CHOSEN FOR THE ALPHA のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 41 - チャプター 43

THERESSA’S POVThe world doesn’t look the same anymore.It’s the same streets, the same warehouses, the same gray sky stretched thin over the district—but everything feels different. The colors look muted, the distance feels shorter, and every shadow seems to breathe. Not loud. Not obviously. Just enough to make my skin prickle and my heartbeat rise.Lyon drives without hesitation. Every decision he makes is sharp, precise, deliberate, as if he’s leading us into a space he’s already mapped out in advance. But the tension around his shoulders is different now—coiled tighter, his movements edged with something I’ve never seen in him before.Focus.Not anger.Not fear.Focus sharpened to a point that feels dangerous.The motorcycle cuts through an intersection, and I tighten my arms around him as the wind rushes past us. He leans slightly into the next turn, and I move with him instinctively—not because I understand the movement, but because something inside me pulls me into the same rhy

THERESSA’S POVThere are silences that feel empty, and there are silences that feel like something enormous is standing inside them. The silence after the intruders disappear is the second kind—the kind that doesn’t fade but grows heavier, like the air is waiting to collapse inward.I’m still gripping Lyon’s sleeve.Not because I can’t stand on my own—but because the world suddenly feels unsteady, like someone has the ground on a thread and is pulling at its edges.His arm is strong beneath my hand. Solid. Grounding. But the moment I hear myself ask:“Lyon… what’s happening to me?”—something breaks open inside my chest.Fear, yes. But also something deeper.Something I don’t have words for.Lyon’s jaw tightens. For the first time since I met him, he isn’t instantly composed. He isn’t effortlessly in control. He looks like someone calculating the truth and trying to figure out whether saying it will destroy me or save me.He turns toward me slowly.“Theressa,” he says, voice low, “li