Aleksandr finally made a call, and gestured for me to get in. "The Alpha will see you, but he's in a mood. If you're wasting his time, your throat will be ripped out before you get to your third sentence."

"Two sentences is all I need, Beta." An hour later, in the back room of a building at the docks, I proved it to him. "Alpha Zubkov, your brother Yevgheny has an illegitimate daughter. She is filing to be declared his heir, but I know how to find her."

Jessie's POV

I slept most of the way back to the village, the jet lag catching up with me. "We're here,"...