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Chapter 119: Popped
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RECLAIMED BY THE ALPHA: THE ALPHA’S HIDDEN HEIR Chapter 119: Popped
EMILY“I said no, Nick.”“It’s a school recital. Both kids are performing.”“Then we go separately. You take Mason. I take Mia. We sit on opposite sides of the auditorium.”“They’re performing TOGETHER, Emily. Mia and Mason are doing the duet. They’ve been practicing for two weeks.”“Then we sit on opposite sides and clap at the same time. Co-parents do that. That’s what we are.”“You keep saying that word like it’s a shield.”“It’s not a shield. It’s a FACT.”We’re standing in the lobby of the apartment building and his jaw is tight and my arms are crossed and Sage walked past us three minutes ago and turned around and walked the other way because the air between us could strip paint.“Fine,” he says. “Separate cars. Opposite sides.”“Fine.”“Fine.”I walk toward the front door. Mia is beside me, holding my hand, her costume bag over my shoulder. Mason is with Nick three steps behind us. I can feel him back there the way I always feel him when he’s close, a pressure in my chest that
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EMILYI come back in pieces.The white fades to grey and the grey fades to fluorescent light and the fluorescent light is the hospital ceiling and I'm in a bed again. My hand is throbbing. I open my fist and the pendant is there, the broken wolf pressed into my palm so hard it left an imprint in my skin. Blood has dried around the edges where the metal cut in.My body feels like I lived something. Not remembered it. Lived it. My knees ache like I've been on a hard floor. My chest is tight like someone pressed me down with both hands. My throat is raw like I've been screaming.I was eighteen. I was in a green dress. I was on a marble floor.The memory isn't faded or distant the way old memories feel. It's sharp. Present tense. I can still feel the cold marble under my kneecaps. I can still hear the fabric of the dress tearing at the hem. I can still feel the pendant swinging from my neck and hitting the stone. I can still hear his voice filling the room with a word that flattened me.I
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EMILYI don't know why I call him.I'm standing in my kitchen at 7 AM holding my phone and his name is on the screen and my thumb is hovering. Yesterday I told him he was possessive and controlling. Yesterday I sat on the opposite side of an elevator because three feet felt too close.But this morning Mia asked if we could all go to the park. All. She said it the way children say words that carry more weight than they know. "You and Daddy and Mason and me. Like before."I don't remember before. But the way her grey eyes looked when she said it made me pick up the phone.He answers on the first ring."Emily?""I think I overreacted yesterday."Silence."Mia wants to go to the park. All of us. Would you and Mason want to come?""What time?""Ten?""We'll be ready."They're in the lobby at 9:45. Mason is in the jacket, buttoned to his chin. Nick is holding a bag from the bakery and two coffees.He holds one out. "Oat milk. One sugar. Extra hot.""How do you know my coffee order?""Lucky
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NICKThree weeks.I have been to Zurich and Singapore and a clinic in rural Finland where a woman who specializes in bond trauma looked at Emily's scans and shook her head. I have called every researcher, every neurologist, every shaman who ever published a paper on mate bonds. The answer is always the same. The severance is permanent. Alex built a wall, not a door. There is no known reversal.But I found one thing. One thread. A doctor in Oslo who specializes in memory reconsolidation told me that in rare cases, traumatic memory loss can be recovered through emotional triggering. Not the bond itself. The memories attached to it. If the patient is exposed to a powerful enough emotional stimulus connected to the lost memories, the brain can sometimes rebuild the pathways on its own.He said the odds were less than ten percent. He said the stimulus would need to be deeply personal, something the patient associated with the lost feelings at a visceral level. He said there was no guarante
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I lower Emily's hand to the bed. Stand. Walk downstairs.The basement level of the facility is where the pack keeps things the hospital board doesn't ask about. Concrete and cold and one guard at the stairwell who steps aside without a word. Alex is in the last room, cuffed to a pipe. His face is a map of what my fists did three days ago. Broken nose. Both eyes purple. Lip crusted dark.He looks up when I walk in and smiles, and the smile is red."Three days. Is she awake?"I crouch in front of him so we're eye level. I don't hit him. I want him listening."I've been thinking about what to do with you," I say. "I spent the first day planning your execution. The second day I realized killing you is a mercy, and I'm not feeling merciful. So here's what happens now. You're a wolf, Alex. You heal. Which means everything I break grows back, and everything that grows back can be broken again. This room is soundproofed and off every record in this building. You're not a prisoner here. Prison
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NICKThe nurses change shifts at 7 AM and 7 PM. I know this because I've watched them do it six times.They come in and check Emily's vitals and adjust the IV and write things on her chart and look at me in the chair beside her bed. They don't ask me to leave anymore. The charge nurse tried on day one and I looked at her and she backed out of the room without finishing the sentence. The pack runs this facility. Every nurse on this floor answers to me before they answer to the hospital board, and they all know it.My clothes are the same ones I wore through the forest. Blood on the collar. Pine needles in the seams. The cut on my forearm from the lycan has closed but the scar is raised and pink, and my ribs ache when I breathe too deep. I haven't showered. I haven't eaten more than the crackers Sage brought me yesterday, still sitting on the windowsill in their wrapper.Emily's hand is in mine. It's been in mine for three days. Her fingers are warm and limp and her chest rises and fall
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MASONThe car stops and Jessica pulls me out and we’re somewhere with little planes.Not the big airport where Dad took me once to watch planes land. A small place with a fence and a gate and a man who waves Jessica through without checking anything. It’s dark and the lights on the ground are blue
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I go downstairs.His door opens in three seconds. Sweats. T-shirt. Mason asleep on the couch behind him.“You knew I’d be at the gala.”He doesn’t flinch. Doesn’t step back. He holds the door open wider and looks at me with the steady grey eyes of a man who’s been waiting for this.“Come in.”“I do
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