#CHAPTER 23: Invitation

Zane POV I confess it was a relief to leave interviewing tutors for the girls to Sarah. As an alpha, I would command the applicants’ respect, obviously, but they would be too interested in trying to impress me and too eager to agree with whatever I said. They would see Sarah as a colleague, someone else whose job it was to help Chloe and Grace, and they would be more willing to let their own ideas and attitudes surface. I thought again, inevitably, of what Hans had said, about how Sarah was an extraordinary human and it could be no mere chance that had seen her receive Chloe on her doorstep. This led to thoughts, again, of how lucky Chloe and I had been that she had been the one to care for my daughter all those years. The thought of the alternatives left me cold with fear and flushed with rage. Whenever I found whoever was behind all those years of pain and loss, well, as alpha, I had every right to see to justice over the matter as I determined it. I would kill them. As long as th