CHAPTER 124 - LOVE-HATE

-CLEO'S POV* Daddy? That happened way too fast. How did he get Zoe to accept him? I might have underestimated this brutish Gamma. My face tightened with anger. My fist clenched at my sides as I fought the urge to strangle him. At least, not in front of my daughter. "Eh-heh-heh," he grinned nervously. To seek cover from my cat-o'-nine-tailed tongue, he suggested. "Shall we eat?" He sauntered over to the chic marble-clad kitchen and stepped behind the white island with seating of gray woven counter stools at a white and gray marble waterfall countertop lit by faceted glass lights suspended above a sink with a polished brass gooseneck faucet. I acquiesced. "Our mate is a good guy," my wolf voiced victoriously. To her, he was a prize. Contrarily, he was a charlatan to me. "Our mate is conniving and insufferable," I lashed at her. "We should be with him. You're too damn stubborn, Cleo. Don't forget that I have a say too." She vocalized whines and lay with her head and ears flopped d