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Chapter 62
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Marked by the Alpha Chapter 62
ZaraThe thing about watching someone make the choice you'd hoped they wouldn't make is that it happens faster than you can process it. One second Ryan's there, and the next he's gone, and you're standing in a forest that suddenly feels too quiet, like the trees have stopped breathing to watch what happens next.I didn't go after him.That's the part I knew I'd have to live with. That's the part that matters."He's going to die," Simon said. Not as a prediction. As an observation. The way he observed most things, like he was reading information off a page that only he could see."Probably," I said.We moved east anyway. Through the tree line, the way Zara had instructed before everything became something else. Before we understood that Rourke hadn't been waiting on the ridge. He'd been waiting somewhere closer. He'd been waiting for exactly this moment when Ryan would run toward the valley and we would run toward the trees and he could step out of the darkness like he was part of it.
Marked by the Alpha Chapter 61
RyanThe code hung in the air between us like a thing with weight.I knew what it meant. I'd known what it meant for three weeks but had filed it away the way you file away things that don't make sense, the way you defer the things that would break your operational focus if you let them. My handler had given it to me as a contingency, If you can't reach me through normal channels, this code will get you to someone who can help and I'd never questioned why a decommissioned position needed a code at all, why she'd been so careful with her phrasing, why she'd used that specific word: legacy.Now I understood. Legacy meant something had survived. Someone had survived.I could feel Zara watching me. Simon had his eyes closed like he was listening to something the rest of us couldn't hear, which was probably true. Simon heard things in silence the way other people heard them in noise."Say it," Zara said. Not a command but a fieldwork voice. The voice that understood you sometimes needed to
Marked by the Alpha Chapter 60
ZaraThe explosion did three things in the first half-second.It erased the ridge line noise. It compressed the air in a way that felt personal, like a hand flat against the chest and it told me exactly where Elena and Rourke were not."Move," I said.Ryan was already moving, because Ryan's body also knew things his brain hadn't caught up to yet, which was one of the qualities that had kept him alive long enough for me to develop opinions about his survival. I followed his line and then corrected it, because his line went toward the blast, and the blast was information, not a destination."South," I said. "Not back.""Elena...""Elena ran. You told her to run and Elena is not a person who makes promises she doesn't keep." I believed this because I needed to believe it and because I had watched Elena Voss absorb a cascade of impossible information in a forest and not fracture, which meant she was the kind of person who ran when she was supposed to run. "South. Now."The man on the ridg
Marked by the Alpha Chapter 59
RyanI had approximately one second to process the fact that Simon had been in the scrubbed file and zero seconds to do anything about it because the shot came from the direction we were walking and my body moved before my brain caught up, which was fine, the body usually knew better than the brain anyway.I hit Elena first, which was tactical and not unkind, and she went down with minimal resistance which told me she'd been military adjacent at some point, and then I was moving toward Zara because Zara was the thing in the scene that would get us all killed if it went uncorrected, and Zara was already moving, which meant she'd heard what I'd heard, that the shot was a message, not a kill, because if someone wanted us dead we would be dead and instead someone wanted us aware.The trees became useful then. Rourke herded Elena further back and down. Simon, to his considerable credit, didn't panic or posture, he just folded himself behind a broad trunk and his hand was on what I would ha
Marked by the Alpha Chapter 58
ZaraThe photo was small on the screen and I wished it were smaller.I'd met the woman once. A Tuesday, unremarkable, the kind of day that doesn't announce itself as the day you file something you'll need later. A corridor at Vauxhall, a turned face, seven seconds at most. I hadn't known the name then. I knew it now because Ryan had said it, quietly, in the farmhouse, in the specific register he used for things he was not going to say twice.I didn't ask him how long. I could read the how long in the set of his shoulders, in the way he'd looked at the photo for exactly three seconds before his face had finished doing what it needed to do and stopped doing anything at all.Some information arrived and you absorbed it. Some arrived and absorbed you. I could see which kind this was and I gave him the four seconds it took without filling them."Northern track," I said, when the four seconds were done. "Is it viable."Rourke shook his head. "B road's a minute out. They'll have it.""So we
Marked by the Alpha Chapter 57
RyanThe window had been intact three seconds ago.His body processed this before his mind did, which was probably why he was already moving, already low, already putting the table between himself and the source before he'd consciously registered the direction. Glass across the flagstones, and cold air through the gap. A sound outside that he classified instantly and without pleasure as a suppressed rifle, subsonic, close, which meant someone had been set up, had been waiting for an angle, and had found one.Daniel Rourke had dropped.That was the first thing he saw when he came up from behind the table, hand on the Glock, eyes on the window. Rourke was on the floor with the particular economy of someone trained by the same people who'd trained him, the kind of drop that said *I know what this is* rather than *something is happening to me*, and that small distinction, that reflex, produced something in his chest that was complicated and unwelcome and would have to wait."You hit," he
Marked by the Alpha Chapter 6
ZaraMira walked into the office, closing the door with a soft click that was even worse than outrightly slamming it. The way she stared at me, not Ryan, was murderous, one I would never forget in a hurry. It just felt like she was taking her sweet time to enact the revenge I knew she badly wanted
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Zara"Rude" I mummured. Judging from the kind of person Alpha Ryan was, it wasn't hard to see that he was a man of pride who didn't beg. He saw begging as a way of being weak and left for me, I was ready to break him until the only thing left for him to do was to beg. I closed my eyes for a bit, th
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RyanShe was here in flesh and blood. The last living Eserai.When my elders told me about an Eserai at first, I was sure they had gone mad. It was impossible. My seer confirmed that the Eserais had been wiped out by my father’s reckless drinking from them, and his abuse.But the moment I saw her, I
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ZaraWith my hands pinned to my back, I dragged my legs to let them carry as far as I could go, but I was a fool to think they would let me off so easily.Someone was behind me with light steps, almost like they were gliding over the air. Freaking werewolf speed. Everything happened in a blur, and
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