Fell for the Alpha-less Queen

Chapter 605 The Price of Obsession

“Nathan, if you touch a single hair on her head, I’ll tear your entire Frost Pack apart.

“Oh, don’t be so fierce,” he replied lightly, as if amused. “I just wanted to see you. After all… I’ve prepared a rather special gift.”

The call ended with a soft click.

Tessa’s fist clenched at her side, knuckles white. Samuel watched her with concern. “What now? Should we call Landon?”

“Not yet.” Tessa shook her head. Landon was in the middle of the Elders‘ Council–he couldn’t afford distraction. “I’m calling someone else.”

She dialed a secured line. The voice on the other end was aged and cautious.

“Tessa?”

“Nathan took my friend,” she said bluntly. “I know you want him to get help. We can make a deal.”

There was a pause on the other end. Jeremy was clearly weighing his options.

“What kind of deal?”

the psychiatrist you’ve chosen.” Tessa’s voice was calm but firm. “You know as

had fractured the day his former Luna died. Since then, he’d

I agree. But you must swear–you

as he stops acting like a lunatic, I

words, her fingers tapped the edge

truth behind her composed tone. It was a temporary lie- a move to pacify

a low

eyes sliding over the Frost Pack’s power structure map on her screen, “but I

only agreed not to kill Nathan to

used her and Landon as pawns, and one who once sent assassins to take her life. From

off at

he let me go, he’d

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Tessa caught her as she stumbled, her voice calm

That night. Landon called.

feed showed his face drawn with fatigue from the council meeting, but the moment he saw her his expression softened. “Lina–she’s

Tessa said, propping the phone up to show Lina on the couch, sipping porridge. “I struck a deal with Jeremy.

her meaning. “Nathaniel already sent you the Frost Pack

at a key node. “Their energy mines are tied closely to the council’s interests. If