Caleb learned quickly that being an Alpha did not prepare him for daughters.
The pack had seen him command warriors twice his size, face down rival Alphas without blinking, and make decisions that shifted borders and futures. None of that mattered the first morning Elowen climbed into his lap uninvited, pressed a finger to his chest, and declared, “You’re sitting wrong.”
He froze.
“What?” he asked carefully.
“You’re too stiff,” she said, rearranging his arms as if he were a piece of furniture. “You have to be like this.”
She leaned against him with complete trust.
Caleb glanced helplessly at Lila across the room.
Lila smiled into her tea.
Seren snorted from the doorway. “Congratulations,” she said. “You’ve been claimed.”
From that moment on, the pack understood something fundament
