The Alpha's Regret: His Secret Hybrid Heir のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 101 - チャプター 110

Garrett didn't wait for Maya to process the instruction.He was at her side in the time it took Xander to finish the sentence, and he crouched to her level in the way he did things that required precision — completely, without the half-measure of someone who was in a hurry and showing it."We need to go to the top of the building," he said. "Not to fight. Just to stand there and let you do the thing you do." He held her gaze. "Can you do that with me?"Maya looked at the spire above them. At the smoke from the lower tier. At Garrett's face, which was giving her accurate information rather than managed information, which she'd always been able to tell the difference between."Yes," she said."Fast," he said."I know fast," she said.He took her hand and they moved.The service stairs were at the building's interior core, accessed through a maintenance door that Sarah had flagged in the floor plan — narrow, unlit except for emergency amber, the kind of stairs that existed to get equipmen

The floor between Xander and Sterling had the quality of something that had changed its mind about being solid.Not everywhere — the lead composite walls were still intact, the Drive's housing was still fixed, the corners of the vault still held their geometry. But the area around the door frame, where the frequency flood had concentrated, had gone soft in patches. Not liquid-liquid. More like the consistency of something that had been solid long enough to forget how to be soft and was now relearning it uncertainly.Sterling walked across it without adjusting his stride, which told Xander two things: the suit had traction compensation, and Sterling had assessed the floor map before entering."The device," Xander said. He was already moving — not toward Sterling, laterally, changing the angle before Sterling's system could establish a baseline read. "It locks the tether to Maya.""It does," Sterling said."Then you're not using it," Xander said.Sterling raised it.Xander crossed the di

Elena gave the order to move before Xander's eyes closed fully.Not because she was certain about the direction. Because standing still on the Gravel-Lands with a hundred and forty people and no defensive position was the one option that had no argument for it, and the Shatter-Peaks were ahead and Silas was already reading the stone beneath them and if anyone could find a viable path it was him."Silas," she said.He was sitting on the shale with his hands flat on the ground and the specific inward focus of the stone radar active. He looked up at her. His color was still wrong from the terminal work, and she made a note of it the way she made notes of everything — filed, not ignored, addressed when there was time."The Siphon Lines," she said. "Can you feel them from here."He put his palms down more fully. Read the ground for forty seconds."There are two within two kilometers," he said. "The nearest runs northwest under the quartz seam. It's deeper than the one we used before — the w

Vance's intelligence briefing took ninety minutes and produced a map on Sarah's terminal that Xander and Elena studied together with the focused attention of people who had learned to read each other's thinking process without narrating it.Northern Shores: one hundred and twelve wolves, mechanized support, three acoustic cannon units mounted on ATV platforms. The acoustic cannons were the same generation as Sterling's but modified — the frequency range had been extended downward into the sub-harmonic band, specifically targeting Silver-adjacent pathway disruption. Someone with access to Council research had done the modification. Someone who understood what they were trying to neutralize.Stoneback: eighty-nine wolves, lighter mechanized, two Silver-Mist deployment rigs. The rigs were mobile versions of the mountain ventilation system — pressurized, wide-radius dispersal, the same compound that had tried to preserve everyone in the tunnel and had succeeded in filling the Archive craft

The western alcoves were narrow by design — the First Void War builders had understood that narrow corridors were defensible corridors — and the Stoneback wolves coming through the breach were adapting to the narrowness with the efficiency of a unit that had trained for exactly this.Not a territorial charge. A retrieval operation.Xander clocked the difference in the first three seconds after he cleared the dust from the explosion: the formation was wrong for a territory fight, too organized at the front, too deliberate in the targeting. They were moving toward the medical setup and the sleeping alcoves with the specific directional commitment of people who'd been briefed on the floor plan.Someone had given them the floor plan.He filed that under later and engaged the lead wolf before the lead wolf reached the corridor junction.Garrett was ahead of him — Garrett was always ahead of him in these situations, which was a function of proximity to the corridor and the way Garrett's thre