Chapter 198

Hudson's POV When I woke up the next morning, Christina was gone. I sat alone at the table, going over the CroftTech acquisition contract while finishing the last of my eggs. They were cooked perfectly, exactly what I'd expect from Carmen. I received a mind-link request from Beta Dominic and accepted it without hesitation. "Alpha Hudson, I just sent over the footage," Dominic said right away. It was security video from last night, timestamped just after eight, right outside The Atlas Room. The clip showed our whole group walking in. Rowan was standing two people away from me with clear space between us. Nothing even close to intimate. "Took you long enough," I said, though Christina already believed me. Watching this footage now hardly mattered. Lycaon stirred inside me. "Our mate trusts us. That's what counts." Beta Dominic apologized, "Took me a while to track down the manager. I'll be faster next time." "Someone got a weird shot of me and Rowan last night," I said, my voice getting