Drake's POV
The council had spoken, and the weight of the decision remained upon my mind. I watched Emily walk away with Philip and anger began bubbling in my gut. How could this have been allowed to get to this point? How did I allow it to get this out of hand? The woman that I loved, being pulled from me. She was being forced to live with a man whom I despised. And Lia, Lia, who had brought all this chaos upon me, was standing here with a child, saying that it was mine.
I turned my head towards her, my eyes blazing with anger. "Lia, get out of my sight."
And instead of shrinking back, she smiled sweetly and swayed the baby in her arms gently. The smug look on her face made me see red just by her standing there like that.
"You think you've won, don't you?" I spat, the tone of my voice
