Chapter 106: Tobias's Return Pt. 1

Merari:

As we stood there, facing young Tobias, I could not help but picture the face that I remembered as a baby at that orphanage. Then, too, the young man that he had become once the beta had decided to take him in.

Admittedly, Valene was treated particularly well for Alastair not to know who she truly was to him. I guessed that Tobias would have gotten the same treatment. At first, I felt guilty about steering Alastair in our daughter’s direction. I knew, after seeing the way that Vale was being raised, that I had robbed him of a comfortable life.

Then Toran showed up and decided to snatch him up. Toran was far more lenient than even Alastair was when it came to Tobias.

Sure, the young lad was respectful and stayed in his place like the rest of them, but when left to his own devices, he was as free to do what he pleased as Vale, even more so, if I was being honest.

It was because of this that, for a time, he had been allowed to leave the Slaughter’s vassal hood. Interestingly en