"That he had peripheral knowledge of a special project involving a male heir, but was never directly involved," Alpha Maxwell explained. "His contact this woman Helena—mentioned three training facilities where 'the prince' was being prepared for his role."
"The prince," I repeated, the title sending a chill through me. "They're grooming him to be their figurehead."
"More than that," Liam said, his green eyes troubled as he examined a document. "According to this, they've been teaching him to harness the powers of the Goddess’s brother, and Elias’s name isn’t a coincidence; they named your brother after the Goddess’s brother. This ‘shadow faction,’ it seems, wanted to turn the Goddess’s line against itself in the hope that the Goddess would end her line permanently, even if they couldn’t.
