"You believe that?" Miriam demanded, turning toward him. "You actually believe everything that stranger told you?"
"He isn't a stranger," Liam replied. "He is the Royal Alpha, and the evidence we have found supports what he told us."
"The Royal Alpha!" Miriam repeated bitterly, wiping at her cheeks with trembling fingers. "So because he is powerful, you believe him without questioning anything? You would rather believe a man who appeared in our lives and claimed that Ethan's son belonged to him than believe your own family?"
Gerald's expression hardened as he listened to her. "We are not choosing a stranger over Ethan."
"Yes, you are!" Miriam cried. "You stood there and listened to him, and now you have come here accusing my son of things you don't even understand. Ethan raised that boy. He loved him. He protected him. He was there for him every single day, and now you are telling him that the child he raised was never his!"
