(Caius)
I read the two lines again before folding the parchment halfway.
Neither of us spoke. The words carried too much meaning to rush past them. Whoever had written them expected another Alpha King to understand what they meant.
If the child survives, do not search where she disappeared.
Search where she was meant to go.
I placed the parchment beside the birth record.
"They're connected."
Isla looked from one document to the other.
"You think they were written by the same person?"
"I think they were left for the same reason."
She leaned closer.
"They wanted to stop someone from making the wrong choice."
"Yes."
I lowered my eyes to the journals again.
"Every clue we've found has pointed us away from Ashcrest."
She thought about that for a moment.
"The journal told us my m
