Chapter Eighty-two

As I walked away from Aaron’s house, my thoughts were a tangled mess. It felt like I was on the edge of a revelation, but the pieces just wouldn’t fall into place. There was something crucial I was missing, something right in front of me, yet it remained just out of reach. The conversation with Aaron replayed over and over in my mind, each word, each pause, echoing like a riddle I couldn’t solve.

What was I overlooking? Aaron’s warnings, his reluctance to talk… all of it pointed to the fact that the danger was still very real. If Alpha Roman was willing to kill to keep his...