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Chapter Thirty-four: Sophie Finds Out Gerald Is Looking for Ethan
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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
The Alpha's Lost Mate. Chapter Seventy-two: No More Managing Me
Sophie SteeleSophie found out about the car parked near the northern perimeter from Miriam, not from Dominic, and that single fact told her everything she needed to know about exactly how this household still operated when the stakes were high enough to frighten the people who loved her."I only know because Rowan called ahead asking me to keep Ethan indoors this morning, no explanation given beyond a raised security concern," Miriam said, standing in the kitchen doorway with the particular carefulness of someone delivering information she suspected wasn't hers to deliver. "I assumed you already knew. I'm sorry if I've said something I shouldn't have.""You haven't said anything wrong," Sophie said, already moving past her toward the study, feeling something cold and familiar settle into her spine, the exact sensation she'd spent seven years building a life specifically to never feel again. "You've said exactly the thing I should have been told directly, an hour a
The Alpha's Lost Mate. Chapter Seventy-One: Ordinary Time
Lena MarshLena hadn't slept in eighteen hours when Rowan found her still hunched over her tablet at six in the morning, and the first thing he did, before saying a single word about the border inquiry or Vera Kessler or anything that had kept either of them awake through the night, was set a cup of coffee down in front of her and physically close her laptop."Five minutes," he said. "That's all I'm asking. Five minutes of not looking at that screen.""Rowan, there's a transaction confirmation sitting in that log that I still haven't fully decoded""And it will still be sitting there in five minutes," he said, sitting down across from her at the small kitchen table, close enough that his knee brushed hers under it, deliberately, the way he'd started doing lately, small and unhurried claims on the space between them that no longer needed four inches of distance to feel safe. "You've been awake all night. Dominic's been awake all night. Rowan's been driving half t
The Alpha's Lost Mate. Chapter Five : The Bathroom Between Seven Years.
Sophie Steele POV.I step in.The water is hot and the pressure remains exactly as I remember it. I feel my shoulders come down gradually. I raise my face to the water and allow it to soak me while I am breathing in and out. The steam thickens around me. The rest of the house
The Alpha's Lost Mate. Chapter Four : Echoes in the East Wing
Sophie Steele POV.Evening comes fast like the clock is running a race it refuses to lose. The guests begin to thin out and I am finally directed to my old room. I am so exhausted, like the world has been placed on my body, and this has nothing to do with the flight.One thi
The Alpha's Lost Mate. Chapter Three : Funeral
Sophie Steele POVAnd now I am home. And really, I am expecting to be wowed the moment I get here with any difference or whatever, but everything is still the same way I left it. The beautiful gates of the Steele family villa open with the same calmness they always have, like they
The Alpha's Lost Mate. Chapter Two : Scar
Sophie Steele POVWith a jolt I wake.The first thing that registers is disappointment. I'm no longer in my bedroom in the Steel mansion seven years ago. I'm currently in my luxury loft studio in the heart of Los Angeles surrounded by art, supplies and the kind of serenity that cannot
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