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Chapter 46: Work
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Owned By The Alpha King Chapter 46: Work
He has a mouth on him outside the bedroom too.That is the thing I am learning about Thalrion Bloodryn in the weeks since the gala and it is information I was not prepared for and cannot now un-have. The version of him that exists in meetings and briefings and operational planning sessions is controlled and precise and gives nothing away.Then there is the version that exists when we are alone or close to alone and that version says things that should not be said in the locations they get said and does it with complete composure like he is discussing strategy.It is deeply effective and I resent it enormously.It starts that morning at breakfast.The whole table is there. Soren eating toast. Tiara with her opinions. Caius running something on his laptop. Lena with her tea. Normal breakfast, normal morning, and Thalrion is beside me which he always is now and his hand finds my knee under the table which he often does now and none of that is unusual.What is unusual is that he leans sli
Owned By The Alpha King Chapter 45: What He Does To Me
I find him in the kitchen at eleven at night and he is eating leftovers standing at the counter and I stand in the doorway and look at him and think that this is genuinely unfair.He is in dark sweatpants and nothing else.Just, nothing else. The Alpha King who wears suits like a second skin is standing at his own counter at eleven pm eating cold food directly from the container in sweatpants and his back is to me and his shoulders are right there and I have had a very long difficult operationally demanding day and I did not need this.My wolf is unhelpful about it.My body is unhelpful about it.I cross to the counter and open the fridge and get water because I need something to do with my hands and I am standing beside him before I fully think that through and his scent is right there, warm and specific, and I take a long drink of water and look at the wall."Long day?" he asks."Very." He looks at me sideways.I look at the wall."You're doing the thing," he says."What thing?" "
Owned By The Alpha King Chapter 44: What Noctyros Knows
The intelligence report arrives at noon.Caius puts it on the table and we gather around it, all of us, Thalrion at the head and Soren to his right and me beside Thalrion and Caius across and Tiara in the doorway because she has established that the doorway is a legitimate participation position and nobody has successfully argued otherwise.The report is from Bryn's team.Three pages. Dense. The kind of document that has been assembled from multiple sources and cross-referenced carefully and the picture it paints when you put all three pages together is not comfortable.Noctyros knows about the ability.Not everything. Not the range of it or the targeting capability or what I demonstrated this morning in the main room. But the listening device that was in the building for eleven days picked up enough, conversations about the bloodline, about the file, about threat-responsive activation, to give him a working theory."He knows it exists," I say."He knew it existed before the device,"
Owned By The Alpha King Chapter 43: The Test
Soren does not know what he agreed to.That becomes clear approximately forty five seconds into the testing session when I close my eyes in the middle of Thalrion's main room and reach for the ability and feel it come up immediately, sharp and present, nothing like the effort it used to take to sense anything, and Soren's Alpha presence hits it like a wall.I open my eyes."Well..." I say.Soren stares at me. "What did you do?""Nothing yet," I tell him. "I can just feel you. Your position. Your attention." I tilt my head. "You're concerned. Not about the test. About something you haven't said yet today."Soren looks at Thalrion.Thalrion looks back at him with an expression that says yes, he did just do that, keep up."That's..." Soren stops. "That's unsettling.""Imagine living with it," I say."Move," Thalrion tells me. "Go to the other end of the room and tell me what changes."I cross to the far wall.The signal doesn't diminish the way I expected. It shifts, the pressure point o
Owned By The Alpha King Chapter 42: The Morning After The Gala
He is quiet."That's important," he says."Yes. I think it is."He reaches up and covers my hand on the desk with his.I glance down at it."Come to bed," he says quietly. "We finish this tomorrow."I look at him."The ability might keep me awake," I say."I'll manage that," he replies.I stare at him for a moment and his eyes are warm and very specific and it is midnight and I think that whatever comes next, tonight I walked into a room that was built to make me afraid and I stood still in it and something in my blood woke up and recognised itself.I am not afraid.I am awake."Okay," I say.He stands.He takes my hand.We go.**********Tiara is waiting.She is in the kitchen at seven with two coffees already made and an expression that says she has been awake since six processing information and has a structured list of things she wants to know and she is going to get through every single one.I sit at the counter.I take the coffee."How bad?" she demands."It wasn't bad," I tell
Owned By The Alpha King Chapter 41: What I Can Do
I tell him everything in the car.Not the managed version. Not the version where I edit for his comfort or mine or leave out the parts that are harder to say. All of it... the way the room felt when the ability woke up, every Alpha's position like a pressure point in the air, the weight of Noctyros at the center of it heavier than anyone else, the specific clarity of it, like a frequency I have always been able to hear but never knew I was hearing.He listens.The whole way back without interrupting, which is a thing about him I have learned, the way he gives information the full space it requires before responding to it, and I talk and the city moves past the windows and the bond is warm between us and when I finish he is quiet for a long moment."How strong was it?""Strong enough that I could feel the difference between every person in that room," I tell him. "Not thoughts. Not intentions. Just presence. Weight. Direction of attention." My hands settle in my lap. "Noctyros was the
Owned By The Alpha King Chapter 13: On The Road
He wasn't kidding about eight.At seven fifty five, there are three vehicles in the underground garage, black, unmarked, idling, and four people I haven't met yet moving with the quiet efficiency of people who do this regularly. No fuss. No visible weapons, though I would bet everything I own that
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
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