Alfredo’s Pov “Anything wrong?” Alpha Brian asked.I muttered in the negative, as I did not know what was wrong, pausing at the feeling I had in my heart. A hand on my shoulder woke me from the trance. “Looks like you had your head up in the cloud for the moment.”I turned to see Alpha Brian staring me in the eyes, a look of concern on his face. “You looked like you stepped on a ticking time bomb.”“It’s nothing,” I said as I placed my hands on my racing heart to calm myself.“Thought you would fall face first to the ground with that grave look on your face.”“I’m fine,” I answered, taking a deep breath to cool myself. “I’ll leave you to your thoughts. Any discussion would be for the future; I have to see my daughter before I leave.”“Hey, Dad.” His words hardly left his lips when Sheila came running from the stairs, flinging herself into his arms. He laughed as he swung her around for a while. I stepped away to allow for the father and daughter reunion.“I didn’t think I’d meet w

Alpha Farrell’s Pov “I’m tired,” I groaned, stretching my hands from the book I was reading. My routine of giving Gabriella a cup of coffee in the morning had died down to the barest minimum.“What do we do today?” Ora asked. I let out a little sigh as I did a mental calculation of my schedule and what I could push away or trash completely. Not like Aiden wouldn’t inform me about its importance when I didn’t do something of value.“I was thinking of going out for a race,” I said. The chair creaked as I pushed it backward, stretching fully until my joints popped and cracked. “Haven’t gotten the time to do that since the attack on Gabriella.”“Since we found out she carried a child,” Ora corrected, letting out a little yawn.I let out a little chuckle at his correction, heading out from my study. The room smelled nice from the wind blowing through the window. There was a little chill in the air that sent goosebumps around my arms.“But there is another thing troubling me,” I said as I

Alfredo’s Pov It turned slowly into a thing of routine. Meeting after meeting that gave me respite to a timeout. Conan had come back with less and less information that only hinted at one thing: Melissa was dead.“Do I need to get your head out of the cloud?”I turned to see Mother standing by my side with a look on her face that told me she was worried about me.“I’m fine,” I said as I managed a nervous chuckle to pull her away from my thoughts.“What were you thinking of? It’s not like you have responsibility designated to you at the moment.” She said as she passed her arm through mine, linking us together while we walked away from the flurry of noise washing over us.It’s been more than five years and I have kept my secret between Conan and me. Was I ready to pass this information to her? I sighed as the question ran across my mind in that split second.“We haven’t given you a grandchild,” I said, to push her mind to a specific thought. She smiled as she laid her head on my shoul

Claire’s PovShe had stayed in the pack for less than a year, yet Alpha Farrell made it a point of his to be around her at all times. I wondered what a stranger would mean to our Alpha suddenly.I shook my head to push the thoughts from my head just as I noticed someone who looked like Elsa walking out of the Alpha’s house. She flashed me a smile, with her silky hair dancing in the wind.“Seems everyone is crazy,” I said as I stared ahead at the house. My brother, Aiden, stood at the front with the Alpha. Both looked engaged in whatever discussion that boiled between them.“You smell funny.”I looked up to see it was Elsa, the pack’s seer, without her makeup for the first time. I had never seen her outside her place before, and it was more like a shocker for me. It felt fuzzy that I could recognize her even without her makeup.“What do you mean?” I asked as I moved forward until I was shoulder-to-shoulder with her.“You just have to be careful about the decisions you make or else they

Melissa (Gabriella’s Pov) I stood on the grassy plain with both boys running around me. Happiness was now a constant in my life and the time I spent in Nightshade pack. Never had a thought to regret my stay as the boys ran, giggling with each other and tumbling to the ground. Six years had gone past without a hitch and not one sign of Alfredo. I was basically living the best of my years here, and I wanted it that way. Lyra was my constant friend during the period as Alpha Farrell had made me his assistant, boosting my ranking from an omega to a gamma. It was something. At least I wasn’t the lowest in the pack as I was in Silver Rose’s pack.I shook my head to shake the thoughts, taking my gaze back to the boys that played around me. I raised my head towards the balcony at the back of the house when I heard the voices of people, seeing a blonde hair leaving that place.“Who was there?” I asked no one in particular as I stood from the place I sat. The noise and giggles of the boys fil