Orien He was in his office at 5am; Milton, Chad and Sean were out, running morning training. Addi had locked herself away inside the Alpha Suite and Luci had stopped talking to everyone now, not just her own mother. She had also locked herself away in her own suite. Like mother, like daughter. He was ready to pull his own hair out at the pair of them, had come to the conclusion that Luci had to be allowed to attend Alpha College, it was the only way the girl was going to come out of that room. He’d spoken to her about not attending, broached the subject lightly only and gotten a very angry look and the words “Yes, don’t send me but send Thatcher.” And the door had been slammed in his face. She was not so stupid, understood it was just her that wasn’t going to be allowed to go, and she h