C H A P T E R 18 - Sam.

I stood completely still, staring at Elijah in complete and utter disbelief. I didn't know what I was supposed to say to him, and I believed that my father found himself in the same position as well. But what was bothering me slightly, was the fact that my father did not seem to be displeased with what he had just learned. I, on the other hand, couldn't have been more unhappy. He couldn't seriously be thinking that all of this was fine, was he? Did he not realise how wrong it was to go along with this?

But then again, he did not know about what had happened at the club.

And despite the fact that I now found myself in this situation, I was determined to keep that information from my father for as long as I could. I did not want to deal with his lectures on my lack of faithfulness to a mate whom I had not even met yet - and if it was necessary, I would be more than willing to reject my said mate, to make sure that Arthur had a parental figure in his life, because