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Chapter 138: The First Refusal
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I Kissed The Supreme Alpha By Mistake Chapter 179: The Back Door
Maya's POV I had not slept, and neither had anyone else. That was how I knew the household had changed. Twenty-five years ago, a missing daughter at dawn would have had me at the front gate in my nightgown, shouting for Elias. This morning I sat at the kitchen table with a cold cup of tea and a lap full of rules I had set for myself. *She decided. She told you where she was going. Trust the decision.* It was the hardest thing I had done since the Threshold. Without the old guilt, it was also strangely possible. The fear was still there, but it wasn't wearing my face. It was just fear, sitting across the table, and I could look at it. "You're doing the breathing," Damon said from the doorway. He had been pacing the garden for an hour and had come in with wet cuffs and the look of a man who had won an argument with himself and didn't enjoy it. "I'm doing the breathing." "Is it working?
I Kissed The Supreme Alpha By Mistake Chapter 178: Ledger Has Opinions
Hope's POV Hope crouched at the edge of the gravel and studied the footprints the way her mother had once taught her to study a tricky sentence: slowly, and without assuming the first reading was the right one. Boots, size eleven at least, with a worn heel on the left. The prints came up from the lower garden, crossed the road, and went straight to the cairn. There the man had stood for a good while, because the prints overlapped in a muddy knot. Then he had walked back toward the study window, stepping carefully, like someone who thought he'd been quiet. He wasn't at the cairn now, and he wasn't on the road. He was somewhere between her and the house, and the grey light was coming up fast. Hope had two choices, and no one was going to tell her which was right. She could go back and wake the whole household. That was the sensible choice, the one her father would have made twenty years ago. But the
I Kissed The Supreme Alpha By Mistake Chapter 177
Hope's POV For twenty-two years, Hope had never once opened a letter without the Lady's opinion first. It had never been dramatic. Usually it was a faint warmth for *yes* or a faint chill for *wait*, the sort of small nudge other people got from instinct and she got from a goddess. She had not realized how often she leaned on it until she stood in her father's study at one in the morning with a cream envelope in her hand and a silence in her head where the nudge should have been. *Lady?* she tried, quietly. Warmth, unmistakable and fond. Then, gently: *Decide.* "She's being unhelpful," Hope said aloud. "The Lady?" Diana asked from the doorway. She had arrived in boots and her coat, and judging by her hair she had run the whole way from the east cottage. "What did she say?" "'Decide.'" "That's it?" "That's it. It's the polite version of 'figure it out, sweetheart.'" "Well, that's irritating," Diana said, crossing the room and taking up a protective position at Hope's
I Kissed The Supreme Alpha By Mistake Chapter 176: The Wrong Handwriting
Damon's POVDamon had been a father for twenty-two years, and he had a sharp instinct for the moment a boy walked into his house with his daughter.It had never once felt like this."This is Leopold Vasilenko," Damara announced, steering the young vampire through the study door at ten o'clock at night, in a tone far too casual to be casual. "He's the Keepers' archivist. We found something. It couldn't wait.""It's ten o'clock," Damon said."It's an emergency.""It's ten o'clock, and you brought a boy.""He's not a boy, he's a hundred and eleven.""I'm thirty-one," Leopold said. "She's rounding up out of nerves.""I am not nervous!"Maya, curled in the armchair by the window with a book she had clearly stopped reading the moment the door opened, made a small noise that was suspiciously close to a laugh. Damon shot her a look. She returned it with an expression of pure, innocent delight.Twenty years ago he would have handled the moment with a few cold words and a longer stare. Since th
I Kissed The Supreme Alpha By Mistake Chapter 175: Ask First
*Damara's POVThe Threshold Keepers had been given the old east wing of the Restored Council's archive, and by Monday morning, Damara had been informed that her new liaison would be waiting there at nine sharp.She arrived at nine-fourteen."You're late," said the man behind the desk, without looking up from the stack of parchment he was sorting into piles that appeared to follow a system only he understood."Fourteen minutes," Damara said. "Barely a rounding error.""Fourteen minutes is precisely the sort of rounding error that gets a treaty misfiled for three centuries." He finally looked up, and Damara's stride, which had been carrying her confidently toward the nearest chair, faltered by approximately half a step.Dark hair, pale in the particular, polished way of vampires who took their archival work seriously, and eyes the color of strong tea. Familiar, in a way that irritated her because she couldn't place why."Leopold," she said, the name arriving from somewhere deep in her s
I Kissed The Supreme Alpha By Mistake Chapter 174: Return and Reckoning
Hope's POVThe journey home felt considerably different than their approach had, Hope noticed — not simply the physical distance covered, but something in the quality of her own perception, newly unfamiliar now that the Lady's direct, certain guidance no longer accompanied her every significant decision."How does it feel?" Diana asked, settling beside her in the vehicle's back seat during the long drive south. "Being without her guidance, I mean.""Quieter," Hope admitted. "Not empty, exactly. I can still sense her presence, still communicate when I genuinely need to. But she's not telling me what to do anymore. I have to actually decide things myself now.""Is that frightening?"Hope considered this carefully, the way she considered most things. "A little," she admitted. "But also... freeing, somehow. I think I've relied on her certainty for so long that I never properly tested my own judgment. Now I have to."Damara, from the front passenger seat, turned back toward her sisters. "I
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