Arabella Pov
Ours, he had said. For me to kill my mate, to kill Nate and Tessa, as if that would be such a simple task. I realized distantly it would have been, before. When my father was alive, before I knew about what he did to my mother, I would have done it without hesitation. I would have snuck into the pack and found the alphas asleep in their beds, I would have slit all of their throats without hesitation, adults and kids alike because it would be what I was trained to do. To delete the alpha strand in the pack, so the wolves had no other choice but to either follow my father or leave everything they’ve ever known and loved behind.
To recognize what I would have done horrified me, because I had changed so much since then. I know them now. I know how sweet and smart Nate is, how f
