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hen Cait had walked away from me, I fought every instinct to follow her. Most females would love the attention, but Cait was different. She didn’t want anything to do with me, yet Icould see how much I affected her.
The inner turmoil she seemed to be going through was my only hope that I wasn’t going to be left alone when she finally figured things out.
My mom must have told Dad that I’d resorted to kidnapping after Cait had told on me, because I was being summoned to his office, which wasn’t actually indoors. At least, not since I’d taken over as alpha.
I found him in his favorite spot, reclining in a chair on the dock at the property pond. He took retirement very seriously.
“Hello, Son,” he said before I even stepped foot on the wood planks.
“Father,” I replied, going
