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The Marksman and the Listening
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THE ALPHA'S RELUCTANT BRIDE The Older Claim That Answered
Chapter 96The conflict between the two residual presences bought them less time than the sound of it suggested. The newer claim surged gold across the water in an attempt to drive the older shape back into the roots, and for a handful of seconds the pressure on Elias’s blade eased. The listening inside him widened by a margin that was still almost too small to measure. He looked at Zara with eyes that held both the flat distance the source had forced into him and the boy who had just watched a round pass through the air where her head had been. Damien used the opening. He pulled all three of them under the undercut bank again as the marksman above the slope adjusted for the movement of the light. The second shot struck the water where they had been standing and sent a column of spray across the creek that momentarily blinded the vehicles on the far bank.In the narrow space beneath the roots the source’s layered voice continued through Liora on the higher ground, telling the roots th
THE ALPHA'S RELUCTANT BRIDE The Marksman and the Listening
Chapter 95The marksman’s shot cracked through the trees a half-second after Elias’s blade brightened toward Zara. Damien had already moved. He drove into her side and took both of them under the water as the round tore through the space where her head had been. The cold closed over them. Elias remained standing in the shallows above, the finished light in his palm still aimed at the place his mother had occupied, the listening that had kept him from firing the blade now stretched so thin it flickered like a dying filament. Liora watched from the bank with the same flat calm she had worn since the second circle. The residual presence from the shaft spread farther across the surface of the creek, its metallic scent thickening until it coated the back of the throat even under the water.They surfaced against the undercut bank again, gasping. Damien kept Zara pinned to the roots with his body while he checked the angle of the next likely shot. The marksman was repositioning. The vehicles
THE ALPHA'S RELUCTANT BRIDE The Water That Held the Last Choice
Chapter 94The shallow creek offered no cover once the government lights swung fully onto the water. Damien hauled Elias against his chest and dragged Zara with him toward the undercut bank where roots still held a narrow shelf above the current. Elias’s gold blade stayed half-formed in his palm, the light stuttering between the flat ancient calm the source had forced into him and the boy who had just whispered that he could not hold it. Liora stood on the bank with the many-faced presence at her back, her own radiance steady and finished, no longer fighting the claim that used her mouth. The vehicles on the far side of the trees had stopped arguing about nets. One of them was already rolling down the slope with its lights trained on the three figures in the water.Zara kept one hand locked on Elias’s arm and the other on Damien’s wrist as they reached the shelf. The boy’s body was rigid against his father’s chest, yet the listening he had described still flickered in the uneven pulse
THE ALPHA'S RELUCTANT BRIDE The Light That Turned Toward Him
Chapter 93The blade of gold light left Liora’s small hand before anyone in the broken family had time to finish the word that might have stopped it. Damien moved on the only instinct that had never required a wolf, putting his body between the radiance and his son even as Zara reached for Elias from the other side. The blade did not strike like a weapon made to kill. It struck like a claim made to finish. The light passed through Damien’s shoulder in a burn that stole the breath from his lungs and continued into Elias as if the father’s flesh had been only a delay and never a barrier. Elias’s gold eyes went wide. The fracture he had held open since the underground chamber flared once in desperate recognition and then began to close from the inside as his sister’s finished power poured into the places where his own remaining human self still lived.Zara caught him as his knees folded. The boy’s body arched against her with the same terrible stillness that had taken Liora in the first
THE ALPHA'S RELUCTANT BRIDE The Light That Turned Toward Him
Chapter 93The blade of gold light left Liora’s small hand before anyone in the broken family had time to finish the word that might have stopped it. Damien moved on the only instinct that had never required a wolf, putting his body between the radiance and his son even as Zara reached for Elias from the other side. The blade did not strike like a weapon made to kill. It struck like a claim made to finish. The light passed through Damien’s shoulder in a burn that stole the breath from his lungs and continued into Elias as if the father’s flesh had been only a delay and never a barrier. Elias’s gold eyes went wide. The fracture he had held open since the underground chamber flared once in desperate recognition and then began to close from the inside as his sister’s finished power poured into the places where his own remaining human self still lived.Zara caught him as his knees folded. The boy’s body arched against her with the same terrible stillness that had taken Liora in the first
THE ALPHA'S RELUCTANT BRIDE The Circle That Would Not Stay Buried
Chapter 91The hollow held them for the space of a single shared breath before the two approaching forces closed the distance. Damien kept Zara and the children inside the stone circle because the carved ring was the only ground that had ever answered the bloodline on its own terms. Elias and Liora pressed close, gold light flickering around their small bodies in restless sheets that brightened whenever the residual glow from the shaft or the many-faced presence from the trees drew nearer. The surface air smelled of smoke and pine and the chemical sting of whatever ordinance the governments had already spent on the surrounding forest. The war had not paused while they were underground. It had only widened. Yet the immediate threat was not the rotors in the distance. It was the claim that had followed them up through stone and water and dark and now stood on two sides of the same hollow, patient and unfinished.The residual gold that had climbed the shaft spilled out of the roots and b
THE ALPHA'S RELUCTANT BRIDE You Should Be Scared
Chapter SevenDamien gave Victor exactly one hour after Zara walked out before he called him in.Not because he needed the hour. He does not need it. He knows what Victor had done the moment Zara said an unknown number and Isla Vane in the same sentence. He gives himself the hour because he learne
THE ALPHA'S RELUCTANT BRIDE The Woman Who Died
Chapter SixShe tried. She lied on her back and stares at the ceiling and tells herself the phone call was nothing. A prank. Someone with too much free time and a blocked number who somehow knew her name and the word bond and the fact that Damien Wolfe had a woman in his life before her.Before her
THE ALPHA'S RELUCTANT BRIDE The Wrong Kind of Feeling
Chapter TwoZara told herself the outfit did not matter.She told herself that three times while standing in front of her closet at eight fifteen in the morning, then put on the black blazer anyway. The one with the sharp shoulders. The one she wears to meetings where she needs people to take her s
THE ALPHA'S RELUCTANT BRIDE Everything She Built
Chapter OneThe call came at 7:43 in the morning, and Zara Mensah knew from the ringtone alone that something was wrong.She had assigned a different ringtone to every client after the second year in business. Habit, she told people. But really it was because bad news always sounded the same, and s
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