A Successful Experiment

••• Lina’s POV ••• I entered a crowded and noisy bar; the lights and the smell of alcohol were dizzying. Going toward the bar area, I waved to the bartender. “What’s your poison?” he asked with impatience as there were many customers who needed to be served. I leaned against the bar counter to get closer to him and gave him a password I had received in advance in a low voice. He surveyed me with vigilance but reached into his pocket and handed me a key the next second. Ignoring his unfriendly gaze, I took the key and went into a small hidden room at the end of the corridor, a room that cut out all the sounds from outside. I shivered due to the cold air inside the room, which was as simple as a tomb, with barely anything inside except for a couch in the middle of the room. On it sat a middle-aged man in a suit. He was James, one of the Alphas in the mafia packs alliance decades ago. He knew my mate, and now I cooperated with him. He looked up from looking at his phone in his hand and sa