C H A P T E R 85 - Elijah.

I laid Samantha down on my bed, and even though I knew that it was going to raise countless questions when I called for a pack doctor, I did not really care for it in this moment. I was already going to have to deal with the fact that my Beta - her father - knew. What was one more person knowing going to do to me that wasn’t already going to be done? I understood that it might not have been such a big deal to any of them, if it hadn’t been for the fact that I was more than a decade older than her. That was the only ammunition that they had against me.

But I had been without a mate for that decade. Could they blame me for clinging to the first person who I felt any form of attachment towards with all of my might?

I stepped away from the bed, surveying her lying in it for a moment, and something inside of my chest started to ache painfully with the desire to go and lay there next to her. But it was a desire that I would have to fight for now, for there were other things that I needed