She'd fallen in love with him years ago. Now she is watching Alpha fall in love with Annie so fast and so completely. Watching him become someone different, softer, and more present for Annie is doing a number on Onika.
And Onika understood, with perfect clarity, that she'd lost.
She was trying to accept it. Trying to let go of something she'd never really had in the first place. Trying to find her place in this new reality where Alpha belonged to someone else.
It hurt more than she'd expected.
But she was loyal above everything else. Loyal to her Alpha. Loyal to her pack. And if Alpha wanted her to protect Annie, then that's what she'd do.
Even if it broke her heart a little more every time she had to look at the woman sleeping in Alpha's bed.
Onika's mind is running w
