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Chapter Forty-One: Helena's Message
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The Alpha's Lost Mate. Chapter Forty-One: Helena's Message
Sophie Steele"Mummy, does this house have a pool?""There's a fountain," I said, distracted, the phone still in my hand, the message still on the screen.Ethan's voice faded back into the villa behind me, already moving toward his next inspection target, Miriam's footsteps following. Rowan took the bags inside. The car reversed down the drive.Dominic had not moved from beside me.I turned the screen toward him without speaking.He read it without rushing as this has always been his custom. His face did nothing, not the controlled nothing of a man suppressing a reaction. The genuine nothing of a man processing information before deciding what to do with it.He handed the phone back.We stood in the entrance, the villa behind us, the drive ahead, the gate at the far end sitting in the late afternoon light.“Not for Gerald….for you.”I had been turning those five words over since the message arrived. Every version of what Helena was ran through my head in quick su
The Alpha's Lost Mate. Chapter Forty: Grey Eyes
Sophie Steele"There he is," Miriam said, through the open car window, before the vehicle had fully stopped.I was already moving down the entrance steps.The car door opened, Rowan stepping out first, scanning the perimeter the way he always did before anything else, then stepping aside. Miriam came next.Then Ethan.He climbed out with his backpack held in both hands in front of him, small, neat, wearing his blue jumper the way Miriam had predicted, his dark hair slightly flattened from the car journey, his grey eyes moving immediately across the unfamiliar space with the particular assessment of a child who had been many places, cataloguing without alarming himself.He found me.Full speed. No preamble, no hesitation. The backpack swung sideways as he ran, his small feet hitting the gravel with complete commitment, the way children ran when they were running toward something rather than just running.I caught him.I pulled him in and held him with the kind of tig
The Alpha's Lost Mate. Chapter Thirty-Nine: Before He Arrives
Dominic Steele "Regional authority," I said to Lena, keeping my voice level. "Walk me through exactly what he filed." Lena had the document on her screen, pulled up within minutes of Gerald's submission. "Emergency petition, filed under Pack Charter Section Twelve, which allows any senior family member to request regional oversight when an Alpha's succession line is in dispute." She turned the screen toward me. "He's arguing that the existence of an undisclosed heir, combined with what he's calling a pattern of concealment from the pack's leadership, constitutes grounds for external review." "External review means the regional Alpha has authority to intervene," I mentioned. "To observe, technically. But observation at that level creates a public record, you know? And everything goes on the regional ledger." Lena lowered the screen. "It also means the timeline moves out of your hands as the regional authority sets its own schedule." I stood in the study with that for a moment
The Alpha's Lost Mate. Chapter Thirty-Eight: What Sophie Decides
Sophie Steele"Rowan," I said, when he picked up at seven in the morning. "Is he up?""Has been since six," Rowan replied. "He informed Miriam that early rising was a sign of maturity. She told him maturity also involved not eating biscuits before breakfast. He's negotiating."I laughed, sitting on the edge of my bed, the morning coming through the window in thin pale strips."How is he actually?" I asked. "Not the funny version. The real version."A pause. "He's good, Sophie. He slept well. He's not anxious, not picking up on the tension around him, or if he is, it's not landing on him the way it would land on most kids." A beat. "He drew the villa again this morning from a different angle. More detail."I sat with that for a moment."Okay," I said. "I'll call you back within the hour."I ended the call.Then put the phone on the bed beside me and sat.The room was quiet, the morning still finding itself, the villa around me doing what it did at this hour, the slow
The Alpha's Lost Mate. Chapter Thirty-seven: The Bond Fracture Warning
. Sophie Steele"Stop," I said out loud, to no one, to the dark ceiling above my bed, to my own chest which had decided at two in the morning to feel like something was pulling it apart from the inside.The ceiling did not stop, and my chest did not stop.I pressed my palm flat against my sternum the way I had in the corridor on my first night here, the same instinct, the same useless gesture of trying to hold something in place that wasn't interested in being held. The pain was not sharp exactly. It was a pressure, deep, insistent, the kind that sat beneath your ribs and pulled, like something on the other end of a rope that had been stretched too far for too long was finally making its position known.I sat up.My wolf was not restless. It wasn't pacing or reacting to threat or responding to Dominic's proximity in the usual disorienting way. This was different. This was my wolf in distress, communicating in the only language available to it when words weren'
The Alpha's Lost Mate. Chapter Thirty-six: Rowan Meets Ethan
Rowan Ashby"You're late," Miriam said, opening the door before I'd finished knocking."The flight had a ground hold," I told her. "Twenty minutes. I made up most of it."She looked at me with the particular assessment of a woman deciding in real time whether I was going to be useful or a problem. It lasted about four seconds. Then she stepped back, let me in, closed the door behind me with the quiet efficiency of someone who had been managing difficult situations for long enough that even the door-closing was deliberate."The new address is clean," she said, moving immediately to the kitchen counter where a folder sat open. "I swept the lobby myself this morning. No one in the building knew us, so we checked in under my sister's name. The photograph of the situation at the last building, I've already reported to Dominic's contact." She turned. "No one approaches this boy without going through me first. That's been true for six years, it's true now.""Noted," I sai
The Alpha's Lost Mate. Chapter Twelve: Leaving Is Not An Option
Sophie Steele"Miriam, listen to me carefully," I said into the phone, my bag already on my shoulder, my room already behind me. "Do not tell anyone where you're taking him. Not the address, not the area…Nothing.""Already moving," Miriam replied. "We'll be out in twenty minutes.""Good. Call me fr
The Alpha's Lost Mate. Chapter Eleven : What Vivienne Knows
Vivienne Steele"You're hovering, Gerald."He stopped beside the mantelpiece as he looked at me with that pleasant face he kept ready for exactly these moments. "I'm grieving, Vivienne. Same as everyone.""You're watching the room though," I uttered. "There's a difference…And yo
The Alpha's Lost Mate. Chapter Ten : Gerald
Gerald Steele"Remarkable turnout," the man beside me said. Councillor Aldric, seventy-one years old, pack elder, looking like a man who had been in every important room for so long that people forgot to question his presence. "Richard was well loved.""He was," I confirmed. "He
The Alpha's Lost Mate. Chapter Eight : Burial Ground
Dominic Steele"He would have wanted something smaller," my mother said beside me, quietly, not looking at me. "Richard always hated spectacle."I did not respond to that. I kept my eyes forward…The cemetery sat on the east side of the Steele estate grounds, old and well-kept, the ki
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