One Week Later
Heidi
It was the morning of Lara’s sixteenth birthday.
Her sweet sixteen.
And if there was one thing I was determined to do, it was make sure the girl felt special.
She deserved that.
After everything she’d been through because of her father, she deserved one day that wasn’t about James, Tiffany, betrayal, or the mess their lives had become.
Unfortunately, getting James to agree to the party had nearly driven me insane.
I’d spent three days trying to organise everything while dealing with an Alpha who apparently believed approving his daughter’s birthday celebration gave him some sort of bargaining power.
Every time I’d asked for money for decorations, food, music or anything else, he’d wanted something in return.
A date.
His words had been that he wanted to show
