ALPHA ASTRIDE POV

I couldn't understand why I felt uneasy, my mind constantly going back to Penelope .

Ashley restlessness kept intensifying, and it was driving me insane. I couldn't focus on my work properly, and I kept experiencing pain from the dark hole in my chest. It was unbearable.

I left my office and headed to Racheal chamber, where I've been for several hours now. Being near her was usually like medicine to my soul. Somehow, her presence always seemed to make the pain from the cursed hole in my soul bearable.

But these days, it was almost as if the dark hole had come alive, and nothing was...