Orien
He knew with those very words, even before he heard Addi start to lose it, he’d more than f****d up. The one thing that kept Addison by his side was now fully at risk. He’d only been able to obtain her as his Goddess Gifted Mate after giving her full assurance that he would accept her unborn daughter as his own. To love her as a father would.
Right now, those words coming from Luci, who had no actual idea that he wasn’t her real father, were going to ruin not just his bond to his Mate, they were going to rip this pack apart.
He’d tried to apologize and had literally begged her in that moment, not that it had helped him at all. There it was, the coldness of her father’s true lineage, whatever it was. What he also saw in Addison at times, something left over from his venom. Orien al
