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CHAPTER ELEVEN (BUSINESS TRIP)

Penulis: Wren Gray
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2025-12-02 15:06:48

ADDISON

I drew the final line of the sketch, and I let out a breath I didn’t realize I’d been holding. I’d been so focused, so lost in the lines and structure of his form, that the rest of the world had just melted away and it was just both of us.

I looked down at the sketch. It was rough, just the beginning, but it had life. It captured the powerful set of his shoulders, the intriguing contrast of the sophisticated man and his tattoos. It wasn’t that good, but it was something valuable, someth
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  • TABOO (A DEAL WITH THE SHADOW ALPHA)   CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN

    ADDISON.She opened the door, put her hand gently on my back, and guided me through it.And then she pulled the door closed behind me.The room was extraordinary.I didn't fully take it in immediately — I was looking for him, scanning, and found him at the same moment that the details of the room reached me. Candles everywhere, hundreds of them it seemed, on every surface, casting everything in warm gold. Flowers — white and green and deep red, arranged with care throughout the space. The smell of them mixing with the candle wax and the old stone of the building and underneath everything the faint salt of the sea coming through a window somewhere.And Axel.Standing in the center of it, in a suit — dark, perfectly fitted, the kind of thing he wore when he was being deliberate about something. His hands were at his sides and he was looking at me with an expression that I had seen pieces of before, in different moments, but never quite assembled like this — all of it present at once, no

  • TABOO (A DEAL WITH THE SHADOW ALPHA)   CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND FOURTEEN

    ADDISONFive months.Five months since we arrived at the estate and I had become an actual werewolf. I had decided to stay somewhere around the end of the second month.It hadn't been a dramatic decision. No single moment where everything crystallized and I made a declaration. It had been more like a gradual, honest acknowledgment of something that was already true — I was happy here. Genuinely, sustainably, specifically happy in a way that had nothing to do with novelty or escape and everything to do with the particular rightness of a place and a life that fit.I had called Devin first.He had been quiet for a long time after I told him, the specific quiet of someone processing something they hadn't expected and were deciding how to receive it. Then he had said, in a voice that was carefully even, "Is this what you want? Not what makes sense, not what's practical. What you actually want.""Yes," I had said.Another silence. "Then okay," he had said. "I'll visit."My mother had been h

  • TABOO (A DEAL WITH THE SHADOW ALPHA)   CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTEEN

    ADDISON We went outside, Axel walked me through the basics first, which I appreciated even if Khyra was vibrating with impatience. How to let the speed come naturally rather than forcing it. How to distribute my weight differently than I used to. How to feel the difference between human instinct and wolf instinct and let the second one inform the first.I listened carefully.Then we walked to the far end of the lawn and he pointed to the old stone wall at the opposite end, maybe three hundred meters away, the oak tree growing beside it."There," he said. "That's the finish. Ready?"I looked at the distance. Felt Khyra assess it with the particular focused attention of something that had been born knowing how to run."Khyra and I are going to absolutely kick your ass," I said.Axel looked at me. Then at the finish line. Then back at me with an expression I couldn't immediately read. "Who's Khyra?""My wolf," I said. "I named her. Don't be a jealous bean.""I'm not—"I started running.

  • TABOO (A DEAL WITH THE SHADOW ALPHA)   CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND TWELEVE

    ADDISONI was glad to be here, back in Axel’s estate in Greece. It was gorgeous as always and even felt fresher and better now. Khyra was absolutely losing her mind and honestly I was too. I know, I thought at her. I know, it's beautiful."Are you alright?" Axel was looking at me."Fine," I said. The gate opened and the estate came into view properly and I stopped thinking about whatever I was going to say next because the estate had that effect on me — that full-stop, breath-catching effect of something that was simply and immediately beautiful.It was large. Significantly larger than I had fully registered the last time — stone walls and old olive trees and the main house sitting at the center of it all with the particular grace of a building that had been designed for the place it was in rather than dropped into it. The grounds rolled away in every direction, the gardens near the house and beyond everything the sea.Just the sea. Enormous and present."Axel," I said."Yes.""Thi

  • TABOO (A DEAL WITH THE SHADOW ALPHA)   CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND ELEVEN

    ADDISONI called Devin first to tell him about my plans with Axel, I chose him because it was just so much easier. I had sat on my sofa with my phone and my coffee , in a mug I was holding with very deliberate care — and called my brother and told him I was going to Greece for a few weeks, that I needed some time away, that everything was fine but I just needed space and quiet and the particular kind of reset that only came from being somewhere that wasn't this city for a while.Devin had said, after about four seconds of silence, "Is Axel going with you?""Yes.""Okay." And that had been essentially the whole of his reservation. "Take care of yourself. Call me when you get there.""That's it?" I said. "That's all you want to know?""Addie," he said, with the calm of someone who had spent thirty years being the most emotionally intelligent person in a family that didn't value emotional intelligence, "you sound better than you've sounded in months. I don't need the details. Just call

  • TABOO (A DEAL WITH THE SHADOW ALPHA)   CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND TEN

    AXELI knew it was starting before she said anything. I had taken her to her room, she had fallen asleep against my chest sometime in the early hours, her breathing slow and even, and I had stayed awake the way I always stayed awake when something important was happening The mark on her neck had settled into a clean line, already beginning the process that would take weeks to complete, the bond deepening from the point of contact outward through her system like roots finding water.I had watched her sleep and felt something so large and so complete that I didn't have a word for it. Just held it. Let it be whatever it was.Around dawn she shifted against me and made a small sound that was not quite discomfort and not quite pain but somewhere in between, and I was already sitting up before she was fully awake."Hey," I said. "I've got you."She opened her eyes. Looked at me. And I could see it already — something was different. Not dramatically, not yet. But her eyes were slightly brig

  • TABOO (A DEAL WITH THE SHADOW ALPHA)   CHAPTER TWENTY EIGHT

    AXEL I was so close. Her breath was warm on my lips, her eyes wide and trusting. The world had narrowed to the space between us, and for a second, I forgot about absolutely everything.Then my phone rang. The shrill sound was like a bucket of ice water. Fuck!I flinched back, a low growl of frust

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  • TABOO (A DEAL WITH THE SHADOW ALPHA)   CHAPTER THIRTY TWO (WHERE ARE YOU?)

    ADDISON The day had been a good one. A great one, even. For the first time in weeks, I’d pushed the fear aside and gone to my office. I’d finalized the last sketches for the suit. I’d even managed to secure two major popstars who were in town to walk in the show for my new collection. It felt like

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  • TABOO (A DEAL WITH THE SHADOW ALPHA)   CHAPTER THIRTY THREE (NEED MATE!)

    AXELThe idea of getting on that plane, of putting an ocean between us, was impossible. Every instinct I had, man and beast, revolted against it. The thought of her being here alone, vulnerable, while I was gone… and worse, the thought of not seeing her, not smelling her, for weeks… it was a physic

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  • TABOO (A DEAL WITH THE SHADOW ALPHA)   CHAPTER THIRTY FIVE

    Axel"Axel..." My name on her lips was half-plea, half-surrender, and it sent a primal satisfaction through both me"That's better," I said, my thumb tracing slow circles on her inner thigh, deliberately staying just shy of where she wanted me. "But I want to hear you say it. What do you want, Addis

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