Beauty and The Beta (Bailey)

Chapter 0159

I looked up at Asher, my heart feeling it was going to race right out of my chest, having admitted to him everything that Miles was doing to me, yet, oddly, he didn't seem angry, he looked concerned. "I wish you had told me this when I asked you that first time, Bailey." He said softly.

I sighed. When he asked me that first time, I knew he had feared for his pack, but realistically, I didn't think Miles would do anything to his pack, and considering the way Asher had been acting toward me, I was not really willing to open up to him... "I didn't really know you." I admitted, and he sighed, his shoulders sagging, like he was bearing the weight of the world upon them.

"But, you have been suffering alone, beautiful, and that cannot have been easy." He said, reaching for my hand, softly stroking his thumb over the palm.

"Trust me, I have been coping alone with Miles for a long time, Asher, it is nothing I am not used to." I said with a shrug.

a frown. "Why are your family oblivious to it, Bailey?!" he growls, taking me

over him? I was never considered anything special in the pack, Asher. I was the geeky Beta's daughter. I blended into the background. Always had my head in a book. One

as grown-ups?" he questioned, and I could

is right, but I had just accepted how things were. I was what my life

to tolerate all that.

trying to fix his errors. Meeting his mate seems to have made him grow up. Either that

back from my face, looking down

so touched right now by the kindness he was showing me. This was definitely an unexpected side to the dark