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Chapter 44 : A toast to hope
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2026-09-09 14:06:23
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The Enemy Alpha's Beta Chapter 140 : The Race Begins
The highway north was almost empty this late, just the occasional pair of headlights sweeping past in the opposite direction, the dark countryside rolling by in long, quiet stretches broken only by the occasional gas station glowing faintly in the distance. Asher sat curled against Killian's side in the back seat, his hand resting over his own stomach out of habit, watching the miles disappear beneath them."You should try to sleep," Killian murmured, his fingers moving slowly through Asher's hair. "It's another hour at least.""I can't," Asher admitted. "Every time I close my eyes I just think about Julian getting there first."Killian didn't argue with that, mostly because he was thinking the exact same thing. His phone sat in his lap, the screen dark, no new updates from Frank since they'd left the city. That silence felt heavier with every passing mile.In the front seat, Marcus drove with both hands steady on the wheel, glancing occasionally in the rearview mirror. Ethan sat besi
The Enemy Alpha's Beta Chapter 139 : Julian's Head Start
Julian's apartment was quiet the way it always was at night, every object in its place, every book squared neatly on its shelf, nothing left out of order. He liked it that way. Order was the one thing nobody had ever been able to take from him, not even when they'd taken everything else.He sat at his desk with a single lamp burning, a folder open in front of him, the same folder he'd been building for months now, piece by careful piece. Inside it were photocopies, printouts, a timeline written in his own small, precise handwriting. At the center of it, circled twice in red ink, was a name.Louise Hartley.He'd found her three weeks ago, buried in an old filing chain nobody else had thought to trace that far back. It had taken patience — the kind of patience his father had never quite managed to hold onto, the kind that had gotten his father disbarred and broken instead of vindicated. Julian had learned from that mistake. He didn't rush. He didn't push before he was ready. He gathered
The Enemy Alpha's Beta Chapter 138 : A Cold Trail
The investigator's office was small and cluttered, tucked above a dry cleaner's a few blocks from campus, the kind of place that didn't advertise and didn't need to. Killian had used the same man for years, ever since he was old enough to need someone who could dig quietly through the kind of history his family preferred to keep buried.Asher sat beside Killian in the cramped office, his knee bouncing under the desk, watching the older man — a wiry, gray-haired investigator named Frank Doyle — spread a handful of papers across the desk like he was laying out cards in a game only he understood."So," Frank said, without much preamble, "the signature page. The one that's supposedly still missing from the original contract.""You found something," Killian said. It wasn't a question."I found a name," Frank said. "Whether it leads anywhere is a different story, but it's the first real thread we've had in weeks." He tapped one of the papers. "Back when the original document was drawn up, y
The Enemy Alpha's Beta Chapter 137 : Baby Names
The apartment smelled like garlic bread and something sweet baking in the oven, and for one whole evening, nobody mentioned Julian's name even once.Asher sat cross-legged on the couch with a notebook balanced on his knee, a pen tucked behind his ear, watching the small chaos unfolding in front of him with something close to real happiness. Ethan was sprawled on the floor with Marcus, both of them arguing loudly over a bowl of chips. Killian sat beside Asher, unusually relaxed, one arm resting along the back of the couch, close enough that Asher could feel the warmth of him even without touching."Okay," Ethan announced, holding up a chip like a gavel. "New rule. No names that sound like a law firm. Asher already vetoed three of mine for that exact reason.""Because they did sound like a law firm," Asher said. "Harrison Whitmore the Third is not a baby name, Ethan, it's a will.""It's distinguished," Ethan argued."It's insane," Marcus said. "I vote for something normal. Like Leo.""L
The Enemy Alpha's Beta Chapter 136 : Elena Confirms It
Elena opened the door before they even knocked, her robe pulled tight around her, her face already pale with worry from Asher's phone call twenty minutes earlier. She looked between her son and Killian standing on her doorstep at nearly midnight, and whatever she saw in their faces seemed to confirm something she'd already been afraid of for a long time."Come in," she said quietly, stepping aside to let them both through. "Sit. I'll make tea, and then I'll tell you everything I know, all of it, no matter how long it takes.""Mom, we don't need tea," Asher said gently, though his voice was tight with nerves he couldn't quite hide. "We need the truth. Now, tonight, before this goes any further than it already has."Elena's hands trembled slightly as she lowered herself onto the couch across from them, her eyes flicking between her son's face and Killian's, both of them waiting, both of them visibly braced for whatever was coming."Julian's father," she said finally, the name seeming to
The Enemy Alpha's Beta Chapter 135 : The Professor's Father
Killian didn't wait for morning.He drove straight to the estate the second Ethan's call ended, Asher's voice still ringing in his ears from the three-way call they had all just been on together, James's warning repeating over and over in his head like something he couldn't outrun no matter how fast he drove. This is about the professor's father.Dominic was still awake when Killian arrived, sitting alone in the study with a book he clearly hadn't been reading, his reading glasses pushed up into his white hair, a single lamp casting a warm, tired glow across the otherwise dark room. He looked up as Killian came in, something already shifting in his expression at the look on his grandson's face."You look like you're carrying something heavy," Dominic said, setting the book aside slowly as Killian shut the door behind him with more force than he probably meant to."I need you to hear something," Killian said, not bothering to sit down. "And I need you to tell me the truth the second yo
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