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Chapter 78
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2026-09-07 19:27:04
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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
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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
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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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ElenaVictoria found me outside the diner that evening, waiting by my locker of a car that wasn't mine, leaning against the brick wall with a composure that looked almost convincing if you didn't already know what to look for underneath it."I need to talk to you," she said. "Somewhere private.""I'm about to start a shift.""Five minutes. Please."I stepped around the side of the building with her, into the narrow alley where the dumpsters sat, the smell of old grease and cold air settling around us both."Where were you last night," I asked, before she could get ahead of me. "After that man left.""I was with a friend," Victoria said, easy, casual, the words arriving smooth and unbothered, like she'd said them a hundred times before and expected them to land without question.I heard the lie coming before her mouth had finished shaping it.Not a suspicion. Not a careful reading of her posture or her eyes, the way I'd learned to read people over months of practice surviving rooms ful
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