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Chapter 22
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2026-05-06 02:13:23
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Kill Me Alpha, Before I Do (Beast Of Flames Book 1) Chapter 23
Rowan PovThe council meeting had been called for nine in the morning and before I’d even entered the chamber, I knew what it was going to be about. Vance had been steadily working up to it since the welcome dinner. I had tracked his every move. The quiet conversations in corridors, the charged silences in briefings, and that small assessing glint that were in his eyes whenever they landed on Romy.He was a man who hated gambling. He didn't move unless he knew he had the numbers on his side.He had three councillors in there today. I counted them as I took my seat. Harwick, Sel and the older woman from the eastern district whose name. Her name always seemed to slip my mind, it never had a reason to stick. But right now? It seemed I needed her more than ever.Silas was already seated, his hands folded on the table, his face the same neutral expression he’d worn at every meeting for the past twenty years–attentive, impassive. Aaron sat two seats down from him, sitting stiffly, eyes fi
Kill Me Alpha, Before I Do (Beast Of Flames Book 1) Chapter 22
Romy PovI found the ground floor corridor by accident the first time and kept returning many times after.It trailed along the back of the estate's west service wing, so narrow that two people would have to turn sideways to fit through. It was lit by overhead fixtures that were slightly dimmer than the main halls. The guards didn't rotate through it on the hour. The household staff used it in the mornings for linen delivery and not much after that. By midday it was empty, which made it useful for the seventeen minutes I had calculated between the south wall shift change and the courtyard guard rotation: a window of time I was working on.I was walking it for the fourth time, counting my steps between the service door and the back stairwell, when the shadow I noticed from afar turned into a man. Caleb Mercer was leaning against the stone, arms crossed,one shoulder against the stone. His dark hair was slicked back from that sharp jaw, his clothes properly pressed, and his smirk was
Kill Me Alpha, Before I Do (Beast Of Flames Book 1) Chapter 21
Romy PovThe east wing library smelled like aged paper and cedar. And I enjoyed it.It wasn't one of those library out of any romantic notions of libraries, it didnt like it because of that, no, but because it had four entrances, two of which would require some thinking, visual connections to the main hallway via the gaps in the elaborate ironwork by the door and a window seat against the southern wall from which I could watch the access route up the mountain and the inner courtyard at once.Which, in this estate, was increasingly rare and therefore precious.I had a map of the east wing that I was creating using only my memory on the back pages of one of the older books– some treatise on territorial law from the 1800s judging by the dust coating– when I heard someone coming down the hallway.I put down the book.One set of footfalls. Not a guard's: it was lighter, uneven, which meant he was not in any hurry. A person on an important mission does not walk that way. The pause before th
Kill Me Alpha, Before I Do (Beast Of Flames Book 1) Chapter 20
Romy PovHe did not say it was forbidden to be in the eastern corridor. He said it was forbidden to be in the eastern wing, and I was going to stick to that until anyone told me otherwise. The eastern corridor extended down the back side of the official council room, and the wall separating the two was ancient masonry and mortar and featured an arch, above which there was an opening through which sound traveled magnificently.I had spent two days mapping out its possibilities.Therefore, when the council met the next morning, I was already there, huddled against the wall in the corridor and listening.Rowan found me there twenty minutes before the meeting began.He paused in the entrance of the corridor and watched me sitting there. Gazed at the arch opening where sound passed freely. Then me again."You could have simply walked in here," he said."I could," I agreed.He held the door open.It was an imposing space, high-ceilinged, paneled in dark wood, and with a wide rectangular ta
Kill Me Alpha, Before I Do (Beast Of Flames Book 1) Chapter 19
Romy PovI was standing on the upper landing, the cold iron railing biting into my palms as I stared down at the black-and-white marble of the great entrance. I held a book, some leather-bound history of the Northern territories, but I hadn’t turned a page in forty minutes. My mind was a mess of exit routes and the lingering, phantom heat of Rowan’s touch from the night before.The heavy front doors groaned open and two men entered.The first was in his fifties, a broad-shouldered, silvery-haired man who carried his body with a strength earned by years of having pack status. His face was warm, with laugh lines around deep-set eyes and a mouth that turned up into a friendly smile; he wore a suit that hinted at money but didn’t shout it, looking perfectly at home in his surroundings.The second man was his companion, a little younger and leaner with dark hair pulled tight from a high forehead and a sharp-featured, pointed jaw. He walked just a step or two behind the first one, hands ca
Kill Me Alpha, Before I Do (Beast Of Flames Book 1) Chapter 18
Romy PovThe wardrobe was empty.It was not raided or forced open. It was simply empty. All the things Zaric had placed there– every piece of cashmere, every tailored pair of trousers, dresses, and shoes, and even the green silk I wore to dinner, everything was gone. In their place, arranged neatly in an insultingly organized pile on the floor of the wardrobe, were some of the most hideous articles of clothing I have ever laid eyes on.I took one and held it at arm’s length.It was brown. Formless. This piece of material seemed to have been laundered approximately nine hundred times and given up. Five others lay beneath it, each one progressively more wretched than the last: grey, beige, a green so dull it practically surrendered.Omega uniforms. The standard pack-issued clothes for those who lived on the fringes of the pack, the ones who performed the labor.I stood in the center of the silent room, the empty hangers clicking softly in the draft. A message. Pamela Vexley was mark
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