Cherish Me, Daddy
“Rest. I’ll be here when you wake up.”
By the third day, the training intensified. Lucen taught me how to read pheromones, how to deflect an attack without breaking a sweat, how to hold my ground in a room full of Alphas who saw me as less. He was brutal, but fair... never crossing a line unless I challenged him first. And yet, beneath the lessons, there was something else. A quiet, relentless determination in his eyes, as though he were trying to carve a new future into reality.