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HIS SURROGATE, HER ALPHA KING Dara
I played the voicemail for Cael at six thirty in the morning, standing in the kitchen with my coat still on from the cold corridor and my hair not yet done and a cup of tea going untouched on the counter.He listened with his eyes on me instead of the phone, which I had learned was how he received serious information. Not the source. The person it affected.When it finished he said nothing for a moment.He knows about the hearing, I said. Which means either he has access to information inside Aldric's operation or someone got a message to him from outside. I picked up my tea. Either way he's more aware of the situation than I expected. He's not broken.No, Cael said. He's not.He told me not to come before the hearing. He said it's what Aldric wants. I held the mug in both hands and felt the warmth of it against my palms. He's been held for sixteen years and his first move was a tactical instruction.He's his daughter's father, Cael said.I looked at him.You do the same thing, he sai
HIS SURROGATE, HER ALPHA KING North
Cael was already in the corridor when I opened my door.He had his phone in his hand and Lena's update on the screen and the expression of a man who had read it thirty seconds before I had.You saw, I said.Yes.They're moving him north. Toward Portland. I kept my voice low. The house was asleep around us. If they're bringing him closer it's because Aldric wants him accessible. Either as a live threat he can produce at the hearing or as insurance against what I might do in that room.Or both, Cael said.Can Lena's contact follow the vehicles?They're already on it. Two cars on the highway, maintaining distance. He looked at his phone. The last update puts them on the 97 heading northwest.Northwest from Bend on the 97 came straight toward Portland. Two hours, maybe less depending on where they turned off.He's bringing my father into the city, I said.Or near it.I stood in the corridor in the dark and thought about the shape of what Aldric was doing. The photograph was taken at midni
HIS SURROGATE, HER ALPHA KING The photograph
I knocked on Cael's door at eleven forty-three at night.He opened it in thirty seconds, which meant he hadn't been asleep. He was still dressed, shirt untucked, phone in his hand, and the expression he had when he was mid-thought. He took one look at my face and stepped back without asking.I handed him my phone.He looked at the photograph. Something moved through his face that was not the usual controlled stillness, something with heat underneath it, brief and then gone, replaced by the particular focus he used when something required immediate clear thinking."Sit down," he said.I'm fine standing.Ella. He said it quietly. Sit down.I sat on the edge of the chair near the window and held my own hands in my lap because they were trying to shake again and I was not going to let them.He sat across from me and looked at the photo again.The jaw, I said. The way he holds his hands. I don't have memories of him exactly, I was four, but I have a photograph my mother kept in a box under
HIS SURROGATE, HER ALPHA KING Closer
You pulled again, Vera said.I know. It happened before I caught it.Tell me what triggered it.I opened my eyes. The library was warm, fire going, Cael in the chair across from me with his forearms resting on his knees, watching me with the focused patience he brought to these sessions. I had been finding the thread faster each time, and losing control of it faster too.I was holding it steady, I said. And then something shifted in it. Like a pulse. I reached for it before I thought about it.Vera looked at Cael. What were you thinking about when it shifted?He was quiet for a moment. Bend.Vera wrote something. Strong emotional state in the bond-holder translates through the thread to the carrier. At this stage of training, that can trigger a reflexive reach. She looked at me. Your instinct is to respond to distress in the bond. That's consistent with the bloodline function. It's also the most dangerous tendency to leave unmanaged.Because an unmanaged response to distress could act
HIS SURROGATE, HER ALPHA KING Bend
We can't go before the hearing, l Cael said.I know that, I said.Ella.I know, Cael. I set my phone down on the table and pressed both palms flat against the surface and breathed. I'm not suggesting we go today. I'm saying we know where he might be and that changes the shape of everything after the hearing.He watched me for a moment and then pulled out the chair beside me and sat. Not across, beside, which was different and I registered it without commenting.Tell me what you're thinking, he said.I'm thinking that if my father is in Bend and the hearing goes the way we need it to go, Aldric loses his political base. His packs dissolve from him. His ability to maintain a secure facility with loyal staff disappears. I looked at Cael. Which means after the hearing, assuming it goes our way, whatever infrastructure he's been using to hold my father starts to collapse. We have a window. A short one.And if we move on the Bend property before the hearing, we tip him off and he moves your
HIS SURROGATE, HER ALPHA KING Piper
"She can't stay at her building," I said. And the daughter needs to be pulled from school before the end of first period.Cael was back in the kitchen. He had come in the moment he heard my voice change, which I was starting to understand was something he did, tracked the temperature of a room from a distance and arrived before being called.Where's the school? he asked.I relayed the question to Piper, still on the line. She gave me the name, a primary school twelve minutes from her apartment. Cael was already texting before I finished saying it.I have someone six minutes from the school, he said. Female. She'll identify herself to the office as a family emergency contact. What's the daughter's name?"Piper," I said into the phone. Your daughter's name."Clara," she said. Her voice had steadied slightly, the way people do when they are given something practical to hold onto. She's eight.I told Cael. He relayed it. Then he looked at me. What about Cross herself?"Piper," I said into
HIS SURROGATE, HER ALPHA KING Marcus
"It was Marcus," Lena said. "The legal team."The name landed flat in the hallway. I watched Cael's face and saw nothing move on the surface of it, but his hand, resting on the kitchen counter, closed into a slow fist and then opened again."How long?" he asked."At least six months based on the co
HIS SURROGATE, HER ALPHA KING The weapon
"Unmake a bond," I repeated. "What does that actually mean?"Edmund kept his hands folded on the table and his voice even, the way you speak to someone you're not sure can hold the weight of what you're about to give them. I recognized the approach. I had used it myself more times than I could coun
HIS SURROGATE, HER ALPHA KING Vera
You're smaller than I expected.The woman in the library looked up from her book without any particular urgency, like I had knocked instead of just walked in. She was older, maybe seventy, with white hair pinned loosely and reading glasses pushed up on her forehead. Small framed, wrapped in a dark
HIS SURROGATE, HER ALPHA KING Simultaneous
How bad? Cael said into his phone.I was already texting Rosie. Stay in the break room. Do not move for any reason. Lena is coming.Cael's voice stayed flat but his free hand closed into a fist at his side. Which team member? How long ago. A pause. "Lock down the east wing and don't touch anything
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