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CHAPTER 19: STUDY GROUP
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2026-08-18 11:15:02
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OFF LIMITS CAPTAIN CHAPTER 22: THE OLD ROUTINE
NathanMax waited until we were well clear of the party before he said anything, leading me down the block to where he’d parked, the noise of the house fading behind us into something more like distant static. I could still feel the alcohol humming through my system, blunting the edges of everything, but whatever Max had found out was apparently serious enough that he didn’t bother waiting for me to sober up first.“I’m all ears,” I said, leaning against the side of his car, arms crossed.“I made some calls after the thing in the woods,” Max said, glancing around the quiet street out of habit before he continued, the same reflexive caution I’d trained into every wolf under my protection since the day I took over this territory. “Called in a favor with a contact who used to run with Thornwood before he left a couple of years back. He confirmed it. They’re looking for a girl from a Specific bloodline, apparently, though he didn’t know the details just that whoever’s giving the orders wa
OFF LIMITS CAPTAIN CHAPTER 21: THE PARTY II
NathanI’d been ignoring it for too long. I knew that even before I walked into that party, even before the third drink I probably shouldn’t have had loosened whatever fraying grip I still had on my own restraint. I needed to figure out what Ellie actually was, she can't be just a human, not just some girl who’d wandered into my life at exactly the wrong moment, but something else, something that made my wolf sit up and take notice in a way it had never done for anyone before her.Mate. The word had been circling my head for weeks now, and I kept shoving it back down every time it surfaced, because accepting it meant admitting to something I wasn’t sure I had any right to claim. But it was there anyway, undeniable, humming low under my sternum every single time she got within twenty feet of me, an ache that sharpened into something almost unbearable whenever she was close enough to touch and I made myself keep my hands to myself anyway.I hadn’t meant to drink as much as I had that ni
OFF LIMITS CAPTAIN CHAPTER 20: THE PARTY
EllieI didn't want to go. After the phone call with my mom… the way she didn't want to tell me anything, the half explained mess about my grandmother wandering off from her care facility and turning up hours later three towns over, disoriented and unable to explain how she’d gotten there the last thing I wanted was to put on tight clothes and pretend to have a good time at some off-campus party. But Judy had shown up at my room that evening with her hair curled and two dresses draped over one arm, absolutely unwilling to take no for an answer.“You’ve been weird and stressed for weeks,” she said, holding up the shorter of the two dresses like it was a legal argument. “One night. That’s all I’m asking. We dance, we drink overpriced jungle juice out of a cooler, we forget about grandmothers and hockey captains and clinical rotations for like four hours. Then you can go back to being depressed.”“I’m not depressed.”“You’re a little depressed,” Joslyn said from the doorway, already dres
OFF LIMITS CAPTAIN CHAPTER 19: STUDY GROUP
NathanShe looked worried. I didn’t want to ruin the study group, I know how serious Ellie is about school, and that’s the last thing I wanted to be responsible for wrecking, on top of everything else I’d already put her through.“You’re doing it again,” Ellie said, glancing up at me over her article.“Doing what?”“Staring. Like you’re trying to solve a math problem written on my face.” She said it lightly, but there was an edge of real curiosity underneath it, like she actually wanted the answer this time instead of just calling me out on it.I hesitated, weighing how much of the truth I could afford to hand over without handing over everything. “I was thinking about something,” I admitted. “Not the project.”“Care to share with the group?”I almost didn’t. Every practical instinct in me said to deflect, to make a joke, to steer this conversation back toward something safe. But something about the quiet of the study room, the two of us tucked away from the rest of campus for the fir
OFF LIMITS CAPTAIN CHAPTER 18: STUDY GROUP
NathanI found out about the group project assignment the same way I found out about most things involving Ellie lately through some cruel, inconvenient twist of coincidence that felt less like chance and more like the universe actively conspiring to keep putting us in the same room whether either of us wanted it or not.Professor Halloway posted the pairings for our environmental science final project Tuesday morning, and I scrolled through the list on my phone half paying attention, already dreading whatever mediocre partner I’d get stuck with for the next three weeks, right up until I saw her name sitting next to mine.Black, Nathan….. Harper, Ellie.I stared at it for longer than I should have, some stupid, traitorous part of my chest doing something warm and hopeful that I immediately tried to shut down. She hadn’t spoken to me since the football field. Not one word, not a text, not so much as a glance in the hallways we occasionally crossed paths in, and I’d told myself that was
OFF LIMITS CAPTAIN CHAPTER 17: WHAT THE TEA TOOK FROM ME
EllieI didn’t remember falling asleep. I only remembered the dream, vivid and relentless in a way that felt less like imagination and more like memory, though that made no sense at all given that nothing in it had ever actually happened to me.I was running. Barefoot, through a forest so dense the moonlight barely made it through the canopy above me, my lungs burning and my legs screaming with an exhaustion that felt entirely too real. Behind me, I could hear them not footsteps, not anything so ordinary as footsteps, but something lower and more guttural, something that moved on four legs instead of two, branches snapping under weight that didn’t belong to anything human.I didn’t look back. Some instinct deep in my chest told me that looking back was the one thing I couldn’t afford to do, that if I turned around even for a second I would see teeth and eyes reflecting moonlight and something that wanted to tear me apart before I ever made it out of these trees.I woke up gasping, tan
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