"She didn't want to testify?" Arthur raised his brows when Eugene told him what happened that night.
"More like she's scared of going to court and showing her face to Jacob."
Eugene sighed, laying his head on the alpha's chest. He knew he was supposed to soothe his tired lover, but his head had been throbbing since he read that contract. Seeing his dad being treated like a commodity, like something that could easily be traded like that...
Eugene couldn't even imagine himself living separately from Hannah, and yet...and yet they could be so cruel as to discard their son like that. Not only that, but they also abandoned their other children—when one of them was still underage.
That piece of paper, which he had safely stored in an envelope inside their safe, angered him so much that his head kept throbbing even after eating his dinner and taking some medicine. He had to ask his alpha to give him some invisible pheromone to soothe his headache.
