Anna stared at Adam vacantly. Now she understood why he was so confident that she would return with him to the United States. She took a moment to think, while the waiter served the entrée.
She would have to go back to the States to put an end to the Sarah issue once and for all, and she also remembered that she had to pay back the promise she had made to that woman, who had made her believe she was her friend, for a little while. She just didn't know how to do it, and then run away with Adam's family.
"Adam... I don't need to go to your country. I can send Sarah a ticket and convince her right here to give me all the answers I'm looking for."
Adam stared at her with such a penetrating gaze that Anna felt naked. It was the look of someone who knew deep inside the other person.
"She's my hostage, Anna. She's not going anywhere. She only leaves that house to be buried." Adam said, chewing his food.
"Then I'll need to find another way to find out about my mother, Adam. I'm not going to put myself in a situation where I become your hostage again. That's not going to happen. I'm sorry you had to travel so far to hear that. Telephones were invented to avoid this kind of embarrassment." Anna said, but with the certainty that it was impossible to assuage the cry of her soul without doing to Sarah what she had spent several years planning. And her only chance of knowing anything about her ancestors was Sarah.
"Anyway, you can ask her your way when we get back to the States. She's only in my house because I knew you'd like to have a little easier revenge on the woman who killed your mother." He said, ignoring Anna's words.
"You have hearing problems, you disgusting animal! I told you I wouldn't go back with you." Anna said quietly, elegantly.
Amusement shone in Adam's eyes.
"Yes, you will, Anna."
"You speak with a certainty..."
"I know you still love me. And I know you love our son even more. You don't want to live away from him, do you?"
"Maxwell is Ian's father, you idiot."
"A DNA test solves this dilemma, Anna. Quickly and effectively. Don't be silly, Anna. I know you must be aware of my rights. You know that I'll win custody of Ian in court, very quickly. He's coming back with me. It's up to you whether you stay or go... But there's one thing you should know. You won't keep any of the children, because I'll kill them all if you choose to stay." Adam said calmly and the waiter arrived with the main course.
Anna felt her heart freeze.
"What do you mean?"
"I'll kill the triplets, who are being kept in that well-guarded mansion, along with Maxwell's mothers. My people are undercover there. And one negative from you, and one call from me, they all die."
Anna felt something strong rise up inside her. Despair. But she knew she couldn't reveal her weaknesses. Adam would trample on her weaknesses.
"You can never prove that Ian is your son and if... If you touch one hair on my children's heads, you'll not only have my fury, Adam, but my father's hand personally killing you."
"I'm going to enjoy watching your father try, Anna. The time has come for him to know that he can never do anything against me. He killed Allister because I let him. But I understand that you must have glimpsed my death, many times, at your father's hands. And then you could be happy forever with Maxwell in a paradise, but without your children. Because even if your father could, and I repeat he cannot, stop me or kill me, I would hide Ian from you. You know I have the courage and the resources to do it. Do you remember when I told you that I examined every possibility before executing a plan?"
Anna laughed, but angrily.
"If Ian isn't your son, will you go away and leave me alone?"
"There's not the slightest possibility that Ian isn't my son, Anna. But even if he was... No. You're mine. But if you wanted to keep spreading your legs for Max, you'd have to do it for the other members of the Lens family in the green house. I really hate you, Anna, and I'm beginning to think that a few months in the green house will do you good."
"How did you know about my family, Adam?" Anna asked, letting her smile die.
"A very competent detective. Don't ask unimportant questions, Anna. You're going to spread your legs for me tonight. And I won't even have to ask."
Anna lost her appetite. She had promised Maxwell that she would never lie with another man, and now she saw the need to break her promise. If Adam used his children to get her into bed, she had no choice. A tear ran down her cheek, and Adam watched with disgust.
"I'm not taking you to a hotel, Anna. I said that just to provoke you. I'll never make love to you again by blackmail or force. You'll have to ask me to lie with you."
"Ian is not your son." She said with the hope that her son could stay and be raised by Maxwell.
"We'll do a paternity test tomorrow."
"Werewolves are immune to that kind of test..." Anna immediately regretted having said those words when she saw As raise his eyes from his food with the gleam of victory.
"Max, you can't breed werewolves, Anna."
Anna squeezed her lip tightly.
"Ian could have inherited the gene from his grandfather. Allister..."
"That's not how it works, Anna. I could have a son and he not be a werewolf. That's possible. That's what happened with Max. He never revealed it to you because he's not a werewolf, right? But... Returning to werewolves, Ian could be born with the werewolf gene and never become a werewolf. However, he is capable of generating a werewolf, because it's in his essence. It exists within him. And that gene, my dear, Anna. That gene is absent in Max."