Chapter 16

NADINE.

Breakfast was fun and hot. I couldn’t keep my hands off him, and I could tell he was restraining himself from touching me. Maybe because he knew everyone was looking at us, but I didn’t care. I wanted Xander to fall hard for me.

I told myself I was doing it so I could use him for my plans, but I knew as well that deep inside, I wanted him to like me so much that when all was revealed, he would choose me over the Alpha title.

I could already tell he didn’t like Maddox with the way he spoke of him, but then he was here and still working as his Beta. He might say it was for Mindy, but what if he wanted the Alpha title? I knew this was my first impression when Catherine told me that Maddox’s half-brother was here with him.

Of course, he was the firstborn and the rightful Alpha, like how my sister Nadia was the firstborn and the rightful Alpha of this pack. But the difference was that Nadia didn’t want to be an Alpha. She was happy to be Riley’s partner and Luna. I didn’t think t