[IRIS POV]
The steak in my stomach began to curdle. I immediately felt my palms sweat at the thought of meeting my father figure.
To put things in perspective, ever since our first meeting, where he brought me back to Ashbourne and told me in no uncertain terms that he was now my father, we had never spent any private time together. We simply inhabited two different worlds― him, as the powerful Alpha, and me, the bane of his existence, the irrefutable proof that he was a cheater.
Well. Now, I know he wasn't. At least he didn't cheat on his old mate with my mom, but I dared not tell him the truth. I still liked my head to be very attached to my shoulders.
I took one last gulp of water and followed Maisie out to the main packhouse. Then, I slowly went up the stairs alone, taking in slow breaths to calm down. I didn't know why he wanted to see me, and that made me more anxious since I couldn't prepare for it.
