I had reached my limit.Brooks circled the Borderlands camp day after day, leaving his own pack to rot, without a shred of responsibility in him.And Harper had been acting strange lately.She went to bed early every night and no longer pestered me for stories or lessons.Watching quietly, I figured out it was Brooks, sneaking her off to play.Somehow, somewhere along the way, this child had forgotten what I'd taught her.I had told her she couldn't go running off with strangers.Brooks said it plainly.“I'm her father. How does that make me a stranger?”When I confronted him, father and daughter wore the very same expression.“Lena, our daughter has Alpha blood, and I really can't rest about it.”I didn't want to hear another word of his nonsense, so I simply closed the clinic.Harper thought I was angry and kept trying timidly to soothe me.“Mommy, I know I was wrong. I'll never run off to play with him again. He just said he was my daddy, and I, I didn't believe him.”Looking at my
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