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20. The Nine Digits
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2026-05-06 00:05:57Cora’s POV
The Foundation headquarters felt like a monument to Silas’s dominance. As I walked through the lobby, the sharp, aggressive tang of Alpha power hit me, a weight in the air that usually made humans bow their heads. I didn’t bow. I just tightened my grip on my bag and kept my eyes on the floor.By the time I reached the top floor, my head was swimming. I had dosed myself with the Liquid Silver before leaving the house, though I’d been careful to use a slightly small
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The Alpha's Secret Heir: The Ward's Revenge 20. The Nine Digits
Cora’s POVThe Foundation headquarters felt like a monument to Silas’s dominance. As I walked through the lobby, the sharp, aggressive tang of Alpha power hit me, a weight in the air that usually made humans bow their heads. I didn’t bow. I just tightened my grip on my bag and kept my eyes on the floor.By the time I reached the top floor, my head was swimming. I had dosed myself with the Liquid Silver before leaving the house, though I’d been careful to use a slightly smaller amount this time. I needed to keep the side effects—the tremors, the cold sweats—from resurfacing while I was under the microscope. But as I sat at my small white desk, positioned like a sacrificial lamb directly in front of Silas’s glass-walled inner sanctum, I could feel the metallic bitterness already beginning to leach into my throat.I opened my laptop, smoothing my wool skirt, and tried to focus on the blur of the spreadsheets. A moment later, the desk phone rang.“In
The Alpha's Secret Heir: The Ward's Revenge 19. The Paper Trail
Silas’s POVThe yellow plastic wheel felt like a hot coal in my pocket as I sat in the darkness of my car. I didn't start the engine. I just watched the cottage, my silver eyes fixed on the flickering light behind her curtains.Babysitting.The lie was pathetic. It was a thin, desperate shield. You don't walk into a pediatrician’s office with a heart full of panic for a neighbor’s child. You don't hold pediatric records to your chest like a holy relic if they don’t belong to your own blood.I gripped the steering wheel until the leather groaned. Every instinct I had—the predator and the man—had screamed at me to kick down those hallway doors. I wanted to tear the secret out of the shadows. I wanted to know if I was haunting a stranger or if Cora had truly built a whole new life on the ashes of our love.But then I had seen the blood.The sight of her injury had been a bucket of ice water over my rage. Seeing her hurt—seeing that small, jagged piece of g
The Alpha's Secret Heir: The Ward's Revenge 18. The Jagged Edge
Cora’s POVThe silence that followed Silas’s discovery was so absolute I could hear the frantic, uneven rhythm of my own heart. The small yellow wheel sat in the center of his palm—a bright, plastic accusation.“I… I babysit,” I stammered, the words feeling like dry sand in my throat. I moved toward him, desperate to snatch the toy away, but a sharp, stinging fire shot up my leg. I hissed, my knee buckling as the weight pressed into the shard of glass still embedded in my foot.I stumbled, reaching for the back of the sofa to steady myself, but I missed.I didn’t hit the floor. Silas moved with a speed that defied human physics. One moment he was five feet away, and the next, his arm was a solid iron band around my waist, hauling me upward.“Sarah!” His voice wasn’t cold anymore; it was jagged with a sharp, terrifying concern. He looked down at the floor, where a small, crimson trail had smeared across the linoleum. “You’re bleeding.”“It’s nothing,” I
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Silas’s POVThe silence in my study was a vacuum, filling with the ghosts of a life I had tried to bury five years ago. I stood by the window, staring out at the semi dark treeline of Oakhaven, my hand still trembling with the phantom weight of her.When I had whispered her name in that trailer, I hadn't done it because I was certain. I had done it because I was desperate.Cora.The name felt like a brand. I closed my eyes and could still feel the way she had fit against my chest—the curve of her waist, the height of her shoulder. It was a perfect, agonizing match. But then there was the rest. Her scent was a flat, sterile void. Her voice was too high, her mannerisms too timid, and her hair—that shock of vibrant, artificial red—was a far cry from the dark, silken waves I remembered."I am losing my mind," I whispered to the glass.My wolf was pacing a restless circle in the back of my mind, snapping at shadows. He wanted her to be the woman we lost. But
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