All Chapters of Alpha VS Omega' Twin VS Twin (A Dark Werewolf Romance): Chapter 151 - Chapter 158

POV: Callum | Parliament Annual Ball, West EndThe invitation used the word mandatory, which was at least honest.He wore a borrowed mask and a jacket that fit well enough to pass and walked into the Parliament Ball beside Valentina, who moved through the entrance hall like she had been doing this her whole life, which in some sense she had, the half of her life that was vampire rather than hunter. She had explained the event to him on the walk over in the practical tone she used for things that made her uncomfortable: annual gathering, everyone attended, the masks were tradition rather than anonymity because everyone knew who everyone was, the point was the performance of civility rather than actual civility.The hall was extraordinary in the way that spaces built to demonstrate power were extraordinary, every surface deliberate, the light engineered to be flattering and the scale engineered to be humbling. Two hundred supernaturals in formal wear and elaborate masks moved through it

POV: Professor Fell | Hermetic Order Facility, Sub-basement, St. Thomas HospitalThe facility ran four levels below the hospital's lowest registered floor, which was an architectural achievement the Order had spent eleven years and considerable money ensuring remained undocumented. The structural surveys on file with the city showed bedrock at the depth where the first facility level actually sat. Bedrock and nothing below it.Fell walked the corridor of the second level with a clipboard and the unhurried pace of a man conducting routine rounds.The cells on this level held twelve hybrid subjects ranging in age from three years to sixteen. All were in good health by any objective clinical measure, which was something Fell was particular about. The program required viable subjects, and viable subjects required adequate nutrition, medical care, and conditions that prevented the kind of psychological deterioration that compromised biological data. He was not cruel. He had never understoo

POV: Contessa Vittoria | European Covenant Chambers, VeniceThe chamber beneath the Palazzo had not changed in four hundred years, which was the point of it.The walls were the same stone, the table the same dark wood, the light the same arrangement of candles that the Covenant's founders had specified when the organization was established in 1387 and which no subsequent member had seen fit to update. Consistency was a message. When you were old enough, consistency became its own form of authority.Contessa Vittoria was twelve hundred and six years old, which made her the eldest member currently seated, which meant the chamber belonged to her in every sense that mattered. She had been alive when the Palazzo above them was built. She had attended the founding meeting of the Covenant as the youngest member present and had watched every other person in that room eventually die.She found the British situation more interesting than alarming, which was a minority position among her current

POV: Count Alteroni | Crimson Parliament ChambersHe had tried morality twice and lost both times, which meant it was time to try something else.Alteroni stood at the Parliament podium and looked at eleven vampires who ranged from actively hostile to carefully neutral, and he set aside the arguments he had prepared about children's rights and humanitarian obligation and the basic decency of not imprisoning five year olds for scientific study, and he used the arguments he had prepared instead."The Hermetic Order," he said, "is a human organization operating an independent supernatural detention facility on British soil without Parliamentary authorization, oversight, or knowledge."He let that sit for a moment, watching the room."They are holding twelve supernatural beings, including werewolf-vampire hybrids, in an underground facility beneath St. Thomas Hospital. They have been conducting research on these individuals for an undetermined period. They answer to no supernatural author