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THE ALPHA'S GHOST

Author: KIRTI
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The meeting had been going for two hours and Dmitri had stopped listening forty minutes ago.

He was aware of this. He was also aware that everyone in the room knew it, and that none of them were stupid enough to call it out. His board of directors had learned quickly in the two years since he'd taken control of the company that when Dmitri Volkov's attention left the room, you kept talking and you waited for it to come back.

He was looking at the window.

Outside, the northern forest stretched t
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  • CLAIMED BY THE ENEMY ALPHA    THE ALPHA'S GHOST

    The meeting had been going for two hours and Dmitri had stopped listening forty minutes ago.He was aware of this. He was also aware that everyone in the room knew it, and that none of them were stupid enough to call it out. His board of directors had learned quickly in the two years since he'd taken control of the company that when Dmitri Volkov's attention left the room, you kept talking and you waited for it to come back.He was looking at the window.Outside, the northern forest stretched to the horizon, white and endless. It was the same view he'd grown up with. The same view his father had from this office before the night someone put a knife in his future. Dmitri had renovated everything else in the stronghold — new technology, new systems, new alliances — but he'd left this window exactly as it was.He didn't know why. He'd stopped examining why."—projected growth across the Tallinn route should put us at fourteen percent above last quarter's figures—""Good," Dmitri said, wi

  • CLAIMED BY THE ENEMY ALPHA    LEARNING TO CARRY IT

    Eight months and Katya had a system.Six-fifteen: wake up before the boys, shower in under four minutes, coffee on. Six-thirty: get two extremely opinionated toddlers dressed — Niko fought every item of clothing like it had personally wronged him; Ivan cooperated but required narration of every step or he'd get distracted and wander off. Seven: drop them at Yaroslava's, the small daycare two blocks from the office where the woman in charge had the calming authority of someone who had clearly survived much worse than two wolf-blooded four-year-olds. Seven-twenty: at her desk. Work until six. Pick up the boys. Feed them. Bath. Bed.Then work again from nine until she couldn't see straight.She ran this schedule like a machine. It was the only way everything got done.Niko was fearless and physical, throwing himself off every surface he could climb, landing on his feet every time with a huge grin, then immediately looking for something higher. Yaroslava said he'd already started organizi

  • CLAIMED BY THE ENEMY ALPHA    TWO AT ONCE

    It happened on a Tuesday. Three weeks before her due date, eleven-fourteen at night, and Katya was still at her desk.The theater proposal had been accepted two weeks ago. She was already deep in the actual restoration plans now, logging permits, drafting supply orders, building the timeline month by month. There was always one more thing to finish. Just one more thing.She reached across her desk for her pencil and felt the pain.Not a cramp. Not the usual ache of carrying two babies in a body that wasn't getting enough sleep. Something different. Low and sharp and serious, spreading across her lower back and around to her front like a belt pulled too tight.She sat very still.Then her chair was wet."Oh," she said. "Oh, shit."She had been ready for this for two weeks. The hospital bag was under her desk — she'd put it there precisely because she knew herself, knew she'd be at work when it happened. She grabbed it now with one hand, pressed the other to the desk, and stood up caref

  • CLAIMED BY THE ENEMY ALPHA    THE LAST WINTER

    Seven months pregnant and Katya's lower back had been screaming since Tuesday.She shifted in her office chair, pressing one hand against the curve of her spine, and kept drawing with the other. The theater proposal was due Monday. Her lines were getting messier as the evening wore on, the pencil not quite doing what her brain told it to, but she didn't stop. Stopping felt like losing.Outside the office window, St. Krest was grey and frozen. Snow on the pavement. A tram grinding past on the tracks. The city had no idea what it was hosting one very stubborn, very tired, very pregnant wolf who had no business still being at work at nine in the evening."Go home, Morozova."Pavel's voice from the doorway. He had his coat on, keys in hand, already done for the night."Five more minutes," she said."You said that an hour ago." He looked at the scattered blueprints and the cold cup of tea at her elbow and made the face he always made when she pushed too hard — somewhere between annoyed and

  • CLAIMED BY THE ENEMY ALPHA    BUILDING WALLS

    Three months pregnant, and Katya's body was finally starting to betray her secret.She tugged her sweater down over the small bump as she walked into the office Monday morning. The fabric stretched tight across her stomach and she'd need bigger clothes soon. Another expense she couldn't afford."Morning, Morozova." Her boss, Pavel Sokolov, didn't look up from his desk. Papers were scattered everywhere, coffee rings staining the blueprints. "Conference room. Five minutes. We've got a new project."Katya nodded and headed to her desk, dropping her bag on the chair. The office was small, just six architects crammed into a converted warehouse space. Cold concrete floors. Fluorescent lights that buzzed constantly. Nothing like the elegant firms in Moscow or St. Petersburg.But it paid. That's all that mattered.She grabbed her portfolio and headed to the conference room. The other architects were already there, mostly men, all older than her, all looking at her like she was an inconvenienc

  • CLAIMED BY THE ENEMY ALPHA    CHAPTER 5

    Katya stared at the pregnancy test in her shaking hand.Two pink lines,No….That couldn't be right.She dropped it in the sink and ripped open another box with trembling fingers. Her hands were so unsteady she almost dropped the second test. She forced herself to breathe, to follow the instructions, to wait the longest three minutes of her life.Two pink lines."No," she whispered to the empty bathroom. "No, no, no."She took a third test. Then a fourth. All the same.Positive. Positive. Positive. *Positive.*Katya's legs gave out. She sank to the cold tile floor, her back against the bathtub, staring at the row of tests lined up on the counter. All of them showing the same damning result.She was pregnant,Her stomach churned .She barely made it to the toilet before she threw up a lot, heaving retches that left her gasping and sweating. When there was nothing left, she slumped against the wall, her whole body shaking.This couldn't be happening.Six weeks. It had been six weeks since t

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