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Beyond Reasonable Doubt (Full Series) Book Two- The Defense of Wolves: Act II- Indictment and Coup: Chapter 27
Book Two- The Defense of WolvesAct II- Indictment and CoupChapter 27Jordan POVThe courtroom was colder than it needed to be, which is how I knew Silvia Smith expected to win.Not because temperature affects outcomes—if it did, half the bench would be staffed by Florida retirees—but because prosecutors who plan to paint you as dangerous love anything that makes people tuck their hands under their arms and look nervous.Nervous people vote for cages.I stood at counsel table with my binder open, my bail packet stacked neatly beside it, and my face set to calm. Not “I’m fine” calm. “I will bury you with procedure” calm.My body did not match my face.Because Maddox wasn’t in the room yet, and the longer I waited, the more that low, gnawing ache pressed under my sternum. Like my chest was too tight for my lungs. Like something inside me kept reaching out and finding nothing.I told myself it was adrenaline. Stress. Lack of sleep. Coffee. The fact that a prosecutor had filed the word R
Beyond Reasonable Doubt (Full Series) Chapter 26
Chapter 26Jordan POVThe courthouse at night feels like a mouth that never quite closes.Even after the last hearing ends, even after the last defendant is led away, there’s still motion—clerks filing, deputies rotating, prosecutors pacing like caffeine is a personality trait. The building stays awake because the system doesn’t sleep. It just shifts into a quieter kind of hunger.I sat in my car in the back lot for a full minute with my hands on the steering wheel, not turning the key, not moving, just breathing.Maddox was in a holding cell.Silvia had filed added charges like she was decorating a Christmas tree.And the phrase medical suppression was still sitting in my bones like a bruise.I turned the engine on and drove, not back to Mercer, not yet—back to my office.I needed fluorescent lighting and paper and the familiar smell of toner to remind my brain that I lived in a world where evidence mattered more than whispers.When I got there, the lobby was dark. I hovered my key c
Beyond Reasonable Doubt (Full Series) Chapter 25
Chapter 25Jordan POVMaddox’s question didn’t sound like a trap.That was what made it dangerous.“Did your father ever mention wolves to you?”For half a second, I forgot I was standing in a library on a property that had cameras in the trees and secrets in the walls. I forgot I was building a surrender plan and a bail package and a compliance narrative. I forgot Silvia Smith was circling like she had a stopwatch in her pocket.All I heard was father.And the way Maddox said it—quiet, precise—like he already knew the answer mattered.My throat tightened.Kane’s eyes flicked from Maddox to me, alert.Rowan stayed near the shelves, arms crossed, face blank. But his body went subtly still, like the room had shifted and he was tracking what might break.I forced air into my lungs and made my voice steady.“No,” I said. “Not directly.”Maddox’s gaze didn’t move. “Not directly,” he repeated, like he was filing the phrase away.“I was a kid,” I added, because I needed him to understand I w
Beyond Reasonable Doubt (Full Series) Chapter 24
Chapter 24Jordan POVBy the time I got back to Mercer land, my patience had turned into something sharper.Not anger—anger was messy and loud and easy to dismiss.This was the kind of calm that came right before I wrote motions that made judges stare at prosecutors like they’d personally offended the Constitution.Silvia’s whisper followed me through the courthouse doors, through the parking lot, through the entire drive back into the woods.I know the name Maddox won’t give.I kept hearing it like a threat and a promise at the same time.If she knew, that meant the inside leak wasn’t theoretical anymore.It was active.And the pack was about to do what frightened groups always did when pressure tightened: they were about to demand violence because violence felt like control.The gates opened after the camera sweep. Two guards nodded as I drove through. Their eyes tracked my car longer than usual.Word traveled fast here too.I parked near the front, grabbed my binder, and walked in
Beyond Reasonable Doubt (Full Series) Chapter 23
Chapter 23Jordan POVI told myself I wasn’t going to think about the kiss.That was my first lie of the day.My second lie was that I’d be able to function like a normal attorney after being kissed in a garden by my client—an Alpha—who looked at me like I was the only thing in the world he couldn’t outthink.I sat at the kitchen table in my suite with my laptop open and a legal pad full of bail conditions, and my brain kept rewinding to the moment his mouth hit mine. Not the sweet part. Not the “oh wow, this is romantic” part.The hungry part.The part where he didn’t ask.The part where I didn’t hesitate.And the part where he stepped back afterward like I’d become radioactive.That last part bothered me more than the kiss itself.Because I could handle desire. I could handle impulse. I could even handle the sparks I couldn’t explain and the bond conversation that made my stomach twist. What I couldn’t stand was being treated like I was the mistake.I pressed the edge of my pen into
Beyond Reasonable Doubt (Full Series) Chapter 22
Chapter 22Maddox POVThe worst part about losing control wasn’t the act.It was the aftermath.It was the way my body remembered her mouth like it belonged there. The way my wolf paced under my skin like it had finally tasted what it wanted and now refused to accept restraint as law. The way I’d stepped back in the garden and watched coffee drip off her shirt while her eyes burned into mine—furious, flushed, alive—and I’d walked away anyway.Not because I didn’t want her.Because I did.Because wanting her made me careless.And carelessness got people killed.I stood in my office with my hands braced on the desk, staring at a map I wasn’t reading. The lines blurred. The ink might as well have been smoke. The only thing my mind kept seeing was Jordan against stone, her mouth parted, my hand on her jaw, the sparks that hit like lightning the second I touched her.Jordan kissing me back without hesitation.And then the disgust in her eyes when I pulled away.She had every right to be ang
Beyond Reasonable Doubt (Full Series) Chapter 50
Chapter 50Jordan POVI walked into the common room with a legal pad tucked under my arm and a fresh hatred for breakfast television.The TV was still on—volume low, captions on—because Elias had apparently decided that if we were going to be publicly set on fire, we should at least have the courte
Terakhir Diperbarui : 2026-03-27Beyond Reasonable Doubt (Full Series) Chapter 49
Chapter 49Jordan POVThe subpoena packet hit my inbox first—PDFs attached to an email with the kind of smug subject line that makes my teeth itch.STATE v. MERCER HOLDINGS et al. — SUBPOENAS DUCES TECUMThen, five minutes later, a physical copy showed up at the packhouse like Silvia Smith wanted t
Terakhir Diperbarui : 2026-03-27Beyond Reasonable Doubt (Full Series) Chapter 46
Chapter 46Jordan POVRoger met me in a place that smelled like day old coffee and questionable decisions.It was technically a diner, but “diner” made it sound charming. This one had sticky menus, a neon beer sign that flickered like it was trying to die, and a server who called everyone “hon” wit
Terakhir Diperbarui : 2026-03-26Beyond Reasonable Doubt (Full Series) Chapter 48
Chapter 48Jordan POVElaina’s clinic didn’t look like what people picture when they hear the word clinic.No dingy waiting room. No stack of outdated magazines. No sad little fish tank with one traumatized goldfish circling the same plastic castle until the end of time.This place looked like a pr
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