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Chapter 31: Across the Street

作者: May Che
last update 公開日: 2026-07-16 00:16:04

Finn watches Everett Stone from the shadowed entrance of a closed laundromat and feels the world shrink to the width of the street between them.

Rainwater drips from the cracked awning above his head. The laundromat window beside him is covered with old paper notices, most of them curled at the edges, advertising broken machines, missing hours, and a landlord who no longer answers calls. Inside, the place is dark. Outside, Lark Street looks the way it always does: tired brick, rusted f

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    Vera Lawson arrives at Stone Tower wearing soft blue and a smile made for cameras.There are no cameras.That makes the smile more dangerous.Everett watches her through the glass wall of his office as she speaks briefly with his assistant, thanks her by name, and accepts nothing to drink. She moves through Stone Tower as if she has already learned which rooms will belong to her after the engagement becomes permanent. Calm. Polished. Light on her feet. A perfect Omega bride in a building built by Alphas who prefer their women elegant, their contracts quiet, and their scandals buried before they reach the press.Everett does not rise when she enters.Vera notices.Her smile does not change. “You are busy.”“I usually am.”“Too busy for your future wife?”“We are not married.”“Not yet.” She sits without being invited, smoothing one hand over her skirt. &ld

  • The Alpha's Hidden Heir   Chapter 33: Stone Tower Silence

    Stone Tower is too quiet when Everett returns.The upper floors always have a controlled kind of silence, the kind money buys with thick glass, private elevators, and assistants trained to speak softly before powerful men. Today, the quiet grates against him. It feels polished over something rotten, like the Harborline Club after sunrise, like Lawson House behind its perfect windows.Everett crosses his office without removing his coat.Dean follows, rain darkening the shoulders of his jacket. He closes the glass door behind them and waits until the lock clicks before speaking.“He lives near Lark Street,” Dean says.Everett stops beside his desk.The words should bring relief. They do not. They only sharpen the danger because close is not found, and found is not safe.“How certain?”“High. Not complete.” Dean takes out his phone and brings up a map of East Alder, Lark Street, the pharmacy ro

  • The Alpha's Hidden Heir   Chapter 32: Owen Wants Answers

    Owen does not move toward the bedroom.He stands beside the table with the Lawson placement letter still open beneath one hand, his face pale but stubborn, his jaw set in the way that always makes Finn remember he is not a little boy anymore. Rain taps against the window behind him. Somewhere below, a car passes too slowly along Lark Street, and Finn’s whole body turns toward the sound before he can stop himself.Owen sees it.His expression changes from fear to something more painful. “There. That. You keep doing that.”Finn pulls the curtain back just enough to look down at the street. The black car is gone. Everett is gone. Dean’s men are not visible, which means nothing. Men like that do not stay visible unless they want to be seen.“Finn.”He lets the curtain fall. “Pack your documents.”“No.”The word lands hard in the small apartment.Finn turns around. &

  • The Alpha's Hidden Heir   Chapter 31: Across the Street

    Finn watches Everett Stone from the shadowed entrance of a closed laundromat and feels the world shrink to the width of the street between them.Rainwater drips from the cracked awning above his head. The laundromat window beside him is covered with old paper notices, most of them curled at the edges, advertising broken machines, missing hours, and a landlord who no longer answers calls. Inside, the place is dark. Outside, Lark Street looks the way it always does: tired brick, rusted fire escapes, overflowing bins, broken lights, and narrow alleys where people learn to disappear before they learn to hope.Everett does not belong here.That is the first thought that strikes Finn, sharp and almost ridiculous in the middle of fear. Everett stands across the street beside a black car, tall and controlled in a dark coat that probably costs more than Finn’s rent for months. Even without the polished glass of Stone Tower behind him, power clings to him. It sits i

  • The Alpha's Hidden Heir   Chapter 30: Almost Found

    Everett reaches East Alder Street twenty-three minutes too late.The pharmacy screen still plays the engagement announcement when Dean’s car stops at the curb, but Finn is gone. Everett steps out into the damp afternoon and looks up at his own face beside Vera Lawson’s, bright and polished above the sidewalk like a public sentence. People pass beneath it without slowing now. The news has already become part of the city’s noise.For Finn, Everett knows, it would not have felt like noise.It would have felt like an answer.Dean joins him near the pharmacy entrance, phone in hand. “He left south. Camera catches him until the laundromat corner, then we lose him for six minutes.”“Six minutes is enough to vanish here.”“Yes.”Everett turns away from the screen because looking at it makes something violent move under his skin. “Show me.”They follow the route on foot.

  • The Alpha's Hidden Heir   Chapter 29: Everett Sees the Photo

    Everett hates the photograph before the first headline finishes loading.It is perfect in the way that lies are perfect when rich families have enough money to choose the lighting. Vera stands beside him in pale silk, serene and composed, one hand resting lightly on his arm as if the touch means trust instead of contract. Everett stands beside her in a dark suit with his face turned slightly toward the cameras, his expression controlled enough for the press to call it strength.The caption beneath the image calls them Riverton’s most powerful new alliance.Everett looks at the screen and feels nothing but disgust.“This had to be done,” Andrew Stone says from the far side of the conference room.Everett does not answer.The room is full of polished glass, black leather chairs, and men who have mistaken silence for agreement all their lives. Andrew stands near the head of the table with Katherine seated beside him, her postu

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