Chapter 355. C.C. Center

Valen’s POV

Nothing jumped out.

Lucky for the Theta.

“What do we have here, Alpha?” Jason quipped, coming beside me to peer into the crate.

“Rare sheets of metal,” I replied, hovering my palm over the crate to assess the oozing energy.

“New materials!” He drawled. His eyebrows shot up in delighted disbelief, and a grin spread across his face, matching the excitement in his citrine eyes as he rubbed his palms together. “I could do a lot with these.”

“You could, if I let you,” I barbed, cautiously lowering my hand into the crate.

I didn’t have to see his face to know that his grin collapsed, and the light in his eyes flickered out.

“That’s just wrong,” he murmured, his voice sunken.