Chapter 184: "So what!”

Scarlett’s pov.

“I told you not to tell him!”

Elara comes in weeping, her lips shuddering and tears rolling down her cheeks. She heads for Roman and screams at him, “I fucking told you not to tell him! Why’d you tell him!”

Something about Roman’s stillness right now makes me feel a trill of fear but I know him, and I trust him. Roman looks up at Elara from his table and replies calmly, “Were you planning to keep him from his father forever?”

Elara slams her hands onto the table, her lips pursed in anger and she bursts into a sob. The sound makes me jolt a bit. It makes me feel like her sorrow is leaking off her, trying to find its way into me and when I look at Roman to find him staring at me, a hard look in his eyes, I nod and walk over to them.

I offer consolingly.

“Roman didn’t have to tell Hunter about Axios’s existence, Hunter already knew. He felt Axios, all the way from the Nightshade pack the moment you two came here. It was out of our hands already, Elara.”

“Did he have to te