I stared into the dark room listening to the soft snoring of Laila wrapped around me in the bed. When I envisioned finding my mate, I never imagined it would be such a s**t show. The extreme highs and lows of being with Laila felt like I was on a roller coaster that I literally could not get off of.
When I took over the pack, I was 24 years old. I honestly didn’t want to be the alpha. When I was 18, I did the unthinkable…
…I went away to college.
I spent my whole childhood preparing to be the leader. My mother was particularly hard on me growing up. While both of my parents had skewed ideas of power, my mother seemed to have a hunger for power that was just insatiable.
By the time I graduated high school, we were one of the largest packs, if not the largest, in the country. But ti
