Adrian's POVThe private investigator's report sat on my desk like an accusation and I had read it so many times the words blurred together.Ava was alive, safe, and working in a bookstore in Silver Creek territory and living in a room above the shop.Relief should have flooded through me but rage came instead. She was close enough to reach yet completely beyond my grasp.The investigator had been clear about the complications. Prince Dante had placed her under unofficial protection and anyone who interfered would face consequences from the Alpha King himself.I threw the report across the room and watched it scatter across the floor. My wolf snarled inside my chest and demanded we go get what belonged to us.But nothing was that simple anymore. Not when politics and power stood between me and the woman I could not stop wanting.Beta Jacob knocked before entering my office. He took one look at the scattered papers and sighed like a man who had run out of patience."Tell me you are not
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