I stared at Marcus standing beside Alpha Thorne, my mind struggling to process what I was seeing. If the real Marcus was here, then who had we left at Nightshade? Who had we trusted with our secrets for the past four days?
Through the mate bond, I felt Ezra's shock and fury matching my own.
"Surprised?" Alpha Thorne asked with a satisfied smile. "My son didn't betray me after all. But you were so eager to believe he had, so desperate for a way to defeat me, that you fell for the oldest trick in the book, a plant."
"That wasn't Marcus?" I said, though I already knew the answer.
