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2026-08-14 17:21:09
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The Alpha's Lost Mate. Vivienne's Allies
Vivienne SteeleVivienne had been making phone calls since before dawn, and by the time Dominic found her in the smaller study, three empty cups of tea lined up on the desk beside a legal pad covered in names, she looked considerably more composed than the vehicle movement report currently circulating through the rest of the house had any right to allow."You've been busy," Dominic said, taking in the pad, the careful columns of names crossed out or checked or circled with question marks."I've been doing the one thing I've actually spent thirty years becoming good at," Vivienne said, not looking up from the call she was finishing, murmuring a polite closing before setting the phone down. "While you and Sophie were arguing about how to fortify this house last night, I was reminding myself that a house is not the only defense available to this family.""What are you doing, exactly?""Calling in thirty years of relationships," Vivienne said. "I have known nearly ev
The Alpha's Lost Mate. Not Again
Sophie SteeleSophie was still holding the folder when Dominic said the words that made every muscle in her body go rigid at once."I want him gone by tomorrow morning."She looked up slowly, certain for a moment she'd misheard him. "Gone.""Away from here. Somewhere secure, somewhere Draven's people have no knowledge of and no way to trace." Dominic's voice had gone into the flat, controlled register he used when he was working through a decision he'd already made and simply hadn't finished explaining it yet. "I have contacts through the regional network, a secure property two states away, staff I trust completely. He'd be safe there while Caius handles the council proceedings and we deal with whatever comes next.""No," Sophie said, and the word came out sharper than she intended, immediate and unthinking, straight from some place in her that had been braced for exactly this conversation without her fully realizing it."Sophie—""No," she said again, standing n
The Alpha's Lost Mate. The Plan against Ethan
Dominic SteeleDominic read Caius Holt's report three times before he trusted himself to speak, and even then, the words came out low and controlled in a way that cost him considerable effort to maintain."He's not just trying to take him," Dominic said. "He's building an entire legal case around him first."Caius had arrived that morning with a folder considerably thicker than anything he'd brought on any of his prior visits, and he sat now across the study desk with the particular grim patience of a man delivering news he already knew would land badly."My office intercepted correspondence circulating through Draven's territory over the past several weeks," Caius said. "Correspondence that makes his intentions considerably clearer than anything we understood from the phone data alone. Draven isn't planning a simple extraction for the sake of leverage. He's building a formal argument, one he intends to bring before the wider regional council, framing Ethan as w
The Alpha's Lost Mate. Ethan's Birthday
Ethan SteeleEthan had decided, weeks ago, that turning seven wouldn't feel any different from being six, because that was what had happened every other year of his life, one ordinary day sliding into the next without any noticeable shift, and he was mildly surprised, standing in the kitchen doorway watching Miriam wrestle a cake out of its pan while his mother laughed at something his father had just said, to discover that this year felt different after all."You're staring," Tessa said, appearing at his elbow with the particular bluntness she brought to every observation. She'd been invited for the week, staying in one of the guest rooms with her parents, and Ethan had found, over the past few days, that having her permanently nearby instead of only at lessons was considerably better than he'd expected it to be. "Is something wrong with the cake?""Nothing's wrong with the cake," Ethan said. "I just noticed that everyone seems happier than usual tonigh
The Alpha's Lost Mate. Chapter Eighty: The Trail to Draven
Lena MarshLena hadn't left the study in over twelve hours, and by the time she finally broke through the phone's last layer of encryption, her eyes burned and her hands ached from the same repetitive motions she'd been running since dawn, but the data unfolding on her screen made every hour of it feel suddenly, brutally worth it."I'm in," she said, and her voice cracked slightly from disuse, the first words she'd spoken aloud in nearly an hour.Dominic was at her shoulder immediately, Sophie right behind him, both of them having spent most of the day orbiting the study in the particular restless way of people waiting for news they were simultaneously desperate for and afraid of."Talk me through it," Dominic said."The device belongs to a man named Petrov, mid level security contractor, no formal pack affiliation on paper, the kind of independent operator who works for whoever pays best without asking too many questions about why." Lena scrolled through the recover
The Alpha's Lost Mate. Chapter Seventy-nine: The Breach
Rowan AshbyRowan was already moving before the second alert finished buzzing, boots half laced, radio in hand, because three separate motion sensors along the southern fence line didn't fire in sequence like that unless something was actually cutting through wire rather than a deer wandering too close."Talk to me," he said into his radio, sprinting across the dark lawn toward the southern boundary, the beam of his flashlight cutting wild arcs through the grass ahead of him."Southern fence, section four," came the reply, tight and breathless. "We've got confirmed visual. One intruder, maybe two, cutting through near the old maintenance gate."Rowan reached the fence line in under two minutes, close enough behind two of his own men to see the shape of it clearly in the spill of the perimeter lights, a section of chain link peeled back at the bottom corner, wire cutters still lodged in the fence itself, abandoned mid cut, and a single figure sprinting hard toward
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
The Alpha's Lost Mate. Chapter One : The Wrong Kind of Right.
Sophie Steele POV.“Oh! Oh! Ohmmmm, yes. Fuck me. Please."Who knew things would spiral this fast? Well it's another Friday night and I'm in my home, the weight of not having a functional social life crushing on me like a wave that doesn't quite know what to do with itself. At ninete
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 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
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