The silence that follows is nerve-wracking, and then he suddenly speaks. "This cannot go on like this. Our shares are plummeting. We're losing confidence in our customers. If this goes on, Norman will never be able to ascend to the Alpha position."
My head shoots up at those words, shock filling me.
I've heard Norman mention a couple of times that he will become the next alpha, but I always chalked it up to arrogance and delusion. The Alpha position has always rightfully belonged to Jonathon's oldest son, Adam Moore. While I grew up in the same house as both of Jonathon's sons, I barely ran into Adam. He was always busy with his Alpha classes, and when he wasn't, he tended to stay away from the house, preferring to live at his aunt's. I know for a fact that when he was fifteen or sixteen
