Chapter 142

Author The hospital room door flew open, slamming against the wall with a force that made the medical equipment rattle. Alpha Gavin strode in, his powerful frame filling the doorway, eyes flashing with barely contained fury. "Leave us," he commanded the hospital staff without even looking their way. The nurses in the hallway scattered like frightened prey,. Alpha Gavin's normally handsome features were twisted into a mask of cold rage. The events of the past twenty-four hours had pushed him to his limit. Yesterday's tedious pack meetings had already left him exhausted; then came the frantic call from Boulder police, forcing him to drop everything and race across state lines to bail out his mother. But it was what he'd learned at the police station that truly shook him to his core. "Murder?" The word had hung in the sterile air of the station like poison. "A body buried in an orchard five years ago? My mother as an accomplice?" Five years ago, he'd been studying international business a