THE ALPHA’S HIDDEN BLOODLINE; His Blood, Her Secret.
She needed to believe it, but she also knew it was true.
Xavier held her gaze for a long moment. “He has your survival instinct,” he said. “And he has something I’ve never seen before in someone his age. He knows who he is. Whatever they tell him about himself, whatever pressure they apply, he already knows what he is. That’s not nothing.”
“It’s not enough,” Aria said.
“No,” Xavier admitted. “But it’s something.”
The first scout returned at dawn, breathless and mud-streaked from moving fast through mountain terrain.