Astrid's POV I didn't know how long the news that we, the surrogates, were leaving the pack made me feel frozen. Now I understood why Beta Caleb had seemed to pity me when I asked how Alpha Jaxon was. This was good news. I should have been happy. I should have been ecstatic. I could finally be free to find my father and leave my own life. I would never be locked up again so why did I feel so shitty? I didn't know. I also didn't know why the moment I got into my room, I began to cry instead of packing up my load. I knew that Alpha Jaxon didn't love me. He never would. Men like that never fell in love. They only f****d, laughed, smirked and killed. Beta Caleb was wrong. I didn't feel anything for Alpha Jaxon. I had just heard his cold was dead and done what a normal pe

