OV (Three M

w kitchen, I stirred the pot, the fragran

he Dumont family home and it had slowly become a gro

y focus. At the doorway stood a man

d, his eyes crinkling with a

special,"

of the Valley pack. He worked as a personal assistant to my biological father and was the son of the pack's Beta so he was always around the house. In this

ght for me in t

t then," Hector said,

ough, he gave me a

tables and sliding them into the simme

lated it into five portions

h that, Lady Camille

it," I declined.

ng some sort of control in a world that

e it. The Dumont family

ke. What sort of father did that when the daughter they had been searching hell and highwater for, for four years suddenly returned? I thought I would get some answer

s public enemy number one. In some twisted sense, I sort of understood her. While it wasn't my fault, my arrival must have shaken the world she knew. I couldn't imagine what it must have been like for

ter. It was a sharp contrast to what the room would have been like if it was me in that room. Som

and the chatter i

ward me. My new family, tied

ook my place among them, whee

out a whine, "Goddes

oice cut through the t

her as it was for the harmon

the house for a reason. I think it is high time you stop doing their jobs for them. If

anding, knowing I would probably still defy him

ogical mother had no love left to give me in her heart. But I came to quickly know that Adele never had any children. Lucian Dumont had married two women. Adele was the first but she was infertile and never had another so Lucian took another. The one that was supp

look she had on her face when she too

eat, I started eating, stealin

rse. She kept giving the food a disgusting look. S

lpha Lucien urged. "It is not ba

sted expression on her face only became mo

t is dis

his spoon on the table. The sound al

to Camille," he

fiantly. "Why should I? The food

thundered, surprising everyo

n aback that her father wo

egurgitated vomit," she declared, pushing her chair

rustration and disappointment. "I apologize for he

va," Hector volunteere

y, and Hector left the room, leav

t. You have to understand that she's going through a difficult phase after all the revelations," she said with a measured tone. Then, she turned he

Adele, my stepmother, dire

icult phase too but I wasn't making it anybody's problem. However, I managed a nod, pretending like I could acknowled

tell it was plastic. "That

t an object. Despite my adoptive father pushing me away, I had called them since I arrived in the Dumont family home. They never once picked. Even when I used

waited. However, I was being the bigger person. Eva would probably use this cha

er bedroom, the more I steeled

oom, I was met with a sight th

d, my mate, w

were french kissi

when I was supposed to

ap back to reality. "Hector, we shoul

ly attracted to Camille, but you will always have my heart. If i

me like a knife, and b

d fled for my bedroom, not c

ly making it to the toilet before the conte

thought I had in this house. He was the only

foolishly believed what we had was special that I didn't eve

aw didn't look like it just started.