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Chapter 44

Autor: Blessing
last update Data de publicação: 2026-08-14 16:44:20

Elena

I read Naomi's message so many times that night the words stopped looking like language and started looking like something closer to a countdown.

I'm the nurse who was in that delivery room twenty-one years ago. I'm the one who switched the two of you. I didn't answer her. I didn't know how. Some truths arrive too large to respond to in a text message, and this was one of them.

I told Aiden most of it, eventually, sitting on the fire escape outside my apartment because the walls inside f
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  • FAKING IT WITH THE ALPHA CAPTAIN RIVAL    Chapter 82

    ElenaMarcus's words settled over the room like a physical weight, and for a long moment nobody spoke at all."Tomorrow morning," I said finally, my voice barely working. "That is not enough time to prepare anything.""That is exactly the point," Ryder said, his jaw tight. "Whoever moved it up wanted to make sure we could not.""We need to find whoever is actually running this before that hearing starts," Aiden said. "If Naomi is right, and someone wanted her silenced before she could tell you and me the full truth, then whoever they are is still moving pieces tonight."Marcus rubbed a hand over his face; exhaustion carved deep into every line of it. "I have Harold pulling every financial record he can access before morning. If there is a name buried in those accounts, we need it now, not after the Council has already made a decision none of us can undo.""Let me help," I said.Everyone turned to look at me."You want to help with financial records," Ryder said carefully."I want to u

  • FAKING IT WITH THE ALPHA CAPTAIN RIVAL    Chapter 81

    ElenaAiden called Naomi three times in a row, and each call went straight to voicemail, the silence on the other end scraping at both of us the entire drive to the estate."We need to send someone to check on her," Aiden said, hands tight on the wheel. "Right now, tonight.""Marcus is expecting us. Maybe he already knows something is wrong.""Or maybe he does not know at all, and we are about to walk into a house that is not as safe as either of us hoped."We did not have an answer by the time we pulled up to the estate, and the moment we stepped inside, I understood something had shifted since the last time I had been there. Security stood at every entrance, more guards than usual, tension radiating off every staff member we passed in the hallway.Marcus met us near the study, his face drawn and tired in a way I had never seen from him before."Naomi is not answering," Aiden said immediately, before Marcus could speak. "We think someone followed her home.""I know," Marcus said quie

  • FAKING IT WITH THE ALPHA CAPTAIN RIVAL    Chapter 80

    ElenaWe sat there in the diner a while longer before either of us moved, Marcus's messages still glowing on my phone between us, neither of us in a hurry to walk into whatever waited at the estate tonight."We have time before we need to leave," Aiden said, checking the clock. "About an hour. I want to ask you something, if that is okay.""Okay.""Tell me what it actually feels like," he said. "The gift. Not what happens after, the words landing, the flash catching. What it feels like right before, in your body, so I know what I am looking for if it happens again while I am with you."I blinked, surprised by the question. Nobody had asked me that before, not even Naomi, whose messages always focused on what the gift meant, what it revealed, what danger it might be pulling toward me. Nobody had asked what it actually felt like from the inside."It starts in my chest," I said slowly, working it out as I spoke. "A pressure, almost like something pressing outward from behind my ribs. The

  • FAKING IT WITH THE ALPHA CAPTAIN RIVAL    Chapter 79

    ElenaI met Aiden at the diner the next afternoon, before my shift started, and he noticed something was wrong before I even sat down across from him."Your hands are shaking," he said, nodding at the coffee cup I was holding too tightly. "You have been off all week. What is going on?""I am fine.""Elena." He reached across the table and gently pried the cup out of my grip before I could spill it. "You keep saying that word, and I keep watching you not be fine right in front of me. I am not going to let it go this time."I looked at him for a long moment, weighing how much to say, testing the words in my head before I let any of them out loud."Something has been happening to me," I said finally. "For weeks now. I have not told you because I did not know how to say it without sounding like I was losing my mind.""Try me."I took a breath. "I have started catching things before they happen. Small things at first. Someone starts a lie, and I know the exact shape of it before they finis

  • FAKING IT WITH THE ALPHA CAPTAIN RIVAL    Chapter 78

    ElenaI read Naomi's message so many times that night I'd nearly memorized it word for word, the phrase direct threat to pack safety looping through my mind the whole next day like something stuck under my skin.Two days left before the hearing. I hadn't told Ryder about the gold. I hadn't told Aiden either, some instinct warning me that adding this to everything else already sitting on both their shoulders would only make them do something reckless trying to protect me from a threat that lived entirely inside my own body now.I walked to my shift that evening the way I always did, the same route I'd walked a hundred times before, past the same corner store, the same bus stop, the same stretch of sidewalk that ran alongside the diner's small parking lot.I made it halfway down the block when something stopped me cold.It wasn't a sound. It wasn't anything I could point to directly, no specific sight or smell or sensation I could have described to another person if they'd asked me to e

  • FAKING IT WITH THE ALPHA CAPTAIN RIVAL    Chapter 77

    ElenaI didn't sleep at all that night. I called Aiden the second I got home, my hands shaking so badly I dropped the phone twice trying to dial."He texted me," I said the moment Aiden picked up. "Your father. He knows I saw the driver. He knows I told you.""I know." Aiden's voice was tight, controlled in a way that scared me more than panic would have. "He called me an hour ago.""What did he say?""That he's disappointed in me." Aiden's laugh came out short and humorless. "That's the phrase he actually used. Disappointed. Like I'd failed a business quarter instead of choosing not to betray someone I care about.""Aiden, is he going to hurt you?"A pause, too long, too heavy. "I don't know.""That's not reassuring.""I know it's not." His voice softened slightly. "Elena, listen to me. Whatever happens with my father, I need you to focus on getting through the next three days. The hearing matters more right now than anything he might decide to do about me.""You matter to me, Aiden.

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