“Dad, what was he talking about? Do you know about his dead mate?” Lia asked her Dad. She'd overhead Derrick’s question.

Alpha Blake grunted, his face tight.

“Dad, why won't you say anything?” Lia sighed with frustration. He had said nothing when Derrick asked him and he was still silent after even after Derrick left. He stared blankly at the exit.

They say silence was an indirect way of affirmation and it scared Lia as she wondered if her Dad really had a hand in the death of Derrick's dead mate. The night of her wedding flashed in mind and she remembered Derrick being hostile towards the Alphas. She'd heard...