Chapter 332

Alpha Gideon’s POV

It’s been three hours.

Three long, brutal hours since Valeria stormed out of my room, fury burning in her eyes, pain etched so deeply into her face that I felt it like claws ripping through my chest.

Three hours since the guard reported hesitantly, fearfully, that she had gone toward the woods.

The woods.

My jaw tightens as I stand in the middle of the hallway, fists clenched at