Elsa Adam left me alone in the Alpha house, saying he had important matters to attend to. He promised to get to the bottom of whatever was happening in the pack. Before leaving, he asked Delta O'Brian to keep me company and sent Kane off to search the territory for any sign of a factory or warehouse that might contain Duskbloom or traces of the drug. The house felt eerily quiet, the kind of silence that only deepened my anxiety. I sat in the living room, fidgeting with the hem of my shirt, my nerves on edge as I waited for O'Brian to arrive. But when I heard footsteps approaching, it wasn’t him. To my surprise, Anna walked in, her gaze cool and dismissive. She paused at the entrance, looking at me like I was an intruder in my own home. "Hello," she said, her tone deliberately casual,

