Margot POV
“My father forced her to terminate the pregnancy.”
I squeezed the fork gently with my fingers.
“My uncle had a daughter who was a top-tier Alpha. My father couldn’t accept that his first child would be a Beta.”
I went silent.
Suddenly, I understood where some of Mrs. Vanderbilt’s resentment had come from.
Rhett, however, seemed to have already pushed the memory aside.
“I don't understand why I wanted this today.”
He took another bite.
“My appetite gets strange before rut. It’s annoying.”
I tightened my grip on my fork.
I couldn’t stop thinking about the little boy Rhett had once been.
Before he became the powerful, intimidating Alpha everyone feared.
I wondered if that little boy had ever been genuinely happy simply because his mother had sat across from him in a ch
