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?”

I’ll ensure Nathan sees the psychiatrist you’ve chosen.” Tessa’s voice was calm but firm. “You know as well as

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

sigh came through the line. “Fine. I

a lunatic, I have

her fingers tapped the edge of the

composed tone. It was a

she ended the call, he asked in a low voice,

the Frost Pack’s power structure map on her screen, “but

only agreed not to kill Nathan to secure Lina’s

and one who once sent assassins

dropped off at the

if he let me go,

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The

Tessa caught her as she stumbled, her voice calm but filled with unshakable resolve. “Get some

That night. Landon called.

his face drawn with fatigue from the council meeting, but the moment he saw her his

to show Lina on the couch, sipping porridge. “I struck a deal with

instantly catching her meaning. “Nathaniel already sent you the

screen, stopping at a key node. “Their energy mines are tied closely to