#Chapter 244: Fan the Flames

Edwin I stared down at the reports in front of me and felt a surge of anger bubble up in my chest. “You’re sure that this is what’s happening?” I asked, glancing up at my Beta. “There’s no way you were mistaken?” Charles pursed his lips and leaned back in his chair. That was all the answer I needed. “Fuck.” I smacked my hand on the desk and looked away, clenching my teeth so tightly I thought they might crack. My Beta remained silent, waiting for the storm to pass before he said anything else. I couldn’t shoot the messenger, of course. But the reports that Charles just brought back to me were enough to make my blood boil with fury. According to our recent investigations into orphanages around Crescent territory, we discovered something… unsettling, to say the least. Apparently, it was commonplace for orphanages to commission—that’s right, commission—human children to undeserving families. Such as the family that Audrey was adopted into. S