mother of her, and they all planned to meet, but the cult caught up with him, and he had to run to the west to hide so they would leave Emma alone.