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The afternoon sun cast long shadows across my sitting room as I paced back and forth. Olivia was three

hours late for our w****y tea-something that had never happened before.

“Bernard,” I called sharply. Any word?"

My faithful butler appeared, his face showing concern. "No, Matriarch. Alpha Ethan's phone remains

unanswered"

A knot of dread tightened in my chest. Olivia was always punctual, especially for our meetings.

"Get Maxwell Chen on the phone," I ordered. "Immediately."

When Maxwell answered, I didn't waste time with pleasantries. "Where is my grandson?"

"Alpha Stone is in a pack meeting, Matriarch. Shall I have him call you when he's finished?"

I'd lived too many years to be fooled by such an obvious lie. "Don't insult my intelligence. Where is Ethan?"

After a pause, Maxwell finally admitted, "Alpha Stone is at the Silvercrest Pack Medical Den with Victoria Frost and her daughter."

My grip tightened on the receiver. "And where is Olivia?"

His silence spoke volumes.

"I will ask you once more. Where is my grandson's mate?"

His response was barely audible. The basement of Rosewood Haven, Matriarch."

I remembered finding eight-year- old Olivia huddled in that same basement, covered in rat bites, her

I demanded,

with the doctors and has given orders

long has Olivia been in

this afternoon," Maxwell

around immediately.

to Rosewood Haven seemed endless. When we finally arrived, I marched

basement," I commanded, and they moved ahead,

found

"Olivia,

so

descended the stairs as quickly as my aging body allowed. At the bottom,

a small form huddled

Chapter 51 The Matiarch

curled

of here," I

swiftly, one gathering Olivia's limp form into his arms. Her face was deathly

"And inform Dr. Fletcher that if

"Get her into treatment

attached monitors to her still form. "She's experiencing cardiac

"Will she recover?"

doing everything we can. But her condition was already weakened. This confinement may have pushed her body

placed his

finally opened.

broke my composure. After everything she'd endured, her first thought was

food brought immediately."

food," Olivia added, "Real food.

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