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CHAPTER FIFTY NINE
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2026-02-14 15:39:15
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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 NINETY THREE
ADDISONSomething moved in his face."I want to," I said honestly. "I have been trying to, actually. It would be so much simpler if I just hated you and was done with it." I looked at him. "But I can't. I've tried and I can't and that is extremely inconvenient and I'd like you to know I'm somewhat
Last Updated : 2026-04-04TABOO (A DEAL WITH THE SHADOW ALPHA) CHAPTER NINETY FOUR
ADDISONThree weeks.It had been three weeks since the whole kidnapping incident and I was back at work, which was either a sign of impressive resilience or deeply questionable decision making, depending on who you asked. Jules thought it was the second one. My therapist, who I had finally, after y
Last Updated : 2026-04-04TABOO (A DEAL WITH THE SHADOW ALPHA) CHAPTER SEVENTY
AxelI tried to tell myself it was just anxiety. Just my own paranoia because I couldn't check my phone, couldn't get updates, couldn't confirm that Addison was safe.But the feeling wouldn't go away."—which is why we believe you are the natural choice to lead House Orion into the next generation,
Last Updated : 2026-03-29TABOO (A DEAL WITH THE SHADOW ALPHA) CHAPTER NINETY ONE
ADDISONThe room was very still.I looked at him. At this man who had come into my life and rearranged everything inside it and lied to me and also, apparently, somewhere in the middle of all of it, fallen in love with me. I believed it. "Your father," I said, after a moment.I felt it immediately
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