NATALIE

The bomb has been dropped. Alpha Wilson remains in shock for a while, staring at the phone while Ryker has hanged up long ago.

I do feel the urge to explain why his son was killed but when I recall how Anne and Giana were attacked, and dragged mercilessly, the urge dies on its own.

I want to see them. More than my fucking family, I care about them. I won’t be able to live if something has happened to any one of them because of me.

“ Alpha…” I try to call him, to break him out of the trance.

It takes him some more moments to process everything and when reality sinks, his eyes change colour and pin me down.

“ Is this true? Did Ryker kill — kill Enzo? ”

I have never been asked such a difficult question in my life before.

The pained look in his eyes and the anger slowly taking over his features renders me speechless. I open my mouth and close it when I realise what he is going to do whether I answer him or not.

And it does happen. As soon as my silence provides him with the answe