Alle Kapitel von The Alpha’s Forbidden Obsession : Kapitel 101 – Kapitel 110

Hailey's POV"Mama, what's exile mean?"Hope asked the question three days after Petra left. I'd been hoping she wouldn't notice. Wouldn't ask. Wouldn't force me to explain betrayal to a two-year-old."Exile means someone has to leave. Go far away. Not come back.""Like Aunt Petra?""Yes, baby. Like Aunt Petra.""Why did she leave?""Because she made bad choices. Hurt people. Sometimes when people hurt others, they have to go away.""Will she come back?""No. That's what exile means. She can't come back.""Even if she says sorry?""Even then. Some things you can't take back with apologies."Hope thought about this, her little face scrunched in concentration. "That's sad.""Yes, baby. It is sad.""Can I still miss her?"The question pierced me. Of course she could miss Petra. Children didn't understand betrayal. Didn't separate people's actions from their presence."You can miss her. Missing people doesn't mean what they did was okay. It just means you remember good parts.""She gave m

I looked through them. Messages discussing pack activities. Security weaknesses. Plans to exploit vulnerabilities. All dated over six months.Edward had been working with the conspiracy for six months. Half a year of betrayal. Half a year of lies.Unless this was planted too. Unless someone went to extraordinary lengths to frame him."Is any of this verified?" I asked."The encryption matches known conspiracy patterns. The financial accounts link to Purum Sanguinem networks. It all checks out.""Too perfectly. Doesn't that concern you? Everything in one convenient location? No effort to hide anything? Either Edward's incredibly stupid or incredibly framed.""Or incredibly arrogant. Thinking he'd never be caught. That his position protected him.""Maybe."I photographed everything. Documented the location. Made notes of concerns."Take these to Agent Chen's replacement. The new FBI liaison. Have them verify independently. I need outside confirmation before I condemn Edward.""That coul

The conspiracy's response came that night. Unknown number. Hailey answered on speaker."Clever," the distorted voice said. "Forcing our hand. Making us act prematurely. I appreciate the strategy.""Will it work?" Hailey asked."What do you think? Will you really be ready? Will your security be perfect? Will you catch every threat? Or will we find the one gap, the one moment, the one opportunity you missed?""I guess we'll find out.""Yes. You will. And when you do, when you finally understand the trap you've walked into, remember this conversation. Remember that I warned you. Remember that you chose this.""I choose protecting my daughter. Whatever that requires.""Even sacrificing her? Because that's what this plan does. It makes her the bait. The target. The focal point. You've given us exactly what we wanted. Access. Opportunity. Perfect scenario for what we've been planning all along.""Then come try. See what happens when you bring war to us instead of picking off isolated target

Three weeks before the party, the first real probe came.Not an attack. Something subtler. More insidious."Someone's been accessing our systems," Sarah reported, her face pale. "Digital infiltration. They've been inside our network for at least forty-eight hours before we detected them.""What did they access?""Guest lists. Security protocols. Building layouts. Everything we've been planning. They know it all now."I felt the floor shift beneath me. Weeks of preparation. Hundreds of hours planning security. All of it compromised."How did they get in?""We're still determining that. But whoever did this is professional. Government-level skills. They left almost no trace.""Almost?""They made one mistake. Accessed a file that triggered our deepest alarm. Hidden protocol even most of our team doesn't know about. That's how we caught them.""Can you trace where the access came from?""Working on it. But they routed through seventeen countries. Could take days to unravel.""We don't ha

Hailey's POV"That's impossible," I said, staring at the monitor. "Jude's dead. We saw him die.""We saw a cabin explode," Lucian corrected. "We assumed he died. But the body was never recovered. Never verified.""The conspirator told me he was alive. Showed me proof. I thought it was manipulation. Fake photos. Lies.""Apparently not lies. He's standing at our perimeter. Very much alive."I watched the screen as warriors brought Jude closer. He looked terrible. Thin. Scarred. Aged beyond his years. Whatever he'd endured had broken something fundamental."What do we do?" Edward asked."We interrogate him. Find out where he's been. What he knows. Why he's here now. One week before Hope's party. That's not coincidence.""Could be trap. Could be he's rigged to explode. Could be anything.""Then we're careful. But we can't ignore him. If he has information, we need it."They brought Jude to the holding facility. Same cell Petra had occupied. Same cell Edward had been falsely imprisoned in.