The Alpha's Fated Desire のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 21 - チャプター 30

{Lyra}I stepped out of the bathroom with a towel wrapped around my neck, the damp ends of my now-brown hair dripping onto the hem of my oversized shirt. I patted them softly, squinting at my reflection in the mirror above the hallway console.The box had said ‘Warm Chestnut.’ a freaking lie, it was more like ‘Mediocre Brown that Screams Average Citizen number 5.’ But I guess that’s what you get from buying dye at a 24 hour gas station in the middle of nowhere.“I can work with this,” I muttered, flipping my hair forward, then I grabbed the hairdryer, plugging it in, and cranked it to max. The dryer screamed to life, letting out a blast of hot air, and I bent my head, fluffing and drying for like eight seconds.Then the lights blinked, flickering for a while, and then everything went dead.“No, no, no!” I whined, smacking the dryer like it could fix the entire grid. I threw the dryer onto the counter and yelled, “Isaac!”“Yeah?” he hollered from somewhere in the house, probably on his

{Lyra}“Are you sure it worked?” I asked for the third time that night, hovering in Isaac’s doorway.He didn’t even bother looking up from his tablet this time. He remained slouched on his bed in pajama bottoms, and a bag of Skittles open beside him. “Relax. I told you, it’ll be fine.”“Okay, but define fine.”“Fine as in, I completely changed your entire file.” He threw a red Skittle into his mouth, but his eyes were still glued to the screen. “Everything on NovaCore’s server about Lyra Jackson has been scrambled. There's a new photo, new date of birth, new medical records. I even changed your emergency contact to some poor guy named; Mike Dunlop.“Who’s that?”“Dunno.” he finally looked at me, flashing me a lazy grin. “The point is, you’re completely safe. Nobody’s gonna trace anything back to you, and that includes Dominic.”The panic in my chest eased a whole lot, and I walked over to Isaac. “You’re a freaking genius.” I leaned down and planted a kiss on his forehead.“I know,” he

{Dominic}I sat across from her with my chin resting on my knuckles, pretending to review the same page I’d been staring at for the last five minutes. She was chewing on the pen again.The truth was, I hadn’t absorbed a thing since she started mouthing the end of that pen like it owed her answers.“Evangeline Wolfe.” God, I was a fool.She wasn’t even trying to be seductive. Everything about her was maddeningly unintentional, and it only made things worse. “That goddamn contract clause,” I sighed, recalling the part where she said there wouldn’t be any sexual interaction.She didn’t want me, at least not in the way others did. There wasn’t that usual hungry-eyed obsession that most women had around Alphas like me. I mean I was Dominic Bloodhound, damn it. A name that made people tremble, and an Alpha that even the Elder council bowed to. And yet here she was, crossing her legs on my couch, bored out of her mind, acting like I was too much to tolerate. But that was exactly why I’d p

{Dominic}I heard a faint whimper echo between my ears which made me perk up, focusing my ears to be sure I had heard right. The whimper came louder this time, but I didn’t hear it with my ears, it felt like it was a sound that only my soul could hear.I pushed the chair I was sitting on back and crossed the room in seconds. The moment I stepped into the hallway, my eyes locked on Zane’s back. He was hunched forward slightly, with his usual scowl across his face.But then he shifted just a fraction, and I saw her, he held her by the wrist, and pain flashed on her face before she closed her eyes.The growl that tore out of my chest wasn’t voluntary. My body reacted before I did and I was halfway down the hall in the blink of an eye. I grabbed Zane’s arm, squeezing it with enough force that a crack echoed. Evangeline stumbled back, but I caught her around the waist, holding her against me as Zane dropped to the marble floor, howling in agony.“Touch her again, and I’ll break more than

{Dominic}The scent of rain clung to the windows, and the sky outside my study window was filled with clouds that were yet to break.I sat in my chair, my elbows on the armrests, and my hands covered my mouth. Normally, I wasn’t the kind to let nerves get to me, but this was something else entirely. The matter of those corpses was slowly eating at me, and I had my engagement gala moved up to tomorrow, all so I could be done with the formalities and focus on defending my territory.But the corpses weren’t what made me nervous. Come tomorrow night, I would finally be announcing to the entire world that Evangeline was my fiancée. It’d been eight years since Ava died, and the thought of replacing her still wrecked me.I could already imagine the press; hounding me with questions that would only make things worse. They’d been eating me alive since I stepped down as NovaCore’s CEO, concocting the craziest theories. “Was I dying? Had I gone mad? Was I preparing for war?”I groaned just thin