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Ella's POV

The silence was dreadful. I could feel it choking me and clogging my throat. I knew it would come to this but I didn't know what to say still. It wasn't my place to talk. It wasn't my secret to say. What was I going to say?

Was I going to say that Zeke had given us the permission? Then I was going to make dad a traitor. I didn't even know if he wanted to come out in the open yet about his relationship with my mother. What if he lost his position in the pack because they found out that he had fallen in love with a woman from the enemy pack and had a child with him?

What if they despised him? What if they hated him?

I swallowed, finding the words hard to talk about. It wasn't my secret to spill. It wasn't my truth to talk about. I wished there was another way to answer Oscar Nelson but there wasn't.

I paused. I could say that we had found the house by chance and decided to stay there so we wouldn't have to fight the rogue close to our territory. I could say that we had held d