He never gave my mother any of that.

Noah can believe whatever he wants, but I stand firm in my own beliefs about his father. Alpha Black is incapable of loving another person. I find it very hard to believe that he cared about my mother. If he did, he would not have treated me the way he did. And he never would have buried her without conducting the proper pack rituals.

“I should get going,” I say after a few moments. “My break ends in five minutes.”

I get to my feet and am about to ...