Why now?
“But that isn't why I summoned you both. I didn't want to have to tell you separately but I have come to a decision regarding Martin. I will be naming him Alpha Scion. I believe it is time.”
My heart clenches with a heaviness I cannot explain but remembering his threat from the other day, I am not surprised.
Victoria's hand on the back of Martin's chair stills and her mouth parts in shock, her eyes simultaneously glowing with delight as she looks at her son and when she looks at me, her smile sharpens at one corner.
The smugness sits in her mouth and her eyes for just one second longer than she should have let it.
She finally got what she wanted. In her eyes, she won and I lost.
Eli could have given me the dignity of telling me this privately but once again, he shows contemp
