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.

cabin, a few feet from her. But I might as well be a million miles away.

to

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LEAH

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just my crying and

Aaron doesn’t move.

an almost detached sense of

disbelief.

at the phone.

really didn’t just

father is home and he’s

hands are shaking as I try to check the call log.

on Dad’s name. I call. And call

answers.

Still nothing.

into my body. I can’t catch

be

can’t be happening.

“Daddy!”

again

fingers don’t seem to work no matter how hard I stab at

Everything is blurry.

my line of

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