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The Hybrid’s Forced Bond Chapter 36
Margot POVNora suddenly leaned across the table.“This is Rhett Vanderbilt we’re talking about.”Her eyes practically sparkled.“The Vanderbilt heir.” I already knew where this was going.“Don’t.” She ignored me.“What does it feel like to get carried by the most powerful Alpha in the city?” I gave her a flat look. She grinned. I had no doubt the leaked footage was connected to Hunter somehow.The problem was that the gossip wasn’t nearly as interesting as people wanted it to be.Hunter Vale’s wife, Grace Baker, was one of the biggest rising stars in the country. She was also a Beta. People had been talking about their marriage from the beginning. A top-tier Alpha marrying a Beta made people uncomfortable.Grace didn’t have a scent. She couldn’t be marked. To people who believed an alpha's partner should be chosen by biology, their marriage made no sense. That was precisely why the paparazzi kept watching them.They wanted cracks: a fight, a cheating rumor, anything they
The Hybrid’s Forced Bond Chapter 35
Margot POVThe house was officially mine. I signed the purchase agreement that morning, finished the mortgage paperwork, and sat through closing with the real estate agent until every document was done. Then they handed me the keys.I curled my fingers around them and stood there for a moment. I had a place of my own. I hadn’t bought the biggest house I could afford.I chose the lowest monthly payment that still made sense.My job was stable, and with my credentials, I knew I could find another position if the worst ever happened. But I’d learned not to bet my entire life on things going well.I’d already seen how quickly everything could disappear.So I wanted room to breathe: a manageable mortgage, money left over for groceries, utilities, medical bills, and the unexpected expenses that always seemed to show up at the worst possible time. And enough left in savings that one bad month wouldn’t destroy me.That mattered more than having a bigger house. I wanted to get everyth
The Hybrid’s Forced Bond Chapter 34
Margot POVThat selfish woman had taken everything.She’d drained our savings, emptied the accounts, and offered the rest of the family’s assets as collateral for her boyfriend’s debts before vanishing without a word.Almost overnight we went from comfortable to drowning.Grandpa took it the hardest. Already older, already carrying years of quiet strain, he watched the life he’d spent decades building disappear, and something inside him simply gave way.He grew sick. Less than six months later, he was gone.Ellen had spent most of her life living without fear of the next bill.Now she was moving into a cheap apartment, counting every dollar: rent, groceries, medical bills, and utilities, while everything settled onto my shoulders.I was barely old enough to grasp how quickly money vanished each month, yet one truth burned clear: there was never enough.Without my professor’s quiet help, I don’t know how we would have survived those years. I hated remembering that time, not because po
The Hybrid’s Forced Bond Chapter 33
Margot POVI had always considered myself a reasonably well-mannered person.Which was probably the only thing stopping me from telling Arian exactly what I thought of him.I swallowed the curse that was already on the tip of my tongue.“I already told you. Go find someone in your weight class. Why lower yourself just to entertain yourself at my expense?”Arian gave a small shrug.“We're not at the point where we can go at each other head-on yet. All's fair in war, right? Besides, what do you expect? He was born eight months before me.”“Just eight months. And somehow, when he was born, the family stars aligned. By the time I came along, apparently it was more like a blessing in disguise.”“Your family drama has nothing to do with me. Aren't you worried I'll tell Rhett Vanderbilt you're talking to me about this?”Arian smiled. &ldquo
The Hybrid’s Forced Bond Chapter 32
Margot POVBy morning, I was exhausted.I yawned so hard on my way into the lab that one intern gave me a concerned look.“Long night?”I nearly walked into the equipment cabinet.I had almost been late to work.Rhett had only come to my room once.Apparently, that was more than enough to destroy my ability to function before nine in the morning.I sat down with a stack of data and forced my brain back into work mode.I was halfway through checking a set of results when I heard voices outside the lab.I glanced toward the glass wall. A group was moving down the hall. People from the research institute.Several executives from the Vanderbilt Group.And then I saw him. Arian.I knew exactly why he was here.The group was touring one of the chemical research labs connected to the corporation's business operations.He had no reason to come into mine.And I would rather not see him. Twice was already too many.The first time, he had challenged me in front of everyone.The second time, he'd
The Hybrid’s Forced Bond Chapter 31
Margot POVI had been living under the Vanderbilt roof for three months.Tonight was only the second time Rhett and I had actually sat down and eaten dinner together.Which, somehow, made his casual, brief sentence before he left the table feel far more dangerous than it had any right to.Experimental data, study design, funding, lab work—those were things I understood. Things I could talk about without wondering what my face was doing or what the person across from me might be thinking.Rhett asked a few questions about the research, and I answered them without stumbling once.For the first time all evening, I felt like myself. Then he set down his glass, pushed his chair back, and looked at me.“I’ll come to you tonight.”No teasing smile.Completely calm and natural, and there was nothing remotely unusual about him coming to my room after dark.My pulse immediately forgot how to behave. I kept my expression neutral.“Okay.”But the second I made it back upstairs, my brain became us
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