ROBYN
I looked at Kane for a second, phone still buzzing in my hand, before I said, "I need to take this."
He gave a small nod and let me walk out onto the balcony, sliding the door shut behind me for whatever privacy the thin glass could offer.
"June?"
"Robs." Her voice sounded like she'd been crying for a while before she worked up the nerve to call. "I'm so sorry I didn't call sooner. I've just—I've been going through it."
"What happened?"
"My father." She let out a shaky breath. "He's exiled, and Kane only spared me because of you. I know that. I'm grateful, Robs, I really am, but I don't know how to be Beta. It's so much, and every single day I feel like if I slip up even once, he's going to—" She stopped herself, but I heard the rest of it anyway.
I glanced through the glass d
