Every one was battling with their demon.
I couldn’t sleep that night. Even though Sienna had drifted off beside me, her face sore from crying, my mind wouldn’t stop running.
The room was dark except for the soft light of the moon slipping through the curtains. I lay there staring at the ceiling, thinking about what my mother told me earlier that day.
She had ruined everything.
When she first said it, I thought I heard her wrong. But no—she had said it clearly.
She had promised me to an Alpha.
An Alpha I had never met.
I sat up in bed, pressing my hands against my face. My chest ached as I remembered the words she said over and over again.
“Harper, you’re lucky. The Alpha wants you to bear his children. You’ll be well taken care of.”
Lucky?
How could she call that luck? Being a b
