Love the Wolfless Power Girl at First Sight

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?”

psychiatrist you’ve chosen.” Tessa’s voice was calm but firm. “You know as well as I do–if this keeps going,

understood Nathan’s obsession. His mind had fractured the day his former Luna died. Since then, he’d spiraled into

the line. “Fine. I agree. But you must swear–you won’t harm

stops acting like a lunatic, I have no interest in

her fingers tapped the edge of the

nearby, understood the truth behind her composed tone. It was a temporary

he asked in a low

mirthless smile, her eyes sliding over the Frost Pack’s power structure map on

only agreed not to kill Nathan to

Jeremy were two of a kind–one who threatened the Thorne family and used her and Landon as pawns, and one who once sent assassins

hours later, Lina was dropped off at the doorstep of

jaw tightened. “Nathan said even if he let me

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her voice calm but filled

That night. Landon called.

video feed showed his face drawn with fatigue from the council meeting, but the

on the couch, sipping porridge. “I struck a deal with Jeremy. He let her go, I

meaning. “Nathaniel already sent you the