Chapter 81: Blood Truth 

Chapter 81: Blood Truth 

(Ethan’s POV) 

The Wolf Bloodline DNA Report flew through the air, grazing my cheek before landing at my feet. A thin line of blood trickled down my chin, but I remained motionless. 

My amber eyes stayed fixed on Olivia, her emerald gaze challenging me to deny the truth laid bare before the entire pack. The sacred space of the Stone Ancestral Hall had fallen completely silent. 

My wolf, usually so quick to react, remained eerily still within me. The clinical words on the report were unmistakable: “Blood type incompatibility confirmed. Subject A cannot be the biological father of Subject B.” 

Emma was not my daughter. 

Olivia stood before me, her white dress making her look like an avenging spirit. I couldn’t tell if she was waiting for my anger at Victoria’s deception or my continued defense of the she–wolf who had manipulated me for years. 

“Well?” Olivia’s voice cut through the silence. “Do you have nothing to say?” 

I remained silent, the weight of seven years of deception pressing down on me like a physical 

force. 

Victoria clutched Emma to her side, her scent shifting rapidly between fear and calculation. 

Her eyes darted between me and my father, searching for an ally. 

My father’s growl broke the tense silence. 

“You!” Elder Richard Stone pointed a trembling finger at Victoria. “You dared to present another 

man’s offspring as a Stone?” 

His wolf’s rage manifested in the low, threatening sound that reverberated through the 

ancestral hall. The pack elders shifted uncomfortably, their own wolves responding to the 

dominant Alpha’s anger. 

“Elder Stone, please,” Victoria’s voice took on the pleading tone I’d heard so many times 

before. “There must be some mistake with the test-” 

“Silence!” My father roared, his partial shift causing his claws to extend. “You and that… that 

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imposter will leave this sacred space immediately!” 

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He strode forward and grabbed Emma roughly by the arm, pulling her away from Victoria. His claws dug into her small arm, drawing tiny beads of blood. 

Emma cried out in pain, her young wolf whining pitifully. “You’re hurting me!” 

Victoria rushed forward. “Don’t touch my daughter!” 

She pulled Emma into her arms, cradling her protectively. Her scent shifted to distress – a calculated move that didn’t escape my notice or that of the pack elders. 

“Ethan,” she pleaded, her eyes wide with manufactured fear. “Don’t let them hurt our little girl.” 

Despite knowing the truth now, my Alpha instincts responded to a pup in distress. I moved forward to protect Emma, regardless of bloodline. 

Before I could reach them, Olivia physically blocked my path. Her emerald eyes flashed with the pain of her wolf as she shoved the DNA report in my face. 

“Are you serious?” she hissed, her voice trembling with rage. “You would still choose them? After everything?” 

Her scent was thick with grief and fury. “You denied our daughter – your true daughter – the 

attention she desperately needed during her illness. You refused to believe she was dead. And 

now you’ll protect another man’s child who was falsely presented as yours?” 

Bernard Sheppard cleared his throat uncomfortably. “Perhaps we should continue this discussion in private-” 

“No!” Olivia’s voice rang out. “Let everyone hear the truth. Let them all know how the great 

Alpha King Ethan Stone abandoned his dying daughter for another man’s child!” 

Emma began to sob, her small body shaking with the force of her tears. Victoria whispered 

something in her ear, and the child looked up at me with wide, tearful eyes. 

“Daddy,” Emma whimpered, her young wolf whining pitifully. “Do you not love me anymore?” 

The practiced delivery didn’t escape Olivia’s notice. Her face contorted with pain as she recognized the manipulation that mirrored what her own daughter had faced. 

“Don’t you dare,” Olivia whispered, her voice breaking. “Don’t you dare use that child to manipulate him the way you’ve always done.” 

I looked down at the DNA report in my hands, the clinical evidence of Victoria’s deception. 

Then I looked at Emma’s tearful face the child I had raised as my own for seven years. 

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My wolf had accepted her as pack, regardless of blood. 

With deliberate slowness, I tore the Wolf Bloodline DNA Report into pieces, letting the fragments flutter to the ground. 

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“Emma is my daughter,” I stated firmly, my Alpha voice resonating through the hall. “Blood or 

not.” 

Olivia’s face drained of color. Her wolf howled within her, the sound of her anguish almost 

audible to everyone present. 

“You…” she whispered, her voice thick with disbelief. “After everything… you still choose them.” 

Before I could respond, her hand connected with my cheek in a resounding slap. The force of it snapped my head to the side, surprising even the pack elders. 

“That’s for Lily,” she hissed. 

A second slap followed immediately. “And that’s for me.” 

Her emerald eyes burned with a fury I had never witnessed before. “May the Moon Goddess curse you, Ethan Stone. May she make you feel every ounce of pain you’ve inflicted on us.” 

With those words, she turned and stormed out of the Stone Ancestral Hall, leaving behind the 

scent of her anguish and rage. 

The sacred space fell silent once more, the pack elders exchanging uncomfortable glances. My father’s face was a mask of cold fury as he stared at Victoria and Emma. 

“Get out,” he ordered them, his voice deadly quiet. “Both of you.” 

Victoria hesitated, her eyes seeking mine. I nodded slightly, and she quickly ushered Emma from the hall, her relief palpable in her scent. 

(Victoria’s POV) 

Outside the Stone Ancestral Hall, I pulled Emma close, my heart racing with a mixture of fear and cautious hope. The exposure of my deception had been a devastating blow, but Ethan had 

still defended us. 

My wolf was cautiously optimistic beneath my skin. Perhaps all was not lost. 

“Ethan,” I whispered when he joined us in the corridor. “We should proceed with the ceremony as planned. Show the pack that nothing has changed.” 

I reached for his hand, but he pulled away, his amber eyes troubled. 

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“Victoria, I need time to think,” he said, his voice low. “This isn’t something we can just brush 

aside.” 

My wolf whined anxiously. “But you said Emma is still your daughter. You tore up that report-” 

“I did,” he acknowledged, his expression unreadable. “But that doesn’t erase the fact that you 

lied to me for seven years.” 

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I stepped closer, allowing my scent to envelop him. the same tactic that had always worked 

before. 

“I was afraid,” I admitted, my voice breaking perfectly. “Afraid you wouldn’t want us if you knew 

the truth. Emma loves you so much, Ethan.. You’re the only father she’s ever known.” 

Emma clutched his leg, her rehearsed tears still flowing. “Please don’t leave us, Daddy.” 

I could see his resolve weakening, his wolf responding to the pup’s distress. Just a little more 

pressure, and he would give in as he always did. 

Before he could respond, the doors to the Stone Ancestral Hall burst open. Elder Richard Stone 

emerged, his face set in grim determination. 

“Members of the Silvercrest Pack,” he announced to the gathered wolves, his voice carrying 

through the main hall. “The ceremony tonight has been canceled.” 

Murmurs of confusion rippled through the crowd. I felt my carefully constructed world 

beginning to crumble around me. 

“Instead,” Elder Richard continued, his eyes briefly meeting mine with cold contempt, “I am 

pleased to announce that Alpha King Ethan Stone and his true mate, Luna Olivia Winters, will 

be renewing their mate bond at the next full moon.”