With Liam absent, my strength evades me. I lie quietly on the bed scanning the room to examine the expression plastered on the faces of those who witnessed my behavior. I see Mrs. Parker leaning over to her husband, I study the movement of her lips as she whispers “Wow, he behaved just like Allison.” With my wolf senses gone, lip reading was all I had left. Beta Jackson smiles “should have brought her to see the Alpha before-” “Are you listening now Ryder” dad begins Instinctively my eyes flick in his direction before I realize that was my only method of following the conversation about Allison. My eyes quickly dart back in hopes to figure out the ending of the statement, but by then, he had already said what he needed to and their eyes were now on me. I sigh, returning my gaze to