Author’s POV
Frederic was smoking. If you had looked closely at him you could have seen smoke coming out of his nose and ears. His son was out of control, of his control, and this was something hard to tolerate.
"How is it possible that after everything I've done for him in the past, he just turned his back on me and didn't do what I told him?" he wonders, firmly convinced that all the abuse in Drake's childhood was for his own good.
Drake is now the most powerful alpha in the world, the leader of the Council and he, as his father, deserves to stand to his right, but Drake will never reach his potential standing with his mate, so she must be removed from him. Just like a weed , she must be uprooted from the ground and trampled underfoot.