The sickened luna’s last chance

Alexander went completely still. When he spoke again, his voice was so low and dangerous that it was hardly more than a growl. He took a step toward Gabriel. “You. Did…” Another step. “What?”

“I flushed it. It’s gone.” Gabriel shrank beneath Alexander’s shadow. I was angry and I wasn’t thinking clearly and-”

“Get upstairs,” Alexander snarled, releasing him. “We’ll finish this conversation in private.”

Alexander

Twenty minutes later, I found myself in my office watching Gabriel clutch his face where I’d landed a switch punch the moment we were alone. His lip was split and bleeding, and his eye was already swelling shut.

“You deliberately put my mate and child at risk,” I whispered. “As if it wasn’t already bad enough that you destroyed something precious to her out of spite. Give me one reason why I shouldn’t strip you of your rank right now.”

“Because I have information you need to see.”

“I don’t want to hear your excuses

“It’s about your parents.” Gabriel reached into his jacket pocket and pulled out a folded piece of paper. “I’ve been investigating Ella’s pack, just like you asked. And my operative found this.” He held out the paper with a shaking hand. “Hidden in their territory’s archives.”

I snatched the document from him and unfolded it. My blood ran cold as I read the familiar handwriting. It was a letter from Ella’s father to someone whose name had been deliberately obscured. But the content was clear enough.

“The Ashclaw Alphas have become too powerful. I think I know of a way to get them out of the picture. And their son is young and impressionable…”

I read it again. The letter

about it,” I said, looking

you would be easy to manipulate with your parents out of the picture, so they could gain influence from Ashclaw without incriminating

the letter explicitly stated that my parents could be taken out

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charge and that I was young

always had my suspicions of just that, but seeing it written out

there was Ella. This letter implied that

me.

Ella was younger than me; it was very possible that she hadn’t been aware of her role. And after everything I had seen her family do to her, the horrible way they treated her, I still wasn’t sure if

knew, she was just as much of a victim in

“I want concrete proof that Ella was knowingly involved in this scheme. And one more thing.” I fixed him with a stare that made him flinch. “One more slip–up like today and you’ll be permanently demoted to Omega. Are we

“Yes, Alpha.”

of here and go see

me alone with my thoughts

my

to reconcile the Ella I had come to know recently with the possibility that

Ella was hurting. My wolf wouldn’t let me sit here and stew when she and our