Chapter 104

THEODORE.

(NADINE'S FATHER, The next in line as Alpha of the Dark Forest Pack before Maximus took over the pack)

The helicopter I was in roamed above the vast forest of the Dark Forest Pack.

I couldn’t help the pang of pain that hit my chest as I looked at the territory below. Although I hadn’t seen it in four decades, the familiarity and the warmth it brought to me didn’t change.

I was supposed to be the next Alpha of this pack until that night my father, Alpha Carlos Montrell, the then Alpha, was killed. For some reason, the power of the Alpha didn’t transfer to me automatically.

It went to Maximus—the man who was ten years older than me and the man my father took under his wing.

Maximus and my mother, Teresa, came from the same pack. He was the son of my mother’s personal bodyguard before she met my father.

So when Dad took my mother home after finding out she was his fated mate, Maximus’ father came with them to this territory to make sure she was protected. He took his whole fa