CHAPTER 10
AURORA“Charolette,” I called, walking down the wide hall and gazing at family pictures in wooden-carved frames.
After knocking on her door, I stared in awe at a picture of Mars with his mom, his arms wrapped around her thigh and him grinning from ear to ear, his front two teeth gone but his canines poking out through his gums. My lips curled into a frown as I listened to Ares scream at his father downstairs about keeping this secret from him for years.
While part of me wished Mars could be that happy again, I had little control over that man, and I didn’t blame him for blowing up at his father. I had always been fond of Mr. Barrett, but knowing that his son would become the alpha … he had to have expected Ares would find out sooner or later.
I knocked twice and placed my ear
