Valerie Thorne’s POV:

I didn’t expect to find anything, especially when I didn’t even know what I had to find. I just flipped the old newspapers.

Alliance… 1978… some secret file… everything felt weird for some reason.

I was still reading and flipping the pages when my heart stopped for a second as I glanced at a short article in the lower corner of the page. The ink was faded, but the words… they felt wrong. Wrong in a way that it made the back of my neck prickle.

I leaned ...