Alpha Ryder’s POV “Are you even listening to me?” Prince Alfred’s voice came through the speakers of my phone, but I was not paying attention to his pent-up anger. My mind was focused on Aurora, who was slowly waking up and calling her mum. Hearing that name hit a nerve, and I did not like it. It made me go stiff for a moment. I had been trying to take that off my mind, to return to a normal person. A person who was not scared of hatred and was not scared of the things he did came back to me, but it seemed the universe always chose otherwise. “Ryder!” Prince Alfred called out my name. I knew he was pissed with me. It was normal for him to be pissed with me. Prince Alfred was rarely angry with me. It was not that I did things that did not annoy him. I did, and it was frustrating even to

