**Brandon's POV***Once I showed my kindness to her, she would get everyone's attention. My cruel father, my cranky brother Austin and that disgusting Abby would make her life a hundred times more miserable than it is now, or even kill her.My poor girl, my Elizabeth, I knew she wanted more friends, but she had to learn to be strong and independent. If the role of a cruel man who taught her to be strong and independent had to appear in her life, I was willing to play it.I had to pretend I did not care or even hate her to protect her, my mate.Yes.Mate.Two years ago, when my wolf told me it felt a slight mate bond in Elizabeth's body, I knew the moon goddess had played a bad joke on me.My father killed her father, how could she accept me as her mate?I know she hated us all. I knew she would leave black river pack one day. She was a girl full of amb
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