ALPHA Elias POV
Those words became my lifeline. Luke's belief steadied me. She had endured fifteen brutal years; she could survive this. For a moment, hope pierced the fear.
Leave it to Luke to know precisely what to say at the right time. He had always been the one person in the world who truly understood me. Of course he’d know how to pull me back from the edge.
We grew up in the same pack, walking the same paths and enduring the same pain. From childhood, we found solace in each other. Best friends, bonded by trauma. Our fathers, also close, shared tempers and whiskey.
They were both violent drunks who treated fatherhood like a curse. The bruises they left were more frequent than words, and after one brutal night, Luke and I decided we’d had enough. We ran away together, two broken
