Odette’s POV “I swear to the Goddess.” Donavon crumples the magazine in his hand, lobbing it at the wall, “Where do they get this s**t?” The shiny pages slacken as it falls, brightly colored tabloid headlines peeking out of the wrinkled ball of paper, “Alpha’s secret love child.” Unfortunately I have an idea where these rumors are coming from. I’ve seen the way Arabella looks at my son, and I can’t stop hearing Selene’s last words to me: She really hates me. She’s attempted worse. Half an hour later my daughter-in law was dead, then Arabella was miraculously found unharmed a few days later – with an iron-clad alibi for her whereabouts at the time of the fire. Even so, those are not the kinds of accusations one makes without evidence, and a few words from Selene in the height of a very