Damon's POV
My face went pale as memories hit me, back when I'd been Alpha of a failing minor pack that everyone in Alliance circles looked down on.
It had been Kira who'd respected me when no one else would. She'd given me the confidence to believe I could build something worthwhile, the capital to actually attempt it.
When I'd proposed the mate bond back then, it had felt like grabbing onto a life raft in stormy waters, she'd been my way forward when I had nothing else.
"If it's not about Callum Green, then what is it?" I demanded, my wolf pushing forward with defensive aggression. "The hundred million my mother promised you in that dissolution agreement?"
Kira's voice stayed eerily calm. "If that is really what you think then you do not know me at all.” She sighed, “I'm exhausted,
