“Why didn’t you come forward with this before?” I glanced up at him.
Benjamin’s shoulders slumped. “I tried, in the beginning. But your father systematically stripped me—stripped this entire pack—of any influence we once had. No one would listen. Then he began threatening the pack members. Children disappeared. Businesses mysteriously burned down.”
I clutched the notebook tighter. I knew my father was a cold bastard, but this… This was disgusting.
“He made us into nothing,” Benjamin said, passing his weathered hand over his face. “We’ve survived, but barely. I couldn’t risk the lives of everyone here for a truth no one wanted to hear. But now you have control of the pack.” There was a glimmer of hope in his tired eyes. “And you’re about to marry an heir to the Lycan throne. You
