Gier hesitated as all eyes drifted towards him. The Councilmembers were obviously confused. Alexander’s steady confidence was complete. But there was no way the King could know anything about the human woman Gier had met by mistake. Certainly, there was no way he could know that she had also been Gier’s mate. That was a secret he had told no one.
“I—I don’t know what you are talking about,” Gier hesitated.
“Really?” Alexander strode forward. “So, you don’t know Marilynn Connor? You didn’t meet her at a bar in Baltimore? You didn’t spend two weeks with her before rejecting her as your mate and disappearing from her life before even knowing she had conceived you a son and that son found you two decades later?”
Gier found himself trembling as the other Councilmembers shared confused look
