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house. When I’d gotten a grasp of where I was, I had headed there for a day, scrounged up a bit of money and borrowed one of the cars left there to drive back to the current Alpha house. It sat between Timmins and Sudbury, surrounded by lakes and kilometers of forest.
    What if he said no? The thought hadn’t occurred to me until I sat on the sofa across from him. Would I have to choose between him and the girl that had captivated me instantly? I may have gotten frustrated with him, but at the end of the day, I knew that Carlos was the only person I could rely on no matter what the circumstances. He’d proven that over and over again as I grew up. Carlos had always been on my side when it came to dealing with people like the past Alpha –his father –or my twin brother, Keegan. Two forces of evil that I was glad had disappeared, even if it was slightly concerning.
    “This girl… she’s your mate?” the Alpha asked.
    Mate… a term that hadn’t occurred to me, but felt like it hit home the moment it was spoken. I didn’t hesitate: “Yes.”
    He let out the smallest of sighs. I straightened up; I recognized that sigh. That was him about to give in. “I’ll start searching for a place to live, Blake –but on one condition.”
    “Anything,” I answered.
    “In exchange for all of this –you can’t go against anything I say. Or, for that matter, anything Noah says. You acted rashly in your last mission with him –I can’t have that happening again.”
    “Fine,” the word fell from my mouth quickly. “I won’t.”
    “Not a single step out of line,” he warned. “Or else I’ll have to fall to desperate measures. As my son you can only get away with so much.”
    “Would you kick me out? Like Keegan?” I asked. It would be harder to watch over the Pack if I wasn’t allowed in the same province as them. And it would be harder to win over my mate.
    Mate.
    I liked that.
    “Just don’t step out of line,” he sighed.
    “I won’t,” I promised again.
    My father watched me for a long moment before nodding. A small grin broke his Alpha mode, and his fingers found the loose strings. “I can’t believe you found your mate. You, out of all your Pack brothers.”
    “What’s that’s supposed to mean?” I snorted.
    “Nothing –but I’m glad. You were starting to worry me –like you had nothing to fight for anymore. I think this is just what you need.”
    It wasn’t that I had nothing to fight for –I would put my life on the line for my Pack. But I worried that my brother and I were more alike than I imagined. And if we were, the Pack was better off without me. But I never could muster the courage to completely cut myself out of the Pack. I think it mostly had to do with the man that sat in front of me. I still owed him so much.
    And I kept putting myself deeper into his debt.

Chapter 3: Evelyn
     
    First day of school, grade twelve. It was scary that the first three years of my high school life had flown by so quickly. And it was going to fly by even faster, since I only had one semester this year. With the help of the guidance counsellor, I’d managed to get all the credits I needed to graduate a semester early. It probably helped that I had no idea what I wanted to do with my future, so the courses required to get me into college, or university, were really the bare minimum. That, plus sacrificing my spare periods where I could, meant I could earn a bit of money before I even tried to enroll in whichever post-secondary school I ended up at.
    There were two very special people to thank for graduating a semester early. Those two people were none other than Cole and Marissa. Their bullying in grade nine was what sparked my wanting to get the hell out of high school. The school had fought against me, but there was finally a reward for my mother’s persistence. I didn’t mind the heavy semesters. In fact, I think I surprised everyone with how well I’d come out of all of my classes –at an