Worthless to Priceless: The Alpha's Rejected Mate
When the knock finally came, I went to the door myself.
Brittany stood there with a folded blanket over her arm and enough tension in her shoulders to hold up a roof.
For one second, neither of us spoke.
Then she cleared her throat and held the blanket out a little. “Newest mother of the season, congratulations.”
“Thank you, please come in,” I replied, and stepped aside.
She crossed the threshold carefully, like the house itself might reject her if she moved too fast, and I shut the door behind her.
The blanket in her hands was pale yellow, soft, and handmade in a way no store-bought gift ever managed to fake. One corner had a tiny patch where the stitches changed pattern halfway through, an