Kayla looked at everyone in the room skeptically.She had been sleeping soundly, when a pack hand had been sent to rouse her from her much needed sleep. Neither she nor Jasmine had gotten enough sleep the previous night, as they had lain awake, talking throughout. She had planned to sleep in, and had almost gotten away with it, when there had been a sharp knock on the door, followed by a bush eat the pack link, which had seen her getting up from the bed to answer the door.“I was asked to call you downstairs.” It had been a really young boy,who seemed clueless on what exactly he was doing in front of her door. He had been like…twelve? Thirteen?And so she had tiptoed around her room, getting ready, and trying as much as she could not to wake Jasmine. And she would have gotten away with it, if the crazy antique vase had not wobbled, and in her attempt to save it, kayla had accidentally hit the plates they had used he previous night. And had sent it shattering to the floor. Oh dear.No

Jasmine was dressed and ready to go out, by the time kayla rushed back to the room and slammed the door shut behind her in an attempt to run and escape the nonsense she had just heard her father say.Hell, she wasn’t even sure whether to laugh, or cry about it all. “Where are you going?” Kayla whispered, panting as she frowned at her friend. This was obviously Jasmine’s frost time in the territory, so she didn’t eclxactly know any thing here. Jasmine gave Kayla an apologetic look that had Kayla narrowing her eyes at her. “I don’t know how best to say this, but the Bernardi’s are around, bad Damon said he was coming to pick me up in five minutes. And I don’t know Kayla, I think I heard Oliver’s voice in the background, so you had better get ready too.”“What!” Kayla shouted in a whisper. “What do you mean Damon is here? I know you said something about telling him where we were yesterday, but you don’t tell me he was coming here!” She stalkers towards her as she spoke. Her mind a clear

Kayla followed the duo as they walked over to a table for four, wishing she could just run away. This wasn’t the time to see Oliver. Her heart was torn between wanting to be with him, and wanting to just disappear.Her father had asked her for what she could only describe as a pound of flesh. Once again, they hadn’t chosen their favorite daughter. Bella. Wasn’t she worth exchanging for their company and pack? Why hadn’t he told them that he now had only one daughter since he had disowned the eldest.She would have thought that news was everywhere by now.But funny enough, it didn’t seem like it was. Because knowing how packs operated, if they so much as got a hint of what had happened in the past, then they wouldn’t have even bothered with asking for her hand?And who was this aphas son? Didn’t he have a mate? Didn’t they think she would have a mate?“Earth to Kayla!” Jasmine’s voice filtered into her ears, dragging her out of her thoughts to the present.She had been so absent minded

Kayla walked into the house, as quietly as she could manage, as she didn’t want to rouse the attention of anyone at home.Oliver had been visibly annoyed after their moment in the park, and had asked Damon to drop her off, while he had disappeared back into the park, saying he had somewhere to be, and an important call to make.She hadn’t been so sure what to make of that, and had been convinced that he was just avoiding her. But then again, it was all her fault, for being such a pussy to him in the pack, when all he wanted was to know what was wrong.But then again? How could she even begin to tell him that she had been asked to get married to an alpha, just to save her fathers business and title as alpha? Because the moment he lost all his money and couldn’t exactly cater for such population, people were going to defect to other packs, leaving him stranded and broke. With a tarnished reputation.“I see you have come back from wherever it is you went to earlier.” Bella said, out of n

Kayla laid in her room, completely awake, with her thoughts scattered all over the place.How did she get here? From being rejected, to being disowned. And then when she had thought that she had finally gotten her shit together and owned a business if her own, she had lost it. All in the blink of an eye. Even if she wanted to start all over again, every single one of her employees had left. And it wasn’t going to be a long time before that news spread, and clients faced other businesses. And then she had been called back home. Told that her sick father who had never given a shot about her, needed her. And like a fool, she had packed up her shit, and boarded the nearest vehicle home. Now this..It wasn’t just that she was going to save her family form poverty, it was the fact that she was going to keep the pack together, if she married this man, whom she was yet to know his name. They hadn’t even given her the luxury of know who he was.She huffed, rolling to her side as her eyes hit