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Chapter 63

Author: Eliana Rose
last update publish date: 2026-09-27 00:55:24

I opened the box at 3 a.m.

The documents were organized with the precision of someone who had been keeping records for centuries. Folders labeled by decade. Files sorted by category. A complete history of everything Brian Abbot had done since 1624, preserved in ink and paper and careful notation.

I started with the standing clause.

Viktor had mentioned it—the provision that would make me Court property if Brian died without an heir. But that wasn't what the first document contained.

The first d
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  • Blood Debt: The Alpha's Captive Mate   Chapter 64

    I signed at dawn.The pen felt heavier than it should have. The ink darker. My name looked foreign on the page—Agatha Abbot, Luna of Blackwood, witness to an agreement that had been running for two hundred and forty years.One signature.Six hundred lives saved.And my soul permanently bound to something I couldn't undo.I set down the pen.The Court official who had brought the document—a vampire with no expression and eyes like polished stone—retrieved it without comment. Sealed it in a case of black leather. Walked out.The door closed behind him.And I sat alone with what I had become.Brian was waiting in the corridor.I felt him before I saw him—his presence thrumming through the bond like a wound that wouldn't stop bleeding. He was leaning against the wall opposite my door, his face gray, his clothes still bearing traces of the ambush that had nearly killed him.He didn't gloat.Didn't thank me.Didn't say a word.He just stood there, unable to meet my eyes, radiating self-hatr

  • Blood Debt: The Alpha's Captive Mate   Chapter 63

    I opened the box at 3 a.m.The documents were organized with the precision of someone who had been keeping records for centuries. Folders labeled by decade. Files sorted by category. A complete history of everything Brian Abbot had done since 1624, preserved in ink and paper and careful notation.I started with the standing clause.Viktor had mentioned it—the provision that would make me Court property if Brian died without an heir. But that wasn't what the first document contained.The first document was a supply agreement.Dated 1784.Renewed every twenty years since.I read the terms three times before I understood what I was seeing.The Abbot pack provided blood to the Vampire Court.Not raided. Not taken by force.Sourced.I flipped to the next page.A donor ledger. Real names. Real consent forms. Real payments—substantial ones, running four decades for some individuals. Wolves who had agreed to provide blood to vampires in exchange for compensation, protection, medical care.Six

  • Blood Debt: The Alpha's Captive Mate   Chapter 62

    I didn't open the box.I sat in my quarters for three hours, staring at it. The weight of three centuries of secrets pressed against my chest. Every truth Brian had hidden. Every lie he had told. Every piece of his history that would finally make sense.All I had to do was lift the lid.But something stopped me.Not loyalty. Not love. Something harder to name.The knowledge that once I read those documents, I couldn't unread them. That the choice to know was a choice to be changed. That Ilona had offered me exactly what I wanted—and that was reason enough to be suspicious.A knock at the door.I didn't move."Argentum." Viktor's voice. "May I enter?"He looked different here.In the compound, under the blood moon, Viktor had been a threat. A grieving brother demanding justice. A vampire prince with leverage and rage.Here, in his own territory, he was something else.Comfortable. Unhurried. The kind of predator who didn't need to prove himself because everyone already knew what he was

  • Blood Debt: The Alpha's Captive Mate   Chapter 61

    The Withering had a name.Ilona said it like she was speaking of an old enemy—something she had fought for decades and was finally losing to."It began sixty years ago," she said. "The newly-made were the first to show symptoms. Unable to hold what blood gave them. Fading within months of their turning.""Fading?""Losing cohesion." Ilona returned to her throne, each step costing her visible effort. "The blood that sustains us requires something to anchor it. Without that anchor, we dissolve. Slowly. Painfully. Like ice in warming water."I watched her settle into her seat."And now it's spreading.""To the older generations. Yes." Her voice was hollow. "The ones who have lived centuries are beginning to feel it. The weakness. The tremors. The sense that something essential is leaking away.""You're one of them.""I am the oldest." A ghost of a smile. "And therefore the most visible example of what awaits us all."I paced the chamber.The portraits stared down at me—centuries of Sover

  • Blood Debt: The Alpha's Captive Mate   Chapter 60

    The Vitrine rose from the earth like a blade.Glass towers stretched toward a sky that never quite brightened here. Spires that caught light from angles that shouldn't exist. A vertical city built on centuries of accumulated power and the bones of everyone who had tried to challenge it.Elena stopped the car at the outer gates."This is as far as I go.""What?""Humans aren't permitted past the first ward." Her voice was steady, but I saw her hands trembling on the wheel. "You go alone from here."Through the bond, I felt Brian—distant now, but alive. Fighting. Coming.But he wouldn't arrive in time.The escort appeared before I could respond.Four vampires in formal blacks. Faces like carved marble. Eyes that assessed me with the clinical precision of collectors examining a new acquisition."Luna Agatha Abbot." The lead vampire bowed—shallow, perfunctory. "The Court extends its welcome.""I prefer Aggie.""The Court extends its welcome, specimen."Not Aggie. Not Luna.Specimen.I fil

  • Blood Debt: The Alpha's Captive Mate   Chapter 59

    The convoy left at midnight.Six vehicles. Six people. A journey to the vampire court that felt less like diplomacy and more like walking into an open grave.Brian sat beside me in the second car. He hadn't touched me since we'd left the compound. Hadn't spoken beyond the necessary logistics. Through the bond, I felt him pulling away—not from anger, but from fear.The kind of fear that came with knowing what was waiting.Marcus drove the lead vehicle.I watched him through the windshield, his silhouette steady against the darkness. The man who had sold my blood to the courts. The man who claimed he was trying to stop his brother.I hadn't told Brian yet.Some weapons needed to be saved.The first night, Brian didn't sleep.I lay beside him in the safe house we'd stopped at—a converted farmhouse owned by allies I'd never met. The bed was comfortable. The room was secure. Everything about the arrangement said rest.But Brian stayed awake.I felt his consciousness through the bond like a

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