VALERIE

I walk out of my room and see Doreen coming out of another room.

"Where is Patrick?" I ask her smiling.

"He's sleeping Alpha." She tells me and I give her a pointed look. I look around to see whether anyone has heard her and luckily, there's no one around.

"Sorry" She says guiltily. "Um... He's sleeping."

I have grown very fond of Patrick in these past six years. He is such a cute child and I love him to bits. He calls me his 'girlfriend'.

I train him to fight and I'm not tough with him as Nelson is with me.

Though just eight years old now, he...