Ben
Fuck, I screamed, slamming my fist into the dresser. Years of playing the long game, listening to her whine about how her perfect life was terrible—all for my plans to be ruined in a day. The day I had waited years for. The day I was supposed to start putting those plans into action.
Now I had to call my father and hear how much of a failure I was. I couldn’t even stick to the plan and make sure she loved me enough to make our dreams come true.
I picked up the phone, dialing the number.
“Hello.”
“Hey, Dad,” I answered. “So… small problem. It might take me a little longer to become alpha than I thought.”
“What do you mean it will take you longer than you thought?” he snapped. “Our pack has been suffering, starving, killing just to barely survive—stealing and pillaging—while you ha
