Maddie She could see Ana was not only confused like she’d said she was, but starting to feel guilty about Ocean not meeting her father a long time ago, or maybe Slade not knowing his own daughter. Maddie had skimmed that folder, only actually read what had happened in the lead up to Ana’s worst moment in her life, inside that pack. Maddie didn’t stop her from getting up and leaving the house. She’d once called herself a horrible person for taking Ocean away from Slade, for not telling him about their child. But she’d also truly believed he’d not known about their child, that he had found his Goddess-Gifted Mate, even. Because he’d told her that himself. All she-wolves understood that no child was truly safe inside a pack if it was the Alpha’s illegitimate child. Even a future Alpha’s il

