My Fated Alpha
She didn't sugarcoat anything, and right now, her words hit a little too close to home.
I laughed it off, but the word "beta" stuck in my mind. Damien's friends threw around terms like that sometimes. Alpha this, Beta that. Like they were in some secret club. I figured it was just guy talk, maybe from video games or frat stuff. But Damien had this commanding presence sometimes, like he could lead a room without trying. Not like an alpha wolf or anything crazy; that was just my imagination running wild from all those romance novels I read late at night. "Come on, Lori. It's not that bad. Tonight's gonna be perfect. He'll see me in this dress and remember why he proposed."