Chapter 357

Alpha Gideon’s POV

“Please, Valeria… don’t leave us again.”

My voice cracked as I tightened my grip around her hands, afraid that if I loosened it even a little, she would disappear like smoke slipping through my fingers.

“We need you,” I continued desperately. “I need you. The kids need you.”

She stood in front of me, looking the way she always did in my dreams too real, too close, and yet alread