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Chapter 20
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Unmatched Wife: Not His To Claim Anymore Chapter 262
Chapter 262RIVERAWe hit the perimeter at 9:40.I'd told myself I wasn't going to be the one going in first. Klaus had said it plainly enough times in the planning that I'd stopped arguing the point out loud, even though I hadn't actually agreed to it. You're the Alpha King, he'd said. You don't lead with your own body into an unknown structure when we have people whose entire job is leading with their bodies into unknown structures. I'd nodded at the time. I had no intention of standing at the perimeter while my team went in to find her.The building sat low against a hillside an hour outside Silver Moon territory, the kind of place that looked, from any reasonable distance, like an old agricultural structure nobody had bothered tearing down. Stone walls, half sunk into the hill itself, a single visible door at ground level and nothing else suggesting there was more to it than storage space for equipment nobody used anymore.Roy had found it. Three days of pulling financial records,
Unmatched Wife: Not His To Claim Anymore Chapter 261
Chapter 261CALI looked at Theo. He was watching this exchange with the kind of careful attention I'd come to recognize in him over the past weeks — the attention of a kid who'd learned, the hard way, that adults lie to children for reasons they think are good, and that the only defense against it was paying very close attention to everything, all the time, so nothing got past him twice."You believe her?" I asked Theo directly, because that mattered more to me right now than whether I believed her.Theo didn't answer right away. "I don't know," he said finally. "I saw a room. There were tables in it. There was a face on one of them that looked like hers." A pause. "She didn't tell me I was wrong about that. She just told me the other thing was true. About leaving on purpose."That was, I thought, a strange thing for a liar to admit to a frightened kid, if she was lying. A liar trying to win him over fast would have denied the room, denied the table, smoothed it all into something co
Unmatched Wife: Not His To Claim Anymore Chapter 260
Chapter 260CALI came up out of it the way you come up out of deep water. Slow, then all at once, lungs first, like the air had been waiting for me to ask for it.The first thing I did was check my hands. Habit, from years of jobs where waking up disoriented was a professional hazard rather than a personal one. Fingers moved. Good. Arms moved. Good. I wasn't tied down, which meant either they hadn't bothered or I hadn't been worth the trouble.The second thing I did was find Theo.He was right there. Close, against the wall, his knees pulled up, watching me with the specific stillness he got when he was working hard not to look as scared as he was. My chest did something complicated at the sight of him, relief and alarm arriving at the same time, neither one cancelling the other out."Hey," I said. My voice came out wrong, thick, like it belonged to someone else. "You okay?""You're awake," he said, like that answered something more important than my question."I'm awake." I pushed m
Unmatched Wife: Not His To Claim Anymore Chapter 259
Chapter 259BIANCAThe dark held for three seconds, maybe four, before the lights came back.When they did, they were dimmer than before, the kind of dim that meant something in the building's wiring had taken damage and was running on whatever backup existed for a place like this. Theo hadn't moved. His question was still sitting in the room between us, unanswered, and I understood that I couldn't let the explosion be the thing that let me off the hook for it."That's a fair question," I said. "I'm not going to dodge it because the lights did something dramatic."He watched me. Waiting.I had thought, in the months since I left, about how I would answer this if I ever got the chance. I had built versions of the answer in my head the way you build versions of a speech you hope you never have to give. Most of those versions were better than the truth. Most of them gave me more credit than I deserved.I wasn't going to use any of them."I let you believe I was dead," I said. "That part
Unmatched Wife: Not His To Claim Anymore Chapter 258
Chapter 258BIANCA"And she said that's what I am," I said. "Something built to look like her.""She didn't have to say it," Theo said. "I saw it."I let that sit a second."I'm not going to tell you what you saw wasn't real," I said. "I believe you saw exactly what you're describing. I think Voss wanted you to see it. I think she wanted you to see it right before she put me in front of you, so that whatever I said next, you'd already have decided it didn't matter."Theo's jaw moved, the specific small motion of a child working very hard not to show he was listening."That doesn't mean you are real either," he said. "It just means she's smart.""That's true," I said. "It doesn't prove anything. I know that."I didn't move closer. I kept my hands where he could see them, resting on my own knees, and I let the quiet come back in instead of chasing him with more words. He needed room more than he needed convincing. I had learned that from him months ago, through a glass door he didn't
Unmatched Wife: Not His To Claim Anymore Chapter 257
Chapter 257BIANCATheo was on the floor.He was sitting against the wall, knees up, arms around them, and next to him, on his back, unmoving, was a man I didn't know. Dark hair. Breathing slow and even in the specific rhythm of deep sedation, the same rhythm I had just come up out of myself. This had to be Callahan. I had heard the name through walls. I had not pictured a face.Theo's eyes came up when I came through the door.I stopped where I was. I did not go to him fast. I had learned that much about him even from a distance, through months of watching pieces of his life I was not supposed to see — that fast was the wrong speed for almost everything with him."Theo," I said.He looked at me.Then he looked away. Down at the man beside him, at Callahan's chest moving, and he put his hand near the man's hand the way you'd guard something. He did not look back at me."It's me," I said. Quiet. "I'm here."Nothing."Theo."He still did not look at me, and the not-looking had a weight
Unmatched Wife: Not His To Claim Anymore Chapter 117
Chapter 117THEOIt was a picture of me and Mama at the park. She was pushing me on the swings, and we were both smiling. Really smiling, and laughing with me. Not the fake kind that she put on, when she was with Mia or people she didn't like.I thought all the pictures of Mama were gone forever an
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Chapter 99RIVERAI closed the door to my study and turned to find Klaus standing with his arms crossed, his expression somewhere between furious and disappointed. Elijah, Mikael, and Roy sat in various positions around the room, all wearing variations of the same look.I was in trouble."So," Klau
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Chapter 98BIANCA"Because Rivera asked us not to," Klaus said simply. "He wanted you to get settled, to build a life here, without the pressure of knowing you were under direct Alpha King protection. He thought it might make you feel obligated or restricted."That sounded like Rivera. Protecting m
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Chapter 103 BIANCA "Later, Lucian." I looked at him, seeing the fear in his eyes but unable to comfort it right now. "I just—I need time. To process all of this. To figure out what it means. To decide what I want to do."He nodded, looking like he wanted to say more but recognizing I'd reached my
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