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?”

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

the day his former Luna died. Since then, he’d spiraled into a darkness that no

I

he stops acting like a lunatic, I have

fingers tapped the edge of the table, cold light still

composed tone. It was a

she ended the call, he asked in a low voice, “You really plan to spare

a mirthless smile, her eyes sliding over the Frost Pack’s power structure map on her screen, “but I never said I’d

only agreed not to kill Nathan to secure Lina’s

kind–one who threatened the Thorne family and used her and Landon as pawns, and one who once sent assassins to take her life. From

Lina was dropped off at the doorstep of the medical organization’s

even if he let

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get the chance. Tessa caught her as she stumbled, her voice calm but

That night. Landon called.

feed showed his face drawn with fatigue from the council

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

“Nathaniel already sent

Her fingers tapped the screen, stopping at a key node.