Ryder's POV “Are you alright?” Kylian asked as he walked in on me getting ready to receive my guests. I was uneasy at that point as the meeting which I had been expecting to have been a fun get-together with the old friend was suddenly making me tense. “I’m pretty good,” I said, not even bothering to make myself sound convincing in any way at all. It was all feeling like I could get exposed in a conversation at the dinner table which was bound to be buzzing with a lot of talk. The big question remained how Alpha Marcus could have gotten a hold of that information. I suspected that he had someone in my fortress who was actually telling him all of that. It was really hard to tell who it could have been at that point, as I was sure that I had kept my tracks clear from Kylian who was

