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CHAPTER 25
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2026-03-19 05:50:31
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Caught Between Two Alpha's CHAPTER 88
Nora Ashby arrived in Seattle forty-eight hours later and walked into the Pine Street building like someone who had rehearsed the approach and was still not sure it was right.Karl had landed from Frankfurt six hours before her. He had walked in at six AM, dropped his bag, found me at the kitchen table, and held on for longer than usual without saying anything. I let him. When he pulled back his eyes did a full check — face, posture, hands — the rapid assessment he did when he had been away and needed to confirm the actual state of things versus what I had told him on calls."I'm fine," I said."I know," he said. "I'm checking anyway."He sat down. I made coffee. We had two hours before Nora's arrival and we used them quietly — Karl reading the Renner debrief file, me going through the oversight review preparation documents, both of us in the same room doing the work without needing to perform normalcy because it actually was normal. This was what we did. This was the life.At eight A
Caught Between Two Alpha's CHAPTER 87
Cam found Nora in four hours.Her full name was Nora Ashby. Fifty-six, British, former oversight body senior analyst who had resigned fourteen years ago under circumstances the official record described as personal reasons. Hunter-line, third generation, privately wealthy through inheritance and what appeared on paper to be a legitimate research consultancy based in Edinburgh.Edinburgh.Where Priya was studying.I read that detail and my hands went still on the table.Cam saw my face."I checked," he said immediately. "Priya's building, her campus, her usual routes. Nothing flagged. No surveillance, no proximity contacts." He held my gaze. "She's not a target. Edinburgh is just where Nora operates from.""You checked before you told me," I said."Yes," he said. "Because I knew what your face would do when you read Edinburgh."I held his gaze for a moment."Thank you," I said."The consultancy," Cam continued, pulling up the file. "Fourteen years old. It publishes research papers on s
Caught Between Two Alpha's CHAPTER 86
Karl found Tobias Renner in a basement office in Frankfurt at nine AM, and Renner pulled a knife the moment the door opened.Not a Were. Not a Hunter. A sixty-year-old network communications handler with a folding knife and the specific desperation of someone who understood exactly how cornered he was.Karl caught his wrist before the blade cleared his jacket pocket.One hand. Complete stop.Renner stared at the hand around his wrist."Put it down," Karl said.Renner put it down.Decker cleared the rest of the office — two rooms, a back exit that had been bolted from the inside, a server rack running three screens. He came back and shook his head. Nobody else.Karl let go of Renner's wrist and stepped back.Renner sat in his chair like a man whose legs had made a decision his pride disagreed with.I was on the phone with Karl — he had called the moment the door opened, kept the line open without saying anything, standard protocol we had established after Madrid. I heard all of it thro
Caught Between Two Alpha's CHAPTER 85
Karl called at four AM Madrid time to tell me the September hire was gone.Not fired. Gone. The Madrid node's intake support coordinator — who had been hired under the name Clara Vidal with a background check approved by a suspended oversight officer — had cleared her desk, deleted her system access, and walked out of the building sometime between ten PM and midnight. Before Karl and Decker's flight had even landed.She had known they were coming.Karl's voice on the phone was the completely level version. "Someone tipped her. Between the time we identified the Madrid connection and the time we landed, someone in our communication chain told her to move."I sat with that for three seconds."Our communication chain," I said."Adrian called Tobias to flag the Madrid situation before we boarded," Karl said. "Standard protocol. Tobias's office coordinates with the node directors.""Who coordinates with node staff," I said."Yes," Karl said."There's still a leak," I said."Yes," Karl said
Caught Between Two Alpha's CHAPTER 84
Felix had the pulled names by midnight.Eleven people. Out of three hundred and twelve, the four suspended officers had specifically accessed eleven files. Not random — targeted. High-range Lures, Were-line individuals with documented alpha characteristics, and one name that made my stomach drop when I saw it on the list.Cam.His file had been accessed seven times over fourteen months. More than anyone else in the database.Felix put the list on the table at twelve-fifteen AM and pointed at Cam's name without saying anything.Cam looked at it."Seven times," he said."The most accessed file in the entire database," Felix said. "By three of the four officers. Not Hale — the other three.""They weren't watching Hale's target," Karl said. "They were building their own.""Cam is twenty years old," Rea said from the doorway. She had been awake since the garage. Her voice was completely flat. "He's twenty years old and four oversight officers have been reading his file for over a year.""T
Caught Between Two Alpha's CHAPTER 83
The oversight body suspended three more officers by Friday.Graham Hale had not worked alone. That was what Adrian found when he pulled the full access log audit — three other junior officers who had been on the same ideological channel Hale used, a private encrypted forum that the oversight body's security team had not flagged because it was technically external infrastructure, not internal comms.Adrian came to the Pine Street building on Thursday evening and sat at the kitchen table and put four personnel files down."Hale recruited them," he said. "Or they recruited him. The forum predates his appointment by eight months, which means the ideology was already inside the building before he arrived." He looked at my father, then at me. "This is not an isolated actor problem. There is an organized internal faction inside the oversight body that believes high-range supernatural bonded pairs represent an unacceptable consolidation of influence.""How large," my father said."The forum h
Caught Between Two Alpha's CHAPTER 36
Sora's debrief took two days. Not because she was withholding — because she knew more than she realized she knew, and untangling what was relevant from what she had been told was background noise took time and someone good at asking the right questions.Renna was that person. She sat with Sora for
Caught Between Two Alpha's CHAPTER 35
The Hunter in the alley was named Sora. Twenty-three, half-Japanese, trained at a private facility in Oslo that had zero oversight body affiliation, which was the first signal that the program she'd come through had been operating in a deliberate gap.Adrian brought her inside after the event. She
Caught Between Two Alpha's CHAPTER 34
Decker came at eight forty-seven.Not through the alley. He came through the front door of the bookshop, which none of us had expected, which was almost certainly why he did it.He was forty-two and built like someone who had spent decades in a body that could do more than human and had learned to
Caught Between Two Alpha's CHAPTER 33
Decker moved on day three.We found out because the camera Karl had put in the alley caught a man at two AM walking the approach in the specific pattern of a professional doing pre-operation recon. Patient, systematic, nothing wasted. He spent eleven minutes on the alley and four more on the roofli
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