It was a relief not to wake up with my father looming over me, and I was determined not to end up fixating on everything he had said to me.
I didn’t know what he was planning for Marlene, and if I thought about that it would drive me mad.
The past few days had changed my feelings towards him more than I could possibly have imagined, and I found myself wishing he’d been willing to connect with me before all of this - the ironic thing was that if he had been half as sympathetic of the fact I didn’t want to take on the burden of becoming Alpha, I think I would have been a lot more willing to accept the role.
It left me completely conflicted; I was mad that he hadn’t fostered a decent relationship with me when he clearly had some respect for me, but I was glad that he hadn’t, because if I h
