Mated to the Alpha Don
Gabe reached for his phone in his back pocket, his eyebrows bunching together in consternation when his eyes fell to the screen.
“I have to take this,” he muttered, getting up to leave the room.
I watched him leave, and then looked steadily at Tia Mel and my parents.
“He didn’t know that Joel was spying on you for his father,” I was quick to speak to my parents, trying to plead my mate’s case while he was out of the room. “Mama, he’s so much like me. A victim of toxic parenting. Please…try to understand. He was fed lies that his father was double-crossed by our family. And his mother…she abused him. Fed him silver as a baby and-and- so much more!” I gasped out, my voice trembling with pain a