Chapter 68: Chapter 68

Chapter68 Third Person Kane was in a foul mood all day. After his conversation with Selene, he stayed away from the hospital.

He swore to himself he wouldn’t care about that woman anymore. He hated how she’d made him feel last night.

“Alpha, we lost the deal. Some of our people went behind our backs,” his secretary announced, dropping a bombshell.

Kane hurled the file across the room in rage. He shot to his feet, making his secretary flinch.

The secretary backed away, head bowed low.

“How the hell did we lose this project? Who dared to cross me?” Kane’s voice was ice–cold.

The stress was evident on his face, though it wasn’t just about the lost deal. Something else was eating at him.

“WHO?” he roared.

His secretary nearly collapsed. “The eastern packs are now shipping their goods to Iron Crown Pack.”

Kane’s eyebrows shot up. “What did you just say? Which pack?” he snarled through clenched teeth.

“I–Iron Crown Pack.”

Kane let out a furious growl.

The sound brought Beta Finn running to his office. The growl had been loud enough to send shivers through the entire floor.

Everyone knew when their Alpha lost it like this, there’d be hell to pay.

“What’s going on?” Finn asked, noticing the scattered file.

Finn quickly sized up the situation – Kane looked murderous, and his secretary was practically shaking in his boots.

“What happened?” Finn directed his question to the secretary this time.

After hearing the explanation, Finn’s eyes went wide while Kane continued to seethe.

“So that’s why Alpha Magnus showed up here. I should have known...” Kane muttered darkly.

Alpha Magnus had sweet–talked several of Kane’s pack members, all business owners, into signing contracts with him. Kane vowed those traitors would pay dearly. But Magnus? He wouldn’t get away with this either.

Yet more than the business betrayal, what really made his blood boil was how close Magnus had gotten to Selene. The images of them together flashed through his mind.

Suddenly, he had an overwhelming urge to find Selene and give her another piece of his mind.

He grabbed his suit jacket from the back of his chair and headed for the door.

“Where are you going?” Finn called after him.

“Pack hospital,” he snapped, storming out.

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= Menu The whole office went dead silent – everyone knew one wrong move could put them in Alpha Kane’s crosshairs.

It took him just minutes to reach the hospital nearby. People scrambled to bow as they recognized him.

He ignored them all, making a beeline for Selene’s room.

When he got there, he found a different woman in the bed.

He scowled at the patient and turned to the nurse.

The nurse bowed deeply. “Alpha.”

“Where’s Selene?”

Without looking up, the nurse stammered, “If you mean the previous patient, she checked out at noon.”

“What? Where did she go?” he demanded, confused.

“I’m sorry, Alpha. Someone came with discharge papers and left with her. That’s all I know.”

Kane stormed out and headed straight for Dr. Nathan’s office.

He burst through the door and grabbed Nathan, who had been buried in paperwork, by the collar and yanked him to his feet.

“Alpha? What’s wrong?” Nathan’s face was shocked. He had no clue what he’d done to tick off their mighty Alpha.

“Who came to get her?” Kane got straight to the point. His jaw was clenched tight, his fist twisted in Nathan’s collar.

“Alpha, I don’t know.”

Kane released his collar only to wrap his hand around Nathan’s throat.

“Right, you don’t know. But you had time to exchange flowers with her.”

Nathan looked away. “Alpha, you’ve got it wrong. We’re just friends.”

“Friends? Fine. Now tell me where she is.”

“She left the pack.”

Kane’s grip tightened around Nathan’s throat, cutting off his air.

“Who gave you permission to let her leave the hospital?”

Nathan squeezed his eyes shut, struggling to breathe.

“I–I’m sorry, Alpha. But it’s hospital policy – we can’t stop a patient from leaving if their family wants to take them.”

“Who took her?”

“I don’t know him.”

Kane forced himself to calm down. He released Nathan’s throat and took a step back.

“If I find out you’re lying about any of this, you’re dead.”

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The moment Kane left, Nathan broke into a coughing fit he’d been holding back. He grabbed a glass of water and downed it in one go. Alpha Kane had come this close to killing him.

Meanwhile, Kane was headed for the elevator when he decided to check on his father.

As he walked to his father’s room, his mind raced. Someone had come for Selene – but who? He hadn’t even asked if it was a man or woman.

When he pushed open his father’s door, he found his mother sitting by his still–unconscious father’s bedside.

She looked up, surprised. “Kane.”

“How is he?” he asked, dropping onto the couch near the bed.

He worked hard to keep his emotions in check around his mother.

“He’s responding well to treatment.”

Kane nodded, glancing at his father.

His mother studied him for a moment before saying, “Why didn’t you tell me about Selene? I had no idea she was in this hospital until I ran into her leaving today. I was shocked to see her with someone. The way they acted together – they seemed really close, like they’d known each other forever.”