All Chapters of Driving The Alpha' Brothers Crazy : Chapter 71 - Chapter 80

105 Chapters

Chapter 70

Adrian's POVHe almost made it.Four days. That was all he'd needed. Four days of controlled precision, of keeping the grade report in one compartment and everything else in another, of answering questions with half-truths that were technically accurate and cost him nothing he couldn't afford.He almost made it to the end of day three.The library was empty at eleven PM except for him. He'd claimed the back table again, the one with the good light, and spread out his remaining materials with the systematic efficiency that had gotten him through every difficult thing in his life. Pack Governance final tomorrow morning. Supernatural Ethics the afternoon after. One more clean performance and the numbers worked. He'd calculated it seventeen times.He was recalculating it for the eighteenth when the chair across from him scraped back.Audrey sat down.She wasn't supposed to be here. She'd said goodnight two hours ago, Theo's hoodie, bare feet, clearly heading to bed. She was wearing the sa

Chapter 71

Audrey's POVThe last exam finished at three PM on a Friday.Theo celebrated by sliding down the villa hallway in his socks, which was both a tripping hazard and, she had to admit, impressively committed as an expression of relief. Luca closed his exam folder with the particular finality of someone who had already moved on mentally and was simply completing the physical gesture. Adrian walked out of the final lecture hall, checked something in his notebook, and said "projected standing: first" with the same tone he'd use to confirm the weather.Audrey put her last answer sheet face down on the invigilator's desk and walked outside into the cold afternoon air and stood there for a moment.Fine. She was fine. The exams had gone fine.Something else was happening.The villa by four PM had the loose, warm energy of a place that had been holding its breath for two weeks and had just exhaled. Theo had sourced celebratory food from somewhere — the specific abundance of a man who expressed jo

Chapter 72 – Four Opinions About One Decision

Theo's POVShe came in from the garage at nine fourteen PM and the bond did something new.Theo had learned the bond's vocabulary over months of living inside it — Audrey's panic was static, her fury was directional heat, her happiness was the frequency that made everything feel slightly more worth it. He knew the pre-race tension and the post-race relief and the specific warm hum she put out when she fell asleep between them on the rooftop.This was none of those.This was settled. Like a frequency that had been searching for its signal for months and had just — found it. Clicked in. Done.She sat down at the kitchen table without taking her jacket off and opened her right hand.The chip sat in her palm like it was nothing. Smaller than a thumbnail. Dull grey. The kind of object that looked like it belonged in a junk drawer or the bottom of a toolbox, not at the center of the supernatural political landscape of an entire continent.The takeout containers were still on the table. Theo

Chapter 73

Audrey's POVThe rooftop was cold and she'd come up without a jacket, which was stupid, but going back down meant walking past three doors behind which three people would ask if she was okay, and she didn't have an answer that wasn't I don't know yet.She sat with her knees pulled up and looked at the city lights doing their indifferent thing and tried to find the edge of what she was feeling. Not dread. Not exactly. Something closer to standing at the top of a track before the green light — that suspended second where everything was still possible and nothing had happened yet.The door behind her opened.She didn't turn around. She knew the sound of his steps."You left without a jacket," Luca said."I noticed."He sat down beside her and put a blanket over both their shoulders without making it a production. For a while neither of them said anything. The city did its thing below. Somewhere down in the villa, faintly, she could hear Theo's playlist still going — softer now, the late-

Chapter 74

Audrey's POVAdrian had the thing set up by nine, which honestly was kind of insulting given the scale of what it was about to do.It looked like the inside of a broken radio. Copper, some wires, a few runes etched around the edge. That was it. That was the device that was about to end a criminal empire."That's it?" Theo said, leaning over Adrian's shoulder. "I feel like there should be more. A countdown. Lights. Something dramatic.""It's a key," Adrian said. "Keys don't do countdowns.""This one kind of should, though. Given the stakes.""Theo.""I'm just saying. Beige. Very beige for the end of an empire."I sat down across from him and almost laughed, which felt insane given the morning, but also — that was kind of the point. The fact that I had room to almost-laugh meant I was actually fine. Actually ready.Adrian looked up at me. The composed face cracked a little, just for a second."Once the chip's seated, it reads your bloodline, confirms intent, and executes. No reversal. I

