Chapter 276. Dashed Hopes

Aurora’s POV

I shifted uneasily, my curiosity gnawing at me. The room was heavy with silence, but the questions in my mind were too loud to ignore. The atmosphere felt tense, thick with unspoken things.

“Alpha Camden,” I began, my voice a little quieter than I intended, “what exactly is going on? You’ve been so cryptic about all of this. What happened when we came back from that incident? You’ve been keeping things from us.” I wasn’t sure what I expected him to say, but the weight of his gaze made my chest tighten. It felt like the truth was just out of reach, like it was something I had to pry out of him.

Alpha Camden’s expression hardened, his face lined with the seriousness of someone who’d seen too much, too many things that weren’t easy to explain. “After the incident,” he started slowly, “I sent out a search order across the states, trying to find out if any of their family members were still around, still alive, or even looking to make contact. So far