NATALIA
I swallowed hard, watching as Tristan spoke with the other Alpha in the distance. By the reaction on his face, he was clearly not fond of what he was hearing. The person involved is, after all, a close friend of his. He probably wants to defend Jude, but if they trained together, then he’s a fairly new Alpha, too, and it’s not a surprise that not many trust him to do the right thing.
Or maybe even if he was, the reaction would still be the same. I’ve seen it with my family. Our society simply contains a lot of unfairness and hypocrisy. Even if you do thousands of good deeds and correct things, people would still see and scrutinize that one single mistake you made.
“What if we’re too late already?” I whispered, more to myself than to Avery.
He didn’t answer. Neither of us wante
