“I don’t know why I bothered to share any of this with you,” he sighed softly. “Look, the point is simple, I was in the mountains for almost two weeks. When I finally got back, Alpha Wyatt was waiting for me. As angry and hurt as I had been, when he put his hand on my shoulder and told me I had done good. I felt grateful.”
Ashleigh wiped the tears from her eyes that she had been trying to hide. She turned back to Caleb now, hearing something change in his voice.
“I spent the next two months in awe of that man. I felt this newfound strength and pride in myself that he had shown me. Every lesson was something I treasured.
Years later I still thought of him as my mentor, I reached out when I had questions. He helped me when I had doubts.
My father said Alpha Wyatt was the best man he had ever met, and I agreed.”
Ashleigh could hear the emotion in his voice, and it caught her off guard. She knew right then that he had loved her father as much as his own.
