Chapter 180: Finding Her

Leonard’s POV

​One Year Later

​I stared out the window of my office at the pack below, but I didn’t see the skyline. I saw a pair of silver masks. I saw a red wig. I saw a woman who had disappeared into the night like a ghost.

​A year. It had been 365 days since that night in the hotel, and I still hadn’t stopped thinking about her. "Samantha." I knew the name was probably a lie, just like everything else, but the feeling of her in my arms had been the most real thing I had ever felt.

​I picked up her undergarments that sat on my desk. I had kept them. They were the only thing I had left of her. It was strange—for a long time, I had been in deep mourning for Scarlett. The pain of losing her had been a heavy weight I carried every single day. But that night, Samantha had changed everything. For a few hours, she made me forget about Scarlett. She made me forget the grief and the pain.

​I had even started to think about a future with her. I thought about starting a life with that mysterious dancer, even if I didn’t know her real name. She was the first person to make me feel alive again.

​My brothers thought I was losing my mind. Leo had become cold and quiet, burying himself in pack business, his life falling apart as he fought a bitter battle for divorce. We barely looked at each other these days. The memory of our hands on each other’s throats in that hotel room still stood between us like a wall.

​Liam tried to keep us together, but the air between us was always thick with the memory of that night. We had almost killed each other over a woman who didn’t even want us to know her face.

the lace. I had used every resource I had. I had hired trackers. I had checked every flight, every train, and every bus

I whispered to the empty

the one who had looked at us with so much fire and fear. He wanted the one who had made us feel alive after the death

It was a private message from a contact I had paid a lot of money to in the

a lead. A woman matching

care about the business. I stood up, grabbing my coat. I didn’t even

through every city, from the neon lights of Tokyo to the quiet temples of the

to find her. And this time, I wouldn’t

through the mind-link to my pilot. "We

Alpha," he

another second. I strode to my bedroom and pulled a suitcase from the closet, throwing clothes into it with zero care. My mind was already in Japan. I was imagining the moment I would catch her scent in a crowd. This time, I wouldn’t be a gentleman. This time,

of expensive, cloying perfume filled the room. I didn’t even have to look up to

traveling, Leonard?" Talia asked,

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