Damon's POV
THE DAUGHTER MAY ENTER. THE ALPHA MUST REMAIN OUTSIDE.
I had read the message six times, and I disliked it more with every repetition. Whoever sent it had infiltrated our security system and made a threat sound like an invitation.
Worse, Vespera was looking at the screen as though she intended to accept.
She'd been in my territory for less than two days, yet she'd exposed weaknesses in my security, brought a dead man's secrets to my doorstep, and made me question decisions I'd spent years learning to make without hesitation.
Now someone was dangling her missing mother in front of her, and I could see the calculations behind those amber eyes.
She would go, even if every warning told her it was a trap.
I needed to stop her. No, I needed to keep her alive without becoming a
