#Chapter 232: Bait

Edwin My brother was in danger. At first, a part of me had hoped that Audrey’s nightmare was just that—a nightmare. And then, when she had shown me the details of what she had seen, I had naively hoped that it hadn’t happened yet, that maybe we still had time before Axel slipped a silver knife in between Peter’s ribs. But now I knew that I had been dead wrong. About all of it. “You’ll want to see this in person, Alpha,” Charles had said. “I’m almost there. Hang tight.” And now here my Beta was, his face ashen as he stood in front of me. Audrey was tucked firmly against my side, and I could feel her hummingbird heartbeat hammering against my ribs as we waited for the news. Charles held out the note. “Here it is, Alpha. The bastards pinned it to a dead fox on the train tracks.” The pit in my stomach hollowed out even more at that. I knew, in that moment, that Axel was behind this after all. He had always said that Peter should have been a f