Rowena’s Pov

Not even a scalpel could slice through the stunned silence.

As I sat there frozen, I wanted to ask the Alpha to repeat what he’d just said. I wish I could be certain my kids would never ask something like that but they’d asked something similar to that once. Then, I thought I had managed to quench their curiosity but that might have just been in my head after all.

My heart started slamming erratically against my chest as if to tell me I’d messed up.

While I thought I ...