The first time Arden got tested to determine his second gender, he was still only an infant, and the result came back inconclusive.
This was a common occurrence. Most parents in the world wouldn’t even request for their child to be tested that early. And since most parents in the world were also betas, they simply assumed their children were betas as well until proven otherwise.
Arden’s birth mother was different. She grew up taking it as an affront that her affluent family couldn’t become part of the upper crust of society—all because they were betas and were considered to be “new money.”
The best way a family like hers could have broken into the alpha social circle was through marriage, but the temptation of their fortune was far from enough to offset the risk of an alpha family’s blo
