The moment I set my phone down, the forced lightness I'd been clinging to crumbled completely.
For the next hour, my phone buzzed nonstop, calls flooding in.
I should’ve been grateful none were from my parents—they probably hadn’t heard yet. But they would. And the thought of their heartbroken faces when they saw the news twisted my gut like a red-hot knife.
I hated myself for ignoring my parents’ warnings.
I hated how love had blinded me.
While the world spiraled into chaos, Alpha Adrian was just waking up in a hotel bed, his head throbbing from a hangover.
He hadn’t gone home.
His phone was dead.
He hadn’t shown up at the pack office.
Helixon was in an uproar over the scandal, and he was blissfully clueless.
When Ryan tracked him down and broke the news, it hit him like a thund
