CADEN’S POV
Aria was right. We were too old school. We needed to find a new way to communicate other than damn birds. The message came in at 2 am via messenger dove. First seeing it, I assumed Ronan had sent a new message, hoping that he had found Aria and everything would be fine. But I knew better when I saw the neat scrolling font when the message was handed to me.
Unrolling the sheet, I almost dropped it. Claude. Claude had Aria. And he was demanding a ransom. He wanted access to our compound and free range to hunt on our lands. I’d give any of these in a second, but this was not my entire decision. I may be Alpha, but I’d made my pack part of the decision-making process and would need approval from my council to make such a drastic decision.
I gripped the paper, punched the wall, a
