14. You're not going

[Diana]

(3 years later…)

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My legs were shaking under the table as the anxiety concentrated in my stomach.

Janus placed his hand on my knee, and my legs stopped shaking.

Right. No need to be nervous. But how could I not be nervous?

I looked at father, then at beta Arthur, then at Willa and then Reese. We were sitting around the dinner table. Father had invited Janus and beta Arthur for tonight’s dinner.

Ever since I told father we need his time, we have been having family dinners every night. It was like a mandatory ritual every night where Reese, Willa, father and I sat together around this very dining table. He’d ask how our day went and we’d give him an overview.

He knew everything about our life, anyway. His spies were everywhere around us, but still he’d ask. Well, he was trying to be a better father and I could see it, but right now, I had severe doubts about it.

“Alpha, she is too young,” Willa said.

“I am nineteen, mother. Meanwhile Reese is eighteen. So he is