Conlan’s POV
Hearing those painful words spoken by Paris shook something deep in my chest. The thought that her own father had lost faith in her after an ambush orchestrated by her half-sister fractured every impression I’d ever had of Alpha Albert as a just and wise man. From the story Paris had just told me, it was painfully clear: Alpha Albert had been blinded by the whims of his new mate—Paris’s stepmother, Dora—a woman who manipulated him at will, bending him to her desires with the sole purpose of harming her stepdaughter.
“Why do you think your father lost faith in you from that moment on?” I asked, hoping her perception was exaggerated and that perhaps there was still a sliver of hope.
“I knew it by the way he looked at me when he saw me so torn apart—injured, defeated, humiliat
