Chapter 31

• Damien POV
• “Alpha, it’s good to have you back!” one of the guards called from the gate as my car rolled past, his tone far too cheerful for the storm brewing inside me. I couldn’t even force a nod. The best I managed was a grunt half acknowledgment, half warning not to approach me with any more well-meaning greetings.
• By the time I pulled up in front of the alpha house, my mood had curdled into something dark and poisonous. Anger. Resentment. Disbelief. All of it aimed at Aurélie at the woman who let me mourn her for four years while she lived, breathed, thrived… and raised a child with another man.