Page 70 of Her Cruel Alpha

Logically, I didn’t have an answer to that. Henrik should be dead. If it killed others, I didn’t see why he was okay. But I couldn’t think logically about this.

“Because it’s controlled by a person, and I don’t think the person even knows what they want. The darkness changes its weight and volume constantly. When it attacked me, it made me feel sick, but it left physical marks on Henrik.”

Ralph’s lips pressed together. “That gives more questions than answers.”

“You’re just joining where we are all sitting,” Frank grumbled.

I looked at Henrik and wondered if we should bring up the memory we saw. I could still see it. It would forever be ingrained in my mind, including the body in front of the man.

“Did you see the man?” I asked Henrik, keeping my voice in a whisper.

Henrik looked at me, his eyes were soft as he nodded his head. His fingers tightened around mine. “Yes.”

I swallowed. “And the child?”

His lips tightened.

“Where do we even go from here?” Jones asked, waving a hand. “We can’t keep sitting here twiddling our thumbs around. We all have people getting injured, people dying. What are we doing?”

We knew that a man was doing this, but we had no idea why. But that anger, the anger and the vision.

“I think it’s a man grieving.”

Everyone looked at Henrik and me. I chewed on my cheek when Derrick gave me a head nod.

“We all know that someone is doing this, and we know it’s a man from Sam’s visions. She said she heard him.”

Sam nodded in agreement.

“Why do you think he’s grieving?” Steve asked, tapping his fingers. He glanced at Derrick, who seemed relaxed. Had Henrik told him?

“We saw a vision of a man leaning over a small person about the size of a child. The child wasn’t moving.”

“Wow, look, you know even more than we do,” Frank snapped, throwing his hands up. “Why does it not surprise me that you guys held that information to yourselves?”

“Enough,” Ralph snapped, his voice echoing around the room. “We are all on the same team here.”

“We are? Because it sure doesn’t feel like it.”

Henrik sighed. “Frank, we aren’t keeping information from you. We are sharing it all now. We didn’t keep information from anyone.”

“You didn’t bring that up yesterday.”

“Because it was late, and everyone was yelling!” Henrik growled at him. “And if you don’t lower your damn tone I’m going to reach over Aaron and smack it out of you.”

“You wanna go?” Frank asked, pulling himself out of his chair. “I will gladly go right now.”

“Would you two knock it off? This is a serious issue.” Aaron snapped. “Frank, sit the fuck back down.”

“Oh, I’m taking this seriously. It’s these guys that can’t seem to get how serious this is.”

“Are you kidding me!?” Jay snapped, fury filling his face. “We are all fucking aware of how serious this is! You’re the onegetting all hot-headed because you didn’t know something you were prudent to.”

“Of course you would say that because you probably already knew! Your wife fucking sees everything.”

Jay swung up now. “Say that again, Frank. I’ll beat the shit out of you right now.”

“Enough!” I yelled, which caused all of them to tense up. “That’s enough! Jesus Christ! You are all acting like fucking children! You’re Alpha’s. Act like it.”

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