Gods, I had been trying so hard to pay attention, but it seemed I couldn’t help being thoroughly distracted.
“Forgive me,” I said at once. “Could you repeat what you said?”
The elder gave me a strange look. For most of my tenure as Alpha, I had always placed work before my personal life in all things. There had been nothing more important than being an Alpha.
I had thought that would be true forever, but because of that mindset, I had lost my wife.
Now, I was learning quickly that my daughter was more important too – if she was in fact my daughter.
The stress was unbearable. This anticipation felt like I was standing on pins and needles, waiting to see what might happen next.
I wanted to know one way or the other so that I could get passed this terrible unknowing.
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