Jacob couldn't afford to display any weakness. The thought of seeing his father after believing him to be deceased all these years was going to be an incredibly challenging experience. The fact that his father had betrayed them all and played a role in his mother's death was a bitter pill to swallow, and his brother felt the same way.
His father had chosen power and a delusional sense of grandeur over his own family, his kind, gentle, and loving mate, and his own pack. He had turned his back on the people who had admired and respected him as if he were the epitome of an alpha. Throughout his upbringing, Jacob had aspired to be even half the alpha his father was, or at least the alpha he had believed him to be.
No matter how deeply Jacob contemplated the past, there was no clear indicatio
