All Chapters of The Alpha's Betrayal: Pregnant And Accused: Chapter 61 - Chapter 70

Alisha’s POVNadia stayed for dinner, though nobody planned it. It just happened the way things do in a packhouse.An extra plate, an extra chair, and suddenly the question of whether she should stay had already been answered before anyone thought to ask it.Val didn’t object. That was an enough answer.The drinks had happened the night before. Val came to breakfast looking like a man who’d remembered something good about himself. Diana and I noticed. Neither of us said a word.Some things need room before anyone names them.Nadia helped clear the table after dinner without being asked. No performance. Just doing it. The way someone does when they’ve grown up knowing everyone carries their share.I picked up the dish towel and stood beside her at the sink.We worked in silence for a bit. The comfortable kind. The kind that means two people have already decided they’re okay with each other.“You lost someone,” I said eventually. Not a question. I could feel it on her. That specific wei

Alisha's POVWe went outside just before midnight.Not because of anything urgent. Just because Joshua said quietly, "Come with me," and held out his hand, I took it without asking where we were going.We ended up on the back steps of the packhouse. The training ground was dark ahead of us. Stars were out, clear enough to see our breath.Diana was on late patrol. We'd passed her in the hallway on the way out. She'd looked at us at our linked hands, at whatever was on our faces, and simply stepped aside. A small nod that said go. I've got it.That was Diana covering for us since before we deserved it.We sat on the top step. Shoulders touching. Hands linked. Frost on the wood beneath us. Pine smell coming in from the treeline where Diana's patrol ran its quiet circuit.The silence was easy and was still new enough to notice."I've been thinking about something," I said eventually."Okay."I looked at the stars because it was easier than looking at him for this time."I forgive you," I

Val’s POVCole looked like a man who had already decided to tell the truth.Hands flat on the table. Eyes up. No performance. I’d questioned enough wolves to know the difference between someone managing their story and someone who had already let it go. Cole had let it go.Joshua had come straight to Blue Moon after Alisha’s text. Nathan was with him, both arriving before sunrise. Nathan was outside the door now. His left arm was still wrapped from the north wall last night, the set of his jaw the only sign it was bothering him. I’d seen his face when he walked past and saw Cole at the table. He hadn’t said anything. That was worse than if he had.Morrison and Levi were already there when I arrived, dressed, waiting, positioned at the back wall with the stillness of elders who intended to have a say. They’d felt it through the bond, the same as everyone else. Cole’s name had been in every Blue Moon wolf’s chest since 2 AM.I’d asked Alisha to stay out of the room. She hadn’t pushed ba

Alisha's POV — Blue Moon PackThey brought Jude in just after noon.I'd been with the twins all morning. Alexander gets into everything, while Ella watches the yard from the window, her father's stillness.Mara had been in and out. Morrison and Levi were in the back room with Cole. The hours had passed slowly as I awaited the return of Val, Joshua, and Diana, or to hear from them.Then Val's signal came through the bond. *Coming in.*I handed the twins to Mara. "Keep them inside until I come back."She had the door closed before I reached the steps.They came through the gate in a tight group, Val and Joshua on either side of Jude, Diana slightly ahead. James was already at the perimeter, reading the scene quietly.Jude was secured, wrists bound, Val and Joshua close on either side. I wanted to have a good look at him, or should I say, to see his reactions. I was standing near enough to see his face clearly when they came through the gate, near enough that when his eyes found me and t

Joshua's POV — Blue Moon Pack, Next MorningNathan was at the kitchen table when I came down.Not tired. Alert in the particular way he got when he'd been sitting with something and had waited until the right moment to bring it. A folder on the table in front of him. Cole's handwriting was visible on the top page."How long have you been up?" I said."Long enough," he said. "Sit down."I sat. "Cole talked all night," Nathan said. "Everything he had. I've been going through it since four AM." He opened the folder. "You need to hear this before anyone else does."I looked at the pages. Names. Locations. Dates going back two years. A network mapped out in Cole's careful handwriting, the kind of detail that only came from someone who had been inside it long enough to know where every thread led."Dominic," Nathan said.I was still, "Irene's Dominic," I said."Yes." Nathan turned a page. "Special force. Irene's personal operative. Cole says Dominic has been running a purist network across