Chapter 30

“Dad!!!”

The gunshot is so loud, Leah throws the phone away from her

ear.

Realizing what she did, she scrambles across the room and grabs it off the floor. “Dad! Daddy!!!”

She’s screaming and wailing.

But there’s no point.

He’s dead. We both know it.

She sobs on the ground.

I’m not in shock. I can’t even say I’m all that surprised. Alpha Roberts has been declining for a decade.

Leah’s breathing begins to shudder, she’s gasping like she’s going into shock, and the way her heart is pounding, this is more than just an anxiety attack.

“Take it easy,” I tell her. “Just breathe.”

She’s going to pass out.

Sweat glistens on her forehead and tears flow down her face.

She sobs, her hand wrapped around the phone, her fingers wh ite and the bones visible with as hard as she’s gripping it.

“Daddy!”

It’s the cries of a daughter mourning her father, of the little girl who was dropped into my possession, abandoned. She didn’t cry then, but she does now.

She’s inconsolable.

But I might as well be a million miles

to do

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LEAH

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There’s just my crying and loud

Aaron doesn’t move.

an

disbelief.

stare at the

didn’t just happen.

is home and

are shaking as I try

send on Dad’s name. I call. And call again when no

answers.

Still nothing.

shaking in my hands seems to progress into my body. I can’t catch my breath, and I’m having trouble

be

be happening.

“Daddy!”

again

voicemail, I try to call my brother but my fingers don’t seem to work no matter

Everything is blurry.

big moves into my

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