Lucas' POV
"Alpha, we’ve found a woman lurking around. She demands to see you. She claims she has something you really need to know," a soldier reported to me, his voice tight with urgency.
"Bring her in." I set the phone down and exhaled deeply. I had exhausted all my resources. Leah was nowhere to be found, and she wouldn’t respond to my mindlink. Time was slipping away with only ten hours left.
I hadn’t slept in three days, and without Leah by my side, my focus was shattered.
"Alpha Lucas," a woman entered my office, cloaked in a voluminous medieval hood.
"Who are you, and why are you here?" I demanded, narrowing my eyes as I tried to pierce the shadows concealing her face. Despite the obscurity, she felt oddly familiar.
"Every werewolf knows my name. I have come to answer your ca
