Chapter 99 Setting Limits

• I didn't like the idea of giving up in the face of any problem, but what could I do when his new situation is something I'm not willing to put up with? Even if it is a consequence of his act before meeting me, by allowing myself to be present in this, I would be involved in something I do not like.
• I don't want to be anyone's stepmother; I have terrible experience that makes me not want it and I have goals that prevent me from taking on something like this. Besides, I knew how painful it is to grow up without the mother and I understood that in the alphas, an out-of-wedlock birth was frowned upon.
• That's why many resorted to marrying in secret and if they didn't find a suitable person for them, they simply took the child and gave it a new mother, one who was to function as its mother in public.