Eight.

Irina’s POV

I couldn’t believe he was so easily willing to give up on his fiancée. They were perfect for each other!

But as he watched me from the forest, I felt seen. It was an odd feeling, like he knew me better than anyone else, he knew Vivian had done something horrible to me. Even my own mother didn’t know I had a five inch scar on my hip from her.

The way he asked me what she had done to me, he was concerned almost worried but he doesn’t push it and instead he let go of me.

Inside my home, my fath… my Alpha had gone, my mother was sat at the kitchen table in tears, crumbled up tissues littered the table.

“Why didn’t you tell me mom?”

She looks up at me, dabbing her eyes with another tissue

“Alpha is not my father, his old Beta was”

“You heard”

I nod my head and sit at the table opposite her, holding back the tears, I reach for her hand

“You are an Alpha’s daughter?”

She nods her head. “The