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Ryker
Veronica and I have a daughter together. I am a father.
My wolf was oddly silent while I sifted through the competing stimuli going off in my brain at lightning speed.
There had not been any mistaking the brilliant green orbs, identical to her mother’s, which had gazed up curiously into my own before the little girl had been shepherded away in a flash.
How the hell did I miss this enormous facet of Ronnie’s life?
I was shell-shocked as my eyes caught on the mirror image staring back at me from where my mate was standing a meager two feet away.
Ronnie started in an uncertain tone, “There might have been something that I needed to tell you…”
She let her sentence trail off while she pivoted her attention to the sandy ground in front
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