Khai's pov I kept my eyes on Daisy from across the room even after she sat down at Melissa's table. I watched the tension in her shoulders slowly begin to ease and, from time to time, she laughed very hard. It was obvious that she was getting comfortable with Melissa. She was going to be fine over there. Melissa had never been the kind of person who made others feel small, and she had a way of putting people at ease that even I had benefited from on more than one occasion. I reached for my glass and turned back to the room. "So you finally got a surrogate." The voice came from beside me and I turned to find Alpha Paul standing there, his glass in his hand, his eyes moving briefly across the room toward the table where Daisy and Melissa were talking. "I can see why you had to go with

