Alec returned to his office.
He was turning his brother’s words over in his mind. The man had no idea that Polina had once tried to take her own life because of Ruslan’s brutality. He had thought she simply couldn’t accept the fact that his brother had kidnapped her.
This was worse. Far worse than he had expected.
If this continued, his brother would eventually offer her a choice—and she would leave. Then the Alpha would either die from longing… or go mad. And then Alec would have to put him down.
"Hey. Skipping work today?" — Alec decided to find out where his assistant had gone.
"Hi, Alec!" — he heard the girl’s cheerful voice. —"I had to deal with a couple of Black Star issues. Had a business breakfast with Zakir and Hafiz. We settled everything. I’ll drop the documents with legal
