As Alexa left her father and started off towards home, she went through all that her father had said and felt her spirits lift. So her mother was not a bad person afterall, she had been in love and had left, not wanting to wreck the home of her lover nor endanger her daughter's life. Mother didn't abandoned me. She just didn't want me to be in danger. She must have known that her lover's wife would not treat me well but she had to choose between the lesser of two evils to keep me safe. If the Alpha had found out, not only her but I would have been killed instantly. It was a tough call but she did what she thought was best at the time. 'If that is the case, why didn't she take me with her?' Alexa recalled asking her father. 'She left immediately after giving birth to you and was in a very

