“N-no.” I said as my skin burned off.
“Konstantin! They're making him Beta. Over you!” My mother had a deranged look about her. “It was supposed to be yours! All yours for the taking! But they gave it to him. Are you happy now? You’re always making a fool out of me, you ungrateful brat. Why can’t you just d i e?!”
The Beta position was all she had ever asked of me since I could understand her. I always thought that if I did become a Beta, she would finally be proud of me.
It was my one redemption. A rank. A position. Our bloodline would be secure.
But of course I didn’t get it.
I never get anything.
“Tell me who my father is. Tell me where I can find him” I whimpered, hopeful of a life away from this. Now that I had lost the one thing she hoped for, I was useless. “You don’t want me
