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CHAPTER SEVENTY SIX

作者: Wren Gray
last update 公開日: 2026-03-10 17:29:16

Axel

The flight was fourteen hours.

Fourteen hours of sitting in a leather seat at thirty thousand feet with nothing to do but stare at the clouds beneath me and think about every possible thing that could be happening to her while I was up here, being completely useless.

I didn't sleep. Couldn't.

I sat with my phone in my hand, calling Marcus every hour on the hour, getting updates that were either no new information or information that made everything worse. Feign had her somewhere in the wa
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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 FOUR (You're okay)

    ADDISON The sound wasn’t loud. That was the worst part.It wasn’t a crash or a bang. It was a soft, sliding scrape from the direction of my living room, like a piece of furniture being gently nudged across the hardwood floor.My eyes flew open in the dark. My heart instantly slammed against my rib

    last update最終更新日 : 2026-03-20

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

    ADDISON The note in my hand wasn't just a paper anymore. It felt like a threat made solid. The words How long do you think you can hide, Addison? weren’t a question. They were a confirmation. A confirmation of the life I was now back trapped in. The escape was over, and the nightmare was here, ins

    last update最終更新日 : 2026-03-20

  • TABOO (A DEAL WITH THE SHADOW ALPHA)   CHAPTER NINETEEN (RAGE)

    ADDISON The cool refreshing Air vanishing instantly. It had all been sucked out by him, by the heat of his body and the fire in his eyes. I was trapped between the cold marble sink and the wall of his chest, and my heart was beating so hard I was sure he could hear it and could even feel it as wel

    last update最終更新日 : 2026-03-19

  • TABOO (A DEAL WITH THE SHADOW ALPHA)   CHAPTER EIGHTEEN (ANGER)

    Addison The ride over was quiet, the kind of quiet that feels loud. It gave me too much time to think. Looking at Axel in that perfect black tuxedo, I knew I had to do something. He looked good, too good. The suit wasn’t just clothes on him; it was like a part of who he was—powerful, a little dan

    last update最終更新日 : 2026-03-19
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