THE HOCKEY ALPHA WANTS ME のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 121 - チャプター 130

Chapter 121Max"What do you mean until I shifted?" I asked and my voice came out sharper than I'd intended because I was terrified and confused and nothing made sense anymore and I needed answers that actually explained what was happening to me and why I was here and what any of this had to do with being kidnapped.Adrian exchanged a glance with Maya and something passed between them that looked like silent communication, the way siblings who'd grown up together could have entire conversations with just a look and understand each other without saying a word."When a wolf shifts for the first time, especially when they're from a powerful bloodline, it sends out a kind of signal," Adrian explained and he moved his hands like he was trying to illustrate something invisible in the air between us. "It's not something humans would notice or even most supernatural beings, but family—blood family—can feel it and it resonates through the pack bonds. Especially twins or in our case, triplets.

Chapter 123Max"I'm okay," I said quickly because I needed him to know that first before anything else, needed him to understand that I was alive and breathing and safe even if I wasn't exactly free. "I'm safe, I'm not hurt, I promise I'm okay.""Oh thank God," Ace breathed out and his voice cracked on the words like he was barely holding himself together. "Max, I thought... when I woke up and you were gone, I thought I'd lost you and I couldn't... I couldn't breathe thinking about what might have happened to you."My chest tightened painfully at the raw emotion in his voice and I pressed my free hand against my heart like I could somehow reach through the phone and touch him and reassure him that I was really here and really okay. "I'm so sorry," I whispered and my own voice was thick with tears I was trying not to shed. "I'm so sorry you had to go through that and think the worst, I wish I could have gotten word to you sooner but I was unconscious for so long and when I woke up

Chapter 125MaxI woke up to the sound of the door opening quietly and for a moment I was disoriented because I'd been dreaming about Ace and waking up meant facing the reality that we were still separated and I didn't know when I'd see him again. The early morning light was filtering through the curtains and casting soft shadows across the unfamiliar room, and I was just starting to remember where I was when I felt someone sit on the edge of the bed and then suddenly arms were wrapping around me in a tight embrace that felt both foreign and somehow achingly familiar."Oh my baby boy," a woman's voice said and it was thick with emotion and trembling like she was barely holding herself together. She was hugging me so tightly I could barely breathe and her whole body was shaking against mine.And even though I'd never met her before in my life, something deep in my chest recognized the way she held me and the scent of her that my wolf was responding to with interest and recognition.B

Chapter 127MaxPain flashed across her face and she looked down at her hands like she couldn't meet my eyes while answering. "Because when they found me I was in bad shape," she said quietly. "I'd lost a lot of blood during the birth and I was going in and out of consciousness, my memories of what had happened were fragmented and unclear because of the trauma and the blood loss.""The rogues who'd taken her had already killed themselves or scattered by the time the rescue team arrived," my father added. "And the ones we did capture all claimed there had only been two babies, and when we searched the entire warehouse and the surrounding area there was no sign of a third child anywhere.""So everyone thought I was having false memories or that the trauma had made me remember things wrong," my mother continued and her voice was thick with old pain. "And as time went on and we never found any evidence of a third baby, even I started to doubt myself and wonder if I'd imagined it or if

Chapter 129Max"Maybe we could all do something together?" I suggested hesitantly because I didn't want to choose between them and make either one feel rejected.Both of them lit up at that suggestion and started talking over each other about different activities we could do as a group. I found myself smiling despite my exhaustion because their enthusiasm was kind of infectious even if I wasn't quite matching their energy level.We ended up in what they called the game room which was basically a massive entertainment space with everything from pool tables to video game consoles to a full bar stocked with sodas and snacks. Adrian immediately challenged me to a game of pool while Maya set up some kind of racing game on one of the consoles and declared that the loser of the pool game would have to race her next."I should warn you I'm pretty good at pool," Adrian said as he racked the balls with practiced efficiency."So am I," I said and I picked up a cue stick and tested its weight