Presley had all but cornered me into speaking about this. My inner feelings. My secret. The thing that had tied me down for far too long; yet the thing I was not ready to release, and wanted to keep as my own. My shame. The thing that I knew would bring my father to reject me… My heart pounded within my chest. I was a failure of an Alpha already. I feared things I should not. I feared myself. My own mind. For my mind was the most powerful tool I had, and already it was destroying me, piece by piece. I had avoided this moment for so long, not wanting to destroy the hopes of the people who had created me. The people I called my parents. I was their only child. The heir to their pack. And I was flawed. Broken to the point they would be ashamed of me. I was not an Alpha's son. Not one he cou

