REBECCA
It had taken every ounce of self-control I had to keep me from bursting into tears when Reiner had smiled upon seeing the photo of the kids: seeing all that love mixed with pain and grief ... for the Goddess, had not been easy at all.
In truth, nothing about that meeting had been easy.
The man I had met in New York was not the same man I had had to leave behind four years earlier: sure, maybe in appearance, he hadn't changed that much, but ... my goodness, he was hiding so much pain in his eyes. So much pain.
He had lost everything - Sheila had taken everything from him: first me and the pups, and then the pack, the thing he loved most after his family. His father, the previous Alpha, had chosen him as his successor instead of Garrett, his older brother, because he thought him
