Mikal Dove had been beaten half-to-death and starving when the authorities found him. He'd been locked and barred inside the bedroom of Jerald McCleave, the Head Alpha of the Papillon Pack now arrested for charges of k********g and domestic violence.
Mikal wanted nothing to do with Dean when they were first introduced in that lawyer's office, in fact the omega pressed himself towards the wall, as far away from the alpha's scent as he possibly could. Throughout Dean's conversation with Mikal's state-provided lawyer, Mikal had shook like a leaf, his bony limbs wrapped around himself, refusing to look anywhere near Dean.
Dean did not take it personally, he understood the trauma that Mikal was facing and the difficulties he'll have in the future. Axel Pack had many omegas willing to help the
