All Chapters of Alpha Xavier: Chapter 91 - Chapter 100

Lorenzo:The room smelled of aged whiskey and gun oil, the faintest scent of iron still lingering from the last time one of my men had been careless. Annalise sat across from me, one leg crossed over the other, swirling the glass in her hand like she was trying to drown her nerves in amber.“She’s

Valerie:The office felt colder than the weather outside, too bright, too clean, too aware of me. People lowered their voices when I passed. They meant well; pity always does. It still stung. No matter how hard I wanted to say that it didn’t hurt, it did…I buried myself in work instead, swatches, l

Rosalyn:The office was quiet, the kind of quiet that let me hear the hum of the ceiling lights and the faint tapping of my own fingers on the keyboard. I’d been reviewing Elias Gray’s edits, cross-checking every word against Valerie’s version of the contract. Nothing slipped past him, but still, I

Xavier:The moonlight spilled through the balcony doors, pale and soft against the dark of our room. Valerie stood by the mirror, her reflection framed in gold, fingers brushing over the chain at her neck, the small pendant she hadn’t taken off in weeks.I walked toward her quietly, stopping just be

Her mouth parted. “Val… Mrs. Blackthorn, I’ve been your counsel since…”“Since before any of this existed,” I finished. “Which is why you’re still here. Trust isn’t a door that stays open because we walked through it once. It’s a lock we pick, over and over, until the mechanism remembers our touch.