_Alpha Lucas' POV_ I couldn't shake the unsettling feeling that had washed over me when Aaron and Anna mentioned the striking resemblance between Linda and Elena. It was impossible, or at least it should have been. Linda couldn't still be alive, could she? My father had gone to great lengths to eliminate her. He had employed countless resources to ensure that she was gone for good. Questions and doubts swirled within my thoughts. Alpha Nate's suspicions, which I had once considered baseless, now resurfaced in my mind. Could Linda have really returned to seek revenge? I had considered her to be dead for so many years, and the idea that she could still be alive felt like a ghostly specter from the past haunting my present. As Aaron and Anna continued to press me, I struggled to maintain

