~ Alpha Bastian's POV ~ I settled down in the bed next to my mate, not expecting that my restful night would be interrupted once more. A frantic knock sounded on the door to the alpha suite. It was so loud that I would have thought it was on my own bedroom door had I not known that nobody else would be in the suite and that my sons were in their own bedrooms by now. I left the bedroom, hoping that the quicker I got to whoever was knocking, the less chance of Laila being woken up by the sound. I was greeted by a worried-looking Mark in the doorway when I opened it. His hand was up as if he was about to knock once more to try to get me to come faster. "What is it, Mark?" I asked my Beta, wondering why he would be here at this time of night in the panicky state he was in. He lowered his

