All Chapters of The Alpha's Betrayal: Pregnant And Accused: Chapter 71 - Chapter 80

Alisha's POVSophie Lukas had shown up the day before with her bag and notebook, but no explanation.Nobody had asked her back. She'd come anyway. Nathan found her in the kitchen that morning, making breakfast for twelve people. Three pages of notes are already open beside the stove. He touched her shoulder when he walked past. She didn't look up. Just leaned into it slightly.Something was growing between them. Neither of them had named it yet.By noon, our wolves reported movement in the treeline. By two, Nathan confirmed forty rogues surrounding the territory. Joshua walked in from his phone call, and I knew from his face before he spoke."Black Gold is pinned," he said. "Dominic has wolves on our eastern border. No reinforcements. We fight with what we have."Diana was at the window. "Sera's barrier is up at the territory's edge. But she's not here herself. She sent the magic and stayed back. She's not fighting for Irene. She has her own reasons."Nathan and Sophie set up at the k

Alisha's POVBy evening, the rogues were gone by the time we reached open ground.Val had pushed the shift through Blue Moon's bond, and they'd pulled back, all of them at one coordinated movement. The yard was quiet. The pack house was damaged, but it still stood, despite smoke rising from the east wing.Joshua had told me about the regional warriors on the way up. He'd made the call two days ago, before the siege, when they knew Irene was free. That was the Joshua he'd become. Warriors were staged at the border, Nathan holding the signal.I had Alexander on my hip. Ella in Mara's arms. Joshua's hand was on my back.For ten minutes, I believed the worst was over.Then a Blue Moon wolf ran across the yard toward us. "She's here," he said. "Came through the west side. We had a gap, thirty seconds between the siege breaking and the perimeter resetting. She knew exactly when."I handed Alexander to Mara before the wolf finished speaking."Take them deep inside," I said. "Both of them."M

Diana's POVTwo Days Later, their names came through the bond at dawn.Kiran first, then Sol. Val held the mourning the way Blue Moon always did. Every wolf felt and mourned both names at the same time. Nobody carries it alone. I stood beside Val in the cold morning air and let myself feel it.I didn't try to make it smaller than it was.Kiran was twenty-six. He held the northern perimeter for forty minutes after taking an injury that should have sent him back. He didn't go back.Sol was thirty-one. He got three packmates out of the east wing before the smoke took him. Two days before the siege, he'd passed me in the corridor and nodded at the map in my hand. *You've got it, Beta.* That was the last thing he said to me.I held both names in my chest and let them stay where they belonged.The packhouse was still standing, but the east wing was gone. Everything smelled like smoke. Val's wolves had been clearing the damage since the previous day.Black Gold wolves were working right besi

Alisha's POVI didn't sleep after Levi's message.*It's starting.* Two words. No explanation. I called back immediately, but there was no answer. Joshua tried Val's line, but there was no answer. Val called back an hour later, his voice was low, and he was choosing his words carefully."Levi needs to say it in person," Val said. "Not over the phone.""He's already at Black Gold. He left before any of us knew we were moving. He'd already read the signs."We packed that afternoon. Moved the next morning.Joshua addressed Black Gold Pack the morning before we arrived. He told me after standing in Blue Moon's corridor with our bags packed."I told them what I did," he said. "The accusation. The banishment. The words in the yard. I told them I was wrong and that you were coming home, and that how they received you would tell me everything I needed to know about who they were.""How did they respond?" I asked."Some are better than others," he said. "That's honest.""That's enough," I said.

Alisha's POVFour days after Thomas's second flag, Nathan moved the perimeter team closer to the eastern boundary.After that, no new Sera signature. Just silence where she'd been. The kind that meant she'd pulled back but not gone away. The pack breathed a little, not fully, just enough to let ordinary life back in.It began on the second morning without anyone having planned it. Joshua was up early. Diana was already at the kitchen table with her rebuild reports. They both reached for the counter at the same time and ended up making two cups without discussing it.Joshua slid one across, and Diana took it without looking up. That was how it started.By the fourth morning, it was a routine. By the sixth, it felt comfortable. They didn't talk much; that wasn't the point. It was just two people who'd grown up in the same complicated story, finally discovering they shared the same habits.I watched them from the doorway most mornings with Alexander on my hip. He found it fascinating. S