Chapter 20

ARI

The summer breeze was magnificent today. I wished my mood was the same.

“Stop pouting. It makes you look old,” my stepmom mind-linked me as I sat up straighter in my chair.

I cast a look at my stepmom’s disapproving face before she smiled at whatever my father was saying. We were on the Aliz’s property in one of their outside gardens. Above us were blooming petunias hanging from the trellis set over the table. White cloths were spread across the table with expensive-looking cutlery and plates. Everything looked perfect, even though it was just brunch, but I could already see my parents gushing at everything. I would never.

“I hope the food is to your liking, Alpha Gregory,” Luna Emily said with a smile.

“Oh, it’s wonderful. Though caviar isn’t something I indulge in often,” my father said, stuffing a heaping amount into his mouth.

He was such a liar. He could eat a truck load if it meant he could brag about it, and usually he does. He always talked about the Aliz family as if they