ETHAN'S POV
I thought finding Claire would be easy. I thought no matter where she ran, I could drag her back.
But it’s been weeks since she left—without a single trace.
Every lead ends in a dead end.
Leo just gave me another report this morning—another slap in the face.
“Alpha, the man who helped erase her identity… he’s a ghost,” Leo said uneasily.
At first, I didn’t believe him. There’s no such thing as a ghost in my world. Everyone leaves a trail. Always.
But no matter how deep my subordinates dig, they come up empty.
The PI guy… his name checks out when Leo tries to verify it on a screen—then everything vanishes. It’s like someone built an entire identity out of smoke and mirrors—just enough to fool surface-level checks, but nothing more.
And Chris Carter… he’s the only one c
