White hot fear shot through my body even as I felt cold inside. My entire body shook as I held the letter and tried to read despite the trembling. On a white nondescript paper, in near handwriting, the words said:

What do you think the Alpha would say when he knows you have his wife’s diary? Even your mate won’t save you then.

Love,

Xavier.

The trembling became so terrible that I had to drop the note or risk ripping it. I stumbled away from it as if it would burn me. I wrapped my arms around myself and tried to control the trembling.

Xavier had been here. He had...