Kael – three weeks earlier
“So it turns out there’s not much to discover about this Nadia of yours,” Lydia Lang said in lieu of hello to Kael. She dropped into the seat across from him at the quiet café, shoving a pile of papers across the table. Despite her casual attitude, she looked every inch the experienced Beta that she was: her grey hair slicked back, her boots polished, her muscles evident on her stout frame through the fine lines of her tailored suit.
“She’s not mine,” Kael told her uncomfortably. It had only been a few weeks since he’d broken into Vincent Voss’s house and seen Nadia, endured her cold stare and developed his new suspicion about her relationship with the regent. That was what had led him to assign his pack’s Beta to investigating Nadia’s past in the human worl
