Adin POV

*4 years later*

"Dom, for the last time you need to go see your dads." He shook his head.

"Even if you lied, they should have helped you still in other ways. My grandpas would be furious to know dads kicked you out knowing you had a baby and would have been homeless with no place for you both to go. I know that's why you slapped daddy." He said stroking my hair as we laid in bed.

"It was still wrong of me to slap him. I see that now. Chidike is a prideful and sly son of a bitch and didn't want some daddy's boy to be our mate but at the same time, he does. He's bipolar as shit." I sighed.

"Ok, I won't argue."

"What's done is done. We both screwed up but you still need to see them. You can't just abandon family ties even if you saved my ass."

"Fine, I'll see them but only if you come with me. It's been eight years and if grandpa Julian can forgive my uncles for what they did as teenagers then my dads can forgive you." I huffed. Stubborn wolf.

"N..."

I was about to deny but Altan walked in.

"What have I said about tracking mud through the house?" Dominic asked breathing heavily as he looked at Altan from.

His one rule is keep the house clean.

"Dom, he's eight. I have a carpet cleaner for this reason." He huffed.

I picked up my baby boy and sighed. He looks so much like his father and I fucked up, now he's growing up with Dominic wondering where Caleb is. Caleb should know about Altan, maybe not. He has soccer on the brain and I made no effort to reach out to him after that morning I royally fucked up and that damn buck put me in a hospital after literally stomping me.

Luckily he avoided my stomach. I had a c-section due to my birth canal being so small and that'll just confuse the little guy having two dads and a mama.

"Is dad mad at me mama?" He asked, looking down playing with his fingers.

"No, my sweet boy." I plug in the carpet cleaner and start running it on the stains.

After I finished cleaning the carpet I took my little mud monster to the tub.

"Adin we're home..." I heard Jason and Ryan.

"I'm in here." I yelled over the running water.

"The house smells of mud and desperation. I know you're dating Dominic and all but you really have to make things right with Caleb." Ryan said.

"Watch it Ryan, brother or not I'm still legally your guardian." I sighed. He's right though, I just have to find the time. With online schooling for college, a job, and raising an eight-year-old all while maintaining a personal life it's kinda hard.

"Ok Altan, your bath is ready." I said and walked out letting him have his privacy.

"Well, you better think of something. We heard at school he's back in town looking for you." Shit.

"You have to make things right, you had eight years to make things right. Altan is a tiger God as well as Caleb and we have no idea what we're doing. He needs Caleb more than ever." Jason said.

"I get it alright, I fucked up that morning by rejecting him and I fucked up by running. It's just how things have to be right now. I raised you both for years before getting help. I got this." They snickered and walked to their rooms and I sighed putting my head in my hands.

"Oh also, if you don't tell him where his son is so he can get help with his tiger, we will." Ryan added and shut his door.

Fuck my life... he's going to tear me apart for hiding. An angry God is no joke especially when I've been hiding his son away from him.

Karma was not on my side because the next thing I knew there was a roll of thunder and a loud knock on my door.

"I know you're in there you asshole." Fuck, Raja is on the surface.

"Open the door or I will break it down." He growled.

I slowly walked to the door and opened it and a gust of wind blew in throwing me against a wall.

"What the hell is going on?!" Dominic yelled when he ran into the foyer but stopped when Raja looked at him and growled loudly, shaking the whole house.

"Where is my son?" He asked in a very chilling voice with a look of murder in his eyes, looking at me as he wrapped his big hand around my throat. I put up a shaky hand and pointed towards the stairs.

"Bathroom." Is all I could say, all he would let me say. I looked away from him when I heard Altan running down the steps. The people, one is Vince who were with Caleb went over to him and knelt down to talk to him. Caleb though, he hasn't moved and by now my brothers are in the foyer as well

"Mama!" Altan had tears in his eyes looking at me as his father was practically trying to kill me.

"Don't worry, I'm fine." I choked out as I tried to breathe.

"Raja, let Adin go. I know what they did was completely wrong but killing them is not the answer. You kill them, you will lose your son." Vince of all people said shocking the hell out of me. Raja looked at me and picked me up and threw me on the floor with such force I ended up against the side of the couch in the living room.

I coughed and caught my breath as I watched Raja go over to Altan and knelt down in front of him with tears in his eyes.

"You are so beautiful my son." Raja spoke and Altan flung his body into him and hugged him, Raja purring and Altan crying.

"Do you see what you did?" Ryan asked me as he was pointing to Raja and Altan. I looked down because I felt ashamed of myself.

