Shane I had been groomed since I was a boy that I was a beta, and that was all I ever would be. My father was a beta, my grandfather was a beta... so there was nothing for me to do but follow suit, and be content to be second fiddle to the alpha. It had never occurred to me to question the tradition, and I never thought that I might deserve more. It wasn't until Nina that I ever thought outside the proverbial box. Nina was worried that I was missing something... but the truth is I found so much more than I ever lost. I was an Alpha now, with my own little pack to protect. I cherished that responsibility. We were living in the city, but we had already begun to consider land upstate, someplace where we would have the freedom and the privacy to run free. If you had to ask me what I w