THE LAST TIME ACE HAD been called upon to act like a parent, he’d dropped the ball so fast it might as well have been greased and lit on fire. This time, though, he had an alpha pushing him toward us rather than away from us.
Or so I gathered by the way Ace fell all over himself to make things right.
“Of course this is my daughter,” he lied, causing every werewolf in the vicinity to wrinkle our noses at the stench of his assertion. Why my mom had listed him on the birth certificate was beyond me since he clearly wasn’t Harper’s father....
Although, considering the contrast as Ace’s strength faced off against Nick’s weakness, I wasn’t so surprised after all. Mom hadn’t felt able to leave Nick, but she’d wanted a better life for her children. And that was what we were about to ensure.
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