Jasper's POV
"Your mother and I have supported you through the engagement scandal," my father said, his tone carefully neutral. "Now it's time for you to support the Pack's interests."
I stood in the Lockwood estate's formal sitting room, facing my parents like a defendant before a jury. My father sat in his usual leather armchair, every inch the commanding Alpha. My mother perched beside him, her posture perfect but her eyes worried.
*This is about Lina,* Orion growled in my mind. *They know. They've figured it out.*
Of course they had. I'd been careless lately—too distracted by thoughts of Lina with Alpha Adrian to maintain my usual careful facade.
"I've been handling the pack's business interests," I said evenly. "The merger with the eastern territories is proceeding sm
