Chapter 59

Alpha Gideon – POV

I sat at my study table, coffee cooling beside my hand, untouched since the last time I stared blankly at the steam rising from it. My mind, as usual, wasn’t on the reports stacked in front of me—it was somewhere else entirely. Somewhere it shouldn't be.

Valeria.

She was deserving of the punishment she earned.

And then my mind drifted to the elders room, where she was declared t