Author Alpha Dominic stared at the pale woman lying in the hospital bed. She looked fragile as parchment, her lips nearly translucent. When he'd carried her to the car earlier, the Vance family's housekeeper had opened the gates without question. The man had been too terrified by Dominic's murderous expression to even ask how he'd gotten onto the property. The wedding ring on Dominic's finger caught the light as he turned his hand. He'd found Elara's purse thrown on the stairs, her phone completely dead. The storage room door had been locked from the outside. Someone had deliberately trapped her there. Who had locked her away? Alpha Enzo, or that woman who called herself Elara's mother but treated her like an unwanted guest? -- Alpha Enzo and Nadia were having

