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Author: PUREBLISS
last update publish date: 2026-03-18 05:09:08

"Push, Camille! You have to move!"

Zack’s voice cracked as he shoved the heavy oak dresser across the nursery door. The wood shrieked against the floorboards. Outside, the hallway erupted in the sound of wet, tearing meat and a howl that ended in a human gurgle.

"I can't—Zack, something is wrong." Camille slumped against the crib, her hands clutched over the sharp mountain of her stomach. Her face was gray. Sweat matted her hair to her forehead. She wiped a line of snot from her lip with a trem
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  • The Alpha’s Dirty Little Secret   91

    "Jump, Maya! Now!"Malakai’s voice cracked over the roar of a world tearing itself apart. He gripped the edge of the jagged obsidian rift, his fingers bleeding, his knuckles white against the dark stone. Below them, the Atlantic didn't exist. The water had been replaced by a swirling, violent drain of white light that sucked the clouds, the air, and the very screams of the dying into its center."I can't—my legs won't move!" Maya stood five feet from the edge. Her knees shook. Snot mixed with the salt spray on her upper lip. She looked back. The Manhattan skyline was flaking away. Massive chunks of steel and glass didn't fall; they drifted upward, dissolving into golden dust before they hit the thickening amber ceiling of the sky."The core stopped, Maya! There’s no more gravity! If you don't jump, you'll drift into the shell and burn!" Malakai lunged forward. He grabbed her wrist. His touch was electric, a sharp sting of violet frequency that made the hair on her arms stand up."It l

  • The Alpha’s Dirty Little Secret   90

    "Don't open your eyes, Victor."Elodie’s voice sliced through the low hum of the amber sky. She gripped his face. Her palms were slick with sweat. Victor’s body jerked under her touch. His jaw was clamped so tight a tooth cracked. He didn't look at her. He couldn't."It's right there, isn't it?" Victor’s voice came out as a wet, ragged growl. "Behind the door. I can... it’s breathing. It smells like the cellar. Like the day I—""It's not real." Elodie pressed her forehead against his. She ignored the way the walls of the command deck were beginning to sprout black, oily hair. "It’s the Thought-Plague. The Hatching is thinning the veil. Your guilt is just a frequency, Victor. Anchor to me. Anchor to my voice.""I killed them, Elodie. I killed the whole squad in the Bronx. I left them to burn." Victor’s eyes snapped open.They weren't brown anymore. They were two pits of black ink. From the shadows behind the radar console, a shape began to pull itself into reality. It was a man. Or it

  • The Alpha’s Dirty Little Secret   89

    "Don't look at the water, Zack."Camille gripped the railing of the rusted trawler. Her knuckles were white. Her breath came in short, jagged hitches. The Atlantic didn't look like an ocean anymore. It was a jagged, vertical wound in the world. It didn't spray salt. It didn't roar. It hummed—a low, vibrating frequency that made the fillings in Zack’s teeth ache."I can't not look at it." Zack wiped the grease from his forehead. "It's not water. It’s... it’s like glass. Only it’s moving.""It's Thought," Camille whispered. She pointed at a floating piece of driftwood.The wood didn't sink. It didn't float. It turned into a bird. A small, gray sparrow. The bird chirped once, then burst into blue flames."The Russian scrolls were right," Zack said. He spat into the shifting void. "The shell didn't just crack. It leaked. Whatever’s in there... it’s the raw material. It’s what things are made of before they’re things.""Zack, stop thinking about the labs." Camille grabbed his arm. Her fing

