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0159: Daddy's Little Disaster

Author: FlyingDove
last update Last Updated: 2025-12-26 00:32:38

Angela’s POV

He looked like he’d aged ten years in a week. His shoulders, usually so straight, were bowed under a weight only he could feel. His eyes, which always had a spark of quiet humor for my mother or me, were just hollow now. Haunted. He looked at Aaron first, a silent Alpha-to-Alpha acknowledgment of the failure. Then his eyes found me.

The raw grief in them stole my breath.

“Angela,” he breathed. The word sounded broken.

Aaron straightened behind his desk but didn’t speak. He was a silent sentinel, giving us this space but ready to move at the first sign of a threat. To him, even my father was a possible source of my pain now.

I set the cold teacup down. The click against the saucer was too loud in the quiet. “You know,” I said. It wasn’t really a question.

He flinched. He stepped fully inside, and the door shut softly behind him. “Kimberly… she told you.”

“She told me everything.” My voice was calm. The calmness seemed to hurt him more than shouting would have. “She’s your
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