Eliza was furious. How dare her Gamma, who refused to look at her twice, take care of that wretch while she was in heat? She was humiliated that he chose that girl over her, and that her father had tried to justify it. It shouldn’t bother her, but she’d tried several more times to get Devon’s attention. She finally had to stop, or else risk looking desperate.
Everyone who should be loyal to her exclusively was proving to have unresolved feelings about Clara. Eliza had even caught Joffrey looking at her a couple of times. She threatened to take someone else as Alpha if she caught him doing it again. That seemed to put an end to it, but she wouldn’t bet on it.
When her father explained Devon had been ‘taking care’ of Clara, she knew exactly what ‘taking care' of a female in heat meant. She
