The Alpha Didn't Know He Had a Five- Year-Old Son

Among the wolf packs bound to the Alliance, bloodline shows in the eyes, and a child born with golden pupils is marked from birth as heir to the purest line, the Pierce line. Alpha Grayson does not know he has fathered such a son. For five years he has believed his lover Eloise left him for money after their secret breakup, and he has carried that belief through Alliance gatherings and pack business without ever learning that Eloise raised their son Noah alone, in poverty, keeping the boy's golden eyes hidden from anyone who might use them against him. The breakup was never real. Tessa, a noblewoman jealous of Eloise, forged the letter that ended things between them, and Eloise had no way to prove otherwise. She took Noah and disappeared into a harder life rather than fight a claim she could not disprove. Grayson's resentment hardened over five years into the kind of suspicion he brings to every dealing with her when the Alliance forces them back into the same rooms. At those gatherings he watches Eloise more closely than he means to, and Noah's eyes are not always easy to hide. Piece by piece the story of the letter, of Tessa's part in it, and of what Eloise gave up to protect their son starts to surface around him, and his certainty about what happened five years ago stops holding together.