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Chapter Seventy-six: Gerald's Contacts
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The Alpha's Lost Mate. Chapter Seventy-eight: What we are Afraid Of
Dominic SteeleDominic found Sophie sitting on the floor of their room with her back against the bed frame, knees drawn up, staring at nothing in particular, and he lowered himself down beside her without a word, because there wasn't anything left to say about the day itself that either of them hadn't already said a dozen times over the last several hours."Ethan's asleep," she said finally. "I checked twice. Miriam's in the chair by his door. Rowan's got people at every entrance now, doubled again.""I know. I signed off on the rotation myself.""I keep waiting to feel like that's enough," Sophie said. "More people. More cameras. More protocols. I keep thinking eventually one of those things will actually make the fear stop, and it never does. It just moves to a different part of my chest."Dominic reached over and took her hand, not saying anything at first, simply holding it, feeling the faint tremor still running through her fingers even hours after the footprints
The Alpha's Lost Mate. Chapter Seventy-seven: The Wrong Side of the Estate
Rowan AshbyRowan had every available man on the eastern boundary by two in the morning, chasing a motion sensor alert that turned out, four exhausting hours later, to be nothing more than a herd of deer working their way through the treeline. He would spend the rest of that week furious with himself for not questioning, sooner, why an alert this convenient had come from that particular sensor on that particular night."Confirm it again," he said, standing in the cold with two of his men and a spotlight sweeping uselessly across empty grass. "I want visual confirmation before I stand this crew down.""We've had eyes on this stretch for three hours, Rowan," one of them said, not unkindly, just tired. "Deer tracks, nothing else. Whatever tripped the sensor is long gone, if it was ever more than the deer to begin with."Rowan didn't like it. He couldn't have said exactly why, some low, nagging instinct that refused to settle even as the evidence in front of him confirm
The Alpha's Lost Mate. Chapter Seventy-six: Gerald's Contacts
Dominic SteeleDominic found Gerald in the east guest room, sitting alone in the near dark with a single lamp burning, and the moment he stepped through the door without knocking, Gerald looked up with an expression that told Dominic his uncle had already guessed exactly why this conversation was finally happening."Vera Kessler," Dominic said, closing the door behind him. "You hired her to trace Miriam's background. When your council challenge collapsed, you tried to pay her to destroy every file she'd gathered on this family. She refused, and weeks later she nearly sold what remained of that file to a buyer connected to Callum Draven's territory."Gerald's jaw tightened, but he didn't deny a single word of it. "I know.""You know.""I've known since the day she took my money and refused to hand over the files," Gerald said. "I understood, sitting across from her in that diner, that I hadn't actually closed anything. I told myself I had, because the alternative mean
The Alpha's Lost Mate. Chapter Seventy-five: The Man in the Parking Lot
Sophie SteeleSophie felt Ethan's grip tighten around her fingers hard enough to hurt, and by the time she'd turned to ask what was wrong, his face had already gone pale in a way she hadn't seen since the morning his eyes flickered gold in the garden."Ethan?""There's a man over there," he said, low, not pointing, his eyes fixed somewhere past her shoulder toward the parking area at the edge of the community field. "By the grey car. I don't like him."They'd come to the pack's autumn gathering at Brooke's insistence, a low-key community event meant to let the wider pack see Ethan simply as a child rather than a political controversy, and Sophie had agreed cautiously, on the condition that Rowan's people kept a visible presence around the perimeter without making the event itself feel like a security operation. She'd spent the last hour watching Ethan laugh with Tessa over a game involving sticks and an elaborate set of rules only the two of them seemed to fully
The Alpha's Lost Mate. Chapter Seventy-four The Car on the Road
Sophie SteeleSophie was still tightening the strap on Ethan's shoe when he asked the question she'd been dreading since the night six strangers had gotten close enough to the tree line that Rowan still hadn't fully slept since."Why are the new gate people here so much now?"She kept her eyes on the buckle, buying herself half a second to steady her voice before she looked up at him. "What new gate people, sweetheart?""The ones by the front road. There were two men there yesterday morning, and two different men there this morning, and I heard one of them talking into his collar like Rowan does when something's happening." Ethan studied her with the same calm, direct attention he brought to everything, and Sophie understood, not for the first time, that trying to manage information around this particular six year old was considrably a harder task than managing it around most adults. "Is something happening?""Your father's just being extra careful right now,"
The Alpha's Lost Mate. Chapter Seventy-three: Callum Draven
Dominic SteeleDominic had Vera Kessler's folder open on his desk within the hour, and the first page alone told him they were no longer dealing with a vague suspicion about a rival Alpha's ambitions.Rowan had brought her back to the villa himself, under guard but not under arrest, a distinction Vera herself had been quick to point out the moment she'd stepped out of the car, hands raised, insisting she'd come voluntarily rather than been caught fleeing. She sat now in the study across from Dominic, Sophie beside him this time, exactly where she'd insisted on being, and Lena stood near the door with her tablet already open, cross-referencing what she was about to say against everything she'd traced through the night."Start from the beginning," Dominic said. "Everything, in order. I want to understand precisely what you sold, to whom, and what you know about what happens next.""I didn't sell everything," Vera said, and there was none of the composed detachment s
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The Alpha's Lost Mate. Chapter Four : Echoes in the East Wing
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The Alpha's Lost Mate. Chapter Three : Funeral
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