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Chapter 22
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2026-06-03 07:14:40
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THE ALPHA THEY CREATED: MARKED BY RIVALS Chapter 22
Zyra's pov ~ I don't respond to Aldric Calder's message. I screenshot the message, put my phone in my pocket and go to the study. Soren is already there. Kaelen is standing near the window very still with his jaw set. I sit down. "The petition got accepted," I say. "I saw your message. What else?"Soren looks at me and then at Kaelen. Kaelen nods once."I've been running a secondary verification on the communication records from the file," Soren says. He has a folder open on the desk in front of him. "Cross referencing the dates of each update sent to Virek's contact against our own internal communication logs. Meeting dates, call records, site visits." He pauses. "Every single update in that file aligns within twenty four hours of a direct interaction between this family and the investigator.""That was already the working theory," I say."Yes," Soren says. "This is the confirmation." He opens the folder and turns it so both Kaelen and I can see the page inside. It is
THE ALPHA THEY CREATED: MARKED BY RIVALS Chapter 21
Zyra's pov ~ The thing about having a life that is consistently and aggressively complicated is that you start to really value the moments that aren't. Even small ones. Even ones that only last forty minutes in a coffee shop before something ruins them.It is Saturday morning and Tamsin texted us both at eight AM with an address and the message "girls morning or I will combust, non negotiable, be there at ten." Lyenne responded with a single thumbs up. I stared at my phone for a moment, thought about everything currently happening in my life, and decided that a girls morning was either exactly what I needed or a reasonable place to have a breakdown, and either way I should go.The coffee shop is small and warm and not the same one Lyenne took me to for the prophecy conversation, which I appreciate because I would like at least one location in this city that doesn't have significant emotional weight attached to it. Tamsin is already there when we arrive, which means she got he
THE ALPHA THEY CREATED: MARKED BY RIVALS Chapter 20
Zyra's pov ~He exhales slowly and runs a hand through his hair, which I have noticed he does when he is organizing information rather than when he is nervous. "The records described a modification process," he says. "Not a natural development but a constructed one. They referenced bloodline manipulation, something about layering multiple lines of Alpha genetics into a single subject in a way that shouldn't be biologically possible." He pauses. "The notes described earlier attempts that failed. Subjects who didn't survive the process or who survived it in ways that weren't functional." He looks at me carefully when he says that. "You were described as the first successful outcome."The afternoon is very quiet around us. I look at the ground for a second and then back up at him. "They built me to carry something no natural wolf could hold," I say."That's what the records suggest," he says. "Whatever Virek was trying to create, you are the version that worked." He steps closer, n
THE ALPHA THEY CREATED: MARKED BY RIVALS Chapter 19
Zyra's pov ~~ Soren's text says come home but doesn't say how urgently, which with Soren means moderately urgent because if it were critical he would have called. So I walk Lyenne out, collect Tamsin from the corridor where she has finished her jacket grievance call and moved on to eating something from her bag, and I make my way to the car park at a normal pace.Rhyx is leaning against the wall outside the school's east exit unbothered. He has his phone in his hand but he is not looking at it. He is looking at the path from the main building and he straightens slightly when he sees me.Tamsin sees him and looks at me. "Is that one of yours?" she asks."Apparently," I say. "He's very attractive," she says. "In a chaotic sort of way.""Don't tell him that," I say. "He doesn't need the encouragement." I tell Lyenne and Tamsin I'll see them tomorrow and walk over to Rhyx before either of them can follow, which Tamsin looks like she is genuinely considering. Rhyx watches
THE ALPHA THEY CREATED: MARKED BY RIVALS Chapter 18
Zyra's pov~ I find him at the far end of the school's east corridor before first period, which tells me he arrived early and took the long route in to probably to avoid the main entrance crowd. He sees me coming. I know he does because his posture shifts slightly. He decides to keep walking. I match his pace and fall into step beside him which forces him to either stop or have a conversation while moving and since stopping feels like a concession, he keeps walking."I need two minutes," I say."I have class," he says."In twenty minutes," I say. "I checked." He looks at me sideways. "You checked my schedule." "I needed to find you and I didn't want to waste time doing it," I say. "Two minutes, Draven." He stops walking. We are at the end of the corridor near a row of lockers that nobody seems to use, which makes it quiet enough for a real conversation and I appreciate that the universe occasionally cooperates. He turns to face me with his arms starting to fold and
THE ALPHA THEY CREATED: MARKED BY RIVALS Chapter 17
Zyra's pov~The study door opens at 9:47 PM. I know the time because I have been watching the clock in the hallway from my position on the top stair for the last forty minutes, which is not something I will admit to anyone. It felt more productive than lying in my room pretending I could sleep. Kaelen gave up pacing the ground floor around nine and went to make coffee he hasn't touched. Elric is sitting in the living room below me, not reading the book open in his lap, just holding it.We are all waiting. Soren steps out of the study and into the hallway and he looks exactly like someone who has spent two hours alone with information that has rearranged something fundamental. He is put together on the surface the way he always is but it's obvious something is off. His eyes move down the hallway toward where Kaelen is in the kitchen. Then they move up the stairs and find me sitting on the top step like I am seven years old.He looks at me for a moment.Then he says, "Com
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