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Chapter 54

|| ALEXIS'S POV ||

I said nothing to Elinda. Not where I was going, not why I'd left early this morning, and of course not about the hole that had been in my stomach ever since the call. The moment Alpha Killian made the suggestion that something was not entirely normal with her foster father's death, I knew I needed to witness it myself.

Ireland was colder than I remembered. Not in weather, but in mood. The skies were clouded, and the wind moaned as if lamenting something painful. When I came to the house—Elinda's childhood home—I halted at the gate, my boots crunching over pebbles. It looked normal at first glance, too normal. That alone was unnerving.

Killian met me at the porch. He had already secured the place, making sure the rest of the pack members remaining in Ireland wouldn't interfere with us. I nodded in gratitude and went in.

I breathed deeply. The air would have been filled with smells—blood, fear, anger, something. But nothing. Nothing at all.

"This doesn't m
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