Her face grew grim as the shadow of guilt covered her. She stepped forward and grabbed my arms, pulling me into a hug. She broke down in tears, "I am so sorry, darling. I shouldn't have hit you."

I tightened my grip on her body. It was unbearable to see her cry like this.

“You are the only one I have left, Heather,” she whispered in sadness, “I don’t want anything to happen to you.”

She pulled back from the hug. Her eyes were red. I felt bad seeing her like this. She had already cried so much since last night and now I made her cry again by saying things in anger.

She put her palm on my face gently, her gaze filled with concern, “I want you to be stronger, and safer, Heather. In the future, don’t talk to alpha unless it’s absolutely necessary. I don’t want his attention on you.”

I nodded my head. It was not like I had any choice in my interaction today with him as well, but I couldn’t convince mom otherwise.

“Finish your dinner. I have to do something important.” she murmured and kissed my cheek. 

I watched her back as she gulped down a glass of water before walking out of the house. With a heavy heart, even though I wasn’t hungry anymore, I tried to fill up my mouth with food.

Ten minutes passed, I had covered the dishes and put the remaining food in the fridge when the doorbell rang. Confused, when I opened the door, I found Beta standing in front of me with his shoulders leaning against the doorframe.

“All good, miss VIP?”

His eyes took in my face and the teasing smile from his lips instantly vanished, “what’s wrong with your face?”

cover the

“Alpha’s orders. You need to come to the packhouse

call me to the packhouse at this hour? And mom wasn’t even

in the pack. As much as I would have loved to avoid a confrontation

packhouse and led me straight to the same office that I had come to on my first day. He knocked at the door, when Alpha asked to come

alpha. I saw Alpha Tiberius’ eyes stuck on my reddened cheek and his jaw

ocean. But I could see the thunder behind his

too quickly, nonchalantly, and with indifference, “I was walking and texting at

never disappeared from his face. He stared at me for a moment, then glanced at my mother before returning to me with a look of scrutiny. He

says that you want

stood with her arms crossed on her chest, looking straight at me. She had

ears at the mere thought of fighting

then mom. He didn’t say anything for a

and handed me the hairpin from this morning, “Since what you had wanted isn’t going to be fulfilled, you can ask for something else from me in the future.”

electricity run through my body, making me take a sharp breath quickly and snatch back my hand. My whole body felt like it was on fire, and my heart was beating so fast I was sure he could hear it. I knew I shouldn’t have done it,

hand but his eyes didn’t leave my face, “I know

looked at him with

he finished and turned around to walk back to the table and

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