Forbidden Love with my friend's son

lexia's POV

Age 18

I sighed as the last of Papa’s subordinates left the room after a hectic meeting. Usually, he would never let me sit through meetings like this.

But, as his only child, and since I already had my transformation, I was now allowed to decide on meetings.

“Padre, I don’t think we can hold out anymore,” I started, finally voicing out my true thoughts that I had kept during the meeting.

“Mio caro, you must remember that the most important part of a battle is in the heart.”

“I have sent word to the teams in the cities. They can leave the human matters for now and come back to protect our base. But, if I let the ones here believe they can’t handle it, then they would have lost even before the reinforcements come.”

I nodded my head in understanding as his words made sense, but I still couldn’t stop the uneasy feeling in my heart.

In the last two weeks, our defences have been broken through twice, and even though we have caught all the invaders, I couldn’t help but feel like more were coming.

No, I was certain that there were more coming.

The Vicious Canines was a pack of ruthless wolves that would not stop until they were either dead or their enemy was dead.

“Padre, I think that we should ask Lucas for help also,” I said, finally saying what I felt was the true solution.

Although he was in a different city, Lucas, my father’s best friend and my godfather, was the one person who could stand against the Vicious Canine without suffering any losses.

Papa heaved a deep sigh and leaned back against his seat.

“You don’t trust your papa anymore?” he asked with a teasing and doting smile on his face.

However, beneath all that, I could see the clear signs of fatigue on my papa’s face.

“I do,” I answered honestly because I knew that my father would put his life on the line for mine.

I was his little princess.

But I didn’t want a world without my Padre in it. He was my only family, and he was all I had left in this world.

“However, now that we know those men are from the Vicious Canine’s Pack, if we don’t take action, we will be losing everything that you have worked for.”

Our family’s strength lay more in business, and while we had a great deal of influence in the human mafia world, as a pack, we were indestructible.

“I can’t call Lucas,” Father started, and I sat up, my eyes twinkling with interest. A special interest that I for only my godfather.

“Is anything the matter? Did you both fight?” I asked with a slight frown.

I had found it strange that he missed my eighteenth birthday and my first transformation.

After all, he had never missed any important events or celebrations that involved me.

“The last time he was here, he vowed to me that the next time he set foot in my home, he would break our friendship vows; since then, he has been outside the country, and we haven’t had time for a real conversation.”

Papa sighed, the situation clearly having more effect on him. Seeing how he was affected made my heart lurch with guilt. After all, more than anyone, I knew exactly what had happened the last time Lucas had been here.

However, I didn’t expect that he would hate me so much that because of that one simple action, he would decide to put the friendship of more than three decades that he had with my Padre aside.

I also felt a little guilty because I was the one who had broken their friendship, yet Papa had no idea.

I made a mental note to send him a message when I had the chance to sneak his number from Papa’s phone.

“Mio Cara, don’t worry that mind too much. From tomorrow, reinforcements will arrive, and all of them will come with more weapons,” Father said, and I nodded.

We stood up at the same time, and Papa pulled me into a warm hug that had most of my worries disappearing.

However, the moment we separated, and I turned to leave, the door to Papa’s study was pushed open with a loud bang.

“Alpha! Things are bad!” the man announced as he fell to his knees and took loud and fast breaths.

“What’s the matter? Speak quickly!” Papa urged, and he grabbed his pistol that was on the table and another one from behind him.

“The Vicious Canine has launched another attack…” before he could finish his words, a loud explosion rang out from outside and my heart sank.

This was nothing like the two breaks that we have had recently.

This was something more large-scale.

Pete, my father’s beta, rushed inside and glanced at the guard, who was still sprawled on the floor.

“Alpha,” he said with a low bow before closing the door.

“How many are they?” Papa asked with another sigh.

“About thirty thousand. They must be here for a total wipeout.”

If I didn’t know Pete before now, I would have suspected that he either had a hand in this or didn’t care about the pack.

But I knew that this was how he was, always unfazed and as still as water.

“Alfred, the reinforcement cannot arrive in time. Right now, they have taken down the entire west side of the pack’s security. Since I came down here, they might have taken the other sides.”

I could see Papa’s face ageing with every report, and my heart ached with fear.

Even though I had known that we didn’t stand a chance, I hadn’t expected that we wouldn’t even have the chance to get any form of reinforcements at all.

That they would come this quickly.

“I would call my personal army…” Papa started and then glanced at me.

“Take Alexia and leave this place, Pete.”

“What are you saying, Papa?” I interrupted before Pete could reply.

There’s no possible way that I would run when the pack was in danger

“I can’t fight with you around me, Alexia.”

I didn’t want to run away to safety when all of them were putting their lives on the line.

“Papa, is there no way we can negotiate? Perhaps ask them what they want?”

“Mio Cara,” Papa calls out in a low and warning tone that had me keeping quiet.

“Pete, keep my Princess safe,” Papa said, stood up and left the study.

study.