Chapter 69

　　RONAN POINT OF VIEW

　　For a moment, his mask slipped. I saw pain flicker across his features, old wounds that had never healed. Then the walls came back up.

　　"I chose to be an Alpha," he said. "Just like you will."

　　"And if I don't want to?"

　　"Then you're not the son I raised." The words cut th...