“I’d marry her tomorrow if the laws allowed,” Derik vowed, and I raised a brow. He didn’t look at me.
“And since the laws don’t allow it, what happens? She is to be labeled a lover of yours, grow old and die without the love of children or a husband?” My mother took a swing with her words and packed a powerful punch because all three of the alphas winced.
I just glared at my father. “Husbands are overrated,” I sniped, and she looked at me.
“But children are not,” she finished, and then it was silent.
I had never cared if I had children. I had always seen them as a way for husbands to have more control over the wives they had picked, but thinking about children with the alphas was different.
If it was possible, I would want it. But it wasn’t. For me, that wasn’t a dealbreaker, but it d
