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Chapter 17
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Bound to the Alpha She Was Raised to Hate Chapter 17
Odessa's POVThe summons came within the hour, and it wasn't a request.A pack member found us still standing near the property line, note in Ronan's hand, and said only four words before turning to lead the way back. "Garrick wants you both."Nobody argued. Nobody said much of anything the whole walk back, actually, and by the time we reached the main house, my stomach had knotted itself so tight I could barely breathe around it.Garrick was waiting in a room I hadn't been in before, some kind of study, shelves lined with old books and maps, a heavy desk positioned like it belonged to someone used to holding court behind it. He didn't sit when we walked in. He stood, arms crossed, and the look on his face told me exactly how this was going to go before he said a single word."Show me," he said.Ronan handed over the note without hesitation. Garrick read it once, jaw tightening with every line, then read it a second time slower, like he wanted to make sure he hadn't misunderstood some
Bound to the Alpha She Was Raised to Hate Chapter 16
Odessa's POVBy breakfast, everyone already knew.I don't know how word traveled that fast, but by the time I made it to the dining hall, the whole room had gone quiet in a different way than usual, not glaring at me this time, just talking low and fast among themselves, glancing toward me every so often like they were trying to work out where I fit into this new version of events."Heard about the archive," Briar said, sliding into the seat across from me without asking. "Vale scent, right? That's what's going around.""That's what Ronan found," I said. "Fabric caught on the cabinet. He said it wasn't a rogue, it wasn't pack...""That's not nothing." She glanced around the room, lowering her voice slightly. "People are actually talking differently this morning. Less 'watch the vampire' and more 'who let a Vale spy walk through our territory twice.'""Feels like a strange thing to be relieved about.""Not strange. Just honest." She shrugged. "Fear needs somewhere to go. Better it goes
Bound to the Alpha She Was Raised to Hate Chapter 15
Odessa's POVI went back the next morning as soon as I could get away, the folder from the day before still sitting heavy in my mind even though I'd only managed to read the first page before Ronan came to walk me out for curfew.I hadn't even gotten to the rest of it.The archive door was already open when I reached the end of the hallway, just a crack, enough that I stopped walking a full ten feet away and just stared at it. I watched Ronan lock it himself the night before. I remembered the sound of the key turning."That's not right," I said out loud, to nobody.I pushed it open slowly, and the second I saw the inside of the room, my stomach dropped straight through the floor.Boxes I'd left stacked neatly were tipped sideways across the floor, papers scattered everywhere, drawers from an old filing cabinet in the corner pulled all the way out and left hanging. Whoever did this hadn't been careful. Whoever did this hadn't cared if anyone noticed.I crossed the room fast, heart hamm
Bound to the Alpha She Was Raised to Hate Chapter 14
Odessa's POVBriar hadn't said much more once the question was out there, just that she'd heard it once, from an older pack member who'd been around during the original treaty negotiations, that the official Vale record on my parents' deaths never got a proper review, not even the basic kind every death in the coven was supposed to get. She didn't know the details. She just knew it had bothered her enough to remember it.That was enough to keep me up half the night, staring at the ceiling, running through everything I'd been told growing up. A carriage accident. Bad weather, a cliff road, nothing anyone could have prevented. That's what I'd been raised on, repeated by every relative who bothered to mention it at all, always with the same flat, closed-door tone that told me not to ask follow-up questions.I never questioned it. Not once, not really. Why would I? Grief doesn't leave much room for investigation when you're twelve.By the next afternoon, I couldn't sit still with it anymo
Bound to the Alpha She Was Raised to Hate Chapter 13
Odessa's POVTwo weeks.The number followed me everywhere that day, sitting in my chest like something heavy I couldn't put down. I tried to distract myself with anything I could find, helping stack firewood nobody asked me to stack, walking the same stretch of fence three times, anything that kept my hands busy and my head quiet.None of it worked.By dinner I couldn't even pretend to eat. I pushed food around my plate while the rest of the pack talked around me, still not fully sure what to make of me after everything with the rogue attack. Ronan sat across from me again, same as always, but he didn't say much either. I caught him watching me a few times, jaw tight, like he wanted to ask something and kept deciding against it.I left before dessert. Nobody stopped me.I ended up outside without really deciding to go there, just walking until the noise of the dining hall faded behind me and the cold night air hit my face. The porch at the back of the house sat mostly empty this time
Bound to the Alpha She Was Raised to Hate Chapter 12
Odessa's POVRonan's hands dropped off my shoulders like I caught fire.I turned toward the treeline, and there he was. Julian. Standing at the edge of the field like he walked out of a photo shoot instead of half a mile through wolf territory, not a hair out of place, jacket pressed, boots somehow spotless despite the mud everywhere else."How did you get through the sentries?" Ronan said, voice flat, already moving to put himself half a step in front of me."Politely," Julian said. "Turns out manners still work on most people.""Not on me.""Clearly." Julian's eyes moved past Ronan, landing on me, and for a second the easy smile stayed exactly where it was. "Odessa. You look well. Better than well, actually, given the circumstances.""What are you doing here, Julian?""Checking on you." He said it lightly, casually, like it was the most normal thing in the world to walk unannounced into enemy territory. "You haven't answered a single message in three days. I was starting to worry."
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