Chapter 88

Alpha Gideon’s POV

Five Days Later

I sat at my office desk, flipping through some files that no longer made sense to me. The words blurred together, lines tangled in one another like my thoughts. It had been five days since the incident, five long days since Valeria was hospitalized.

I told myself again and again that I didn’t care—that she meant nothing to me—but deep down, I knew I was lying. Ev