Theodore POV I knew she would come to me. Xavier had broken her trust and left her to her own devices. I knew she had questions, that I would only be too happy to answer while maintaining my innocent facade. I would have to direct her anger towards him while maintaining my own pretense that I would have told her everything before I marked her. A lie, but she's not acting rationally right now. My men have been sent to ward off Xavier's, who are trying to prevent her from coming to me. He might have warned me not to touch her, but I'm not going to let him intimidate me into doing what he wants. Alyssa chose to come to me, something I would only be too happy to inform him of if he attempted to come into my territory again. I hung up the phone. Dahlia moved listlessly. "Was that Alyssa?" sh