The evening had been peacefully quiet as Ava drove horseback back home from her father's, her head reeling. She had managed to avoid informing Malcolm her report and even took their daughter Lily along with him. Now she had another issue to contend with—keeping her father in the dark about the truth.
The moment she stepped in through the giant wooden doors of her father's estate, his piercing gaze already fixed on her. Cormac, the insolent Alpha back then, now a man tamed by time and fate. But whose height still dominant, whose eyes still drilling into her as if he knew all of the secrets that she kept inside her.
He sat next to the fire, curled fists on his knees while the flames danced behind him, casting grotesque shadows on his scarred face.
"Ava," his voice was firm but authoritati
