Chapter 13

Alpha Jasper's POV

I paced the room, my heart thundering in my chest, and each step echoing all around the room. Behind me, the maids and guards stood in a tense formation, their anxious eyes following me as I walked from one corner to the other.

I turned to face them, my gaze sweeping from the maids to the guards and back again. There was a huge storm of emotions swirling within me at this point. My lips twisted into a humourless smirk as disbelief and anger fought inside me.

"Let me make sure I understand this correctly," I began, my voice low and dangerous, tinged with a simmering rage that threatened to boil over. "Are you telling me that Anna has been carrying my child, and not a single one of you saw fit to inform me?"

The silence that followed was deafening, broken only by the shallow breaths of those gathered before me. I felt my hands clenching into fists at my sides, my nails biting into the flesh of my palms as I struggled to contain the fury that threatened to consu