Arianna
“Because whoever is downstairs… looks exactly like you.”
For half a second, nobody moved.
Then the entire police station exploded into motion.
Braxton was already shouting into the phone, ordering his mother to get Eva upstairs and lock herself inside whichever room she could reach. Easton grabbed his keys from the desk while Louie started calling the patrol units closest to the Alpha house. Chairs scraped, radios crackled, and men who had been standing completely still seconds earlier were suddenly moving with the kind of precision that came from years of training together.
I couldn’t move.
Not because I was afraid.
Because I finally understood.
This wasn’t Carson.
Or at least…
It wasn’t only Carson.
“Arianna.”
Easton’s voice cut through everything.
I looked up.
He w
