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Chapter 20. The Morning After
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2026-10-02 09:04:16
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The Alpha Chose My Sister But My Baby Chose His Bood Chapter 68: The Night Desk
The dark in the cellar was total, and Ren's first move was to say "Nobody move," which was a stupid thing to say to a room containing a seventy-year-old with a bad knee and a man with a head injury. Then his phone torch came on and lit his own chin from underneath, like a boy telling a ghost story."It's the bulb," Ansel said from the doorway. He sounded tired and apologetic, like the cellar had personally failed him. "It's been going since March. I keep saying.""To who?" Caelum said."To the school.""And what did the school say?""That it's a cellar."Dr. Adaeze made a small damp noise that might have been a laugh. Somebody found a second torch. The lamp on Lucan's table sat dead and brown, and the light from three phones turned all their faces into the faces of people stealing something.Luna was still holding her own phone. Petra had gone quiet on the other end, and Luna could hear her breathing. She put her on speaker and set the phone on the edge of the bed, next to the child's
The Alpha Chose My Sister But My Baby Chose His Bood Chapter 67: The Shoe
Luna did not go in.She stood in the doorway of Room 3 with her left hand shoved so deep in her coat pocket the lining was creaking, and looked at a sixty-five-year-old man in grey socks sitting on a child's bed holding a shoe, and for about four seconds her brain refused to put the two things together."How did you get here before us?" she said. It was a stupid question. It was the only one that came out."I've been here since Wednesday," Lucan said. "I drove back after I saw you. I always come on a Thursday." He glanced at his watch, a thin gold thing. "It's still Thursday, if you're generous. Ten to five. I tend to be generous.""You came every Thursday to the nursery," Caelum said behind her. "Odile wrote it down.""The nursery, yes. Then, after a certain Thursday, here." He turned the shoe over in his hands. "I do apologise for the socks. One takes off one's shoes in a child's room. It seemed the least I could do.""Mr. Corvane." Tomas Reyes had pushed in beside Caelum, mint stil
The Alpha Chose My Sister But My Baby Chose His Bood Chapter 66: Wrong Note, Right Note
The boy on the steps was called Ansel, and the first thing he said to them was, "Sorry, I need a wee."Nobody knew what to do with that."I've been out there since eleven," he said, already walking backwards toward a hedge. "In this. Don't touch anything until I'm back. Actually, touch whatever you like, I don't care, just don't go downstairs without me, the third step is loose."He went. Ren stared after him with his mouth slightly open."Is that the one who's going to help us rescue a girl from a dungeon?" he said."He's twenty," Caelum said. "He's cold.""He's wetting a hedge.""Ren.""I'm just saying it's not what I pictured."Tomas Reyes, behind them, had taken a mint out of his coat pocket and was unwrapping it with great concentration, the cellophane crackling loud in the hall. "I'll note," he said, "that the minor on the premises left the building voluntarily and returned, and that the door was opened by him." He put the mint in his mouth. "I'm not sure how to note the hedge."
The Alpha Chose My Sister But My Baby Chose His Bood Chapter 65: What the Children Wrote
The envelope was found on the Thursday morning, and nobody could say who had put it there.Mira discovered it on the kitchen table at six, under a saucer, addressed in careful capitals to THE WINDOW ONE. She brought it to the estate office with the air of a woman handling something that might go off, and Luna turned it over twice before she opened it.Inside was a single sheet, folded in eighths, covered on both sides in handwriting that changed three times.Dear Window One,We are the five who stayed. The man said you would not want us because we are too old. We are not too old. We are only careful.We want to tell you the thing we did not tell the observers. We could not say it with the teachers listening, and they were always listening, even when the door was closed.There is a room under the west house. It has a lock on the outside. It is where they put the ones who tested at four degrees. Not to punish them. To keep them still while they were studied. Wren was there. She was ther
The Alpha Chose My Sister But My Baby Chose His Bood Chapter 64: Thirty-Six Beds
They reached the packhouse at two in the morning.Nobody had slept in the cars. The younger children had cried quietly for the first hour, then gone silent in the way Luna understood too well, a silence that was not peace but waiting. Pip had ridden in Ren's car with her hand wrapped around the end of Sable's cardigan sleeve and had not let go once.Drew was at the gate. He opened it without a word, and then, when the convoy had passed, Luna saw him in the mirror lift one hand to his mouth.The packhouse had been warned. Maren had seen to that. Every lamp on the ground floor was lit, and the front door stood open on a hall full of people who had been told to be quiet and were obeying with visible effort. Garrick's wife Mira had been up since midnight. The kitchen staff stood in a row with blankets over their arms.Luna stepped out of the car and understood, in one breath, that she had not thought about beds.Thirty-six children. She had thought about the protocol, the observers, the A
The Alpha Chose My Sister But My Baby Chose His Bood Chapter 63: The School in the Highlands
Sable decided to come before anyone asked her.She said it at breakfast on Thursday, between sips of warm milk, in the tone she used for settled things. "I'm coming to the school."Luna put down her cup. "We haven't decided that.""You've decided everything except that," Sable said. "You've decided the observers and the protocol and who drives. You haven't decided me because you're afraid of the answer." She set down her milk. "The answer is yes.""Sable.""If they're children like me, they'll want to meet someone who isn't afraid," Sable said. "And if they're not, I'll know. You won't." She looked at Caelum. "Dad, tell her."Caelum had been quiet. He looked at Luna across the three cups and said, carefully, "She's not wrong. She's the only one of us who can tell the difference between a child who is safe and a child who has been taught to say so.""I know that," Luna said."Then?""Then I'm her mother," Luna said. "And I don't want her to see it."Sable considered this."That's a goo
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