Rip: "Dad?" He looked up from his laptop to smile at me. "Come in, baby. Sit down," The thoughts from earlier swirled a little in my head as I took a seat. He knows why I had come back. I am something he created and lost control of. We both know that. He continued a little before he looked up at me and began to put everything away. I gave him a few minutes. He seems nervous. That night, he had been waiting for me. "Dad, what's going on?" I asked when I saw he was done. "Rip, the pack has spoken," he started. "You know the rightful place of the Alpha goes to Mikhail," "Yeah, I know," I smiled a little confused. The look in his eyes matches my own. "I don't understand why that would be something we would address. Wasn't that always the plan?" "I... I thought