Chapter Forty-Two: Speech

I think what made it worse... was that I knew he wasn't wrong.

No matter how much I denied it, the social structure of a Beta had been tested. It was one of the sure bets of loyalty I had always believed in. A Beta stood by his Alpha, it was an ingrained fact, a truth as simple as mates. Betrayal was something no one thought of.

Especially not when you were raised as a beta's daughter, one of the more privileged in the pack.

But with the act of my father, how could I confidently say no other Beta would turn their back on their pack? In the end, our wolves' nature was strong. But we were part human too.

We were Individual people who lived in families of likewise supernatural creatures. Humans didn't believe we existed, we stayed in the forest among our own.

I think sometimes, those truths were forgotten. And as I turned to look at the window Miqella was staring at with such fierce hatred in his eyes, I was surprised to feel my chest tighten. I wasn't sure if I felt upset because of