“Ariella—”
“Think of the pack,” she says, clearing her throat, but I still see the hurt that lingers in her eyes. I have a hard time reading emotions, but this is clear pain in her eyes. “We have to thrive, we need to make back all the emergency funds and resources we previously had.”
I nod, and I am working on all of it. I can achieve it before the pack starts to notice we dropped in rank. I just need some time. “I understand that, but—”
“Sleep on it.” Vincent finally chimes in. “What do you say, Gamma Cassian?”
Gamma Cassian sighs, “Ariella makes a good point. I do not like the idea because you should be with my granddaughter after all that you two have been through together.” He says, staring at me with the same pitiful look people gave me when my parents died. He has never once pit
