Alpha Gideon’s Office
The room was thick with tension as Alpha Jude flipped through the photographs and documents laid out before him. His sharp gaze lingered on the images for a long moment before he finally spoke.
“I suspected from the start that kidnapping Grace was a mistake,” Jude said, his voice calm but laced with steel. His eyes lifted to meet those of Alpha Hugo and Alpha Gideon. “Their target was someone else.”
Alpha Gideon’s brow furrowed. “But who?” he asked, voice low with disbelief, “This kind of thing has never happened inside the Academy walls. Those filthy rogues never even dared to sniff near our borders. What gave them the audacity to scale the waterfall and snatch Grace in front of so many Alphas?”
He paused, the weight of his own thoughts visibly pressing on him.
