I'm not sorry

Chapter 3

Three years later...

"Athena, Baby where are you?" Asked Ace as he searched the room, he was playing hide and seek with his daughter, Athena. She was hiding behind the curtains, giving away her place with her giggles and laughs that she tried to cover with her hands.

Ace walked past her place, acting as if he hadn't heard her, but then he jumped on her through the curtains, she screamed and giggled as she ran away from him.

He chased after her and swung her up in the air, he cached her and kissed her cheeks, just in time for the front door to open and Sabo enters.

"Uncle!" shouted Athena as she wiggled in her father's hands to go to her uncle.

Sabo laughed and crotched down, spreading his hands waiting for her. She ran and jumped in his arms.

"Hi there, Supergirl!" he kissed her forehead and carried her. He went over to ace and kissed his cheeks.

"Athena? You hurt my feeling" Ace said as he dramatically placed his hands at his heart. Athena giggled still in Sabo's arms.

Time skip to night time...

Ace slowly closed the door and went back to the living room, there sat Sabo on the couch waiting for him.

"so, how is she?" he asked. Ace sighed as he sat beside Sabo. "I don't how long I'll hide it, Her powers are getting stronger day by day," he said, as he looked down.

"How so?" asked Sabo, "She almost burned her breakfast today, she burned her toast till it became completely black" Said Ace, he sighed and put his head on his hands.

Sabohugged him and said: "don't worry, we'll figure it out".

Next day...

Ace POV:

It was 9 in the morning and breakfast was ready, due to me burning it three times from frustration, I went upstairs to call my daughter, Sabo already went to his work.

Luffy had left two years ago to go to college, he's already made friends with two others, their names are Sanji and Law. I have met them during the holidays, Sanji wanted to become a cook, and law wanted to become a doctor.

During the holidays, I grew a connection with them and opened up to them, they opened up too. I told them about Athena and the story behind her and Sanji opened up to me about a tiger shifter who has been chasing after him.

Law, on the other hand, didn't have any shifter chasing after him and was laughing his ass off at Sanji which ended up with Sanji threatening to not cook for him for a week, that shut him up.

I Chuckled as I made my way to my daughter's room, I opened the door and was shocked to see my daughter crying on her bed, I ran up to her and hugged her.

"baby girl, What's wrong?" I asked, she cried harder and hugged me then pointed to the flower beside her. "mommy (she sees Ace as a mother figure so she calls him mommy), I burned the rose uncle Sanji gave me" she cried and hugged me tighter.

"Oh baby girl, it's okay, I'll get you another one," I said as I carried her downstairs to the kitchen. She calmed down a while after and ate her breakfast and forgot all about the flower.

At night, I tucked her to bed and went to my room, I had received a text from Sabo saying he has a night shift, I took a shower and sighed at the feeling.

Once I finished, I stepped out of the bathroom and heard someone ring the bell, 'who the hell comes to visit at such an hour' I thought as I quickly wore a red bathrobe and didn't even bother drying my hair.

I went downstairs to the front door and opened it. In front of me stood a man, He had blonde hair pulled backward, he has taller than me and was more muscular, he was looking at me with light brown eyes that looked like a lion's, he was wearing a black suit with a hat covering his left eye. Definitely a shifter.

But the question was, what is a shifter doing at my front door.

The more I looked at him, the more he looked familiar, and I was suddenly reminded of that drunk night, this was him, he was the guy I had sex with, he was Athena's father!

I tensed and took a step back, I didn't open the door fully, covering my body from his view, in case things got serious, I could close the door, although I hardly think that would stop him with that body of his.

"h-hello? How may I help you?" I asked and I cursed myself for stuttering. He smiled, he had a beautiful smile, I must say, but there was something dark in his smile.

"Well, I was just wondering if this was the house of Portgas D. Ace, but by the looks of it, it is," he said and took a step forward, "may I come in?" he asked.

"umm... It's getting late right now, and I-I think it would be better if you came at another t-time" I said as I tried to close the door, but as I said, I 'tried'.

He stopped the door with his foot and pushed it open, I stumbled back.

"well, you see, that wasn't a qu-" He stopped in his track as he stared at my bathrobe, he looked all over my body, stopping and staring longer at certain areas, like my chest, that was half on show as my bathrobe didn't cover much, and at me, thighs and legs since my robe just stopped a little under my ass.

His eyes darkened as he went lower, his eyes lustfully eyeing me. When I finally had the voice to speak I said: "Sir, please I would appreciate it if you left now", he laughed and came closer.

I took a step back every time he stepped forward, which ended when I bumped against the wall. He came closer and slammed his hand beside my face.

I flinched which caused my bathrobe to become loose and fall off my shoulders, I quickly grabbed my robe and pulled it back, covering my chest. I looked up and froze.

The guy, that I still don't know the name of, was staring at the place where my neck and shoulders meet, his eyes black. I tried to move but he growled, making me freeze in my place.

Just when he was about to open his mouth, we heard a "mommy?" coming from the stairs. We both looked up to see Athena on the stairs in her pajamas, with her brown teddy bear in her hands, she was looking at the guy with teary eyes, then she became mad and said: "mom, is he hurting you?".

I quickly said: "no baby girl, mommy's okay" and rushed to get to her, but the guy growled loudly at me and pulled me back from my hands and slammed on the wall causing a gasp to escape me.

"Hey! Stop hurting my mother!" Athena screamed as she formed a purple fireball in her hand and threw it at the guy.

It didn't even touch him before it vanished, he looked at me with a smirk and asked: "Is she mine?" I froze in my place and stared at him with wide eyes, I wanted to deny it but nothing came out my mouth.

His smirk grew wider, "she is, isn't she?!" he said excitedly and went to her, she backed away but then he said something to her, I couldn't understand what he was saying but his eyes were glowing, then Athena fell to the ground.

"what did you do to her?!" I screamed as I ran to her, to hear her light snores. "nothing, just made her sleep" he said, then he came closer and pulled me by the arm, I was so close to him that my chest touched his.

"now that you gave birth to my child, that makes you mine by law," he said as he came closer, "by the way, my name is Thatch" he whispered, and then I was surrounded by darkness.