All Chapters of Initiated by my Alpha Stepbrother's Mark: Chapter 91 - Chapter 100

Kaireen's Pov "Rhia, please."My voice came out smaller than I wanted it to. I was still on my knees on the floor of her room with my hands open in front of me like I was trying to show her I wasn't armed, and maybe I wasn't, but I had brought other things into this house that had done damage just as real."Please just let me explain.""Explain what?" Her voice was ragged, the iron rod still in her hand, her whole body pulled tight like a wire about to snap. "Explain that you've been lying to me for years? Explain that you've been sitting in my house and eating my food and telling me everything about your life except the part that actually matters?""I wasn't lying—""You weren't telling the truth either!" The rod came down against the floor beside her with a crack that made me flinch, not at me, just down, pure frustrated rage looking for somewhere to land. "Kaireen, I saw him. I saw your brother's eyes and his hands and I heard the sounds he was making and I know what I saw. Don't

Kaireen's Pov My body moved before my brain did. The moment I saw the shift in Kade's eyes, the moment the last warmth drained out of them and what replaced it was something cold and decided, my feet pushed back from the floor and I turned and I ran. Or tried to. Because the two men who had been standing behind me the entire time were not security guards waiting for a threat. They were waiting for me specifically, and I had not noticed because I had been too busy watching Kade's face and processing what Rhia had said and trying to figure out which direction the exit was. One of them caught my arm. I yanked against it and I opened my mouth and then something connected with the side of my head and the airport corridor went sideways and bright and then entirely dark. I don't know how long I was out. Not long enough to feel rested and too long to feel oriented. The first thing I was aware of when I came back was the smell. Smoke, old leather, something that reminded me of a base

Ronan's Pov The pack house was never supposed to feel small. It was built to feel like what it was, the centre of an alpha's authority, wide halls and high ceilings and stone walls that had been standing longer than most of the wolves inside them had been alive. The kind of building that told everyone who entered it that the power here was old and solid and not going anywhere. I had grown up walking these floors and feeling that in my chest the way you felt a heartbeat. Constant. Reliable. Yours. Right now it felt like a room that had been locked and left unattended for too long, the kind where you opened the door and the air that came out was stale and carrying something that had gone wrong while nobody was watching. Neon had not been exaggerating. "Two of the eastern elders," Soren said, following me down the main corridor with a folder he had been holding since I walked through the door, flipping pages as he talked, "have been in direct contact with the Greyveil Pack's

Ronan's Pov The phone hit the wall before I made the decision to throw it.That was how I knew my wolf was closer to the surface than I had allowed for. The action happened and my hand was already empty and there was a crack in the plaster where the screen had connected, and the phone bounced to the floor with the call still live for two more seconds before the screen went dark and the silence in the room was the loudest thing I had ever heard."Neon." My voice came out completely flat. "We're going back to the city."He was already moving."Are you out of your mind?" My father's voice came from behind me and it was loud now, no more controlled fury, just fury, raw and unmanaged the way it only got when he was genuinely scared and translating that into volume because it was the only tool available. "You just walked through that door. The border is compromised, the elders are selling us out, we have three Greyveil warriors sitting on our eastern li

Ronan's Pov I heard the gunshot and everything went still.Fear is not something I am familiar with.Not real fear, not the kind that breaks into your bones and settles there like cold water in a crack. I have faced down rival alphas, I have stood at border lines in the dark with blood on my hands and made decisions that determined whether my pack woke up the next morning, and through all of it my wolf has been steady, my mind has been clear, and whatever I felt in those moments I would not have called fear. Urgency, yes. Controlled anger, yes. The particular focused cold that came before a fight that mattered.But the sound of Kaireen's scream through a phone in a car on a motorway at night with two hundred kilometres between me and wherever she was being held, that broke something in me that I did not know was breakable."Kade!" My voice came out wrong, too raw, the composure gone, and I didn't care. "Kade, what the hell did you just do? If you have hurt her—""Relax," he said, an