Chapter 19

ALPHA RILEY

I have never felt so low and unimportant as I feel right now. Being the Alpha of one of the strongest packs on this side of the country, almost on par with the Black Shadow Pack, I never had to be thoroughly searched just to be allowed entrance into another territory.

In fact, I never once went to any territory without any advance notice. But I was doing it now, and I was letting them treat me like I was a threat to them all because of one woman.

Andrea. 

I grew up without knowing who my mother was. All I knew was that she left before I could even talk. All I had was my father. And although he was strict and a control freak, he did love me in his own way.

And then there was Andrea. She was around all the time. Her mother, up to the moment she died, was one of the cooks in the packhouse. And that's where I met Andrea.

She was two years old when I first saw her, and ever since, my young heart had always reserved a specia