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Not even a word came out of my mouth because I was still trying to process the things that Aster was telling me. I had seen Alpha since childhood. I had never seen him do anything wrong. How could he do something like this? With his own daughter?

"Why did not you run away? I gently asked. I would have thought that she was lying but the pain in her eyes was too raw to be a mere lie. I knew she was not lying.

"I found my mate." She hesitance murmured.

"You what?!"

She looked up at me through suppressed shame and continued,

"Ryan is human. I started meeting him, fell in love, but then Marcus found out about it and attacked him. He arranged to have Ryan murdered through accident. He wanted me to marry a werewolf, not a human."

Liam was shocked. This was the most blasphemous thing he had heard. Mating with a human had become common in their world now. Which dream was Marcus living in till now?

"I saved him." Aster whispered, "and promised to