LILY
“Marcus and Jane are allied and engaged,” I declared, taking up their picture and pinning it on the whiteboard. “This is a huge problem. That cunt and her mother …”
“Who’s nothing short of a cunt as well,” my father muttered, rolling his eyes.
“Yes, thank you, Dad … know too much about our pack. They’ve been here for fifteen years, and they weren’t just random packmates – they were … too close to the power”.
I decided to avoid mentioning the actual relationship that they’d held with my dad, the previous Beta: he’d rejected them both once he’d come to his senses, and I didn’t want to bring up a painful past – not when we were trying our best to mend our relationship and move forward from that s**t.
Not the easiest thing, when you were someone as vindictive and revengeful as I,
