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Chapter 51-The Road Ahead
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2026-10-22 02:58:05
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The Orphaned Alpha Chapter 65-Learning to Stay
Odett’s POV Sam’s scent reached me before I entered the kitchen, warm beneath coffee and toast. The bond pulled steadily this morning instead of striking all at once. I stopped with my hand on the doorframe and chose to go in. Lorilie lifted her head inside my mind. She had remained awake longer than I had, listening for Kyron without trying to reach him. Neither wolf had tested the boundary Sam and I established. ‘He stayed,’ she observed. ‘He said he would,’ I reminded her silently. ‘People say many things before doors close,’ she replied. Lorilie remembered six years of empty rooms. One breakfast would not teach her to trust his return. Still, he was here, and I could smell the coffee in his cup. I entered before hesitation turned into avoidance. Sam sat at the far end of the table with Dad and Uncle Orian, while Mom stood near the stove threatening all three of them with breakfast. Aunt Jess searched a cabinet for the tea she insisted someone kept moving. “Good mor
The Orphaned Alpha Chapter 64-Your Choice
Odett’s POV “So you made the choice for me instead,” I challenged.“We chose what information to withhold while you were a child. We did not choose Sam, a relationship, or a future for you,” Mom corrected. “You still took something from me,” I said. “We did,” Mom acknowledged without defending herself. Mom did not ask me to forgive her because she meant well. Dad stood beside her, looking at the floor for a moment before meeting my eyes again. They let me be hurt by a choice they still believed had protected me. I turned back to Sam. His scent pulled at the awareness beneath my ribs, but he remained farther away than my parents. Kyron stayed so quiet behind him that Lorilie could only feel the outline of his presence. “What do you expect from me now?” I asked. “Nothing you do not choose,” Sam answered. “The bond doesn’t count as a choice,” I warned. “No,” Sam replied. “It tells us what exists, that doesn’t mean you owe me anything.” He did not tell me fate would se
The Orphaned Alpha Chapter 63-His Distance
Odett’s POV The door clicked shut behind Joshy, and the family room became painfully quiet. Mom remained beside me while Dad stood near the window, but neither of them spoke. Sam stayed across the room with his hands open at his sides, as if even putting them in his pockets might look like he was hiding something. Sam’s scent reached me even from across the room. Lorilie knew him as her mate. I knew him as the man who had once carried me home when I fell asleep, and I could not make those two kinds of knowing fit together yet. ‘He knew,’ Lorilie whispered. ‘I know,’ I answered as anger tightened around the words. Sam’s heartbeat stumbled once. His face stayed composed, but I heard the break in it. That careful expression had been practiced long before I walked through the door. “How long have you known?” I asked with anger barely holding my voice steady. Sam did not look toward my parents or ask them to answer for him. His gaze stayed on mine without becoming a challenge
The Orphaned Alpha Chapter 62-Family Voices
Odett’s POV Voices carried from the family room. Mom spoke first, then Aunt Jess, followed by a deeper laugh that stopped me outside the doorway. I remembered that laugh from childhood more clearly than I remembered Sam’s face on the day he left. Then I breathed him in. Cedar reached me beneath the door, mixed with rain, soap, and a warmth I did not remember from childhood. The scent caught in my throat. Then the feeling under my ribs pulled tight, and I forgot how to breathe. Lorilie surged to the surface. ‘Mate,’ she breathed with stunned certainty. Lorilie had not guessed. Recognition ran through us before I could question it. I heard the heartbeats inside the room, one drawing my attention so fiercely the others faded. Sam’s. I stood frozen outside the doorway while the scent wrapped around me. It belonged to the person Lorilie had sensed drawing closer for days. It belonged to the man who had carried me when my legs were too short to keep up and left before I was ol
The Orphaned Alpha Chapter 61-Home Again
Odett’s POV Mom found me at the kitchen table before sunrise. My tea had gone cold beside the open journal. I had recorded seven bells and the direction the children faced, leaving a blank where the blonde girl’s unheard word belonged. “You should have woken me,” Mom said. “The room was fine, Lorilie stayed connected, and I wanted to record it before I forgot anything,” I explained quietly. Mom read while I held the journal. She slowed at the blonde girl, and I watched her face, waiting for an explanation. She didn’t offer one. I could see she was frightened for me, but she wasn’t going to invent an answer just to ease my fear. “Did you feel trapped when the ground split?” Mom asked. “For a second,” I answered honestly. “Then I woke up before anything reached me.” “And your magic?” she questioned gently. “It stayed mine,” I replied. Grandma Ezmerelda arrived while Mom checked the bedroom wards. She examined my magic, Lorilie’s connection, and the protection woven int
The Orphaned Alpha Chapter 60-The Rescue
Odett’s POV “Yes,” Joshy answered evenly. “The rescue may have been reasonable, while the failure to document command still requires review.” I had been answering as if any criticism of the commander condemned the rescue. It did not. We could say she had been right to go and still require her to account for what happened to her post. “The commander should not be disciplined for leaving the route to perform the rescue. She should receive a procedural correction for failing to confirm and record the transfer of command,” I concluded with deliberate clarity. Our instructor allowed the panel to question both of us before ending the hearing. Nolan supported the divided finding, while Cassian wanted additional training rather than a formal correction. The remaining students disagreed about whether emergency circumstances justified ignoring the record requirement. The panel disagreed after the hearing. Our instructor called that realistic. I had expected a ruling to end the argumen
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