Future Beta Nate Watching my mate yell at her mother was heartbreaking. Her mother was clearly pregnant and had started a new life, leaving Ayla. Ayla was only fifteen when her mother ‘died’ and she had just left her daughter. Her mother isolated Ayla from her father and his family and then just left. And her reasoning was utter bullshit. She made a choice and then blamed her choices on Ayla, who never even asked to be here. I thought my alpha was a d**k, but listening to Ayla’s mother was a whole new level of selfishness. How did she raise such a wonderful daughter? When Ayla let out a murderous growl, my heart stopped. Everyone took a step back, away from her, and she looked at me surprised. I was equally as surprised because Duke didn’t growl, she did. “Isn’t mate wonderful?” Duk