5
“What did your father say to you?”
Startled out of his thoughts by the abrupt question, Jake looked up to find his mother already waiting for him in his room, or rather pacing impatiently in his room.
“Nothing.” He tried to think of a much more believable answer that wasn’t the truth because he had no intention of telling her what his father had just told him, so he said the first thing that he thought of. “Just men’s stuff, you know, Alpha stuff.”
His mother snorted. “Alpha stuff, of course. You don’t have to lie to me. Just tell me you don’t want me to know.”
“Okay. I don’t want you to know.” Jake shrugged.
“Why? You always tell me everything? Or was it about the blind girl?”
Jake felt that was one question he could answer truthfully, since his dad never spoke about Ciara. “No,
