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FAKING IT WITH THE ALPHA CAPTAIN RIVAL Chapter 133
Elena“You are not allowed to be here,” Ryder said, and he moved between the doorway and the rest of us before I had even finished standing up. “Elder Thorne ordered Martha placed under Article Four protection less than an hour ago.”“I read the order on the way up.” Cassian Cross leaned a little on his silver cane, calm and courteous, as though he had come to visit a sick friend. “It is a fine order, young man, and it protects Martha Hart from the Council. It does not protect her from me, because I am not the Council. I am the holder of an oath.”“What oath,” Marcus asked from the bed. His voice was weak, but I heard the old alpha under it, the one who had walked into rooms full of elders and made them go quiet.“A blood oath, Marcus, sworn at your sister’s own kitchen table twenty-one years ago, before a witness, with a drop of her own blood on the paper.” He smiled again, and it was a patient smile, the kind that had never once been in a hurry. “You may know it as the oldest law in
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Elena“Tell her all of it, Martha,” Marcus said from the bed, his voice rough but steady. “She has earned every word, and so has Eleanor.”Martha did not move her hands from my face. She looked at me for a long moment, and I felt the pressure in my chest rise, slow and warm, the way it did when someone was about to say something true. There was no lie in her. There was only fear, and under the fear, a love so old and so plain that it almost knocked the breath out of me.“Sit down first, baby,” she said. “This is not a story to hear standing up.”Ryder pulled a chair close, and I sat. Eleanor stayed on her feet beside Marcus’s bed with her arms wrapped tightly around herself, and Victoria slipped in from the doorway and stood against the wall, pale and silent, as though she was afraid someone would send her away.“I was born Martha Hart,” Martha began. “Marcus is my brother, and we have the same mother. Our mother was a seer, the strongest the Hart family had produced in a hundred year
FAKING IT WITH THE ALPHA CAPTAIN RIVAL Chapter 131
Elena“That is not possible,” Halloway said, and her voice cracked on the last word. For the first time since we had walked through that door, the calm on her face split down the middle. “Martha Reyes has no brother. I read her file myself. Twice.”“You read the file somebody wanted you to read,” Marcus said. His voice was thin and cracked, but his eyes stayed locked on mine, and I could see him fighting through the fog she had poured into him for weeks. “My father buried her name before I was old enough to ask where she went.”The monitor beside his bed was screaming now, a high and steady alarm, the green line jumping in sharp, ugly spikes. Eleanor grabbed his other hand and cried out his name, and Victoria let out a sound I had never heard from her, small and terrified.“His heart cannot take this,” Halloway said, and she sounded almost annoyed, like a teacher watching a lesson fall apart. “The compound was never meant to break this fast. Someone get away from the bed before you ki
FAKING IT WITH THE ALPHA CAPTAIN RIVAL Chapter 130
ElenaThe hospital was too quiet. That was the first thing I noticed when Ryder pushed through the doors of the recovery wing, and the feeling in my chest sharpened the moment my shoes touched the polished floor.The front desk was empty. A cup of coffee sat steaming beside an open chart, as if the nurse had stepped away only a second ago. Down the hall, two orderlies stood shoulder to shoulder outside a staff room with their arms folded and their eyes on the floor.“Where is everyone,” Victoria said, her voice small.“Locked in,” Ryder said, pointing at the break room door. A chair had been wedged under the handle from the outside. Faint voices knocked and called from inside. “Somebody cleared this floor on purpose.”“Marcus’s room is at the end of the hall,” Eleanor said. She was already walking, faster than I had ever seen her move.We reached the door together. It stood half open, and a thin line of cold white light spilled into the corridor. I put my hand flat against the wood an
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Elena“That cannot be right,” I said, my finger resting on the circled name. “Martha is not a seer. Martha is not even my blood.”“I know,” Victoria said quietly. “That is the part I cannot make sense of either.”Ryder leaned over my shoulder and read the entry twice. His face changed slowly, the way it does when a piece you ignored suddenly fits. “Elena, do you remember what I told you at the arena, the night everything started? About why the bond was possible at all?”“You said Martha carried old wolf blood.”“I thought that was why you and I could bond. I was wrong about the reason, because you are a Hart by birth. But I was not wrong about Martha.” He turned the ledger toward me. “I had someone research her family line months ago. The wolf blood was real. We simply explained it with the wrong story.”I closed my eyes, and memories started lining up on their own. Martha at the sink, her hands going still. Martha in the hospital bed saying I had a look on my face like I was listenin
FAKING IT WITH THE ALPHA CAPTAIN RIVAL Chapter 128
ElenaHarold's sudden disappearance was confirmed within the hour, security dispatched to his home finding it already emptied, closets bare, every trace of a fifteen-year presence in Marcus's household erased as though he had been planning this exit for considerably longer than twenty minutes."He has resources we clearly underestimated," Marcus said grimly, studying the report his security team had delivered. "A clean exit like this takes preparation, Elena. He has likely had a contingency plan ready for months, maybe years, in case his position was ever compromised.""Then he is gone," I said. "Which means whatever this final piece actually is, it does not depend on him being physically present anymore.""Which makes it considerably harder to anticipate," Ryder said, frustration evident in his exhausted voice. "We do not even know what we are supposed to be watching for."We spent the following two days in a strange, suspended tension, security heightened around everyone connected t
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