The Aftermath Is Boring (Thank God)

Theo's POVThe day after the empire ended, I woke up and immediately had a crisis.Not a real one. A scheduling crisis. Because for the first time in months — actual months — nobody had anywhere to be. No exam, no council summons, no mysterious black box on the doorstep. Just a Saturday. A completely empty, normal Saturday.I didn't know what to do with that much freedom, so I texted Sera.come over. bring nothing. we're celebrating something I can't explain over textShe showed up an hour later in one of my hoodies — which, fair, she'd basically claimed it at this point — carrying a box of pastries because apparently "bring nothing" translated to "bring croissants" in her head, which I was not going to complain about.By the time she got to the villa, Audrey was on the kitchen counter looking like she'd slept for fourteen hours, which she had, and which she kept describing with the wonder of someone discovering sleep for the first time."I didn't check the mirrors once," she announce

Chapter 76

Audrey's POVMonday arrived with the specific energy of an institution that had been quietly losing its mind for two weeks and had finally run out of exams to distract itself with.I found out approximately four minutes into my walk to first period.A junior — someone I vaguely recognized from the track, second year, always wore the same red beanie — stopped dead when she saw me coming. Just stopped. In the middle of the corridor. Like I was a weather event."Is it true," she said, "that you opened a dimensional portal in the gym?"I stared at her. "No.""Someone told me you opened a portal and a wolf fell through it.""Nobody fell through a portal. There was no portal.""But something happened.""Something happened," I confirmed. "It wasn't a portal."She nodded slowly, in the way people nodded when they'd already decided what they believed and were just being polite about it. Then she walked away.I stood in the corridor for a second.This was going to be a day.&&&By the time I go

Adrian Doesn't Say Things. Until He Does

.Audrey's POVThe drama started because of a rune.Not a dramatic rune. Not a Nexus-level spatial displacement situation. A small, ordinary stabilizing rune that Adrian had etched into the doorframe of the garage back in October, one of about forty he'd quietly placed around the villa without telling anyone, and which had apparently been slowly degrading for weeks because nobody had recalibrated it.She found out because the garage light started flickering at eleven PM on a Tuesday and Adrian appeared from nowhere in his dark grey sweater with a kit she'd never seen before and crouched at the doorframe like he'd been expecting this.She leaned against the Hellcat and watched him work.That was the thing about Adrian that had taken her the longest to understand. He showed up. Not loudly, not with announcement, not in the Theo way that filled every room he entered. Just — quietly, consistently, in the specific place where something needed doing. The coffee at the right temperature. The

Competition

Audrey's POVThey arrived on a Wednesday, which felt wrong. Bad news should arrive on a Monday. Mondays were built for it. Wednesdays were supposed to be harmless.I was in the garage when I heard about them. Knee deep in the Hellcat's engine bay, completely content, listening to Theo's playlist through the villa speakers, when Ji-yeon appeared in the doorway with the expression she wore when she had information she knew I wasn't going to like."Three transfers just checked in," she said."Okay," I said, not looking up."From the Lyon Academy."I looked up. Lyon Academy was the other serious racing program in Europe. Smaller than Black Ridge, more selective, better funded. The kind of place that produced drivers who won things."All three?" I said."All three. Mid-year transfer, which apparently the new council approved last week." Ji-yeon leaned against the doorframe. "They're already at the track."I went back to the engine. "And?""And they're gorgeous," Ji-yeon said. "Like, aggres

Untimely Crush

Luca's POVCoach Harlan put up the pairing sheet at eight AM and I already knew before I looked.Margot Duval. Black Ridge circuit, full lap, head to head.I stared at the sheet for a second longer than I needed to. Not because I was nervous about the race. I wasn't nervous about races, that wasn't a thing that happened to me anymore, not since September, not since I had three other heartbeats running through my chest at all times telling me I was fine even when my brain hadn't caught up yet.I was nervous about Audrey's face when she saw the sheet."Oh, this is going to be great," Theo said, way too loud, reading over my shoulder. "This is going to be so great.""It's a training exercise," I said."It's a training exercise where you're racing the hot French girl who's been looking at you like you're a problem she wants to solve," Theo said. "Audrey's going to lose her mind.""Audrey is not going to lose her mind.""Audrey is one hundred percent going to lose her mind," Theo said, gri

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