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My Alpha, My Verdict CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE
KIERAN'S POVWe ran until the light changed.Not long by pack standards, an hour, maybe slightly more, the boundary line and back through the lower tree cover where the ground was softer and the air held the specific cold of late afternoon in open territory. Eli ran like someone recovering something rather than exercising it, which was what it was. His wolf was fast and deliberate and after the first ten minutes stopped checking whether I was behind it and just ran.I stayed slightly back. Not from deference , from the understanding that this wasn't about me, it was about him, and my job right now was to be present without being a pressure.We shifted back at the pull-off as the light went gold and flat.He was quiet for a moment afterward, the particular quiet of someone coming back into their body after a long absence. I waited."Four years," he said finally."I know.""It didn't feel like four years. Once I was in it." He looked at the tree line. "It just felt like running.""That'
My Alpha, My Verdict CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR
ELI'S POVI stayed until eleven.Not late by any measure, but late enough that when I left the city had gone quiet in the way it does past ten on a Friday — fewer cars, more space between sounds. Kieran walked me to the door and we stood in the threshold the way we'd stood at corners and on steps and in corridors, the two of us in the spaces between things.He didn't kiss me. I didn't move to close the distance. It wasn't the right moment yet and we both knew it without discussing it, which was its own kind of thing, the fact that we were reading the same timing without negotiating it."Saturday," he said."I have work in the morning.""Afternoon."I looked at him. "You're not going to ask if I'm free.""I'm asking.""That wasn't a question.""Eli." Something in his voice, quiet and certain. "Are you free Saturday afternoon.""Yes," I said.I walked to my car and didn't look back and my wolf was warm the entire drive home.*********************Saturday morning I worked until noon. Th
My Alpha, My Verdict CHAPTER TWENTY THREE
KIERAN'S POVI sent the address at four and spent the next two hours doing something I hadn't done in a long time, which was cook without Cole watching and without any particular reason except that I wanted to.Pasta, because that was what I made. A proper sauce this time, not the Tuesday version Cole had called aggressively mediocre, the one that took longer than it needed to, the one my mother had tried to teach me and which I'd gotten right maybe twice in my life. I had time. I used it.Cole had left at three after the signing with the particular discretion of someone who understood the evening didn't require him. He'd stopped at the door and said "don't overcook the pasta" and left before I could respond, which was as close to a blessing as Cole ever gave anything.Eli arrived at seven.He looked different outside the bar and the courtroom, coat gone, slightly less formal, the composed precision still present but sitting easier on him. He looked at the apartment the way he looked
My Alpha, My Verdict CHAPTER TWENTY TWO
ELI'S POVThe signing was at two on Friday.Mott's courtroom again, which felt right, the same room where the treaty had been won should be the room where it became real. The formal execution required all signatory Alphas or their designated representatives, both lead counsels, and the presiding judge to witness.Drea and I arrived forty minutes early. We didn't do the pre-hearing ritual this time, there was nothing to prepare for, no arguments to position, no pressure points to locate. We just set up the execution documents in order and stood at our table and let the room fill.It filled steadily. Six territorial representatives, three of them Alphas in person. Cole came in with the Voss territorial attorney. Sienna and Marco arrived together and took seats in the gallery, which I'd known about, Kieran had mentioned it Wednesday, casually, like family attending a significant event was a normal thing. I'd let it be normal.Kieran came in last.He came in the way he'd come into Ingrid'
My Alpha, My Verdict CHAPTER TWENTY ONE
KIERAN'S POVThe calls took two days.Both Alphas said yes, which I'd expected, not because of my influence specifically but because the treaty's momentum had reached the point where opposing it publicly required more effort than supporting it. Political gravity. Eli had built enough of it over three years that by the time it mattered most it moved on its own.I told him by text. He replied: "That closes it. Draven has no runway."Then, after a pause: "Thank you."I'd been getting thank yous from him for two weeks and each one landed differently than the last, less formal, more personal, the professional layer thinning the way ice thins when the temperature has been changing gradually and then one day you look at it and realize it's almost entirely water.Cole noticed I was sleeping through the night.He didn't make a production of it. He just mentioned it Tuesday morning while we were going through pack correspondence, casually, the way he mentions things he's been tracking quietly f
My Alpha, My Verdict CHAPTER TWENTY
ELI'S POVI didn't tell Drea about the corridor.She was waiting with the car and she looked at my face when I got in and whatever she saw there made her not ask, which was the specific gift of someone who knows you well enough to read the room.We drove back to the firm. We debriefed the hearing professionally and efficiently and by five o'clock the post-hearing filings were drafted and the client notifications were sent and the fourteen-day execution countdown was documented in the case file.Then Drea went home and I sat in my office alone with the quiet.My hand remembered the angle of his jaw. The warmth of it. The way he'd gone completely still, like something that had been braced for a long time had finally stopped needing to be.I hadn't planned it. That was the part I kept coming back to. I was not a person who did unplanned things, especially not in public corridors outside active courtrooms, especially not with someone whose territory was still technically a signatory party
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