The Code of The Alpha
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I heard brief, muffled words before Ana interrupted.
"What was that?"
"Nothing," came the reply.
"That's what I thought," Ana said, pouring her can of ginger ale into a glass filled with ice.
Norah, who sat beside her mother, took a slow bite from her cheeseburger with raised eyebrows. I looked over to see Hanna rise up from where she laid on the couch, walking around it to meet us at the dining room table.
We made eye contact and I smiled, but she looked away almost immediately.
She had brown eyes, wavy, honey brown hair and pale, freckled skin just like her dad did. Apart from her feminine features, she looked nearly nothing like her sisters who were all spitting images of their mother wit