Chapter 12
“Rowan,” I greeted the alpha I’d known would be lying in wait for me. The one who’d given me the card in my pocket. The one I’d hoped never to see again.
“Ace’s daughter.”
As if I had no name other than a relationship to an absent father. My face twisted but I didn’t argue. After all, I was the one in the wrong.
Instead, I dug in my wallet for the card that had granted me safe passage through this alpha’s domain for the last year and change. I’d known what I was risking when I took the furry shortcut at the museum. Had hoped it wouldn’t come to this, but had accepted that it might.
Losing access to Harper’s visiting hours was a gut punch, but it would be worth the loss now that I could afford to pay for the rest of her high-school career and part of college. Our relationshi
