Chapter 17: A Beta's Heart

CALEB.

I went directly to the basement, where Dawson’s bedroom was and asked both Dawson and Trent to meet me there. It was the safest place inside the pack house because Dad never stepped into Dawson’s fort. He hated that Dawson was still addicted to video games at this age. I couldn’t blame Dad, I also couldn’t understand why he was addicted to it when there were many things he could do around instead of lounging and getting stuck on a big screen.

But I wasn’t complaining. At least we had a place we could all gather without Dad disturbing us.

"Where is Trent?" I asked Dawson as I stepped inside his game room.

I let out a deep sigh as my eyes darted to him sitting and glued to his game. "Too fucking early for that! Don’t you have anything else to do?"

"Nope. Nothing. When you have an old Alpha who doesn’t want to step down from his throne and two older brothers who can do everything around the territory, then there’s nothing left for me to do. So quit with the litany of reasons