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chapter 56

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Calix's POV

The room split in half before the rest of us could get another breath.

Daven moved first, three rapid strides toward Knox as if his body had already made up its mind about something his brain was still chewing on. Anger and grief twisted into his face as one.

I wasn’t even sure which one had pushed him to act first. I stayed exactly where I was, rooted to the same spot on the carpet, because some ugly, immediate part of me had already sorted Knox's confession into a box labeled wors
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  • CLAIMED BY THE FOUR ALPHA BROTHERS   chapter 56

    Calix's POVThe room split in half before the rest of us could get another breath.Daven moved first, three rapid strides toward Knox as if his body had already made up its mind about something his brain was still chewing on. Anger and grief twisted into his face as one.I wasn’t even sure which one had pushed him to act first. I stayed exactly where I was, rooted to the same spot on the carpet, because some ugly, immediate part of me had already sorted Knox's confession into a box labeled worse than mine, and I hated myself for doing math like that in a moment that deserved better from all of us.“You let pack corner her. In our house. And left her.” Daven's voice had roughed, cracked in a way I'd heard him sound twice before."I did." Knox didn't flinch from it, didn't soften it, didn't offer a single word of cushioning to make it easier for Daven to hear."How do we even begin to..." Daven stopped himself, dragging a hand down his face, and for a second he just stood there, breathi

  • CLAIMED BY THE FOUR ALPHA BROTHERS   chapter 55

    Daven's POV"Everyone. Now. My study." That was the full message I sent to three people at once without explanation, and within eleven minutes, all three of them stood in front of me, and that told me how deep into this we already were in a way nothing I could have put into words could.Calix arrived first, jaw tightened, his tie a full inch loosened from its knot as though he’d half-pulled it off himself in the car.Soren was just a moment behind him, still, watchful, already loitering near the door. Knox arrived third, sawdust coating his forearms. He just leaned on the wall and waited for someone else to start."Mara," I said, no preamble, watching all three of their faces for the reaction. "Say it out loud so I know none of us are imagining this.""Mara," Calix repeated, flat, and something in his voice cracked right down the middle of the word. "I've had my own account frozen since last night. Locked out of the discretionary fund an hour after I started tracing it back to her.""

  • CLAIMED BY THE FOUR ALPHA BROTHERS   chapter 54

    Calla’s POVThe email was already sitting in my inbox before I had even set my coffee down; the subject line clinical enough that it wouldn’t have looked out of place to anyone who hadn’t spent the last three years teaching themselves how to read a threat that hid behind the guile of paperwork.'Notice of Internal Review - Onboarding Documentation.' I read it twice, standing, my coat still half on, and felt that icy lurch in my stomach I had begun to recognise as a warning system in itself. Sharper than any fear, quieter than any panic, the distinctly surreal sensation of watching a trap spring from a very safe distance before it actually popped shut.The email cited irregularities in my onboarding paperwork. Discrepancies in employment history verification. A flag on my previous address that couldn’t be located in any HR database. Which made a baffling amount of sense to me and to precisely nobody in that building, as my previous address in the system was a pack compound which most

  • CLAIMED BY THE FOUR ALPHA BROTHERS   chapter 53

    Calix’s POVThree transfers, two shell accounts, one very illegal favor called in from a man who owed me more than he'd ever admit to owing me out loud, and not a single one of it on paper by the time I finished at 03:40. I sat in the darkness of my own office while the confirmation screens blinked out one by one and told myself it was strategy. Told myself a man protecting his own trail before an enemy got to it first was merely playing the game, and I knew as I was saying it that I was lying to myself just like I'd been lying to myself for the last three years on a hundred smaller issues. I'd started this. That was the thing I kept circling back to at 3 AM with a glass of something expensive warming in my hand on my desk, turning it over like a stone I couldn't put back down. Mara had built the gun. Nyx had pulled the trigger. The target had been mine to select, and I had selected him years ago, drunk on my own resentment, calling it justice. Providing Nyx with exactly the oppor

  • CLAIMED BY THE FOUR ALPHA BROTHERS   chapter 52

    Soren's POV"Soren." Just my name, and already I knew something had gone badly wrong, because Corvin's voice used to fill a room without trying, and now it barely filled the phone against my ear. Thin, papery, cracking somewhere in the middle of two syllables like his throat had aged a decade since I'd last heard it."Corvin."I leaned my back against Calla's corridor tile. Kept my voice low. "It's late. What do you want?""Not on the phone." A breath that rattled like an anchor line fraying. "I need to see you. Tonight, if you can. Somewhere quiet. Somewhere where the walls don't whisper.""Corvin, if this is about the bond records again, I don't have the patience tonight for—""It isn't." His voice cut through me, sudden and raw in a way I haven't heard since I was a boy listening to this man lecture to a desk that seemed immune to his particular brand of desperation. "This is bigger than the records. Please, Soren. I wouldn't ask if I had any other option left."I looked back down

  • CLAIMED BY THE FOUR ALPHA BROTHERS   chapter 51

    Soren's POV I said I'd walk Jade out myself, and there was something in my own voice saying it that surprised me, because six months ago I’d have found a chart and burrowed in it and let someone else deal with the having-to-be-alone-with-her part. "I've got a shift ending in twenty minutes anyway," I said, which was true and also not nearly the real reason. Jade's eyes flitted back and forth between the two of us with the specialized knowledge of a woman who’d taken it upon herself to be the only one functioning in this entire building tonight. "Fine," she said. "Text me the second you’re both in the car." Both. As if there were some alternate reality where I would allow Calla to walk to a parking structure on her own after a stranger had just stood in my waiting room mouthing a word at her through glass. There was not. The thought of such a reality, the thought of there being some version of this that I could shrug off to a security guard and go back to my charts and let a

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