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Author: I.O PIETRO
last update publish date: 2026-04-23 06:51:04

"He is very good at believing in himself," I say.

The room is still. The arbitrator who asked the question is watching me with the specific attention of someone who has decided they want to hear what comes next and has set everything else aside for it.

I do not look at my father.

I have decided I will not look at him during this. Not out of anger. Out of clarity. He spent twenty-three years defining what I was allowed to see and say and feel in rooms where he was present. This room is not one o
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  • PREGNANT WITH THE ALPHA'S UNWANTED HEIR    The external call

    "Vane," Bastien says.He says it at eight in the evening after two hours of Soren pulling communication records through every available channel, and he says it with the specific flatness of someone who is not surprised but is not pleased either.Vane is removed from the council, I say.He is removed, Bastien says. He is not gone. He is sixty-three years old and he has thirty years of pack-world connections and a lifetime of accumulated knowledge about bloodline tracking and pack law. He looks at the table. My father approached him. Years ago. Before the contract. Before any of this.You think your father reached Vane this afternoon, I say.I think Vane is the only external party with enough knowledge, enough motivation, and enough remaining resentment to be useful to my father right now. He holds my gaze. Vane lost a thirty-year career in one council finding. He will not have accepted that quietly.Soren turns his laptop toward us.The screen shows a communication log from a pack-adja

  • PREGNANT WITH THE ALPHA'S UNWANTED HEIR    Neve

    "She asked me why I came," Ivy says.It is afternoon and Ivy is on the phone from the compound and she has the particular quality in her voice of someone who has had an unexpectedly good conversation and is still sitting with it.What did you say, I ask.I said I came because it is my pack and I wanted to be seen in it, Ivy says. She looked at me for a moment and then she said: that is the right answer. A pause. She has been here for three years managing the eastern boundary logistics and she said nobody from the main house has ever asked her opinion about anything until Marta did two weeks ago.What did Marta ask her, I say.Whether she thought the pack was being run correctly, Ivy says. Neve said no. Marta asked her how she would run it. Neve told her for forty minutes. Another pause. Marta apparently took notes.I smile.She sounds like Marta's candidate, I say.She is Marta's candidate, Ivy says. But not the way my father uses candidates. Marta is not asking Neve to be something.

  • PREGNANT WITH THE ALPHA'S UNWANTED HEIR    Fourteen minutes

    "Competing registrations go to a resolution panel," Holt says at seven in the morning.She is on the phone and her voice has the particular quality it gets when she has been awake for a very long time and has resolved the being-awake into pure function.Which panel, Bastien says.Council heritage division, she says. Three-member panel. The standard resolution timeline is four to eight weeks. During that period neither registration is active, which means neither party has a definitive custodial claim. A pause. The site is effectively frozen.He cannot use it, I say.Correct, she says. And the interim council cannot demolish or cede it. Both parties are in a holding pattern until the panel rules.What is the resolution criterion, Bastien says.Which party has the stronger claim to custodial standing, Holt says. A family member's historical claim versus a pack council's administrative claim. She pauses. The pack council claim is generally stronger in precedent. But the panel has discreti

  • PREGNANT WITH THE ALPHA'S UNWANTED HEIR    What he is doing there

    "The ritual requires a location," Bastien says.He says it in the hallway at midnight and his voice is doing the flat operational thing, which means he is already three steps ahead and is catching up to me.The binding location,I say. Nadia mentioned it. A place of established pack power where the ritual can be anchored. I look at Bastien. He is not going there to perform a ritual. The ritual requires willing blood and I am here and the statue is gone and I am not going anywhere near that site.Then why is he going, Bastien says.It is not a challenge. It is genuine.I think.My father reads the articles. My father reads the tribunal record. My father understands that the statutory framework is gone and the willing blood requirement stands and every legal and political mechanism he built is dismantled.He is not going north because he thinks the ritual is still viable.He is going north because the site is in the Crest Pack historical record as a ceremonial location. Because it is doc

  • PREGNANT WITH THE ALPHA'S UNWANTED HEIR    The night before

    "Tell me something that has nothing to do with my father," I say.It is eleven at night. The library is quiet. Soren has gone to bed. Ivy packed a small bag earlier and told me she was going to the compound tomorrow, not waiting for the nomination period, because Marta asked and because she has decided waiting is something she is done with.Bastien looks up from his book.What kind of something, he says.Anything, I say. Tell me about something that happened before any of this.He thinks for a moment.When I was seventeen, he says, I drove three hours to attend a pack governance session in the Eastern Ridge territory. I was not invited. My father did not know I had gone. I sat in the back of the session hall for six hours and took notes on everything the senior arbitrators said and drove home and rewrote the notes from memory to see how much I had retained.I look at him.You were seventeen, I say.I was serious at seventeen, he says.You are serious now, I say.I am less serious than

  • PREGNANT WITH THE ALPHA'S UNWANTED HEIR    Marta

    The youngest pack members, I type back to Marta. People who have been here their whole lives and want to stand. He will present himself as the bridge between the old framework and the new one. He will say he understands both sides.Her response comes in seconds: I know two candidates he will target. Both are twenty-six. Both ambitious. One of them already asked me last week when the formal Alpha selection begins.I showed it to Bastien.He reads it and looks at Ivy.Can you get me Marta's call number, he says.Ivy sends it.Bastien calls.Marta answers in one ring. Her voice is the same as the assembly, deliberate and without performance.Alpha Rourke, she says. I expected this call.You said you know who he will approach, Bastien says. Do you know what he will say to them?He will tell them the suspension is temporary, Marta says. He will tell them the tribunal finding was a political decision driven by Iron Fang pressure, not by genuine misconduct. He will say the documents were tak

  • PREGNANT WITH THE ALPHA'S UNWANTED HEIR    The wrong floor

    It's a council representative," Bastien says.He is looking at his phone, at the security feed thumbnail, and his face has done that particular rearrangement where something unexpected has arrived and he is deciding in real time what it means."Pack council?" Soren is already at the door."Inter-pa

  • PREGNANT WITH THE ALPHA'S UNWANTED HEIR    What he got

    "Ask him what he got."I say it out loud in the elevator on the way back up and the words taste exactly as bitter as I expected.Bastien is standing beside me, not touching me, watching the floor numbers rise. He has the card in his hand. He has been holding it since the stairwell and I have not as

  • PREGNANT WITH THE ALPHA'S UNWANTED HEIR    The man in the corridor

    "Stay behind me."I almost laugh. Not because it's funny but because this morning I was a contract mate with a packed suitcase and a car booked for ten and now Bastien Rourke is pulling me into a stairwell with his hand flat against the door and his entire body tuned to something I can't hear yet.

  • PREGNANT WITH THE ALPHA'S UNWANTED HEIR    What the baby is

    "She knew," I say. "She knew the whole time."Nobody argues with me. That is how I know it's true.We are back in Nadia's office, all four of us this time, and Nadia is standing behind her desk with her hands flat on the surface and her eyes on me and the expression on her face is the specific expr

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