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Chapter 37: Two Alphas, One Room
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2026-08-22 22:29:41
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Not yours to reject Chapter 68: Her Father's Absence
"I need to ask you something, and I need you to actually tell me the truth this time."Mara looks up from the book she's reading, curled into the corner of the couch, something in my tone immediately putting her on alert. "That sounds ominous.""Ellison told me something today. About Mom." I sit across from her, the weight of everything learned this afternoon still settling uneasily in my chest. "He said she wasn't running alone during part of her flight from Thomas. There was someone with her. A partner, he called it, someone she trusted completely."Mara's face goes carefully, deliberately still, the particular stillness I've learned over these past weeks to recognize as her bracing for exactly the kind of conversation she'd rather avoid."I don't know what you're talking about.""Mara, please." My voice cracks slightly, exhaustion and desperate need for honesty tangling together. "I've spent my entire life
Not yours to reject Chapter 67: Her Mother, Remembered
"Before you tell me anything more about the failsafe, before we return to strategy and danger and everything hunting me right now, can you just tell me about her? As a person, not as a bloodline carrier or a fugitive."Ellison studies me for a long moment, something gentling in his expression at the request. Jaxton, beside me, stays quiet, giving me the space to ask what I actually need in this moment rather than pushing the conversation immediately back toward tactical necessity."She laughed easily," Ellison says finally, settling back into his chair with the softened posture of someone accessing an older, gentler memory. "That surprised me, given everything she was running from. I expected someone more guarded, more visibly frightened. Instead she found small moments of genuine humor even in the middle of crisis. She used to tease my own daughter mercilessly about her terrible taste in suitors."Something loosens in my chest, unexpec
Not yours to reject Chapter 66: Old Alliances
"Alpha Ellison. It's been a long time."Jaxton extends a careful handshake to the gray-haired man waiting in the neutral meeting tent set up along the shared border, and I stand beside him, watching the exchange with cautious attention. Alpha Ellison studies Jaxton with an expression that carries both warmth and something more guarded underneath."It's been too long. Though given the circumstances bringing us together, I imagine neither of us wishes it happened this way." Ellison's eyes shift toward me, assessing, careful. "You must be Delaney Reeves. Your reputation precedes you, given recent events.""I appreciate you agreeing to meet on short notice," I say, keeping my tone measured despite the wariness still sitting heavy in my chest since Garrett's uncle appeared on this same list of allies."Your message concerned matters my pack has quietly monitored for years." Ellison gestures for us to sit, settling into his own
Not yours to reject Chapter 65: The Threat Confirmed
"I sent word to old contacts my father used to work with, people who tracked cross-territory threats back when he was still alive."Jaxton spreads a series of reports across the archive table, two days after I told him about June, his expression grim with confirmation rather than surprise. "What came back matches almost exactly what she told you."I lean over the documents, scanning careful notations mapping incidents across multiple territories, dates stretching back further than I expected. "This goes beyond just our border.""Far beyond it. There have been at least six similar incidents across three separate pack territories in the past two years alone, all following the same pattern. Coordinated assault, specific targeting of individuals later confirmed or suspected to carry unusual gifts, capture attempts rather than simple raids." Jaxton taps one particular report, older than the others. "This one is from eight years ago. A healer in a territory two regions over, similarly targ
Not yours to reject Chapter 64: Trust No One Fully
"You've been gone almost three hours and nobody knew where."Jaxton finds me at the fence line, relief and frustration warring visibly across his face as I make my way back toward camp. The distance between us since our last argument still lingers, careful and unresolved, but the worry in his voice cuts straight through it now."I needed air. I told you that already, days ago." I keep walking, and he falls into step beside me, matching my pace with careful restraint."Air doesn't usually take three hours in the dark, alone, after everything that's already happened on that exact stretch of the border." His voice tightens, though he visibly holds back from pushing harder, remembering, I think, the promise he made to stop deciding things for me. "I'm not trying to control you. I'm asking because I was genuinely afraid something happened."I stop walking, weighing how much to tell him, the memory of June's warning still sittin
Not yours to reject Chapter 63: A Name at Last
"You came back."I say it quietly, finding June waiting in the same clearing three nights later, exactly as she promised, though I'd half convinced myself she wouldn't. I came alone again, against every instinct telling me it was reckless, but something about her warning still burned too urgently to wait for anyone's official approval to investigate further."I told you I would." She steps fully into the moonlight this time, less guarded than our first meeting, though the same careful wariness still lingers beneath her composed exterior. "I've spent the last few days confirming it was safe enough to speak more freely. I don't think anyone followed either of us tonight, but we should still be quick.""Tell me what you meant about Thomas's real motive."June settles onto the same fallen log I sat on days ago, and I lower myself across from her, tension coiled tight in my chest despite the careful trust building slowly betwee
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