KATE CONNOR.

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I haven’t heard from him again. He hasn’t reached out, and I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve stared at my phone, wishing hard enough that something — a message, a call, anything — would show up. But nothing ever does. I sigh in defeat, hating this behavior so unlike me. I almost seem like a foolish teenage girl, hung up over someone else.

“Kate.”

His voice cuts through the silence like a sheet of glass.

I don’t know what he wants, and I don’t really care to find out. I just hope he won’t be staying long.

“Ignoring me won’t make my presence here any less real,” he says with that annoying calm of his. I roll my eyes, realizing, much to my frustration, that he’s absolutely right. “I’d like to know just how badly your father and I failed you and your brother, that now our entire legacy hangs by a thread because of Aarón and his stupid obsession with that Omega.” He crosses his arms. “And don’t even get me started on you. Being an Alpha clearly doesn’t su