Chapter 10

(Lena's POV)

Damien waited patiently for me to answer his question, and I didn't know if I should.

"I didn't tell you because I didn't want to hold you down by the fact that I had your child. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't that I cared or gave a fuck about you, but I didn't want to get hurt. I knew that after what happened, you would punish me. I knew that even if I did tell you about my child, you would find a way to make me pay, and I didn't want to be treated like a whore in my own home, right before my child, so I ran."

"So you ran away with your vampire, Mate?" Damien asked, a hint of irritation in his voice, and I almost laughed at that. I should be the one mad; he had no right to be.

"No. I did not run away; Konstantin saved me from you." (and I would be forever grateful)—this part I didn't say out loud.

"So you were going to train him without the knowledge that he had a father?"

"Yes," I said, and Damien's eyes darkened. I knew that be