ADRIANA When I first approached the office door, everything was completely silent. I was just about to go for the handle when I suddenly heard his voice. “What the hell is that supposed to mean?!” “Alpha, I really have no idea. We just received word that—” “I know exactly what you received, Aiden! I heard you loud and clear the first time. What I’m asking is how the hell can he say something like that?! All because of what? His pride was hurt?!” In all the time I’d been here, I’d never once heard Elijah raise his voice at anyone except Hannah so it shocked me. Should I just leave and come back later? I didn’t want his anger accidentally transferred onto me. I’d only come to ask if I could take Leo on a walk around the grounds, and right now with him in this kind of mood, he’d probabl

