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Chapter twenty-three

Author: Wealth
last update publish date: 2026-09-13 14:27:45

Nora's POV

I made it maybe thirty yards past the tree line before I stopped running.

Rachel was half-dragging Marcus beside me, both of them breathing hard, and when she noticed I wasn't moving anymore she turned back with an expression somewhere between confusion and impatience.

"Nora, we have to keep going."

"I'm not leaving him back there."

"He told you to."

"I don't care what he told me." My chest was heaving, half from the run and half from something a lot closer to panic. "You said it you
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  • My Alpha Rejected Me Then Discovered I was Billionaire Luna   Chapter twenty-three

    Nora's POVI made it maybe thirty yards past the tree line before I stopped running.Rachel was half-dragging Marcus beside me, both of them breathing hard, and when she noticed I wasn't moving anymore she turned back with an expression somewhere between confusion and impatience."Nora, we have to keep going.""I'm not leaving him back there.""He told you to.""I don't care what he told me." My chest was heaving, half from the run and half from something a lot closer to panic. "You said it yourself, four of them against one. That's not a fight, Rachel, that's a slaughter, and I am not going to stand here and let it happen while I run in the other direction.""What exactly do you think you're going to do about it?" Rachel's voice had an edge of real fear in it now, not for herself, I realized, but for me. "You're not a fighter, Nora. Neither am I, not really, not against trained muscle like that.""I don't need to fight them." I was already moving, backtracking toward the river, my mi

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    Nora's POVFor a second all I could do was stare at him, my mind refusing to catch up to what my eyes were telling me."Marcus," I said, and my voice came out steadier than I felt, which was the only thing keeping me upright. "Damien trusts you with everything.""I know." He didn't sound proud of it. If anything, he sounded tired, the same bone-deep tired I'd heard in Rachel's voice a minute ago, before all of this went sideways. "Six years, Nora. Six years I've watched that man make decision after decision that put this whole pack at risk, and not once did anybody ask what I thought about any of it. Not once did anybody offer me anything beyond a title that sounds important and pays like it doesn't.""So you sold him out. Sold all of us out.""I evened the odds." His eyes flicked to Rachel, hard, and something passed between them that told me this wasn't the first time they'd stood in a room together working something out. "Victor offered me something Damien never did. A future that

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