The Alpha's Power Play

ing that decision over, because not calling the police about a threatening note felt insane, and calling the police about a

t sheet on her first day, in case of injuries during off hours, and she felt faintly ridiculous

my door. Told me to leave

n your door for anyone tonight. I'm sending Dane

him standing on her tiny landing above the laundromat looking entirely too large for the space, sti

me," h

his jaw tighten with each pass, watched the muscle in his

ant to look like an outside threat, but the timing's too cl

fort

the edges, and she found she wasn't afraid of it this time, just tired. "I'm trying to figure out who i

n her since she read the note the first time. "Maybe it's about my fat

s face, there and gone. "Do y

hrough it. Couldn't." She hadn't meant to admit that last part, the weakness of it, but it

n. If someone's threatened by what he mig

U

uch as a fact he'd already accepted. "You're in this now whether either

en pack and apparently felt responsible for a dead reporter he'd never fully expla

happens to me? You did

er's injury more times than I can count. When you walked into my locker room, I felt like I

them that she wasn't ready to examine. She looked aw

w. "I'll have someone here tonight and every ni

vanish before the follow-up could land, and she went back inside and sat with her father's old cardboard box for the first time in eight years, hand

nterview transcripts. A half-finished p

s before Wes Callahan's injury, she found a single page of handwritten notes in

loodline. W.C. injury not accidental. Confirm before pr

n different ink, a

know

ered off at dawn, and somewhere in that box, she understood, was the reason he'd died, and the reason someone wan