Chapter 29

Chapter 29 Brooklyn

I realize, suddenly, that although Remington is my real father, I am terrified of him.

That if this is what he's like the first time meeting his daughter, then I can't imagine the kind of things my mother must have gone through. The moods she must have experienced, the cruelty, enough to make her pack up and leave him, to give up everything she'd ever known to keep me away.

And yet here I am, in the place she was so desperate to leave behind.

I know I didn't have a choice. I know Aden threatened Stephen and Jolie. But somehow, I wish I could have fought harder against all of this.

"You cannot hurt him," I say through gritted teeth. "He let me go."

"That doesn't change the fact that he stole you in the first place."

I clench my fists by my side. How much denial could a person be in? Stephen didn't steal my mother. She ran. And that's Remington's fault, not his.

about to say something I'd deeply regret, Aden's voice rings out behind me, cool and calm. I close my eyes in relief at the sound, remembering he is still right there. I know, deep down, he won't let anything happen to me. "There is

him. Unlike Aden, he chose to be an Alpha. He didn't cast it

daughter is engaged to my son." He nods at Hudson, who steps forward. "I anticipate that the wedding will be swift, within the next few months, if it can be

can only imagine how his pack, those that do his dirty work, fear

you just found her yesterday?" Hudson is the

already dating, actually." No mention, conveniently, of the fact

at mine, and suddenly realize that this was always the plan. To give Remington back

It was a way to mark me. To show clearly who I belonged

more than anything: the last remaining piece of his

must be in on it

Hudson. Because Hudson, too, is a player in this game, moving me around like the pawn that I am,

to say so, against my better judgment, but

along, waiting to see how all of this plays out. "A

face soften. Truly, he is

a family, worthy of my own pack." He takes both my hands in his own, kissing them quickly. When

mother," I say in

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