"I'm Caleb, it's nice to finally meet you. The past eight years I have been trying to find you and have wanted to meet you since I found out about you. I'm sorry it took so long but I will not let you be out of my life again, I love you and I just met you." Caleb said and Altan smiled and kissed Caleb's cheek.

"I have dreamt of you a lot. I have been waiting to meet you for a long time too. I just didn't tell mama because mama gets upset when I would ask about you. I would always watch you on the TV and wish I could be with you, playing soccer because I got into it to feel close to you and pretend we were playing together. Can we play together papa?" Altan asked with tears running down his face and I felt my heart breaking for not knowing I was causing him so much pain.

"Of course we can sweetheart but first, I need to talk to your mama. These nice men can play with you though, Vince, Eric, Nathan, and Seth. Nathan and Seth were on my old high school soccer team so they are pretty good." Caleb said and the men with him smiled at Altan and he hugged Caleb again and walked out of the back door with the men behind him.

"Now before you and I talk Adin, Dominic I have some words for you." Caleb looked deadly right now and I stayed on the floor, against the couch.

"You didn't think to call and tell me where my son has been? You didn't think that he would need me given who he is? Didn't use that fucking pea sized brain of yours to pick up the fucking phone and tell me I had a son in the first place?!" Oh shit. Caleb was right in front of Dominic and me looking at us as he said the words that cut like a knife.

"We are family Dominic, you were raised with good people and were taught the right ways, know the value of family so I don't understand how you could keep Altan from me all these years. And you Adin, I can't even look at you without wanting to kill you. You have hurt me so bad that I had to move away from my family at sixteen because the pain was killing me and Raja. You left carrying my child and hid it from me, said some unforgivable things to me twice when I didn't even say one bad word against you, in all these years but now, seeing my son in tears and hearing his pain in his voice when he said he wanted to meet me and would pretend he was playing with me, I honestly hate you for that and I don't think I will ever forgive you."

"We've been telling them that for years. We're only eighteen, we didn't feel right getting in the way of all this. We finally had enough and told him to tell you." I gulped when my own brother ratted me out.

"And I appreciate your loyalty to your brother. At least some of us still know the meaning of family." He glared at Dominic and he shrunk back not wanting to piss him off more.

"Why don't we go outside and get some fresh air." The twins said.

Caleb nodded leaving Dominic and I in the house being suffocated by the aura in the room.

"I'm so dead." Was the only thing Dominic said.

His family will have his hide if Caleb rats him out. Unless they left it up to Caleb to punish us.

After the room cleared we just looked at them all playing like we were kids on punishment.

A few minutes had passed, Caleb was whispering something to the twins.

"You can come out, he's calm now." I heard Ryan in the family link.

I gulped and Dominic and I walked outside and Caleb was showing Altan some tricks then shifted into his tiger and started playing with the soccer ball pawing at it and acting like a kitten.

"Papa I wanna go home with you." Altan said and those words shattered my heart.

I wanted to say absolutely not but everyone glared at me but Dominic so I stayed quiet.

Caleb shifted and he nodded. "Sure kiddo."

Altan cheered and ran inside.

"I'm taking him for a month to bond with him and I'll bring him back." He stated leaving no room to argue so I nodded.

"I'll talk to my family about making me a teleport necklace so I can bring him to school as well as adding me to his emergency contact.."

"You're already on it." I said quietly.

"Look at that, you do have some humanity." He looked at me.

I just stayed silent admiring his sexy naked body and I couldn't believe how I passed up the opportunity to be with a sexy guy like him.

"I'll go help him pack." Vince said skipping inside.

"Ready to go kiddo?" Caleb asked after half an hour of just sitting in the foyer in absolute awkward silence.

"I am papa." He said with his mini suitcase packed.

"Bye mama, I love you." He said kissing both my cheeks and forehead and just as quick as they came, they all left leaving me with Dominic. Not even the twins bothered to stay.

"You ok Adin?" Dominic asked.

"Besides feeling like my heart has been ripped out and my body is on fire? I'm perfectly fine."

"I get it, I hope you guys can work things out. I have to get home and deal with my family. They're not too happy. I'm sure." I nodded, kissed him and he teleported out.

Great, no I have no family and no son rightnow. What a fucking life.

One thing I know is watching Caleb with Altan, has made me realize that even though my mind is dead set on not being with him, my heart says otherwise and I am in love with Caleb. I just need to figure out what the hell I am going to do to prove it. The guys he was with, Seth, Nathan, Vince, and Eric all have mate marks on their necks and chests just like Caleb so they are all mated so how do I fit in with them?