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Chapter Sixty-Nine: The Day After Ordinary
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MY STEPBROTHER ALPHA'S DIRTY OBSESSION Chapter Seventy-Five: The Fourth Range
Serena’s POVThe fourth range is different from the others.I feel it before we reach it. Not through the mark, not through the bond. Through something older than both. The specific awareness that lives in a body when it's approaching something significant. Not danger exactly. Significance. The particular weight of a place that has been important for a very long time and carries that importance in its geology.The mountain knows we're here. That sounds like something Maya would say and probably dismiss immediately after saying it. But it's the most accurate description I have for the feeling that starts in my feet when the path transitions from the third range's rocky terrain into the fourth range's approach. Different stone, older.Darker in color. Denser. The kind of formation that was here before the mountain ranges around it finished deciding what shape they wanted to be.Elena notices me notice it. "The Thornline chose well," she says quietly beside me. "This range is a natural b
MY STEPBROTHER ALPHA'S DIRTY OBSESSION Chapter Seventy-Four: The Third Range
Maya’s POVThe third range is where the weather decides.We're two hours into the climb when the clouds that have been sitting low and noncommittal since dawn make up their mind. The temperature drops first. Then the wind picks up from the north. Then the snow comes. Not a storm, not yet.Just the beginning of one. The tentative leading edge of weather that is testing whether it has enough energy to become something serious. Small flakes at first. Sparse, almost polite. Then less sparse. Less polite.I watch Kael read it. He does that thing he does with terrain and weather simultaneously. The internal calculation running behind his eyes while his body keeps moving at the same steady pace. Filing variables, adjusting."How long can we keep climbing in this?" Serena asks him. "An hour," he says. "Maybe ninety minutes if it stays at this level." "And if it escalates.""Then we find shelter and we wait." She nods. No arguing, no pushing. The specific trust of someone who knows when anothe
MY STEPBROTHER ALPHA'S DIRTY OBSESSION Chapter Seventy-Three: What Elena Carries
Kael’s POVWe move in ten minutes.Elena falls into the group without ceremony. No formal acknowledgment of her inclusion. No discussion of terms or conditions or what her presence means for the dynamic of the five of us moving through mountain terrain toward something none of us have a complete picture of yet.Serena said you're coming with us.Elena said yes.That's the whole of it.Which is either the most sensible way to handle a complicated situation or the most dangerous. I haven't decided yet. The bond carries Serena's certainty about it, and her certainty is usually better calibrated than my caution, so I let it stand. For now, we climb.The second range is steeper than the first. The path is narrower. The ground is less forgiving. Large flat stones that look stable and aren't. Sections of loose shale that require slow deliberate movement and full attention. Nobody talks much during the climb.The terrain doesn't allow for it. I stay close to Serena. Not hovering, present. The
MY STEPBROTHER ALPHA'S DIRTY OBSESSION Chapter Seventy-Two: The Second Range
Maya’s POVElena comes at dawn. Not at night the way Serena predicted she might. Not in the dark, with the advantage of shadow and the cover of the river sound masking her approach. She comes when the sky is just beginning to separate itself from the darkness and the birds in the high branches are making the first tentative sounds of morning.Like she wants to be seen. Like she's done with the parallel movement and the careful distance and has made a decision in the night about what she's going to do and has organized herself around it.I'm on watch when she steps into the clearing.I see her before the others do.She looks different from the last time I saw her.That was the battle. The end of it. Elena was defeated and exiled with the specific diminished quality of someone who has spent everything they had on something that didn't work. Hollow around the eyes. Posture that had lost its architecture.This Elena is different. Not restored exactly. Something more complicated than resto
MY STEPBROTHER ALPHA'S DIRTY OBSESSION Chapter Seventy-One: The First Range
Serena’s POVThe first mountain range is harder than it looks from Silver Crest.Everything always is.You stand at the base of something, and your eyes give you one version of it. Scale. Distance. The general shape of the challenge. Then you start climbing, and the ground under your feet gives you the honest version. Every loose stone. Every false summit that reveals another summit behind it. Every place where the path narrows to something that requires both hands and full attention and leaves no room for anything else.We've been climbing for four hours.The Silver Crest Valley is invisible below us now. The morning that started gray has stayed gray. Low cloud pressing down on the upper slopes. The kind of weather that isn't dangerous yet but is making clear it could become dangerous if it decides to.Kael reads it the same way I do. I feel his assessment through the bond. The particular quality of an Alpha cataloging terrain and weather simultaneously. Filing variables. Adjusting t
MY STEPBROTHER ALPHA'S DIRTY OBSESSION Chapter Seventy: Three Days
Damien’s POVKael tells me in the east wing corridor. No preamble. No careful framing. Just the facts delivered in the flat, precise way he delivers things when he's already made the decision and is informing rather than consulting.The letter. The emblem. The map in Marcus's study. Four mountain ranges north. Three days. And then, "You're coming." I stand in the corridor and look at him for a moment.Two words: not an invitation, not a request. A statement of fact delivered by an Alpha who has decided something and is telling me what my role in it is."Yes," I say.He looks at me carefully."You understand the terms," he says."Tell me anyway," I say. "So we're clear.""You're there as part of the group," he says. "Not as Silver Crest's Beta running his own assessment. Not gathering information for a separate calculation." He holds my gaze. "What happens in those meetings belongs to everyone present. No independent use of it."I hold his gaze steadily. "Agreed," I say. He watches my
MY STEPBROTHER ALPHA'S DIRTY OBSESSION Chapter Twelve: The Cost of Silence
Kael’s POV"She's gone."The scout's words echo through the hall like a death sentence. I don't move. Don't blink. Don't breathe. "Say that again."The scout drops to one knee. His head bows low. "Maya, Alpha. She left the mansion two hours ago. We tracked her scent to the eastern river. It crosses
MY STEPBROTHER ALPHA'S DIRTY OBSESSION Chapter Three: Into the Dark
Serena’s POV"Stay inside. Lock your door." The guard's voice is sharp through the wood. His footsteps disappear down the hall before I can ask questions.I stand frozen in the middle of my room. The howl still echoes in my ears. That sounds foreign, wrong, and nothing like the wolves I grew up aro
MY STEPBROTHER ALPHA'S DIRTY OBSESSION Chapter Two: A Bond That Shouldn't Exist
Serena’s POV"Say that again." My voice sounds strange. Distant. Like it belongs to someone else.Kael's grip on my wrist doesn't loosen. His golden eyes bore into mine, and I see something there I didn't expect. Fear, not of me, of what he just said."You heard me." His jaw tightens. "You're my ma
MY STEPBROTHER ALPHA'S DIRTY OBSESSION Chapter One: The Wrong Mate
Serena's POV"You married him without telling me?"The words leave my mouth before I can stop them. My hands shake as I grip the car seat. Outside, iron gates close behind us with a crash that echoes through the night. My mother keeps her eyes forward. "Serena, please. Not now.""When, then?" My vo
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