Noah's POV
"It's been one week, yet my daughter tells me you haven't been yourself, nor have you consumated the marriage by making love to her." It was Alpha Callihan Martin of the Black River Pack, Laila's father.
"I haven't been feeling very well." I lied. Aeon, my trusted Beta, was standing behind me while my father-in-law interrogated me.
"Is that it?"
"Yes indeed. Laila is my wife, and I'll do right by her; the timing is not just right."
Alpha Callihan stood up from his seat before me and walked to the open window. We were in my late father's study, which is now mine. It made up a tiny part of the pack house, but this was literally my office, as I spent at least four hours here every day trying to do the account and figure out how to take my people out of the debt my
