Gift-wrapped

“Can you get the nurse?” All asked Anna. She left without saying anything, but took with her the feeling that something very important had been revealed in that room.

When they were alone again, Suzy turned to Allister.

“You should have spoken to that girl about her fate.”

“Adam's hatred won't survive around her.”

“We're both the same age and have the same information about Alphas. Are you so naive to believe that Adam will grow old? That he won't die before he's forty?”

Allister frowned.

“That's not what I said. I don't want Adam to die.”

“Even if you did... Would it be possible? Because he won't live long after your death, All, if it's possible to kill him.”

“What makes you think that?”

“Do you want to know the truth?”

“I thought that was the basis of all our conversations...”

“I've already planned several ways to kill Adam, and I'm his mother! Can you imagine what the people who work for him must be planning? At the first show of weakness, Adam will die.”