FAYE
I didn’t wait before opening the message.
My thumb tapped against the screen, and the text came up almost immediately.
It was… simple.
Alexander had gone to see Helen.
And they were coming back together.
I stared at the words for a moment, reading them again like I had missed something the first time.
He went out to see his mother.
Not for work.
Not for anything official.
Just… her.
That alone was enough to make my brows pull together slightly.
Alexander wasn’t that type.
He didn’t just go to his mother's house to check on her. He barely called, and from what I had seen, it worked for both of them. Their distance wasn’t loud—it was just… there.
And after everything that had happened recently—
After the clash about Shadowfang… the one that didn’t seem to fade no matter h
