The Unknown Lycan Princess - Chapter 98: Chapter 98

Ethan’s POV
I was nervous about being home. I knew I had to have a conversation with dad about Uncle Baxter and I know it is going to break his heart again to know that he has been alive all this time and that he is the leader of the sect. How am I going to tell him about his brother being the one who raped my mate. How is dad going to feel when he hears all of this? I just hope that he doesn’t try to blame himself. I know I have a long way to go, but thanks to Beth and Alexi I know that I am not responsible for Uncle Felix’s death.
I smiled as soon as I stepped through the portal and saw my mom and dad. Mom rushed forward and I had my arm open for her hug but she bypassed me and went straight for the baby in my arms. She then proceeded to collect another baby after she put the first into a contraption on her chest and then grabbed the last. I know I am supposed to be this big bad alpha, but my mom not acknowledging me kind of stung. So what now that I have kids I mean nothing to her?
“Don’t worry son. Your mother will remember your existence soon enough. When a woman becomes a grandmother her son is no longer the one under her scrutiny unless she wants more grandbabies. My mom was the same way when you came around.” My dad said while chuckling and slapping me on the back.
“Don’t give him a hard time Arthur. If I remember correctly you were still pouting about your mother giving the children more attention than you the last time she was here.” Mother added as she looked up briefly and then shot me a wink before going back to her main objective. My pups.
“I wasn’t going to give the boy a hard time, Martha. I was just merely explaining the circle of life to my son. He needs to know his new pecking order to life. He is no longer the apple of his mother’s eye nor the most important person to his mate anymore. Those three angels and Link already took those places. It is an inevitable fact of life that all men should learn, and what better way than for the prior generation to tell their war stories and show off their battle scars.” My dad said in a teasing tone. Mother just rolled her eyes at him with a small smile on her face. Dad may tell the worst jokes and his humor is horrifying, but he is a good dad and an amazing Alpha. I can only hope to be able to fill his shoes when the time comes.
“So, what brings you all here? We thought you would be staying in the Vampire kingdom a while longer.” Dad asks.
I sigh knowing I can’t put this off anymore. I say, “Mom, Dad can we go to dad’s office to talk. I need to tell you guys something and it is going to be hard to hear, but I don’t want any other listening ears to find out.” I am nervous about this conversation. Even Dex can’t sit still in my mind. He has been pacing back and forth ever since we walked through that portal.
“Of course, son. Follow me.” Dad says and we all follow him to his office. Once we are all settled my parents look towards me and I try to wrack my brains for how to start. Luckily Beth knew exactly what to say and I sent her a grateful smile which she returned.
“I had a vision. At first we thought it was just a nightmare. My subconsciousness conjuring up the image of my rapist. It would make sense considering in this vision the leader of the sect turned out to be my attacker. He had stabbed me in the chest with a dagger and he had Esmerelda in his arms.” Beth starts.
I continue by saying, “When Beth awoke from this vision she showed Alexi and I a few things. It turns out her attacker,” I say with a growl still feeling angry that that happened to her, “is someone we know very well dad.”
My father is looking at me in confusion and he says, “Who?”
This is the part I didn’t want to talk about. I didn’t want to see the hurt in my father’s eyes that his brother has been alive all this time and has done some unforgivable things. Most importantly I don’t want to see the betrayal in my father’s eyes again. I brace myself and take in a deep breath. On my exhale I release the words saying, “Uncle Baxter is alive and well father. He was the one who attacked Beth. He is the one who is still trying to get to Beth, and now he is the one who is trying to take my pup.”
I watch my father’s face go blank and look to my mother and see that her face has also gone blank. I look towards my = mate and see that she is also staring blankly and I wonder what is going on. Before I could panic too much Beth’s eyes cleared. I turned to look at my parents and their eyes were clear too now. My father went from the hurt that I feared to the maddest I have ever seen him. He jumps up from his chair and releases a loud growl which causes the pups to start to cry being startled from their sleep.
Beth rushes over to help my mother soothe the pups and in seconds the door is slamming open and Link is running inside straight to Esmerelda. Alexi follows behind him with an apologetic look on his face. He said, “Sorry about that Ethan. He said Esmerelda needed him and took off before I could even catch him. We need to figure out what the connection between the two of them is. Beth swears it isn’t a mate bond but it sure as hell looks and sounds that way to me.”
I nodded my head in agreement. I think it is more like a mate bond, but we will just have to wait and see what they find in Sandra’s books. By the time the pups calm down dad is finally calm again too. He needed to take a few more minutes to collect his thoughts. It took us a while to get Link to leave with Alexi again. He was not thrilled when mom wouldn’t give him Esmerelda to hold. I shake my head to get it back to the present. Dad is sitting in front of us again and looks like he is about to speak, but mom beats him to it. “So. What is the plan? You came back here for a reason.”
“We all felt it wasn’t safe for us in the Vampire Kingdom anymore after an attack happened and Link was injured.” I started, but was interrupted by my mom.
“Oh. My Goddess. Is he ok? I mean he looked physically fine, but what about emotionally. My poor grandson. Tell us what happened. I want to know everything.” Mom said.
We spent the next hour going over everything that happened with the attack including Beth’s adventure to the underworld. By the time it was all said and done it was past lunchtime and my mate and pups were getting restless. I was actually surprised that the pups didn’t want to be fed yet. Usually they are on a set schedule. There it is. Right on que. Esmerelda starts to cry and it causes Dimitri and Ares to both start crying too.
Beth was up before I could even react and grabbed two of the babies and sat back down. She deftly covered herself and the babies with a blanket and soon the soft suckling of my pups could be heard over the cries of my other pup. I rummaged through the diaper bag and grabbed a bottle that we had prepared for instances just like this where they all wanted to feed at the same time.
We all decided to have lunch together and then dad still had some work to finish up and I knew that he would also take this time to get his thoughts gathered up over Uncle Baxter. I managed to snatch Dimitri from my mother’s grasp and took off hearing my dad chuckle at my antics after I said, “Can’t take him back if you can’t catch me!”
Before I am too far away I hear my mother say, “He gets that stuff from you. I would never do such a thing. Snatching a baby out of a poor old woman’s hands. I don’t know what I did wrong with that boy.” The sound of my father’s laughter followed me all the way down the hall and to the dinning hall.