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Chapter 20: Going Back
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Owned By The Alpha King Chapter 20: Going Back
We leave the house at seven the next morning.Not because it's safe to go back, not entirely, but because Thalrion has a meeting with his legal team that cannot be moved and Soren has three things that need handling in person and Lena needs proper medical attention and a real safe place that isn't a house Noctyros has already photographed.I pack my bag in four minutes.I always pack fast. Old habit. Muscle memory from years of leaving before I was ready, and the fact that I am ready this time, the fact that leaving this house feels like something I didn't want to do rather than something I had to, is not lost on me.Thalrion is in the corridor when I come out.He looks at my bag. He looks at me. He doesn't say the thing I can see in his expression, something about four minutes and always being ready, and I don't say it either, and we go downstairs together in a silence that is easy in the way that silences only get after something has shifted between two people and both of them know
Owned By The Alpha King Chapter 19: Lena
She is smaller than I expected.I don't know why I had a picture in my head but I did, something of Caius in female form, dark eyes and quick energy and that smile that arrives before the rest of the person.But the woman Soren's team brings through the door at four in the afternoon is small and pale and has been through something that left marks, not all of them visible, and she walks into the house like someone who has forgotten what it feels like to walk into a room that isn't a threat.Caius crosses to her before she fully clears the doorway.He doesn't say anything. He just pulls her in and holds on and she grabs the back of his jacket with both hands and they stand there in the entrance of the house and nobody in the room looks at them directly because some things deserve the privacy of being looked away from.I look at Thalrion.He is looking at the window.His jaw is set and his hands are in his pockets and there is something happening in his expression that he is not letting
Owned By The Alpha King Chapter 18: Twenty Minutes
The tree line is gold and green in the afternoon light and completely, extraordinarily quiet.Thalrion walks beside me with his hands in his pockets and his jacket off and the afternoon on him differently than the city is on him, looser, something in the set of his shoulders that belongs here and not there, and I walk beside him through the long grass at the edge of the trees and I don't think about the photograph or the clerk or Noctyros or any of it because he said twenty minutes and I am taking twenty minutes."Tell me something," I say."What kind of something?""Something that has nothing to do with any of it," I say. "The bond, the claim, Noctyros. Something else."He is quiet for a moment, thinking about it genuinely, and I like that he thinks about it rather than reaching for something easy and surface-level."When I was nineteen," he says, "I ended a pack war that had been running for eleven years. Everyone told me it would take negotiations, months of them, careful maneuveri
Owned By The Alpha King Chapter 17: From The Tree Line
Thalrion moves first.He is already typing before I have fully processed what I am looking at, the photograph, the front of this house, our house, taken from the tree line six minutes ago by someone who should not know this address exists, and his voice when he speaks is so controlled it has no temperature at all."Get your bag," he says."We're leaving?""We're moving through the house and locking it down," he says. "We are not leaving, we are not running." He looks at me and his eyes are very clear and very steady. "I need you to trust me for the next ten minutes."I trust him.That's the part that surprises me, how immediately and completely I trust him, and I don't examine it because he said ten minutes and I am going to give him ten minutes.I go for my bag.The house changes in the space of two minutes. The security team that was quiet and peripheral becomes something else entirely, moving through rooms with a precision that tells me they have drilled this specific scenario and
Owned By The Alpha King Chapter 16: Twenty Four Hours
Caius arrives at noon.Nobody called him. Nobody told him to come. He simply appears at the door of the house at 12:03pm with his hands in his pockets and his easy manner packed away somewhere and an expression on his face that is the most honest thing I have seen on it since he walked into that meeting room and told me he was glad I was here.Soren opens the door.They look at each other for a moment, these two men who have been in the same circle for four years, and something passes between them that has no words and needs none, and Soren steps back and lets him in.I am in the study.The door is open and I can see the main room from where I am sitting and I stay where I am because this is not my moment and I know it, but I watch through the gap because eight years of survival instinct does not take the morning off.Thalrion is standing by the fireplace.He looks at Caius and says nothing.Caius crosses the room and stops a few feet from him and looks at the fire for a moment like h
Owned By The Alpha King Chapter 15: The Leak
Nobody panics.That's the first thing I notice. Thalrion looks at the message for three seconds, puts his phone in his pocket, and walks back inside with the same measured pace he uses for everything, and by the time Soren appears in the main room thirty seconds later the two of them are already operating in that wordless shorthand that comes from twenty years of trust and I am standing in the doorway from the porch watching it happen."How?" Soren asks. One word. Flat."Unknown," Thalrion says. "Three possibilities. The lawyer, Bryn, or the filing update this morning."Soren's jaw tightens. "Not Bryn.""No," Thalrion agrees. "Not Bryn."Which leaves the lawyer and the filing update, and the filing update means whoever has access to the legal record, and the legal record in a claimed bond goes through the designation court and the designation court has clerks and administrators and people who move paper and people who get paid to move paper in directions it shouldn't go."Caius handle
Owned By The Alpha King Chapter 10: What Noctyros Sends
The message arrives the next morning at six forty seven.I know the exact time because I am already awake, sitting in the window seat with coffee, watching the city come back to life in the grey pre-dawn, and I hear Thalrion's voice down the corridor change. Just slightly. The way a temperature drop
Owned By The Alpha King Chapter 9: Five Days
I spend the first day not deciding.That's not avoidance, that's strategy. I have made bad decisions under pressure before and they have cost me cities and identities and once a very close call in a freight yard outside Delvane that I do not let myself think about. When the stakes are this specific,
Owned By The Alpha King Chapter 8: The Inner Circle
Soren Ashveld is not what I expected.I don't know what I pictured from the Alpha King's general. Something carved and humourless probably, another version of the men at the door. But Soren walks into the meeting room like someone who decided a long time ago that life was too short to be impressive
Owned By The Alpha King Chapter 7: What's In The Blood
The folder is thicker than I expected.I take it back to my room because reading it in the kitchen with Thalrion's coffee smell everywhere and his thumb still warm in my memory is not a situation I can be objective in. I sit cross legged on the bed with the morning light coming through the glass and
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