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Marcus
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HIS SURROGATE, HER ALPHA KING Not Aldric's people
"Who were they?" I asked.Cael was already pulling into traffic, one hand on the wheel, the other holding the phone back to his ear. "Lena. Status."I couldn't hear her side but I watched his face and read it the way I'd learned to read monitors in the ICU, not the numbers themselves but the direction they were moving."Hold them," he said. "Don't release them until I'm there." He ended the call and looked at me once, fast. "Two men. They came through the east tree line on foot, no vehicle on the road. Lena's team stopped them before they reached the house."Are they Aldric's?They say they're not.What do they say they are?He was quiet for exactly two seconds, which with Cael meant something was being weighed carefully before it was handed over.They say they were sent to find you specifically. Not to threaten. To warn. He paused. They said the word bloodline.The inside of the car was very quiet after that.I turned to look out the window at the city moving past and tried to find a
HIS SURROGATE, HER ALPHA KING Dr. Cross
"How did you get this number?" I asked."The same way they got yours," Dr. Cross said. "I have access to patient contact files. I am so sorry. I know that's not enough but I need you to know I am."Cael had already glanced at me once. His eyes were on the road but his attention had shifted entirely to my side of the car, the way a person leans toward a sound without moving their body."Where do you want to meet?" I asked.Somewhere public. Please. Her voice dropped lower. I think I'm being watched. I've felt it for three days. Since I realized what they were planning to do with the information and tried to pull back.""You tried to pull back," I repeated.A pause. I made a mistake. A very serious one. And I need to tell you what I know before I lose the nerve or before they realize I've gone off script.I looked at Cael. He had his eyes on the road and his jaw set in that way that meant he was thinking fast.I put the phone slightly away from my mouth. "She wants to meet. Alone.""No,
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 communication pattern. Possibly longer." Lena held out her phone. On the screen was a thread of encrypted messages, the kind that required a specific app to even open, but Lena's team had pulled them anyway. "He wasn't sending detailed reports. Timestamps, locations, key names. Enough for Aldric to stay one step ahead without raising flags inside the pack.""Did he know about the clinic?" Cael asked."He was copied on the legal notification the morning it came through. He knew before you made the call to Ella."I stood in the hallway with my keys in my hand and absorbed that.Marcus had known about me before Cael had spoken a single word to me. He had known I existed, where I lived, what had h
HIS SURROGATE, HER ALPHA KING Positive
I took the test at six in the morning, alone in the bathroom, sitting on the edge of the tub with the tile cold through my socks.Three minutes. That was all it took.I had done this once before, two years ago when my cycle was late and I was still with Nate and terrified in a completely different way. That test had been negative and I had felt relief first and then, quietly, something I never admitted to anyone, a small grief I buried under the relief and never went back to examine.This time I sat with the test face down in my hands and counted my own breaths and thought about my mother, who used to say that the things worth having always cost you something first.I turned it over.Two lines. Dark, immediate, no squinting required.I sat there for a long moment. The bathroom was quiet. The house around me was quiet. Outside the window the sky was the flat pale color of very early morning, and somewhere below on the grounds one of Lena's people was walking the perimeter in slow stead
HIS SURROGATE, HER ALPHA KING The leak
"I want everyone who knew she was coming here," Cael said. "Every name. Tonight."He wasn't shouting. That was the thing about him I was already learning. The quieter his voice got, the more dangerous the temperature in the room became. Right now his voice was very quiet.Lena already had her phone out. "I have six people who were briefed on the relocation. Four security staff, my assistant, and Marcus on the legal team."Pull their communications. All of it. Tonight.Already started.I stood near the doorway of the main room and watched them work and did not feel like an outsider in the way I'd expected to. I felt like a person in the middle of a situation that required clear thinking, and clear thinking was something I was actually good at."What about the man who met me at the door when I arrived?" I asked.Both of them looked at me.He knew my name before I said it. He reached for my bag. He'd been standing there waiting specifically for me. I kept my voice even. He's one of the s
HIS SURROGATE, HER ALPHA KING The wrong call
"How did you get this number?"It was the only thing I could think to say. My voice came out flat and steady, which was a small miracle, because every nerve in my body had just fired at once.A soft sound on the other end. Not quite a laugh. "Ms. Crane, I have access to considerably more than your phone number. That's rather the point of this call."Aldric Morse spoke the way some doctors did, the ones who delivered bad news with a pleasant expression, like the words themselves were not their responsibility."What do you want?" I asked.To introduce myself. To assure you that whatever Cael has told you about me, my interest in you is not hostile. A pause, smooth and practiced. You're a nurse. Educated, practical, clearly intelligent. I'd like to think we can speak plainly."Then speak plainly."You've been pulled into something that has nothing to do with you. A political campaign, a succession war, decades of pack history you had no part in building. You made a personal decision at a
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