  • The Alpha’s Dirty Little Secret   88

    "Hold the railing, Elodie. Don't you dare let go."Victor’s voice was a ragged scrape against the silence of the command deck. His knuckles were white where he gripped the bolted-down iron console. He didn't look at the monitors. He looked at Elodie. Her feet were six inches off the floor. Her silver hair didn't fall; it drifted around her face like smoke in a stagnant room."I can't—Victor, the weight. It’s gone." She reached for him, her fingers brushing the air. Her wedding ring slipped off her finger. It didn't clatter. It hovered between them, a small gold circle mocking the laws of the world. "The sensors are flatlining. Gravity isn't just fluctuating. It’s shutting off.""It’s the cocoon." Malakai pulled himself along the wall using the hydraulic pipes. His face was a mask of sweat and violet light. He kicked off a bulkhead, gliding through the air toward the main viewport. "The atmosphere is thickening. It's not air anymore. It's a literal shell of solidified frequency. We're

  • The Alpha’s Dirty Little Secret   87

    "Is it another one?"Zack’s boots crunched on the shattered glass of the nursery floor. He didn't wait for an answer. He saw the way Lyra’s small, pale hands moved across the parchment. Her fingers were stained gold, the ink dripping from her skin as if her very blood had turned to metallic liquid. She didn't look at him. She never did. She just kept scratching symbols into the scroll, her eyes fixed on something two inches behind the air."Leave her alone, Zack."Camille stood by the window, her silhouette framed by the dying violet light of the rift. She held a damp cloth to her neck. Her skin was gray, the sweat making her shirt cling to her spine. "She’s been at it for six hours. She hasn't eaten. She hasn't blinked.""The tactical teams are three blocks away, Camille." Zack grabbed the edge of the changing table. It groaned under his weight. "Malakai is out there playing God with a glass hat, and we’re stuck in here with a toddler who’s writing the world's most expensive suicide

  • The Alpha’s Dirty Little Secret   86

    "You’re going to let them eat us?"Victor slammed his palm onto the map-table. The holographic projector flickered, the blue light of the New York subway grid dancing across his scarred face. He looked at Elodie. She didn't flinch. She just kept her eyes on the heat signatures blooming like red sores across the Bronx."I’m going to negotiate a ceasefire, Victor." Elodie’s voice was a jagged whisper. She didn't look up. Her fingers traced the line of the Harlem River. "Kane isn't just a rogue Alpha anymore. He’s convinced the pack that the shift wasn't a curse. He thinks it’s the final evolution. If we send the Skin-Seekers into that tunnel with guns, it’s a slaughterhouse.""They're not just 'shifting' anymore, El." Victor grabbed her shoulder. He turned her around. Hard. "I saw what they did to the scout. They didn't just kill him. They consumed him. Kane is telling them that eating the ones who want to be human—the ones Malakai 'fixed'—will make their own wolf permanent. They're not

  • The Alpha’s Dirty Little Secret   CHAPTER 28

    "What the hell? The air... it’s like breathing lead."Elodie slumped against the slick salt wall, her palms sliding over the cold, damp minerals. The white glow that usually pulsed under her skin flickered. It sputtered like a dying candle, leaving the cave in a suffocating, grey twilight."The wal

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  • The Alpha’s Dirty Little Secret   CHAPTER 25

    "Drink the damn tea, Elodie. The healer said every drop." Victor pushed the ceramic mug into her hand, his fingers lingering against hers. His touch was scorching, a sharp contrast to the drafty chill of the northern wing."I’m pregnant, Victor, not paralyzed. If I sit in this bed any longer, I’m go

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  • The Alpha’s Dirty Little Secret   CHAPTER 27

    "What the hell is that smell?" Elodie gripped the rough limestone wall, her boots slipping on the wet floor."Salt. Deep salt. It masks the heat signatures. Government thermal won't see a thing through three hundred feet of mineralized rock." Victor didn't turn back. He hauled a heavy wooden supply

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  • The Alpha’s Dirty Little Secret   CHAPTER 30

    "You want to drain her? Are you out of your goddamn mind?"Victor’s roar shook the stone walls of the infirmary. He kicked a metal rolling tray, sending surgical tools clattering across the floor like hail. His chest heaved, the fabric of his shirt straining against shoulders that looked ready to b

    last updateLast Updated : 2026-03-22
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