The elevator dinged again, and this time the doors opened on a different temperature of air. Men in dark jackets stepped out two by two, moving like a fact. They weren't the hotel's. They weren't Jacob's.
They were Alex's.
The lead man nodded once to Alex. “Alpha."
The word fell into the hallway like a dropped coin that made everyone look.
Jacob's guards stiffened. Lyle's eyebrows rose a millimeter and then went back where they lived. Camila stared, lips parting. Jacob's shoulders squared out of habit and then stopped when the rest of him remembered there were other alphabets for power.
Olivia's fingers tightened on the edge of the blanket she still held. She didn't step aside.
Jacob's voice found steel. “You brought your own soldiers into my city?"
“They followed me," Alex said. “L
