Seducing My Ex's Father In Law Chapter 460

I felt sick to my stomach at the memory and swallowed back the bile rising in my throat.

“Gavin?” Judy asked when I didn’t respond right away.

I sighed. I could lie or deflect… but she cared about Matt. She deserved to know the truth, especially if she was going to help me protect him when I couldn’t.

“Yes,” I finally said. “Cassie wants to see her son, and I’m not going to let that happen.”

Judy nodded, her mind clearly racing, probably trying to piece together what Cassie had done to make her unworthy of seeing her own child.

“There were a lot of rumors about the female Landry,” Judy said softly. “But no one really knows what happened to her.”

I nodded.

“For good reason,” I murmured. “It didn’t serve the Landry image. I had to erase all traces of her.”

Judy’s eyes lit up like she was expecting something big—something messy. Her curiosity was clearly sparked even more.

I sighed again, knowing there was no avoiding the rest of the story now.

“She fell in with a bad crowd of rogue wolves when we were growing up,” I admitted, ignoring the small gasp that escaped her lips. “She was always like that—drawn to trouble. They got her into drugs, stealing, even leaking pack secrets to our enemies. She was a traitor, and that’s what I’ve been trying to hide. If word got out that a pack traitor was still alive… it wouldn’t end well for any of us.”

Judy exhaled a shaky breath, eyes still fixed on me. I pulled into the mansion driveway and parked, but left the engine running. Silence filled the car.

“She went from one abusive relationship to another,” I continued quietly. “I banished her when I found out she’d betrayed both the pack and our family. A few times, my mother took pity on her. She was still her little girl, and Cassie knew how to manipulate that. She survived in rogue territory by sleeping around and because my mother kept sending her money, food, clothes… even sneaking her into the manor while I was away. My mother coddled her.”

Judy stayed quiet, processing everything.

“Then one day, she came to me. And before I could punish her for crossing the border into a territory she was banished from… she hit me with something I wasn’t expecting.”

“She was pregnant,” Judy whispered, already seeing where the story was headed.

I nodded.

“Yeah,” I murmured. “She was deep into hard drugs and drinking heavily. She looked awful. The guy she was with was a rogue too—a violent, abusive bastard known for hurting innocent people. But she was carrying my nephew. An innocent baby. He didn’t choose any of this. So, I unbanished them and let them stay in the pack—under constant watch by my mother, a few gammas, and our doctors. I needed her clean and him restrained. I had to make sure the baby survived.”

“For a while, it worked. They behaved, got through the pregnancy. There were relapses, though, and the birth was hard—dangerous, even. Matthew was in critical condition when he was born. But thanks to our pack doctors, he made it through.”

Judy let out a breath she’d clearly been holding.

“But once he recovered and was cleared to go home with them,” I continued, my voice tight as the memory came back, “they vanished… just like that. Took him and disappeared without a trace.”