CHAPTER 73

Dane's POV

I saw the amusement in her eyes as she listened to me. In her head, I was some sort of hero. It made me glad; I felt on top of the world. You know the feeling when you've been trying to get someone's attention, and then the person finally notices you after doing the simplest of things?

That's exactly how I felt right now. Talking about my parents has always been a really sensitive issue for me, and I avoided talking about it like a plague.

In fact, when I became Alpha, the first thing I did was to make rules forbidding the pack members from talking about my late parents. It made me feel like a villain, and I didn't want to feel that way.

But these past few years have changed me; I grew older and learned how to control my emotions, such that the things which would naturally get to me were now a walkover. Today was my mother's death anniversary, and I went to drop flowers by her tombstone as I have been doing for the past nine years, so I felt that was the proper time to te