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.

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

he chose to be an Alpha. He didn't cast it aside. Aden is

engagement pact is going to hold up, after all these years. Your daughter is engaged to my son." He nods at

imagine how his pack, those that do

you just found

standing up straighter. "We were already dating, actually." No mention, conveniently, of the fact that

between Hudson and his father, and then over at mine, and suddenly realize that this was always the plan. To give Remington back his daughter and claim

about our engagement. It was a

wants more than anything: the last remaining piece of his

Hudson must be in on it

I want, whether or not I want to marry Hudson. Because Hudson, too, is a player in this game, moving me around like the pawn that I am, even though he is

to say so, against my better judgment, but Remington interrupts

eyes are still wary, like he's playing along, waiting to see how all of this plays out. "A uniting of the families will do a lot for us both. I've looked for my

attention back to me and I see his face soften. Truly, he is a man of many

pack." He takes both my hands in his own, kissing

I say in a

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