She puts on a lock of her red hair as she reopens her green eyes to me, holds my hand gently, and glimmers of please in her eyes. "I know I've said this to you over and over since I was a kid that he's coming to you not like Alpha Michael but like your dad, but believe me, this time he will, and you know for sure that he has changed. He came here himself! Usually he would send me or someone else to check on you! " I paused to check my features, not really knowing what I should say or even feel.

"By the way, Nikolai," I...