Reclaimed By My Alpha (Natalia and Andrei) novel Chapter 552

Karl glanced at me. “You’re not seriously thinking of following Celeste’s letter, are you?”

“What else am I supposed to do?” I shrugged. “If Andrei is still alive, and bringing him back would protect the pack…”

Karl noticed the hopeful expression on my face and sighed softly. “You’re not worried about the pack. You’re just giving yourself an excuse to do something dangerous because you miss him.‘

I pursed my lips and refused to comment, but we both knew he was right.

Karl closed the book carefully and set it down. “Fine,” he said. “I’ll help you. Whatever you need.”

I let out a long breath. “Thank you.”

The following morning, I called a meeting.

It was a small one–just my Beta, my two senior warriors, and Mila, who had never stopped serving the pack even though she was older and more tired.

I started with the Aurelius situation, because they needed to know. I gave them the short version–he’d come, he’d proposed a merger, I’d declined, he’d given me thirty days before issuing a formal challenge. I left out the part about the letter or my insane plan.

“What did I miss while I was gone?” I asked after the hard part was over.

“A few things. Most of it is routine.” Mila went through the list methodically–a boundary dispute with a neighboring pack that had been simmering for a while, a supply issue in the eastern quarter, some weather damage to one of the outer walls that needed repair before winter.

“And then there’s this,” she said at the end.

She slid a sheet of paper across the table to me. I picked it up.

It was a list of names. Eight of them, all from the eight packs in the region. Next to each name was a date, spanning back roughly three months. One had gone missing from each pack.

“Missing persons?” I asked, looking up.

“Reported missing,” she said. “No bodies found. No signs of attack, nothing strange. They just…” She shook her head. “Didn’t

come home.”

“Luna Catherine asked us to take a look,” my Beta pointed out. “She wants to know if you might have any insight”

I looked down at the list again. Eight missing people across eight packs wasn’t that out of the ordinary. They could have left the packs of their own accord, maybe even become rogues. Besides, werewolves were notoriously tickle, and they could have gotten themselves killed in petty disputes or misguided adventures.

Sort of like the one I was about to go on.

I told my advisors what I thought about it, and they agreed. After we discussed some security protocols and backup plans to deal with Aurelius, we ended the meeting. Everyone filtered out, although I remained sitting at the conference table with the hat of missing people sitting in front of me.

I felt drawn to it, although I couldn’t explain why Picking it up, I studied it one more time. None of the names were familist tu me, and they all seemed disconnected, coming from entirely different regions from one another.

And yet, something about the list made me feel uneasy.

I decided to mindlink my Beta and told him to look into the names. See if there were any similarities between the cases, dir perhaps if any of the missing persons had hidden links to one another.

Chapter 552

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