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I clenched my jaw tightly, trying to hold myself together, but it hurt. It hurt because I knew what Levi was really asking. Would finding out the truth change what we felt for her? Would it undo our feelings for her?
I turned to Dustin. “Get our best spies… Place them on each of the Alphas that are suspects…” Dustin nodded and left.
I nodded. “Do it tonight. No mistakes.”
“Tonight,” I said firmly, “we dig out the body.”
“Then someone faked her death… and Olivia is still alive.”
They both stared at me, waiting.
“What if…” Louis started, then hesitated. “What if she doesn’t want to come back?”
I turned away and closed my eyes. Until now, everything we’d found, every piece of evidence, proved the body was Olivia. But this new result turned everything I believed upside down.
I nodded, then faced Dustin and my brothers, who were still waiting for my decision. I fixed my eyes on Dustin, my jaw tightening.
“If she is truly alive, then where is she?” I looked at my brothers, their faces mirroring my own mixture of hope and fear. “Is she okay? Is she safe? Is someone hurting her?”
A thousand possibilities stormed my mind, and none of them were good. If she wasn’t dead… if someone had gone so far as to fake her death… then what were they doing
with her now?
Louis stiffened beside me.
I looked down at the file again, at the pregnancy report. If the result were true, that body was definitely not Olivia.
then
Dustin nodded obediently. “I’ll make the arrangements. Quietly. No one outside this
room will know.”
I closed my eyes briefly. The thought of her being alive was driving my wolf restless.
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He was howling inside me. Despite the broken mate bond, he still felt attached to
Olivia.
Louis spoke. “But we carried a DNA test on it, and it came back positive, and our seer told us it was Olivia,” Louis sounded more confused.
The words landed like a blade straight into my chest. I looked away. I couldn’t answer him. Not because I didn’t want to, but because I didn’t know how to.
“What should I do?” I whispered to my wolf.
Louis whispered, “It was shaped like a crescent wrapped in flame.
Louis swallowed hard. “And if the mark’s not there…?”
Levi’s fists clenched. “What if it’s one of the Alphas? What if she’s being held in one of their packs?”
I looked at each of them slowly, then said, “Do you remember… Olivia had a dark god mark? On her lower back. A distinct one. It was there since birth–regardless of what happened to her, that mark couldn’t disappear.”
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“Whoever has her…” I said slowly, my voice full of rage, “will pay for it.”
Lennox’s POV
I blinked. “What?”
I nodded, though part of me already knew. Deep in my gut, in my soul. I knew she’s alive. And I would burn down the world to bring her back.
He responded immediately. “Follow your guts.”
“I want to check something,” I responded.
After Dustin left the room, a tense silence hung in the study… My brothers and I were consumed by our deep thoughts.
Louis rubbed his face harshly, pacing a few steps. “If she’s alive, then someone has been keeping her from us. Someone powerful enough to hide her. And fake her death.
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tear it apart?
Levi didn’t stop. “Are we going to tell her the truth?” he asked quietly. “That we’re related? That we share bloodlines with her?”
Louis and I both looked at him.
Dustin spoke. “I’ll prepare the site. By midnight, we’ll know the truth.”
My jaw clenched as unease settled in my gut. “That’s not a coincidence.”
“Exactly,” I said. “If that mark isn’t on that body, then we’ve been mourning the wrong person all this time.”
My throat tightened.
“Are you serious?” Levi asked, stepping closer. “Why would we do that?”
I turned away from them both and whispered so softly I wasn’t sure they even heard me- “We find her first.” O
Then maybe–maybe—we’d figure the rest out.
Dustin nodded. “So these are the three suspects we have in hand. What do us to do?” Dustin asked.
you want
I forced my voice to stay calm. “Then we’ll earn our place back in her life. No matter how long it takes.” 2
But I couldn’t. Neither of us could.
“What are the reasons?” I asked eagerly.
My heart beat hard in my chest. What do we do if she’s alive? I didn’t have an answer. So I stayed quiet.
The thought of that brought a sweet, bitter feeling. The idea that Olivia might still be alive… it was mesmerizing, like a dream I didn’t dare believe. But if she is alive, then where is she? How is she doing? My throat tightened.
Louis’s eyes widened. “What?”
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